Halloween 2010: October 31 party at Avery's!

Hi Everybody!
Happy post Halloween!
On Sunday Halloween, we went to Avery's for a Halloween party. Avery is in the playgroup that we joined soon after I was born. It's referred to as a "working mom's" playgroup, so in general both parents work during the week. When we were all very young, our mommies were taking time from work so we would get together once a week. Gradually the other mommies started returning to work, which is how Mommy and I joined our other playgroup, and thus how I got to meet Ruby! Anyway, my first playgroup still periodically gets together.

Here I am at home before the party - this and other Chinese emperor costumes are from Uncle Justin and Aunt Chloe! They arranged for these costumes to be made for me when I was still a very tiny baby!

Here you can see how the back of the costume appears.

Here we are in costume at Avery's!

In this picture, Alys is on my right, as Ms. Peanut. On my other side are Nolan (bear), Aiden (lion), and Natalie (Notre Dame cheerleader).

I'm pretty impressed that we all sat still for the picture, for the most part. In this picture, Dev (cowboy) has already disappeared, while Sophia (fairy) is up and ready to move! Avery (princess) is next to Alys.

Alys

Natalie

Sophia

Dev


Because this was during the heat of the World Series, everybody was excited for the SF Giants baseball team!

I really love balloons!

Avery (with her mommy Christina and daddy Brent in the background)

Alys and Dev

I always have fun with these babies! These babies and their parents will always be special for us, because we were all the first playgroup together. I hope that we all get together again soon!
Love,
Julien the Baby

Halloween 2010: October 30 Randall Museum

Hi everybody!
On Saturday October 30, we went to the Randall Museum for their Halloween party!

Before we left, I got to open a beautiful Halloween present from Grams - Funky Frank! It's a fun stuffed Halloween doll that plays music. I even know how to press the button to start and stop him.

Here we are at the Randall Museum.

We got to see a fun magic show! I was getting a bit tired, so my parents gave me a bottle of milk.
After the magic show, we got lunch and went home! Then I had a really great nap :-)
Love,
Julien the Baby

Halloween 2010: October 26 party at Ruby's!

Hi everybody!
On Tuesday October 26, Ruby hosted a Halloween party for our playgroup! It was really fun! Since it was the day after we returned from New York, DOJ came to assist for a bit.

Here's Ben as a bumble bee! Bzzzz bzzzzz...

Here's DOJ helping me with my costume.

Here's Ruby the Panda!!!

Here's Ben and Ben! There's also a third Ben, who moved to Mill Valley, so we don't get to see him as much. So it was great that he was here, even though he's not in this picture with Ben and Ben. I think I last saw him when he hosted a Farewell party to Ollie.

For whatever reasons, our mommies insisted on being in the group picture with us. They weren't wearing costumes, but after some resistance we agreed that it was acceptable. DOJ and Ashley's mother-in-law took a lot of pictures using different mommies' cameras.

Here's Ruby and her mommy! Ruby did such a great job for the Halloween party, so we all must thank Ruby for hosting.

After the pictures were taken, we had fun in the back yard! Ruby even had refreshments for us, but it seemed like the mommies were eating everything!

Cole was having fun in Ruby's car.

After Mommy changed me from my costume to my play clothes, I then got to have a turn in Ruby's car. That was a lot of fun!
I know it's a month after Halloween, but I hope that all of you enjoyed Halloween. It was a big holiday for me. Not only did we go to Ruby's party, but there were a couple other parties. Stay tuned for more blogs about my other Halloween parties!
Love,
Julien the Baby

Happy Birthday Uncle Justin!

Hi everybody!
Uncle Justin's birthday is October 29! Let's all wish him a happy birthday.
In honor of his birthday, here are some pictures of Uncle Justin with his lovely wife, my Aunt Chloe. They met in Hangzhou and got married in August 2005! In fact they have been married longer than my own parents. Not that anyone's keeping score.
I'll give more information about the below pictures...

Here they are with me on September 13, 2009; basically they're at my house for dinner!

