i heart ken

Ken surprised me with flowers for Valentines. We took Julius with us and went out to dinner.

February

So he's even closer to crawling. If we put him on the bed, where it's soft, he uses his toes and his face to push himself. It's amazing he actually gets somewhere.

We started Julius on baby food this month. He loves it in a very chill way. He doesn't get really excited about it but he eats everything and lots of it. He hasn't turned up his nose yet. So far he's had sweet potatos, carrots, peas, squash, bananas and pears.

January

Julius turned 5 months at the end of January

with Aunt Lydia and Cousin Jada

with mom

Julius really likes cans. ?? We use them to encourage crawling! He's so close!

more from Christmas...

Downtown Cincinnati

ice skating downtown

Ken and Leah

Kate, Ken and Leah

Julius and Uncle James

Julius with Nora and Grandma

Leah and Julius

Julius with Grandpa

with Uncle Ben

with Aunt Emily

Julius and Henry

Christmas Day

Hanging out with Dad until all the kids were ready to go see what Santa brought.

My entire family was together for Christmas. Us, mom, dad, and three sisters with their families. Eleven kids all together! As a result...this was tree #1. After we finished with these presents we went downstairs to tree #2. It was an all day event!

Julius' stocking

Julius gave Henry a hat that matched his.

So dad somehow got the same shirt that he had just bought and wore on Christmas day! At least you know he likes it!

Ken with Leah and the gift she gave him.

Annie wanted a baby doll that looked like Julius. How sweet! She named her baby Julius too!

All of the cousins

Christmas in Cincinnati

The day we were supposed to fly to Cincinnati we had a huge snow storm in Provo. It's fun unless you're trying to travel. Our flight got canceled but we ended up with a direct flight that got to Cincinnati even earlier! Julius was great on his first flight...he just ate and slept...what a relief!

Ken with Nora

The 3 cousins together for the first time!
Henry, Julius, Nora
All four months old.

Grandma Kathy is famous for her Christmas Elf Shop where all of the grandkids get to buy presents for everyone in the family. Julius got to go pick out stuff for mom, dad, and himself!

for: Julius

for: Dad

with Dad and Uncle Shannon