Books are the Best

This is my favorite shot every day, Dusty and Lily reading before she goes to bed. Until recently Lily would only go to sleep for me so Dusty read to her before I would put her down. She would crawl over to me when he finished and I would sing a couple of songs before I put her in the crib. That's all changed since she has been teething but the book reading has stayed the same. 

Dusty and Lily both love to read and I adore watching them read every night. She points and cooes at the book while he reads it to her. Since Lily is refusing to take two naps anymore, she is really tired when bedtime hits so Dusty has to read fast. Its funny to watch him try to read Dr. Seuss quickly, it doens't always work with the tongue twisters but he does his best. She doesn't care, she loves anyone who will read to her. 

Fourth of July 2014

The Fourth of July, 2014

This Fourth of July, we decided that fireworks shows would be too late at night for the little lady, and so we decided to have some fun at the park, and picnic early in the day. The best part of this plan was that we were pretty much the only ones at the park, since everyone else seemed to be saving their partying for the evening.

Thanks to a park more or less to ourselves, we had a really great impromptu family photoshoot. Here are some of our favorites, based on some of our favorite things to do with Lily.

Lily loves to crawl in grass, but she hates to let her knees touch it, so she does a really funny bear crawl all around at the park.

Lily also loves to sit on my lap, so here we are on the seesaw (mom said that we couldn't go on the super swing chair after she saw how high I pushed Cole when he was in town)

Lily is an herbivore when picnicing, preferring the indigenous growth to the vegetables we bring from home.

Mom said go slow, so we made sure to slip and almost fall when we flew off the end of the slide.

We found another seesaw! Score!

I have been training Lily to drink from fountains since she was about 3 months old. She is finally getting the idea after months of sneaking out of church to go to the water fountain in the hall.

Lily was allowed to swing without dad.

"Dad who?"

Again, the knees can't touch, or you're out!

She was REALLY into the family shot. Always happy to stay put... or something...

She has recently been really into sunglasses, and normal glasses. She will steal them off your face, eat them, then try them on. When she gets sick of them, she tries to push them back on your face, but isn't very accurate, so watch out for poked eyeballs.

Lily and mom like to play and laugh. I hear that is what they do all day while I am off doing work stuff. Jealous!

Lily LOVES the dishwasher. If she hears it open, she will drop what she is doing and book it to the dishwasher. She either climbs in or goes for the knives. I don't know which I like less.

Well that is a small smidgen of what we are up to these days. Not to exciting, but we sure wouldn't want to be anywhere else! The three of us love just spending time together and being silly!

Fort Fun

When we watch Brock and Boston we always make forts and Lily thinks they're the greatest. She loves crawling under them to play peekaboo and thinks its hilarious to pull them down. I've made a few forts for her recently and she has been in heaven. I hope she is always this easily entertained.

Lily's Chaw

Lily holds things in her mouth in the most interesting way. It must be because her teeth hurt but it sure looks funny.

She even likes binkie's now, just for chewing though

Dada

Lily said "Dada" for the first time on the 7th. Today I finally got her to say it on camera. Dusty is so happy that she calls for him. I think he was secretly bummed that she said mama first.

Giggles

Baby giggles are the best, I could listen to Lily giggle all day long!

8 Months

This was a hard month for Lily. She cut her first two teeth and got a terrible cold, so there were a lot of sleepless nights and napless days. She's still teething but we're hoping that it ends soon. Lily is so much fun everyday. She is constantly learning and I love watching her explore the world around her. We took out our living room rug this month and that enabled her to move around the house on her own more. I guess its easier to drag yourself around on a slick surface than a rug. She loves going to the park, we go almost every day. Swinging is her favorite but she likes the slide almost as much. I'm so grateful every day that I get to stay home and play with her. We have the good life!