A visit from Uncle Phil & Aunt Lauren!

A couple of weeks ago Uncle Phil & Aunt Lauren came to visit us! We had such a great time hanging out with them and look forward to having them out again! Here are some pictures of their time here in KC.

Picking flowers for Mommy

Last week, Justin cooked a great dinner and he and Lily went outside to the backyard and picked me some flowers. When I drove up after work, Lily ran out to the front porch holding a red plastic cup with the flowers she had picked in them with water. She was so proud and said "I picked these flowers for you Mommy!" Just melted my heart.

Today, she asked Justin to go outside with her before dinner. She said "Mommy, not you...only Daddy". Come to find out, she was leading him to the backyard again to pick some flowers for me.

Thank you, my precious Lily. And thank you Justin for teaching our daughter how to be so kind and thoughtful!

Clever child..

We have been in the process of weaning Lily from her best pal...the "paci". This has not been an easy task, but she has done fairly well with only limiting her need for it during bedtime and naps on weekends.

Recently, after a visit to Grandma and Papa's house, Grandma B. told me the following story about one of Lily's clever tactics in trying to get her "friend" back :)


"We had so much fun with Lily last night. She was in the cabinet where the plates, cups, diapers and pacifiers are...You've got it ...she spotted the PACI. She quickly grabbed it and said her "BABY" needed it. Grandpa said ok. Then she came over to me and said "Gandma, this will fit in my mouth" with her eyes real big and I said You aren't a baby are you, "No, but it will fit.....SEE" She put it in her mouth and sucked away....We laughed so hard then, she got rid of it and we hid it!!! She is such a hoot. I have not laughed that much since I don't know when. "


It looks as though our daughter is learning clever ways to get what she wants. I need to read up more on my "How to Con your Kid" book. I think I will be needing it!

Shirley Temple

We had a visit from Grandma L. this past weekend for a quick weekend trip. Lily had such a great time getting to spend quality time with Grandma. Lily has become very expressive in her words as well as facial expressions when she is communicating. We have been told that she acts very "grown up" for her age of 2.

Grandma had been trying to pinpoint who Lily reminded her of all weekend and finally discovered that it was Shirley Temple! They share a similar bob haircut as well as expressive personality. Here's a short video of one of Shirley's famous songs- Good Ship Lollipop:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_RZTusUzM8

Grandma pulled this up on youtube for Lily and I to see and Lily was glued to the computer screen! Looks like we need to go out to buy some Shirley Temple movies!

Official Potty Training

We have now officially entered the world of potty-training. Actually, we started last weekend with bringing out the Elmo panties that Lily has long awaited to wear. We only had 3 accidents the first day and she didn't have any the second day! We were shocked! All week, no accidents at daycare and only a couple at home in the evening.
It has been a dream compared to the nightmare I had envisioned in my head of many messy underpants. Maybe this is only the beginning and I could be jinxing myself by even singing praises at this point! Who knows! But Justin and I are thrilled that Lily is "getting it"!

Funny story along this topic that I wanted to share:
Last night, I got home from work and Justin had literally just taken Lily to the potty within 30 minutes of me coming home. Justin and I were talking in the kitchen and Lily was playing in the front room. I realized that Lily had tried to crawl in one of the cubbies of our entertainment center and said "Uh-oh..Mommy, I pottied in my pants!" I proceeded to get her into the bathroom, when frustrated Justin was asking Lily..."you JUST went potty, why didn't you go to the big potty?!" He could BARELY finish his sentence when, no joke, Lily threw up her "talk to the hand" and said "It's OK Daddy" as she toddled off to the bathroom with me to get cleaned up. Needless to say, we had to hide our heads in laughter since this was such a true statement! "Accidents happen and it's OK!"...according to the Elmo Potty Time video.

Thank you Lily for the reminder that your Mommy & Daddy need to lighten up every once in a while!

"One-a-day"

Check out this video of our 2-year-old reading. I love how at the beginning of every page she says "One-a-day". I could listen to this all day.

Church

Lily loves going to church. Usually, on Sunday mornings that is all she can talk about..."I go to church"....
Last Sunday on our way to church, we had a funny conversation with Lily. Just to give you some insight, we call her daycare "school" because truly, that is what it is.

Here's the conversation:
Dad- "Are you excited to go to church, Lily?"
Lily- "Yeah!"
Mom- "Are you excited to go to Sunday School, Lily?" (thinking I would teach her a new term)
Lily- "No...Mommy, you go to school, I go to church!"

Cracked us both up. Hilarious that she was thinking we were taking her to daycare on a Sunday! :)