Christmas Time Was Here...

And is now gone. Christmas was rather hectic. I've decided we have too much family :-) Don't get me wrong, I love getting together with family, it's just that after 4 days worth, it's tiring. Lily made out like a bandit when it comes to Chrismas presents. I bought her some clothes (I couldnt help it!), and some neat little cups that stack and they can be put together into little balls that roll around. She got a play mat, which she loves, and a bumbo seat, which she also loves. She got two nice warm cozy bunting suits, and some other toys.

Today we tried Lily's first cereal. It was actually oatmeal, instead of rice. I dont think she thought it was too horrible, as she ate it with no problem. Of course, she has yet to figure out the whole spoon thing, but what else can you expect from a 4 month old?


She's getting to be such a big girl. This time last year we were struggling to keep our pregnancy a secret and look at where we are now. It's amazing, isn't it?

I'd never go back!

Thanksgiving

First of all, I hope you all had a fantastic Thanksgiving. We had 2 1/2 Thanksgiving meals this long weekend. On Thursday, we went to my parent's house and had the traditional yummy turkey dinner with all the fixin's. It was fun to hang out with my family, which included my parents, my sister and her husband and kid, my sister's friend, and my aunt and uncle. We all played Quelf, which if you haven't ever played it, you need to! It's hilarious and so off the wall!

Friday was fairly quiet. I was bored out of my gourd, but there was no way I was going anywhere near a store. I'm not that brave! We ended up going back to my parent's house and had leftovers for dinner and played some more games. We played Conga, which is made by the same makers of Cranium. It's similar, but less complicated. It was really fun! We also played Scrabble Slam, which was fun, and Blink, which I DOMINATED!! I'm undefeated! (except for one game, but I let Jesus win)

Saturday was Jesus' family's day. We went up to his parent's house for the day. We had turkey, stuffing, and tostadas. They were yummy! I just wish I had thought to make a turkey tostada then instead of 5 minutes ago. The tostadas were beans, lettuce, sour cream (which is good on stuffing, I discovered), salsa, and goat cheese. On home fried tostadas. Man they were good. Makes me drool just thinking about it. We played games there too, but they were all on the Wii or the Playstation. Not really my kind of games. It was fun regardless.

Yesterday, we went wine tasting after work. That was fun, I hadn't been wine tasting in a long time. We went to Domaine Serene and got in free because Jesus worked there. They had mostly reds, so I didn't like them as much. Then we went to Kramer, which is so yummy! They always have the best food/snacks there. They had some yummy cranberrry cheese stuff. I'm pretty sure I am responsible for eating half the block! We did not buy any wine yesterday, so our whole wine tasting trip yesterday cost us $5 plus gas. Not too shabby! We then went to a friend's house for some spaghetti and hanging out.

So we've had a fairly busy/wild Thanksgiving weekend. I'm ready to relax a little and starting tomorrow, I can start decorating for Christmas. I should probably take down the Halloween stuff first...

Back to Work

I've successfully completed a whole week back at work. As much as I miss my baby, it is nice to be back. I feel so much more productive at work. When I was at home (when the baby wasn't crying or pooping) I didn't do much. I could always think of something better to do than clean the living room, or laundry, or the dishes.

But now that I'm back at work, I don't have to make up excuses for why I didn't do the laundry or the dishes. Now my excuse is "Because I was earning money, that's why". I can't even blame Jesus for not doing it this week, though, because he's working all week. Which also means that we have to drop Lily off at somebodys house for the day. Today was my dad's turn to play with her all day, and tomorrow it'll be my fabulous aunt who agreed to watch her a few days this week. I haven't quite worked out the timing of dropping her off and then getting to work. I was 15 minutes early to work this morning. I've never been there that early! It's amazing what a couple minutes earlier does to traffic! But it was kind of nice to be able to leave a couple minutes early. It helps with traffic on that end too. Tomorrow is Jesus' turn to drop off Lily, so maybe my timing will be a little better tomorrow.

Halloween

For Halloween, we dressed Lily up as a lobster. I wanted to be a chef, but we decided it would be a little morbid. So I was a lobster fisherman. Jesus dressed up as Shaggy from Scooby Doo. We were happily surprised that Lily didn't mind the lobster outfit as much as we thought she would. (Our little secret is that this is picture number 8 or so. She wasn't so happy in the first 7.)

Lily and Daddy wandered the Harvest Festival at church. She fell asleep and he didnt even notice. We've decided that the cushiony front of the costume was a big help, it kept her head from flopping.


Jesus drew a pirate on his pumpkin and chisled off the top skin of the pumpkin.


Here's the finished product. It was pretty cool.


I call mine "Swine Flew":


It won 3rd place at the pumpkin contest at my work.

The finished products, guarding our door from Trick or Treaters.

Talkie Talkie

I wish this picture wasn't washed out, it would have been so cute!


Tonight Lily was laying on the couch babbling away, so I thought I'd get a video of it because it was so cute and she was going on and on and on. This is what I got:

She still babbles a bit in the video, but not nearly as much as she was before the camera came into the picture. Oh well, she's still cute!

A Day in the Life of Liliana

When I wake up, I eat, then join Daddy watching the Disney Channel. I think I'm picking up his tv watching skills like a pro! Repeat after me "Just stare, it doesnt matter what's on, as long as you're staring at the tv you have an excuse to ignore Mommy".

Then after a couple hours of tv watching, Daddy puts me in my swing so I can take a nap while I'm swinging through the air. It's almost like flying, you should try it.

Then after I nap, Mommy wakes me up and makes me take pictures with her. I'm not really a fan of the little blue box that flashes and blinds me. So I try not to look.

But eventually she catches a picture of me looking. This is my "Bad Girl" pose. You like?

Then finally, it's off to the bouncy chair for a bit of bouncing and squirming. Shhh.. don't tell Mommy that I know how to do it myself. She thinks that she needs to continually bounce the chair. I just lay back and relax.

It really is tough being me. I scream, Mommy picks me up. I poop, Mommy changes my diaper. My favorite is when I'm hungry, Mommy sticks her boob in my face and all I have to do is lay around and she feeds me. Yep, it's rough being me!