Milestones

So the lils has two bottom teeth now! and another one coming in at the top! She no longer will ever have a toothless little grin. (well, until she is 90 or so)
But her Sigmond the Sea Monster impression is pretty good right now. :) And don't get your fingers too close to her little mouth or you will think you had been attacked by the fish in our fish tank! ouch!

Because of those cute little teeth, she is trying out real people food. She is in love with green beans and will take a whole one and bite off pieces for a snack. (if it makes it that far and doesn't end up on the carpet for mommy to step on later. Yeah, slimy and green... yay!)

She isn't really crawling yet. (a blessing, I figure since once she is mobile, we are in BIG trouble!) She can get around pretty well but she scoots backwards or turns herself around in some pretty great circles. She has just begun to get up on all fours and rock. I figure it will be any day now till she actually figures out the movement and starts her attack on all things in the house. I have tried warning the cat, but she doesn't seem too interested at the moment.

Lilly has just gotten the idea of clapping figured out. :) We have been showing her for a while, how it works. We have been modeling, and then guiding her hands in doing it. She just now has figured out how to coordinate and do it herself. She looks up at us every time she does it, awaiting applause herself. Yeah, our child is not hurting for self esteem. :)

Here are a few of my favorite pictures from this past week.

Hopefully, I can get one with all the teeth soon.

ARRRGGG! I got you!!!




Oh, did I scare you? I am sorry!

Video of Park Fun...

It totally forgot to mention that while hanging at the park, Ginger and I had a shadow. This girl who was almost 7, she told us several times, sort of parked herself on our blanket or above us on the playground equipment and joined us in any and all conversations we had. Here is some video of her talking... and talking, and talking and talking.
You get the picture.

Saturday, hanging with Miss Ginger and the boys.

So we hadn't seen Ginger in FOREVER so we decided to meet her halfway for a little fun.
Canton is our usual meeting spot and we hit the town excitedly, awaiting some shopping adventure. We knew it wasn't First Monday Trade days, but we thought surely, there would be some shopping available.

The breakfast place was pretty darn cute. And very kid friendly. Miles was his 8 year old self. Too wise for words and too cool for us. He did bear with us and he did humor me by talking about his recent birthday party and was quite animated to tell me about his brother's shoe shopping antics. But other than that, we were pretty much not on his cool radar. :)

The first time Owen met Lilly, he hit her in the head. This time, he was fascinated with Lilly. He wanted to sit by her, watch her as they both ate breakfast, and talk to her. They were fast friends.

Since it wasn't a trade days weekend, there was NOTHING open as far as shopping was concerned. We had to go to Walmart to get our shopping fix in. Yeah. I know.
But after that, we got ourselves some Sonic drinks and went to the park. :)

This was the first time Lils had been on the swings, or a slide. :)
So fun.

So here are pictures and video of our super fun time!






It should be mentioned that Miles was the videographer. :)

To the Park!!!

Friday, I was working at the school dance. OH MY! That is a whole other story for a whole other blog. But while I was away taking money for the dance, Billy and LIls got to go hang out at the park and have some daddy/daughter bonding.

I was totally jealous! This week has just begun the nice Spring weather and they decided to enjoy it.

Here are pictures Billy took at the park.

Lilly loved her shadow. I guess at one point, they went under a bridge and the shadow went away and she just couldn't figure out what went wrong!

New Posts coming soon...

I know, it has almost been a month since we have posted anything. And trust me LOTS of things have happened. Problem is, I am rarely in front of the computer these days without little hands trying to help me. And then when I get her in bed, we are all too exhausted to even think about posting to the blog!

But now that Spring Break is upon us, I am ready to post some new updates!

So let's begin!

Sending some email

Yep. Our child already sends the email.
Here she is sending email to the grandparents about her day.