15 Months Old

At the moment I don't have the time to write out Lily's 15 month letter, but I couldn't let the day pass without posting a picture!



I'll update this post later tomorrow or Monday. But for now...it's time for Little Gym!

Little Gym

This morning we had little gym again ( just like every Saturday morning!), and this time I remembered to bring in my camera so I could take a little video of Lily! Today was all about feet. We played foot games on the mat, and tried kicking the balls when the teacher Ms. Lori took them out. Lily also hanged from the low bar, and we discovered that she's grown taller and can now touch the mat. She also tried hanging from the high bar, walking on the balance beam (when we first started going, Lily wouldn't even try to stand on it, now, as you can see in the video below, she can stand on it, and try to walk!) and crawled through the "donut hole"! It was a fun day at class! Enjoy the videos!

The Many Faces of Lily

New Word

Just wanted to post a quick update on the new word Lily's started saying over the past couple of days. She's been saying "juice". We think she has also been saying "shoes", but we're not positive. She's also started saying ouch and wow a lot (not related to being hurt though). It's so fun seeing her vocabulary expanding! Here are a few more pics from election day:

Lily's New Obsession

Lily has developed a new behavior lately. She has become VERY interested in putting things into any sort of container...especially the trash! It was really cute at first...on Sunday night she was helping me pick up the potatoes skins that had missed the trash can. She would pick one up at a time and threw it away for me. We thought it was great! "Look...our daughter knows how to clean!" Oh how wrong were we! Since Sunday she has become obsessed with the trash. She throws everything away. We've found her binky in the trash, toys, bottles...and the latest today...I caught her throwing our shoes away! It's nice that I can give her a napkin and tell her to throw it away now, but we are also going to have to go though the trash before we put it out for pickup! Just our luck she'll throw away something important, and we'll miss it!

It's not just the trash though. She's also become obsessed with the container we keep the cat food in. For the past couple of weeks she's been lifting up the cover and pulling out hands fulls of cat food to throw on the floor. The cats love it of course and come running to clean up the mess. Late last week she started taking the cup (that we use as a scope to put the food in the cats bowl) and putting a couple of handfuls of food in it, then taking it over to empty in the cats food bowl! Again I thought "Great...we can teach her to feed the cats!" Nope...wrong again! She'll then sit down at their bowl and fill the cup back up with their food, and bring it back to the cat food container. Then today I caught her putting other things in the container that holds the cat food. She emptied a box of instant oatmeal, and took the packets one at a time over to the cat food container, and threw them in. I guess it could be worse...she could have thrown them in the trash!! Then once she had run out of oatmeal packets, she went back to the food containers and dug the packets out, one at a time, throwing them on the floor.

Now if only I can get her to put her toys away in the toy box! :)

Here are some more pictures from today. Playing with manual focus again. I'm still not that happy with my results.

As you can tell, Lily's dressed for the election today...representing both parties! Again we urge you, don't forget to get out and vote! Sean and I have already voted, have you?

Election Day!

Lily wants to remind you to get out today and VOTE!

Halloween Part 2

As promised, here's the full Halloween post! We had such a great day. I started the morning by carving one of our pumpkins (since we were so lazy this year and didn't carve our pumpkins earlier!) Then Lily and I headed outside for a photo shoot with our newly carved pumpkin.

Our pumpkin:
A couple of just Lily:

The frost the was on the ground that morning:
Lily was very interested in the pumpkin's eyes:

After taking these pictures, we headed out to a farm near us. They have a petting zoo area with goats, pigs and yaks. Lily loved watching the animals...especially the chickens!

Here are a couple of the goats:

Lily had fun playing with the Lily sized pumpkins too:
After the farm we headed up to Becky's and spent the rest of the day with them We don't get trick or treaters at our house, so it was fun to be at a house that got lots of little kids coming to the door. Lily was really into running to the door every time the doorbell rang...she made sure she was at the door to see everyone, and show off her skunk costume! After a while, when the kids started slowing down, she kept going to the door as if she was expecting the door bell to ring at any moment! She's so funny!

Here's a picture of our little zoo..Lily the skunk, Kyan the elephant, and Ella the cow:
Hope you all had as fun a Halloween as we did! Can't wait to see what next year has in store for us!