I am seeing a budding Broadway star, anyone else?
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Thanksgiving and much more
Marmie and Poppie came the weekend after Thanksgiving to give Colin and I a little time to start our shopping and even go out for a drink. It was great to have them here. They even helped us cut our Christmas tree on a very wet and cold day. It felt like we hadn't left Oregon.
Lily loved being the center of attention, getting lots of love and hugs and walking Marmie through the mud.
This is the ONE!
Netty came to visit yesterday. The girls were so cute together. Lily just watches Netty and absorbs every little thing she does.
Coloring with the girls.
One night we got a little fixated one these puffy stickers, she carried them around, stuck them to her belly, took them off, stuck them to her legs, took them off.....etc.
The Thanksgiving Day Crew. Go Lions, so sad they lost. Colin was in heaven watching the Lions with his family on Thanksgiving Day.
Turkey Tom!
Uncle Jim made it in from Bellingham right before Thanksgiving. It was nice to have a little West Coast love over here.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Playing with Roxy
A few cute videos that were too long to post on the blog (copy and paste):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obp9HGJ4vJM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5ur-NLhbCE
18 months
Daily I ponder; life. love. family. celebration. frustration. future. I typically have a paper written in my head about any or all of these topics on any given day. I always wish there was another hour in the day to actually put some of my thoughts out into the blogosphere. (Now all of you journalers don't get any ideas, I have no desire to start a journal despite how great it is, how wonderful it would be to look back; I think it brings me back to my days of dear diary. I am glad those days are over and now the thoughts I can write about can be out in the open, not hidden under lock and key, instead in the cyber space world where ideas may or may not be read.) So in short I wish I could write more about what is going through my head, our transitions, what is to come and what has already come. Instead I write short blips about what is new and fleeting feelings or activities, like.......
We officially have an 18 month old. I am going to say it now.....I can't believe it has already been 18 months. Time has both flown by and felt like it had stopped all together. Lily is running, climbing on everything, picking out her own shirts, pj's, cups to drink out of, using silverware even though only half of the food actually makes it to her mouth, learning a new word daily and even getting the key in and out of the door. It is true what they say, she has had the same personality from day one, maybe even since in the womb. She is very independent and stubborn but the loviest and cuddliest little girl around. She is the leader of the pack even at the age of 1.5. We go to the playground and within 5 minutes she has a few kids following her around and listening to her non-sense chatter and talking back to her in full sentences. She typically walks into a room talking and yelling and pointing at everyone and everything. She chatters all of the time. We are still breast feeding at night and we are still struggling with nights.
Now the nights are absolutely our own fault. We had concurred them in Eugene after a few terrible cry it out days/nights and since moving home we lost everything we gained out west. We have even created some terrible habits we said we never wanted to create: when she cries at night Colin or myself gets her from her crib and brings her to our bed, she nurses then goes back to her bed. I know many of you are shaking your heads but let me explain.......when we moved in I swore our house was haunted (specifically her room). I couldn't go into Lily's room because I was too scared at night so to help her to get back to sleep was impossible seeing as I wouldn't go in her haunted room (honestly I saw two whooshes -movements in the night, through the air- my imagination- maybe or maybe not but I wasn't going to chance it). In the last month I have been able to go in her room at night - with many lights on- and I have not had any bad feelings or weird sitings. Crazy yes but I had to explain how we got where we are now.
We officially have an 18 month old. I am going to say it now.....I can't believe it has already been 18 months. Time has both flown by and felt like it had stopped all together. Lily is running, climbing on everything, picking out her own shirts, pj's, cups to drink out of, using silverware even though only half of the food actually makes it to her mouth, learning a new word daily and even getting the key in and out of the door. It is true what they say, she has had the same personality from day one, maybe even since in the womb. She is very independent and stubborn but the loviest and cuddliest little girl around. She is the leader of the pack even at the age of 1.5. We go to the playground and within 5 minutes she has a few kids following her around and listening to her non-sense chatter and talking back to her in full sentences. She typically walks into a room talking and yelling and pointing at everyone and everything. She chatters all of the time. We are still breast feeding at night and we are still struggling with nights.
Now the nights are absolutely our own fault. We had concurred them in Eugene after a few terrible cry it out days/nights and since moving home we lost everything we gained out west. We have even created some terrible habits we said we never wanted to create: when she cries at night Colin or myself gets her from her crib and brings her to our bed, she nurses then goes back to her bed. I know many of you are shaking your heads but let me explain.......when we moved in I swore our house was haunted (specifically her room). I couldn't go into Lily's room because I was too scared at night so to help her to get back to sleep was impossible seeing as I wouldn't go in her haunted room (honestly I saw two whooshes -movements in the night, through the air- my imagination- maybe or maybe not but I wasn't going to chance it). In the last month I have been able to go in her room at night - with many lights on- and I have not had any bad feelings or weird sitings. Crazy yes but I had to explain how we got where we are now.
We had her 18 month check-up: she weights 26 pounds 9 oz (79th %tile), she is 32.6 inches tall (76%tile), and her head size is 19.4 inches in circumference (98%tiles) - a measurement the doctor was a bit concerned about but as we all know she had a bit different of a head shape from day one.
The last month has brought many beautiful fall days. Here she is with aunt Kalie last weekend during leaf clean-up at our house.
On a hike a few weekends ago up in Gaylord.
Playing with Marmie in their backyard.
Trick-or-treating
Monday, October 31, 2011
Veggies!
Lily recently has eaten nothing but cottage cheese and gold fish and I was starting to worry about the amount of vegetables she was eating until last night.
Halloween
Happy Halloween! Aunt Susan and Uncle Bob (below) had a great Halloween party/celebration of life/shower for Katy and Mike last weekend. The rule was to come in costume. Lily is a butterfly, I am a lady bug and Colin is the insect catcher. We had a blast and Lily loved being with the fam!
A bed bug and a cow boy!
French jack-o-lanterns and 29 ish weeks pregos!
Obama even showed to the party!
A pregnant witch that has clearly dropped.
"Driving Miss Daisey- with chauffeur and Daisey.
Kalie and Megan came as "ironic" Lion's fans (tribute to Happy Endings) and Colin showed up as a Lion's fan sooooo he joined the crowd.
A witch and her cat, Paws.
Two weekends ago we celebrated Netty's 2nd birthday. We had a great time with lots of toys, kids and good food.
The joys of trying to get a group kid shot.
Now that the weather has gotten a lot colder Chev spends a lot of time in the hat and gloves boxes. Last night Lily kept going up to him and saying, "Ahhhh Cheb." and giving him kisses.
Halloween Lake.
Sleepy Howell (hollow)
Howell had a huge Halloween celebration two weekends ago where they closed down the main streets and had trick or treating, games, hay rides, fire engines, haunted trains, music, and a costume contest for kids and animals. Lillian is a butterfly this year. She can't quite say butterfly but she points them out and signs them. Here she is walking with my mom to Sleepy Howell.
She didn't want to where her pants, she wanted to carry them.
Aunt Megan met us there.
Carol and Bill (Harper's grandma and grandpa) and many others came. There were 15,000 people. It was crazy.
Walking the hay maze with Aunt Kalie for the fourth time.
Doesn't that melt your heart?
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