Saturday's Top 5 Laughs

I'm finally linking up with for her Saturday Top 5 Laughs! I love reading this hop every week I really enjoy Melissa's blog and her on twitter. This week I remembered to keep better track of the funny stuff. :) Most of them will be able Lily, as she's on a vocabulary explosion these days and we just can't get enough of her.

5.  Lily calls Andrew, "Bubba or Bubby" and she calls Reagan, "Sissy".  Some days we drive them to school instead of them taking the bus and when we get there, she cries after they get out of the car. I've started asking her where they are when they're not home during the day and she says, "scooooooo" for school.  It's adorable.

4.  Daddy asked Lily if she wanted some chocolate milk (she's had it once before) and he took her sippy out of her hand to go into the kitchen to get the chocolate and she lost it! She started crying and running into the kitchen, through the dining room and back in a circle. When he came back to hand her her sippy, she was still mid temper tantrum and finished it off by running over to the window in the living room, spinning herself to wrap herself in the curtain all while crying and then throwing herself on the floor.  A little drama at 18 months.  We could not stop laughing at her!

3. It's funny to watch our little person developing her personality. She loves to find out where Daddy is when he's not in the room.  She'll run over to the basement door, knock her fingers on it, "Dada dada" or run into our bedroom over to his side of the bed and call for him again while she grabs his brush, brushes her hair, pulls out some kleenex and "blows" her nose like Daddy. The other morning went he got up to leave for work and was getting ready to go, he went to grab his lunch box and she had put her play ketchup bottle from her kitchen on top of his lunch box for him to take to work.  He likes ketchup.  So sweet she knows.

2.  The newest playground for Tornado Lily has become the bathroom. She recently discovered that the toilet paper rolls off the roll when you spin. Then you can take the remaining roll and just throw it all in the toilet....along with your toy boat from the tub, the cup to rinse your hair and some letters that stick on the tub. If it's not that, she loves to get q-tips out of the drawer, sit on the floor and clean her ears while she holds onto the other 1915293577 she has gotten.

1.  Yesterday, while Lily and I were reading books, my phone rang. She looked up and said, "Hi George." HAHAHAHHAHAHA! It totally reminded me of The Brady Bunch when Greg starts calling his parents Mike and Carol.

welcome to my world

A Very Lily Valentines Day

I like to look at "last year at this time" pictures with Lily and marvel at how big she's gotten and ooh and ahhh over how teeny and cutie she was. You know, typical mom adoration.

Last year  Valentine's Day was Lily's ear piercing day. How cutie and chubby she looks!

This year, she and I spent the day jus playing at home and she spent a lot of time running. She likes to do that a lot and often just runs laps around the house.
She simply started her day watching "Hot Dog" otherwise known as Mickey Mouse Clubhouse sitting on the steps with her "bankeeeee"

And then a little breakfast of pink heart shaped

pancakes before her morning nap.

While she was taking a nap, I made a tutu to take some pictures of her in Valentine outfits. She wasn't so excited about it at first, even after I let her put her "pretties" on.



She marveled at herself for a few minutes in a mirror:

Lily recently learned to go down steps, so as you can imagine it's a really fun game for her since she can do it safely.

And off she went...

She didn't stop the entire time she was awake except to ask me for more milk and to take a quick read.

And lots more running:

After she had lunch, she danced for a little while and showed off one of her other new "tricks" of climbing up onto any available surface. This one luckily happened to be a chair.

Along with climbing she loves to make silly faces mostly cheesy.

This closed eye one is deliberate.

Lily finished off her Valentines Day with a little cupcake and dancing.

Her special Valentine card has been a favorite of hers too as she doesn't want to put it down. I LOVE it!

Happy Valentines Day my baby girl!

lovelovelove Tiny Prints

Doin' It Herself

At Lily's 18 month well visit, one of the questions we were asked was if Lily was using utensils when she eats. 

We had introduced them awhile ago, but as expected most of what she does is just play with them. She imitates using them and attempts to stab food with her fork. The spooned food typically gets flung like a catapult.
She's seriously so stubborn and does not like to be helped.  If she could speak the words, "I do it myself", she would. But, since she can't, she literally fights to hang onto the spoon or fork while I try to help her by showing her with her own hand. Then the other day, she made the connection with the spoon, her food and her mouth. :)

Man, I love this kid!

Checking Out 18 Months

18 months.

One and a half years.

More than half way to two.

Wednesday, we headed to the doctor for Lily's 18 month well visit.

I always love well visits to see how much she weighs, how tall she is, and to hear her pediatrician gush all over and about her. 

She weighs in at 24 pounds, she's 32.5 inches tall, and she has a head circumference of 48cm. That translates to 50% for weight, 75% for height and 90% for head. :)  She got two shots, which, of course she doesn't love.

She showed off lots of her skills to Dr. Kelly to prove she's developmentally appropriate. Everything else looks great too as far as her health. She's perfect. ;)   We discussed potty training and how we're going to approach that. To be introduced soon based on Lily's actions.

Lily is a milk drinker. I mean a MILK drinker. She wants more milk ALL.DAY.LONG. I wanted to be sure we're not giving her too much.  Turns out  she drinks slightly more than what's recommended, but we're doing the right thing to counter the potential constipation that could result, so it balances out and she's doing great! Her growth curve is right on track for her.

Our visit was short and sweet.

Lily is growing and doing very well. Barring no sick visits, we're not back to the doctor until she is two for a well child check up. Two?  slow down baby girl!