Lilly Rae - Week 27

Sunday, December 16

My baby girl is 27 weeks old today!  I know I say this every week, but where is the time going???  

We had the Smiths over for dinner tonight just to see everyone and hang out before the holidays.  It's great because Lilly sits in her high chair now while we eat so we can all eat together. Darren and I tag team feeding her and then we put some broken up Cheerios on her tray to keep her occupied while we finish.  

All bundled up and ready for a trip to the store!

I love how much the kids love Lilly and always want to play with her and hold her.  

Look at my big girl!  

Monday, December 17

It's amazing how entertaining Lilly is!  I am so excited to have so much time off with her over track out so I can just watch her play with her toys and explore things.  I love thinking about how she sees things for the first time and everything is new and exciting.  It really helps put things into perspective.  

Look at that little tongue sticking out!

Lilly gets a very intense face when plays with her toys.  I love it1

Hmmm...what happens if I bang this on my tray really hard?

Did you see, mom?  I made a loud noise!

Check out this video!

Tuesday, December 18

Kristi snapped a few cute pictures of Lilly in her Bumbo playing with all of her toys.  Kristi tells me that Lilly likes to have them all surrounding her so she can choose.  

She gets so excited when it's time to eat!  I love feeding her.

Wednesday, December 19

I am sure it's not that interesting to everyone else, but I just love the new experience of Lilly eating solid foods.  It is new for all of us, so it's a lot of fun.  Her new "thing" is trying to "help" feed herself by grabbing at the spoon.  Unfortunately, she is not very helpful yet because she just grabs it really tight and wants to shove it in her mouth.  I think she has started to see it as some sort of game of tug of war!
 

This is Lilly's new kitty sweatshirt.  I love anything hooded with ears and/or a face on it.  Baby clothes are so cute!

Thursday, December 20

Today was our last day of work for a looooong time and we are so excited!  We were so excited we didn't think about taking pictures, we just wanted to spend time with Lilly.  Luckily Kristi snapped a couple of photos  so we are still managing our "photo a day for a year" :o)

Friday, December 21

Pretty much the cutest hat ever...and the cutest baby ever :o)

Lilly amazes me because she is so happy to sit in her Bumbo and play with her toys.  It's almost as if she is already using her imagination and finding ways to entertain herself.  We have also discovered the useful trick of clipping her toys to her Bumbo so she can't play "fetch" with us anymore.

Lilly is still so expressive with both her facial expressions and her vocalizations.  I love listening to her "sing" and the adorable faces she makes.  Darren often narrates what she is saying and we just laugh together as a family.

Saturday, December 22

It was a big day for us because we took Lilly to see Santa for the first time!  She sat with him for a few minutes and looked a little confused, but she did fine.  We stood close by and made silly faces for her so she knew we were right there for her.  Unfortunately, Lilly looked up at Santa and Santa looked down at her and started trying to talk to her and she was NOT happy about that.  She started to cry and I immediately scooped her up.  We managed to get a picture, but it was definitely a cliche that Lilly cried on Santa's lap.  

After that we came home and Lilly played with Maggie Moo for a while.  I love watching them play because Lilly absolutely loves Maggie and Maggie is great with her.  Lilly will just giggle and coo and put her hands out to try to pet Maggie and Maggie is happy to oblige.