The great boo boo

Lilly is so adventurous these days. She is constantly wanting to try new things and explore everything, as most babies do. She love opening drawers and cabinets, although she can only open some the others we have child-proofed. Her favorite pass time is unloading the contents of the drawers and cabinets. She squeals in delight and is so proud of herself and when she is done with messing up one room she moves on to the next. With this new curiosity come great clumsiness. It seems that she can barely crawl without tripping over herself. This particular evening she was trying to open the drawer to pull out all her towels and wash clothes and she must have gotten excited and lost her footing and BAM bump on the forehead. This particular bump was the first really good and noticeable one so i decided to be a good mommy and capture this moment. This bump was the first in a series of many over the next few days and now every bump is a "major" one to her.

Friday afternoons

Lilly and I have been part of a new moms playgroup for the last 3 months or so and it has been absolutly wonderful! Lilly is a little social butterfly. She takes after her daddy in that area, she has had no trouble making friends. Tyler is her best bud... they met in swim class and have just been buddies since :-) At this particular playgroup however Tyler was busy exploring the house and Lilly teamed up with the twins (Claudia is the one in green pants and Anya is the one in pink). In this picture they were all eating a cookie (Lilly's first cookie!) and anyother things they could find including the food off of the mommy's plates. I caught Lilly snatching a noodle off of someones plate when she wasn't looking. But besides snack time the girls crawled at the same pace to check out one of the younger girls who was playing on the floor... all you saw was the poor little girl looking up at the three of them in a straight line staring down at her . (if you can picture that in your mind, i couldn't grab my camera fast enough) but the girls really played well together. Playgroup has been great for both Lilly and I and i think we both look forward to Firday afternoons.

Lilly's first trip to the Zoo

What a great way to spend St. Patty's day! We went with a good friend and her son Tyler. Lilly and Tyler really have bonded and they love spending time together. They converse and play and share snacks... it is super cute. We all had a fabulous time although it was alot for the kiddos... by the end they were spent and we had some major melt downs. The kids really loved seeing all the animals and Lilly was mesmerized by many of them... something new to learn about. She is so curious about everything and i am sure when she is older she will love the zoo as i do.

Laundry

Lilly really wants to help do everything these days. Even the laundry. She has her very own special way of helping...I put things into the dryer, she takes things out.
After the sheets were dry, she insisted on helping me "fold" the sheets. Each thing i would fold she would stand up and pull off the couch. By the time she had helped me "fold" all this she was squealing with delight. Needless to say she was so very proud of herself.

B-E-A-U-TIFUL day

It was such a gorgeous day Lilly and I decided to venture out to the park. When we first moved here we went to this same park... in fact I believe it was our first blog! It is amazing to see the extreme differences between the 2 visits. Lilly absolutely loved the swing and was laughing and singing, she did not want to get out. The Slide was a success as well she would get down to the bottom and get very excited and she would start tapping the side of the slide...i am guessing it is her special way of clapping and saying again mommy again. :-) we had a great day on our walk and at the park... thank you God for such beautiful days.

Crinkle crinkle

I was in the kitchen on the phone and Ziff was on the computer. I look around to make sure Lilly is alright and she is not in the living room any more... she has ventured over to the bathroom to discover daddy's pile of newspaper from earlier in the morning and she decided she needed to catch up on her local happenings. She was trying to decide which section tasted the best. She would pick one up flip through it and then lick it, but if it wasn't to her tasting, she would toss it aside and go for the next. Ziff and I were both laughing so hard. She is so full of personality... I love it!!!

Remembering

Though Oklahoma is a terrible place to live and i would never wish anyone to have to go there, there is one thing there that keeps me going back. My mom was buried there after passing away in April of 1991. We left Oklahoma in the summer of 1991 and moved to Seattle and I have never been back since... in fact this was my first time at the grave site. Thankfully Ziff and Lilly were there with me and it was their first time as well. It was a hard day but it was well needed. It gave Ziff and I a sense a relief having been there for ourselves and being able just be there with her memory alive and well. Lilly was talking to her grandma as though she was there and who knows maybe she was there with us, cause Lilly was talking to someone and she wasn't looking at Ziff or i she was looking at grandma. We will always remember the amazing woman that gave me life and then gave her life for me.