Our Thanksgiving

There are so many things to be thankful for this year. My wonderful man who would give the world to Lilly and I if he could and who loves fully and wholly. For our wonderful daughter who has blessed us beyond anything we could ever imagine. For our beautiful home. And for the many blessing God has bestowed upon us this past year. Thank you God!
Lilly had a pretty good first thanksgiving. At least it started out good. She and daddy watched football and some movies and she took alot of little naps. Towards the middle of the day though she broke down and just started crying and crying and didn't want to nap. This happened a week and a half ago so i was fully prepared to take on this fit. But because of her crankiness I wasn't able to take any pictures of her first Thanksgiving...sorry lilly you brought that on yourself... maybe next year. But Ziff and I thoroughly enjoyed our Thanksgiving. I cooked my first turkey which turned out very good (thanks to a few calls to my helpful in-laws and one to my brother the day before) and it was quite entertaining according to Ziff. And i made all kinds of other yummy foods. SO basically spent the morning in the kitchen. After dinner we put out our tree and the outside lights although we are yet to put the ordanents on the tree. And then spent the next 3 hours or so with Lilly trying to console her and finally got her to sleep and in her bed at 9:30 (which is 2 hours past her bedtime). But we both agreed at the end of the day it was by far the best thanksgiving wither one of us had ever had.

She has finally had her "first foods". She seemed to like the rice cereal by itself but when i started mixing it with other stuff like sweet potatoes, she wasn't so much a fan. But she does love to help. I giver her her own spoon and she goes to town, I just have to keep a close eye on her because she gets so excited she put it in to far.

Asleep on the job

Lilly had a long day this day. She went to the doctor for her 4 month check up and immunizations and also was teething major. On top of that we went to the park and then to the store. By the time we sat down for dinner she had already had her bath and was ready for bed (daddy got home from work late so we ate late) needless to say she didn"t make it through dinner.

Daddy time

Last Sunday I was cleaning the house and ziff offered to help by holding Lilly, but as always he got tired so he decided to put on the baby bijorn. While i was doing dishes they serinaded me with a little dance to "Pretty lady do dat dance". It was hilarious and needless to say I had to catch this bonding moment between father and daughter on video.

The princess is 4 months old! I can't believe it. She is so expressive and very talkative. She is so strong too. Weighing in at 12 lbs she is nice and healthy. She is very long though about 26 1/2 in. long. She is so long and lean though that she can still fit into her newborn size clothes. The 3 month ones are still a little baggy on her, but she does wear them. She just recently moved up to size 1 diapers which was huge, i thought she'd never move up in size. She loks just like her daddy... I call her Zifferina. He alwas says its his head on my body, poor kid she is in for it if that doesn't change.

My little pumpkin

Lilly was a little pumpkin for halloween this year. She was so cute and she got a kick out of it as did I. I couldn't stop laughing because she is just so darn cute! On halloween we baked cookies (yummy mummy cookies and monster feet) and took them to daddy's work. They were all so tickled to see Lilly as always and were even more thrilled about the cookies... I am pretty sure as soon as we walked out the door the cookies were gone. 2 days before halloween Lilly and I met up with a friend and her daughter and we went to a halloween carnival at a local play place. They had so much fun. There were toys for kids of all ages which was nice since Lilly is still so little. She even got some professional pictures taken for free which turned out great. It was a great first halloween!!!

Cute as ever

The other morning this is what I found when I went to check on Lilly. She was in there playing with her dolly Lucy. Shewas just talking up a storm, It was pricless!

First plane ride

Lilly was great! She amazed everyone. She was happier than ever and loved the plane ride. We listened to my ipod for a few minutes and she thought it was the greatest thing, but for most of the ride the sounds of the cabin lulled her to sleep. All of the atendents and passengers were shocked that she was so well behaved and that they didn't hear a peep from her, but she is pretty laid back and we count our blessings for it. She was so curious though and looking everywhere taking in all of her new surroundings she loved it!