A few adorable moments!

We have had a busy few weeks and with everyday this little girl learns something new. We are having so much fun watching her change daily. The other day she DEMANDED daddy put his "shusss" on her and then she had to stand up in them. She was so proud.

Her absolute favorite past time right now is reading books. She will run up to you, do the sign for "book" to you and point at her books or just bring you a book to read with her on your lap. Colin takes her to the kid's library time weekly and they pick out new books after every session. She has a few favorite books, one of them is "Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes," here she is pointing to her toes after I gave her that book. She proceeded to ask for every book on her shelf while she sat on her chair.

Aunt Kalie moved back to MI two weeks ago. What a gift to have most of your aunts and uncles in the same state.

Uncle Dave!

Lily yells "Doggie" and then does the sign for dog every time we see the dog. We are still working on what sound the dog makes. She has become a professional signer. Colin has brought home 2 different signing books and after reading them 1-2 times she had most of the signs down......dog, cat, pig, frog, cow, moon, stars, lights, bath time, toothbrush, quiet, book, duck, and butterfly.

She has recently become very opinionated about what she wants to wear as well. The other day it was 90 degrees outside and in since we don't have AC and she wanted to walk around in her leggings and shoes. We were sweating just looking at her. Her "ha(t)" (silent t) and sunglasses are another outfit favorite.

Hat!

We had many new words over the last week.....hat being one of them. A few others were "chuga, chuga, chuga, chuga"(for a train sound), "its stuck" and as many have already seen "tickle, tickle" (that is what she is saying in the beginning of this clip).I just love how she unnaturally swings her arms at the very beginning of this. She loves to walk around oddly swinging her arms.

Patty Cake

Just a normal day!

Colin's days are filled with playing, library time, eating, cleaning-up, eating again, doing the dishes, doing the grocery shopping, making the dinner, doing the dishes again, playing, distracting Lily from getting into something she shouldn't, distracting Lily from many dramatic break-downs, and cleaning-up again. On this particular day he was doing the dishes, talking on the phone and giving Lily a snack of peas, beans and corn. She was done and was starting to cry and fuss and he was busy talking on the phone not listening to Lily's every word (as she would like him to do every minute) and so he was trying to get her down from the chair and in doing so the tray of food spilled every where. I laughed out loud at the look on her face and her giant tummy just sticking out. Then I saw the picture below........

Priceless!

Petting Zoo

Most nights after I get home from work and we have dinner as a family this is what Lily and I do....we walk down by the water. Stairs are one of her favorite things and so we spend a lot of time going up and down the stairs to the water.

Last weekend we went to Domino's Farms petting zoo. We didn't let Lily pet anything but she loved seeing all the kids and animals. Above pot belly pigs!

Goats!

A hay ride around the pastures with Aunt Megan.

More goats! While we were taking this picture the goat made a very load goat sound and Lily burst into tears. Now when she looks at this picture she whines. How do they remember those things?

Water Park

Today marked the 44th day of above 80 degrees here in MI. So needless to say we have been swimming a lot. We have a great park 10 minutes from our house so of course Lily had to go.

Ok, maybe Colin was the one that had to go and play.

Oh and I may have gone down the water slide 3 times. Aunt Megan came with us but she would kill me if I posted a picture of her in her bikini!

It took her a good 20 minutes to warm-up to the idea but by the end she was walking/crawling and squealing every where she went in the splash park.

WALKING!!!!!

Well I kept saying that I wanted to see Lily walk before starting work and I thought for sure walking was still a few weeks out but my little over achiever proved me wrong. The night before I started work she took her first step....it was definitely not walking but a first step is such a big deal. Then last week I was able to meet Lily and Colin at my parents house for lunch and 1 minute before I arrived she walked 5 steps all on her own. She proceeded to walk a few more times that day but I really missed it so imagine my excitement when on Friday I went to my parents house and I walked through the door and she walked to me from across the room to greet me with the biggest, most proudest and loving smile a mother could ever imagine. It was such a great end to the work week. The video above doesn't capture much but it gives you a small glimpse of how adorable she is whilst toddling around.