Sitting Up

Little Miss Lily Poo has learned how to sit up by herself. She still needs a little help to get balanced, but once she's there, she's golden. She sits for a while, then slowly leans forward, pulls herself back up straight, then starts all over again.





Lily got inspired by Grammy doing her Jillian Michaels tape every day, that she decided she should wear her exercise clothes as well. I'm not sure where the bunny slippers fit in, but the leg warmers and "leotard" are fabulous!!!

She exercised so much, she crashed on the couch.

Oatmeal Baby Cereal

Last night we fed Lily some oatmeal baby cereal. It's not the first time she's had it, but it was the first time she finished it all off and actually liked it. I made it a bit thicker than the other couple times, which seemed to help. It was, however, the first time using the highchair. And it worked a whole lot better than the bumbo seat.

This is before she started eating. Notice she's nice and clean.


She thought she needed to help Mommy.

She also thought she needed her hand to help me shove food in her mouth.

By the time she finished it off, she had it all over her face and hands. We actually got a whole lot more into her mouth than I thought we would.

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.