Sunday, April 21
Lilly is still not very interested in food, but she nurses really well, so I am not worried. She did really enjoy sharing a cheese stick with me, so at least we know one thing she will eat! It was adorable: I was holding her and biting the cheese stick and she was staring at me, so I let her try a bite and she was hooked! I didn't give her too much just in case it didn't sit well with her, but she loved it!
We went to Jared and Carissa's for dinner tonight. It was great to see everyone. As always, Ryan and Drew were extremely into Lilly and both wanted to hold her. It's funny that the boys are so much more interested in Lilly than the girls! Hmmm...that sounds weird, but you know what I mean!
I am still in denial that my baby is almost a year old. How did that happen???
Is it sad that I am sometimes jealous of how much Lilly seems to love Maggie? She laughs harder playing with Maggie than anything else! Our daughter is definitely a dog person.
Monday, April 22
Someone is very proud of themselves now that they can pull up and stand up on their own! She pulls up and gives me a huge, toothy grin to show how happy she is. She still flops on her butt sometimes because she gets so excited that she tries to bounce, but she doesn't quite have the balance to do that yet.
We have a full blown crawler on our hands now too! Lilly just decided that she wasn't going to settle for her army crawl/worm movement, she wanted to crawl for real. So now, look out! We cannot turn our backs on Lilly and expect her to be in the same place anymore!
You can see Lilly pulling up!
Tuesday, April 23
Lilly's top incisor still has not cut through, so she has sometimes been taking an evening nap since she is not feeling great and she doesn't always sleep as long during her daily naps. Today I carried her on our evening walk and she fell asleep on me. I told Darren he needed to go get the camera because I wanted a picture of this. It is so rare that Lilly sleeps in my arms, I wanted to have a picture. We went inside and I took her out of her carrier and just let her sleep on me while I sat in the recliner. It reminded me of the first 12 weeks I had with Lilly at home. We used to always sleep on the recliner together. She is still my sweet little baby!
We also met a possible daycare provider today and LOVED her! She is a former teacher (her husband is still a teacher) and they have two beautiful girls. Lilly and the girls played really well together and Darren and I felt like we really clicked with the family. It was a HUGE weight lifted off of my shoulders that we knew we had someone that would work out, and we still have several other great possibilities to interview.
Wednesday, April 24
Unfortunately the flash woke her up (don't worry, she needed to get up anyway!), but I needed to snap this picture. Lilly was asleep with her little fanny up in the air! I have only seen her do this one other time and I didn't have my phone to take a picture. It is so cute!
I had soccer duty today, so we brought Lilly to school to see everyone and see some of the game. Our principal said Lilly is so cute he wanted to set up his office as a daycare and watch Lilly for us. I told him I wish that were an option!
Lilly enjoyed visiting with our friends at work and getting to be outside for a little while. It was great!
Thursday, April 25
Darren had a meeting today with his China trip group, so I had the Smiths all over for dinner. Michelle offered to feed Lilly while I finished dinner and I was hoping she might have better luck getting Lilly to eat, but she pretty much stuck to her Cheerios and didn't want anything to do with her spaghetti. All in time I guess!
She's pretty much the cutest baby ever...admit it.
Friday, April 26
I still have a stack of magazines in a basket by the fireplace (because I am going to get time to read them...riiiiiiight). Anyway, Lilly was playing with her toys and crawled over to get the magazines. We tried several times to move her or move them, but she was pretty intent on seeing them, so I figured, what the heck, and I gave her one to read with Darren. She pretty much just flipped through the pages like she does with her books. She started to crumple it a little toward the end, but I think that was because she likes the sound more than anything.
Saturday, April 27
I went out early this morning to a garage sale to see if I could find any toys for Lilly for her birthday and I came out with such a great deal! I bought at least 12 toys including a walker/rider, play table, a stand up activity center and a talking/moving Elmo for $10! I was originally going to save them for Lilly's birthday, but why keep them away from her for 6 more weeks when she can play with them now! :-)
Lilly was crawling up a storm today. She wanted to explore everything! She loves going over to the big bookshelf and seeing what she can find, since of course that is pretty much the only spot in the entire living room that we prefer her not to go (since it's kind of behind an arm of the couch and harder to see her). I think her toy box will make the perfect blockade for that area.
We went to the Health Fair at The Vine today and I was SO excited because we ran into our doula, Kalan! Not only that, but we were able to meet her hansom baby boy, Gentry! It was so nice to see Kalan and Gentry. We have been meaning to schedule a play date and time just got away from us. We will schedule it soon though, for sure!
We went to Amber and Seth's that night for a party and it was so much fun! Shanequia and William were there, and also Andrea from school but I didn't really know anyone else. Luckily everyone was so friendly and I just talked to other moms and met new people. There must have been 15 kids under the age of 4 there. It seemed like everyone had a baby or small child! It was great :-)
Amber's daughter, Gracen, loved playing with Lilly and was so sweet with her! She wanted to hold her, so I sat Lilly on her lap and she hugged her. Then she told me she wanted to hold her "like this" and she pointed to her shoulder. She wanted to hold Lilly up in her arms (probably because she sees her parents and grandparents hold her brother like that). I told her Lilly was probably too big for that, but she could give her a hug instead. She liked that.
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I was proud of Lilly because she lasted until almost 8:30 that night. She started to get really tired and cranky though, so we called it an early night and got her home. It was nice to get out and hang out with great friends though!
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