A very SWEET week

Last week was the week of Valentine's Day and what a SWEET week it was! We started off the week with some wonderful weather and were able to enjoy a picnic lunch outdoors and make a couple of trips to the park down the street. Lilliana just loves to swing on the swings and go down the slide. She also enjoys going back up the slide the wrong way but we are working on getting her to stop doing that. :)


my little love ready to head to the gym


too cute :)


enjoying some lunch with Maggie and Mommy outside


loving the slide :)


with the wind through her hair on the swing!


wrong way little love

On Wednesday after heading to the gym we decided to make some cookies for Lilliana's nursery workers at church and her teacher at the gym. Maybe not my best idea yet, but we had fun otherwise. I think the cookies turned out pretty yummy and everyone appreciated us thinking of them. Lilliana had a great time helping me and we made quite the mess! Maggie enjoyed helping us clean up some of the mess that made it to the floor!


After her nap, and allowing the cookies to cool we made homemade icing and went to town decorating the cookies. Lilly was in desperate need of a bath afterwards and we got all cleaned up and ready for church in our Valentine's attire to hand out our goodies.


just getting started!




such a beauty, even covered with flour!


the finished product, all wrapped up and ready to hand out

On Thursday we had Wilson over to play and ate some heart shaped goodies and enjoyed a Valentine's episode of Mickey Mouse. Mommy had to work Thursday night so we spent most of Friday trying to recuperate and catching up on sleep.

By time Saturday rolled around, we were glad to have Daddy home for the day and decided to spend it together as a family. We started the day off with breakfast at Blue Plate and then it was off to run a couple of errands before heading to Davis Kidd for Story Time at 11:00. We celebrated with Miss Marjorie at storytime and Daddy got a taste of what our day is like on a typical Thursday. His opinion of storytime is a little different from mine, I guess all the chaos of kids running around and screaming doesn't bother me anymore and I just tend to tune them out unless it's my own.

We really had a great week and enjoyed our weekend as a family.


such a big girl!


Lilliana and Dadda


Lilliana and Momma


working on her putting with Dadda at the golf store


walking back from storytime with Dadda

Happy Valentine's Day





With love,
Lilliana

14 month's young!

Well, another month has come and gone. My little sponge is still soaking up most everything that I throw at her. She is picking up on more stuff and is, I think, such a smart little stinker. I have been blessed to see more of her little attitude lately. She has become quite the little prissy pot and at the ripe old age of 14 months has started to sass just a bit. ☺ We have started to implement more time-outs and hopefully they will begin to work soon. Clay doesn’t understand the whole time-out policy but I just don’t really want to spank her unless necessary. I just don’t think it’s right to tell her no hitting and then hit her as punishment.

She loves to do her animal noises and has picked up on even more. The one’s she can do now in addition to those she previously knew, are… cat, meow; lizard, tongue goes in and out; monkey, ooo, aaa; pig, oink; horse, neigh; fish, she does fish lips; and probably others that I can’t think of now. She loves to say choo choo when we talk about trains and is just the happiest little girl.

We have gone another month without any sicknesses and hope to continue on that trend. I have been putting her in the church nursery for just over a month now and so far so good. She cries each time I leave her but quickly stops, as I stand outside the room to be sure. ☺ We are working on eating more finger foods and things she can feed herself. Her newest favorite is macaroni and cheese and chicken nuggets. Of course you don’t really think I feed her Tyson do you? I found these at Whole Foods and have just been baking one every once in a while and she LOVES them. We are still toothless but you can see the outline of some teeth at the top so I guess time will tell.

Better late than never ...

Finally, I have updated pics from Lilliana's birthday party and updated the post. Click below to view it ...

1st Birthday Extravaganza

Look what came in the mail ...

Today we got Lilliana's precious Valentine's outfit in the mail. I blogged about it earlier here. I am so excited for her to wear it and I think it turned out cuter than I thought. Isn't she going to look just precious in it?


Especially with her new white Keds Mommy bought her the other day.


We also made some Valentine's on Saturday. I bought her some finger paints and we went to town! It was so much fun and I think I am going to start doing projects with her at least weekly now. I think she is old enough to enjoy it now and hopefully not put whatever she is working on in her mouth! We will just have to see. :) I will post a pic of her valentines when they are done, I think they turned out precious and I can't wait to send them to all her little friends. I thought we would do some kind of Valentine's Day party at our house the week of and I have been racking my brain to try and come up with some cute crafts and other ideas for the big day. Any suggestions are welcome.


not sure what to think at first


she quickly caught on and had a blast!


Wow Mom, this is soooo much fun!!


of course we were in much need of a bath afterwards :)

Thanks for all of the suggestions on the juice subject, I do think we will hold out a while longer since she is taking water and milk so well at this point. I did buy some though so we will just see if I cave. I guess if I do I will definitely mix it like 1/3 juice to 2/3 water since that seems like what most of you suggested. There are so many things that I just don't know about being a first time mom and every time we go to the pediatricians office I leave forgetting to ask him something. I think I will make a list for her 15 month appointment so that maybe I will get everything answered I have on my mind.

Question?

Ok, I have debated back and forth about whether or not to give Lilliana juice just yet. Does anyone have any suggestions or thought on it? She has been drinking water for about 5 month's now since we started the sippy cup so early and is still doing pretty good with that but all she really wants is milk. I know she isn't supposed to be getting as much milk anymore these days, because of the possibility of becoming anemic so I was trying to think of another idea. I put a poll on the side to also get some opinions. :)

Thanks.

Davis Kidd

For the last couple month's Lilliana and I, along with Amanda and Wilson have enjoyed Thursday morning story-time at Davis Kidd. It is so much fun and there is lot's of singing, dancing and reading to be had. Lilliana will follow along with some of the motions and loves laughing at Wilson while he spins around and does crazy antics all while singing along some himself. We typically start the day out by heading to the gym and then around 10:30 head over to Davis Kidd. It is about 30 minutes long and so worth the hassle of getting them there. I have really thought a lot about putting her in Kindermusik but it is just so expensive we just haven't been able to justify it yet. I really feel like this is the next best thing and it is FREE! How much better does it get?



watching as Miss Marjorie reads a story about Cats!


My little love :)