Christmas

Lilly got to spend lots of time with family over Christmas. On Saturday we got to visit with cousins. Lilly and Abby got all dressed up! (Mommy and Daddy got a new camera for Christmas, so most of the pictures are from after when we were "playing")

Today mommy and Lilly got to visit with some of Mommy's friends from high school. 2 of us are expecting within a month of each other..and both are having boys!

Lilly got a sled for Christmas. She had a blast riding in the driveway, but would CRY if we tried to take her on the actual snow!

At least the driveway was fun! The goal is for someone to sit with her and go down a hill...but I think that is far off since now she won't go near any snow!

Little Things

When you are 21 months old, it is the little things in life that excite you. This weekend we bought Lilly a booster seat so that she could sit at the table with us (she was getting very frustrated with her high chair). We were amazed at how much better she sat and ate!!!

So far so good today too, she is loving her new seat at the "big" table! Mommy really likes it because it is much less mess to clean up!

Friday when we got all of the snow we bundled Lilly up and took her outside. She wanted NOTHING to do with the snow (we think it was too high for her and she felt like she was going to fall every time she tried to walk). Now she won't even walk over the snow without a lot of convincing!

She would much rather stay inside and put on mommy and daddy's hat and gloves. That is WAY more fun than playing in the snow. Go figure!

Singing

Ok, so for all that have been bugging me...here is a belly shot from my Christmas party Friday night. I feel HUGE but have gained almost exactly the same amount of weight that I had at this point with Lilly. I had my last 4 week appointment last Friday. Believe it or not..I am already at two week appointments (wow time flies!)

I was getting ready the other day and noticed Lilly had her hands in front of her like a book and was singing one of her favorite songs on her own (B-I-B-L-E). Singing songs is her MOST favorite thing to do right now wherever we are! Here she is singing the only two lines she can remember by herself (that's book me, stand alone word of God). I just love this!

New Fun and advice

George had his Army Christmas party this weekend and Lilly had a BLAST! They had a blow up jumper for the little kids as well as a separate one for the big kids. Lilly was hesitant if any other kids older than her were in it, but if there were kids her own age, she was having a blast!

If older kids came in she would either tell them to get out (that was fun) or would just stand on the side until they got out.

Falling down was really fun in here too!!!

Daddy and his Grandpa made this fireplace surround a few weeks ago and George just finished staining and varnishing it this weekend. Doesn't it look great just in time for Christmas! Of course we had to have a fire Saturday night to celebrate:)

On another note...Lilly used to be the type that we could read stories, and lay her in bed and she would go right to sleep. Just starting Saturday she SCREAMS when we put her in bed, either for naps or bedtime..to the point of throwing up. I took her to the dr. this morning thinking maybe we were missing something and she is fine! Today for her nap as long as I was sitting next to her bed she was fine and eventually fell asleep this way (we're trying to not give in and hold her).We're not sure if she is sensing baby coming or something else, but we are VERY sleep deprived. Any suggestions?!?!?!?!?!?

Thanksgiving

Lilly thought decorating the tree was ok. She had fun helping daddy put the ornaments on the tree..especially her Kermit ornament. This girl is a muppet freak! We also got out the other Christmas decorations this weekend and Lilly really enjoys the snowman. Today she has had to blow his nose quite a few times (every time mommy tries to blow her nose).

She really likes to give the snowman hugs and kisses. She even had to give him hugs and kisses before bed last night.

Our little chef. She usually enjoys "cooking" with the pans, but appartently at grandma and grandpa's house it is better to use them as drums.