Here we are on Halloween 2009, at the house of Veronica and Jennifer. And no, Aunt Chloe didn't grow white rabbit ears - she's always had them; she usually just keeps them covered!

Here's Uncle Justin with Aunt Chloe, and Mommy and Daddy. They came (as well as my paternal grandparents) to our house for Christmas dinner.

Here we are on Christmas Day, 2009 - in San Leandro at Great Aunt Katie and Great Uncle Hanley's house. Do you see the red hat in the picture? It's a hat that Uncle Justin and Aunt Chloe gave to me!

And lastly, here we are in June 2010, in one of my favorite restaurants for bruncheon and luncheon - Sally's, at De Haro and 16th Streets.
Have a great birthday Uncle Justin! Eat a lot of cake for me!
love,
Julien the Baby

Halloween 2009 laughter videos

Hi everybody,
On Halloween 2009, which was a Saturday night, I got to enjoy a puppet show with my friend Sam, who now lives in Chicago. DOJ took videos with his iphone - there are 5 but they are only about 15 seconds apiece. Enjoy!










I'll admit that I laugh a lot now, but I think last Halloween, it wasn't always so common for me to laugh. I was just a few months old at the time!
This friend Sam is different from my other friend Sam! This Sam now lives in Chicago and has an older brother named Jack.
Love,
Julien the Baby

Halloween 2009 Meltdowns

Hi everybody!
Normally people think that I'm a very friendly and happy baby. And while that's actually true, there are times when I'm not always the happiest baby!

Here's a picture of what life normally is like for me - I'm happy and smiling a lot. After all, I'm a baby, and that's what we babies do...

Now here's a picture that was taken after too many other pictures were taken - and I just couldn't take it any longer!

In fact, most of us were quite unhappy and no longer congenial for the cameras. But I think our mommies found this to be quite funny, and they just kept taking pictures... you may notice that Ruby was actually quite calm and not unhappy - she probably was wondering why we were not being the happy babies that we normally are!

Here I am, having a meltdown with another playgroup - I just wasn't very thrilled.

But of course that meltdown was quite temporary... and just moments later I was in Mommy's arms, and as you can see, I was quite happy... as was my Mommy!
Looking back a year later, I do think that the meltdowns were very funny. I think that when I experiment with tantrums and being naughty, that we'll all look back and laugh.
Love,
Julien the Baby

Halloween 2009

Hi everybody,
As you all know, Halloween's coming up! We already have a costume picked out, but it's a big secret! Shhhhh.
But in the meantime, here are some pictures from Halloween 2009!
Can you guess my costume?

Here I am posing on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - just before Playgroup!

Here we are at playgroup... since we were mostly 6 months and under, most of us didn't even roll over. So at playgroup we would just rest on blankets while our mommies could have a short moment.


At some point, we were all plopped on the couch for a marathon photo session.

And yes - I'm sitting next to Ruby! In this picture, I wanted to have glazed eyes so that people can imagine what I'll look like in a few years when I start to have Halloween candy! Gotta get myself in practice...
Love,
Julien the Baby

2009 Pumpkins

Hi again!
Here are some pictures of me from October 27, 2009 - right before Halloween 2009! Here I am with some pumpkins. You can see that I look a little different now compared to last year. The most major thing is that I now have more hair than last year. But other than that, everything else is about the same...
Enjoy the pictures!
Love,
Julien the Baby

Happy Halloween!

Hi everybody!
Halloween's coming up, so we got an early start. Tuesday September 28 was a really hot one for us, so we went to the Arata Farms pumpkin patch in Half Moon Bay (off Highway 1). It was much cooler here than in San Francisco, and I got to check out some fun pumpkins!


Even though I would have enjoyed having all these white pumpkins, my parents said that we only needed 1 white pumpkin so I helped choose one.

Mommy and Daddy took turns walking me throughout the big pumpkin patch. I really wanted to go through the corn maze, but they told me that they were too afraid to go with me! Wah!

As consolation, I got to walk through a maze of pumpkins!

As a bonus, there was also a lot of different types of squash!
I hope to come back to pumpkin patches because they're really a lot of fun!
Love,
Julien the Baby