Fashion plate

This is nothing new- Juliette loves wearing dresses and posing :). She will ask me to take her picture and strike a pose with her hand on her hip or something like that.

Besties

Juliette's friendship with Ryan is so cute to watch. Their eyes light up when they see each other. Ryan waited for us in the parking lot one day so they could walk into school together. And Juliette wrote about sharing her pizza  with Ryan. Adorable!

 

Of course they had to stand next to each other for the Veteran's Day parade. Her other friend Luna is in the background in the purple shirt- the one who looks about a foot taller than all the other kids! :)

 

 

 

Fall break is ending

Tonight is the last night of Fall break and it's been a great one! The weather has been amazing and we managed to avoid the Thanksgiving snow we were supposed to get. Josh got the outside lights hung today and we've had some great time off. Nana and Pop Pop left yesterday, but hopefully will be coming back in a few weeks for Christmas if the weather cooperates. Juliette has loved spending time with them and I think secretly loves being teased by Pop Pop.
Other than Thanksgiving, it's been a quiet month for the Longs. Juliette loved making her Santa list and visiting with him a few times. On Friday she saw a man walking around the mall who obviously was used to being called Santa. Come on when you have a full white beard, wear a red shirt, and are on the husky side you've got to be used to kids coming up to you and he was awesome with Juliette. He got down on his knees in the middle of the mall to get on eye level with her and talked about why he sent her elf back to the house and asked what she wanted. Bless his heart. And oh yes, Elfie has returned. Oy. I love and hate that thing. So here's our month in rewind.

It's our new tradition to go to the opening weekend of the holiday celebration down on Caroline Street in the city. Once again Juliette loved looking at the windows- of course she found a Frozen one, seeing Santa, and looking in the stores. I think her eyes nearly bugged out of her head when Santa walked into the toy store while we were in there!

 

She found Yoda!

 

Her to favorite windows- Frozen and the village.

November

I can't believe it's already November. Juliette gets her first report card soon. Yikes! Right now she's got a little UTI and was crying on Friday when she had to pee. Poor kid. But after only a few doses of medicine she's feeling much better. Anyway, November means lots of fun getting ready for Christmas. She's already putting things on her Santa list. The first thing last year was a Hercules book. This year it's the movie Peabody and Sherman. She watched it with Toby and James camping and loved it. We'll see what else gets put on the list. I know she wants more games for her Inotab too. I'll have to let Santa know they are on sale at Target this week!! :)

Belvedere with Scouts

 Last night was a special event at Belvedere to celebrate the founder of Girl Scout's birthday. We met up with the other girls and had a fun night of roasting hot dogs, S'mores, a hay ride, walking the corn maze, and singing songs. Yes, it was bitter cold with the wind.

Hay fight!!! Mommy it's in my mouth!

Hay ride with Miss April. Juliette loves April and follows her around everywhere.

 

posing in the hay barn. For some reason when I edit pictures on my phone it doesn't show up so her eyes are glowing!

 

Hay fight with Sarah!

 

Taking her turn leading with the flag in the corn maze. She earned a fun badge for going through it!

Thornburg Winter Festival

So we went from fall festivals to winter festivals over night and the weather caught up with us too! We have never done this winter festival at one of our middle schools because it's always been the same weekend as the princess tea party at a high school. This year they didn't to the tea party- kind of sad about that- so we gave it a try. We met my friend Kristen and her daughter, Juliette's friend Anna. The kids had fun but it was kind of lame. I won't take her again. She did get her first Santa visit in though and she liked that part- and decorating and eating the cookie!

Halloween Night

We went trick or treating for real in our neighborhood on Friday night with Ryan and his family. He was a knight to her princess Belle and played the role perfectly. When he got to the house he bowed to her, he protected her from bad guys with his sword, and when he left he bowed again and said good night my princess! I hope they can stay friends throughout school :).

 

Ryan saw his big brother put his arm around his girlfriend so of course Ryan had to put his arm around Juliette!

 

 

Her first Halloween!!! Where did my baby go?????