Happy Birthday Daddy

Lilly helped Mommy make a cake this weekend for Daddy's birthday. She really loves helping to stir things!
She wasn't too sure about the mixer though, she felt the spoon did a better job!

Zoo

We all went to the zoo last Friday and it was a GREAT day! It was a beautiful day and not many people were there so it wasn't too crowded! The Polar bear was swimming right on the tunnel so we got to sit there for about 15 minutes and watch him swim above us!

Lilly really enjoyed touching the ice wall in the polar bear exhibit. She can't stop talking about the animals that she saw!

If you have ever been to the Detroit Zoo, you know that the peacocks run around all over! Apparently this one has been fed before because my popcorn looked scrumptious! I thought a couple of times that he was going to attack me for some popcorn.

They had the zoo all decorated for "Zoo Boo" and they had really cute pumpkin animals all over the zoo.

Lilly's favorite thing when she is walking right now is to crouch down (you must do it too) and say ready, set, go...and run! She did this over...and over..and over... at the zoo.

Pumpkin faces

Since it has been so warm out we decided to wait a few weeks to carve a pumpkin. In the meantime we decided to put some faces on some pumpkins to put outside.

Lilly "helped" daddy push the pieces into the pumpkins. Then it was much more fun to take them out again. I think it's time for a Mr. Potato Head.

She didn't really want to sit still for a good picture with her pumpkins so this is the best I got.

Big Girl

Since Mommy can no longer lean over the crib to put Lilly to bed, it was time to transition to a "big girl" bed. Her crib converts to a toddler bed so all we had to do was take the one side off and put up a rail, but it is SO much easier now because she can get in AND OUT of bed herself.


As you can see she was SUPER excited to sleep in her new bed last night for the first time! She did AMAZING and slept no differently than she was in her crib. The only difference is that when she woke up she crawled out of bed and made it to her door before she realized it was too dark to know where to go so she just stood in her doorway and cried.

YEAH! I'm a big girl now!!!

Weekend Fun

Lilly got to attend her first college football game this weekend. We went to the EMU game (where they got beat miserably). We were lucky enough to be able to sit in a place where she could run around as much as she wanted..sorry no pictures camera was left at home.


We also went to an apple orchard on Sunday. Lilly got to ride on a fire truck and go on a hayride. Her favorite part..swinging on the playset (could've done that at home for free!). But the straw on the hayride was fun to play with too...thankfully for us she didn't realize this until near the end of the ride.