Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Dressing Myself

One of Lilly's favorite games right now is to play dress up. She is able to get her head into shirts, but the arms still frustrate her. She can get her shorts on, but is unable to yet figure out how to pull them up.
For some reason lately whenever I get the camera out she closes her eyes so you have to deal with squinty pictures for a bit!


Monday, August 11, 2008

First Haircut


Lillian got her first "professional" haircut this weekend. I have cut her bangs twice, but the back of her hair was crazy and she would NOT keep pony tails in for more than 2 seconds. Lilly did a GREAT job and loved the Elmo video that they played while cutting her hair.

Monday, August 4, 2008

Reunion

We had a family reunion this weekend, and Lilly had a blast playing with her cousins...their toys were a blast! Her cousin Abby had a baby and a stroller and Lilly confiscated it for most of the day!



Makes a great seat for toddlers too apparently.

*On a side note..Lilly has successfully went "#2" in the potty twice now, and told me numerous times this weekend when she had to go potty. Unfortunately when we are away from home and don't have Lilly's potty. I'm not sure I'm ready to try out the big potty yet. Today though she told me when she had to go "Poo" and used the potty!!!

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Lilly's Favorites

Here are some of Lilly's favorites right now. Sorry for the bad color on the pictures, the camera was almost out of batteries!


Lilly absolutely loves throwing toys for the "KEY" (kitty). Of course she still hasn't learned how to throw them for the kitty and not AT the kitty. Unfortunately Lilly knows where "key"'s toys are at so we often have all of the kitty toys out at once.


Lilly still loves all of her "babies". Just like her mommy did she loves any kind of stuffed animal. She is really working hard on telling us her animal sounds and can tell us a dog, cat, horse, and cow.


Lilly's most favorite thing this week has been to show me her babies nose, eyes, mouth, and belly. She still can't get the hang of ear, but we'll keep working on it!

Sunday, July 13, 2008

New Truck and Waterpark

On Sunday we went to a waterpark that is right by our house. For those of you that live close it is in the Lower Huron Metropark and it is a BLAST! They have a lazy river, two waterslides (the adults had a great time on these), a pool, and then a playscape with a bucket that dumps water just for the little ones.
When we first got there Lilly wanted NOTHING to do with the water. She loves baths but has always been afraid of any pools, sprinklers, or any other type of water. We went with the hopes that she would enjoy herself and warm up to playing in the water. It worked!!! After about a 1/2 hour she warmed up and was sitting in the shallow end of the pool without anyone holding her (it was only up to her waist even when she was sitting). She really enjoyed playing with the water spouts in the kiddie area.


Here she is standing on top of one of the water spouts. Oh what fun!!

Thanks to cousin Alex for the fire truck. He wasn't using it anymore so he gave it to Lillian. She got to ride in it this weekend. Her feet are not long enough to touch the pedal, so right now mommy has to drive it. Believe it or not both of us in it are still below the max weight limit. It is designed to hold two people!!! Lilly's favorite part is the "phone" that is on the dashboard.




Still a little big for her, but fun still! She was having a good time steering while it was in park.




Here is a video of the truck in action!



Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Happy 4th of July

Lillian had a fun packed 4th of July weekend. On Friday we went to the Battle Creek Airshow. Yet again, Lilly slept through the Thunderbirds (the loudest jets that are there). She really enjoyed sharing an elephant ear with grandma. Lilly got to see her first "real" set of fireworks and she LOVED them. She stopped in her tracks when they started and was saying "OOOHHHH". The finale was a bit much for her noise wise, but she did great!


Now that we are home Lilly has ended the weekend with a double eye and double ear infection! After we got groceries she grabbed the cereal boxes off of the table and dumped 1/2 a box of Trix all over the floor. As you can see, stepping on them once the box had spilled was not her favorite thing and made her cry! UGH what a way to end the weekend.

Lilly really enjoyed the band that was playing after the airshow. She is really "into" dancing right now. Sorry, but we can't figure out how to turn the video around so you have to do the roller coaster neck to watch it!

Monday, June 23, 2008

Yeah Sand!!

Lilly got some sand in her sandbox this weekend. She wasn't too sure about it at first, but once she realized that she could dig she was all for it! I think we need to institute a sandbox only on bath night rule though because she had sand EVERYWHERE!


Mommy brought some work home this weekend and Lilly decided that I needed some help. She really enjoys "drawing" and so far has stayed on the paper!