Words of Wisdom

Exciting news, Lily completed a full week of afternoon naps at school without a pacy, and this also included only taking one nap, she is essentially done with the morning nap, and goes to sleep around 1pm for about two hours. While at school, upon going down for a nap, apparently she chatted a bit and fooled around by throwing her blanket out of the crib, but no major fussing and slept around 2 hours. Mom and Dad are encouraged but have not tried the no pacy trick at home, we will test the waters in the next few weeks.

We had our meeting at Lily's school to find out the details of her new classroom - the big move takes place this week. Along with sleeping on a cot without a pacy, she will have playground time and her day will be more structured, we will keep you posted on the fun activities in store. They actually have a small toilet in the classroom so we are expecting that Lily will be potty trained shortly...;)

Lily got her own kitchen set this weekend, courtesy of the 'rents - no occassion, she just loves the kitchen at her school and we decided it was a necessity and too long to wait for her birthday. No question, Lily LOVES the kitchen. It has a fridge, stovetop, oven, microwave, phone, washer/dryer, and ironing board. She also has her own shopping cart which she loves to push around. The ball pit has been relegated to the basement b/c we are essentially out of floor space for all of Lily's gear!!

This weekend, Dad hosted his baseball draft at our house, so Mom, Lily & Gypsy were sent to Grandma & Grandpa's for an overnight Sat visit. As always, Lily was very busy playing with toys, the dogs (Ivan & Gypsy), and dancing with her grandparents - we got some great video. Lily LOVES to dance. Sunday, Lily enjoyed watching George Mason (local team) make it into the final four, and kept busy playing with all of her toys.

Lily's vocabulary has expanded to saying: dog, duck, cow - moo, mommy, daddy, hi, bye, more, boom, book, bird, nose, blue, ball. I know she says other words but I cannot recall them at the moment. She apparently said 'Emma' at school this week - she is the only other girl in her class. Also we think she said Grandpa this weekend. Today she said 'Bye Daddy.' She can also identify her nose, mouth, tongue, head/hair, eyes, tummy, feet, shoes, and diaper - we are working on the ears. She has also become Mommy's little helper by gathering laundry, closing and starting the dishwasher, and pressing the green Yes button at the grocery store on the credit card machine. She also loves to clean her placemat and the floor with paper towels.

Warm weather is just around the corner so we hope to get some outside pictures soon. We will keep you posted on her first week in the new classroom and Dad has Lily all by himself next weekend, while Mom gets a weekend at the spa, so should be interesting!! ;)

Enjoy the pics!!


Playing with stickers.


Playing with baby.


I don't know.


Coloring.


Fun with stickers.


Fun with fridge magnet.


Playing in her new kitchen.


Let's go ...


Serious aquadoodling!