Happy Birthday Daddy

Who doesn't need a hat to accompany a great outfit?

A few weeks ago mom, Megan and I took Lillian to a local indoor gym.  Colin took here there when we first moved but she hasn't been back since.  It is three stories of fun, climbing, jumping and playing.  She was intimidated by the height so she went with Aunt Megan up to the top.

With Aunt Megan 2.5 stories up!

In the 3 year old and under zone.  This was more up her alley.

Then Poppy and Mimi came to visit for Colin's birthday. (Before going to Eugene)  The weekend was a blast.

Then to add a little more excitement to the weekend Aunt Carrie and Uncle Dave  came down on Sunday to surprise Colin for his birthday.  Needless to say Colin had a great day and felt so fortunate to be surrounded by family, and so special that everyone made the trip for him.

Counting

Here Lily is at the park the other day.  I have been meaning to post  this video of her counting......she always misses 4 and 5 but when she is focused she can actually get to 10!  Although as you can probably figure out, it's hard to get a good attempt on camera...

http://youtu.be/RJMDG8xOqFY

Happy Easter!

Colin, Kalie and I ended Easter day here at Les Miserable.  Which, I felt, was the perfect ending to Easter.  The opera was beautiful and at risk of sounding as if I am giving an 11th grade book report the overall theme was about sacrifice.  This story had many different story lines but the one that spoke the loudest was the story line of this man who made a choice to live a life of love, honor and sacrifice.  Through all of his trials and tribulations he took the higher road and sacrificed his life to give his "daughter," the city he worked for, the innocent, the down trodden, and his son-in-law a better life.  It was a story of love.  Then today after thinking about our day yesterday and how much love there was it brought tears to my eyes.  I look at this little girl and think about the little one to come and my heart is full.  She and friends and family have taught me to love, to give and to be a better person.  I hope all of your Easters had a resounding theme of love and that your day was as beautiful as that little girl, in the sun, under the blossoming tree.

Nothing but excitement as we spent a lot of time running through the yard.

This was Lilian's second easter egg hunt.  She found 20 eggs strewn about the yard.

With each egg she would say something different..."here's a other egg," "woopsi-daisy here's a yewow one," "an orange one," " oh wow!" 

Showing off her eggs......wouldn't you?

A few fun days!

We have continued to have some nice spring days sprinkled throughout the last few weeks and so we have spent many of them outside.  Lily's Grammy and Grampy got her this t-shirt when they were last in California and we went 3 whole days wearing the same shirt!  She would only take it off to sleep.

Lily helped me put up the hammock to celebrate spring.

We picked the rainiest day to go to the local petting farm.  It was full of babies, these pigs are 2 weeks old.  How cute are these pigs all stacked in a pyramid, three layers high?

Lily liked the tractors the most, anytime we saw a tractor she would rejoice and  say, "mama, dada tractor!"  When we later talked about what we saw that day the first thing out of her mouth was tractor.

Baby sheep -2 weeks.  You can hardly see the black sheep.  (feel free to sing the song no one is watching)  There were baby goats too!

What a good little helper.

Loving (or sitting) on Chevy.

Aunt Carrie and Uncle (aunt) Dave came to visit last weekend.  Lily was in heaven and would not leave their side.  She called Dave Aunt Dave.  (He is the only uncle in the family.)

We HAD to help Grandma Vivian celebrate her birthday last weekend too.  Happy Birthday Vivian. We are blessed to have you as part of our family.  We had a great time, with good food and.......

........gooooood carrot cake.

Thanks Mimi and Poppy for the great Easter purse filled with all the necessities a girl needs.  She loves it.

Lily has been dressing herself as much as she possible can.  She actually picked out this whole matching outfit (she typically never matches) and she put it on all by herself.  What you cannot see because of the sun is her sparkly shoes and her big funny smile.  

Lentil, blueberry, kidney bean, grape.....and an apology

First and foremost my apologies for taking so long to post pictures of the ever growing girl and updates about the family. I have many excuses.  First of all Lily got terribly sick with a double ear infection and a raging fever; that lasted over a week.  We had to call in the troops to help us since she couldn't go to day care (and obviously we just wanted to cuddle her to good health).  She got on antibiotics and then I got sick and quite frankly 1 month later I am still fighting it.  Then of course Colin got it, he is already feeling better- thank goodness.  Lastly we have a new addition to the family....first it was a lentil, then a blueberry, then a kidney bean and now a grape......you guessed it:  We are pregnant!  We were able to see the little guy moving around today, everything looks good with a strong little heart beat.  We could see little arms and legs and his little head at this point.  He/she is about 1-1.5 inches long.  I of course have been blessed with strong pregnancy hormones which means a very healthy implanted baby and a very nauseous mama!  We are 9 weeks along and are due October 23rd!  We feel so blessed to have Lily and we are praying for baby number two to be healthy and happy!
(Here is Lily with all of her stuffed animals when she was feeling so bad.)

Happy soon to be Easter.  Someone got a new Bunny Cup.  She loves it.

Mimi and Poppy came down a few weekends ago to visit and help so Colin and I could focus on getting better.  Lily did not leave Mimi's side the entire weekend.  Here they are making Easter Eggs.  It was so nice to have them.

This spring has proven to be amazing here so far.  We have had two weeks of 70s and 80s.  Lily wakes up about 5-6 am and says, "outside mama."  We have had to explain to her on multiple occasions that we have to wait for the sun to come up before we can go outside.

She has learned the joys of picnics both at the park and at home.

Happy St. Patty's Day (late).  Hope all celebrated with green beer or at least some sort of nice beverage.

Lily and Colin have already gone on a lot of bike rides around the lake.  We are so spoiled.

Easter Egg Tree

Last night Kalie came over for the afternoon and we made an Easter Egg Tree with Lily.  Growing up my mom put wooden painted eggs on branches in a vase for Easter.  I remember looking at those eggs on the branches with such awe and wonder.  I cannot put into words how it made me feel as a kid so I thought that I would start the same tradition of wonderment for Lillian.  When the branches are up in the house it feels like a sign of a coming Spring.  So....Spring we are ready any time.

The pictures are a little out of order of course blogspot does not make posting pictures super user friendly.

The final tree.  This morning Lily woke up pointing at the  tree and talking all about Aunt Kalie, Daddy, Mommy and the tree; so already it is working.