My early Christmas present!

This year I decided to ask for the moon, and asked Mike for a new camera.  Not just any point and shoot camera I asked him for a fancy DSLR camera.  I told him that he really didn’t have to get it for me if he thought it was too much money.  I guess I was a good girl this year because Mike let me open a box that our friendly UPS man dropped off.  Mike told me that it was my Christmas present but he wanted to give it to me a little early so I could learn how to use it and be able to use it on Christmas morning.  Well that pretty much means it wasn’t the oven mitts or diaper bag that I had on my list!  Ok so without further ado here are a few of the thousands (literally) of pictures that I have taken over the last week or so.  I’m still new at messing with the settings, so most of my pictures have been taken on the preset settings.  I’m working on learning what each setting does and how changing it affects the picture. **warning picture overload coming up**

   Of course Doc and Max had to be in a few pictures!

 

Lilly loves to play in Demo Deux’s room, now that the mattress is on the floor she can climb on the big bed

Look Momma teeth

Kissing the tree, it’s “petty”

 

Showing off her new penguin slippers

 

Just being cute!

 

And being even cuter

 

This is what Lilly looks like when she watches t.v., very serious

 

What do most of the things in this picture have in common?  Well Lilly, ducky, tigger, blanket, and pillow all sleep in the same crib at night! 

I was just playing around with b/w pictures and Lilly was playing in the dogs toy bin!

Helping momma make Daddy’s favorite Christmas treat

More helpful toddler

She even tasted the graham crackers to make sure they were still good…and they were!

 

The final product…tiger brittle!! 

Yet another picture of Doc and Max

My first babies!

Lilly and Santa

Last week Lilly and I took a trip to go see Santa Claus to test her “stranger danger” response!  As usual Lilly was very skeptical  with Santa, even though Mike and I prepped her all week.  She knew Santa says, “ho ho ho Merry Christmas,”  she knew all about his red hat and she even pointed him and told me who he was the first time we walked by.  Lilly didn’t really want anything to do with Santa once she was out of the safety of her stroller! He and the photographer tried very hard to get her to warm up, they even gave her candy and a coupon for said candy (which of course she called a book).  When I finally thought she may sit by Santa I tried to put her down next to him, she practically climbed up me like a spider monkey!  To avoid the potential water works I decided to take the picture with her and Santa.  It makes sense, Lilly and Demo Deux (nope baby #2 still doesn’t have a name) should both be in the picture! 

Take not the candy and “book” that Lilly and I are both holding.  If I knew that I would have been in the picture too, it would have put that stuff down.  If you think this sounded like a long drawn out visit, it was! Thank goodness we the only people visiting Santa at that time.

Better late than never…growing vocabulary

Lilly’s word list has been growing in leaps and bounds over the last 5 months or so.  *Warning I’m going to brag here a little* She can name just about any animal and the noise they make, she can name all parts of her body and face, and name most articles of clothing, plus many, many more! I honestly think her vocabulary list is up to a couple hundred words now!

She has started to group words together into simple sentences! She has also started to recognize certain mannerisms that we have.  One of them is that I always take my shoes off before I walk into the house and leave my shoes on the rack in the garage.  So Lilly now says, “shoes off” and lifts her feet up before she walks into the house.  She also tattles on just about anyone when they wear shoes in the house!  She practically yelled at the guy that was delivering my new washer and dryer to take his shoes off.  How do you explain to a 20 month old that he’s an exception to the rule?  Lilly also has no problem telling Daddy that he is wearing shoes in the house!  She bugged him so much this day that he took his shoes off just for her, then she proceeded to try them on for size.  I think they are a little big honey!

Better late than never..Halloween

Lilly and I enjoyed a few Halloween events this year, first we went to a pumpkin patch in Metairie.  This may be something we do every year, just because of the great photo ops! Take a look at how much Lilly grew in one year..Last year's pumpkin patch.

Then we carved our pumpkins..

Check out our finished products! Mike did the first one and I carved the second one.

Then we went trick or treating! Lilly was a flower this year.  She has had this headband that her Amaw gave her when she was little bitty, and she had just started to put it on and realize that she was a flower when she was wearing it.  She also loves to walk up to any flower (real or fake) and say “petty flower” then smell it…so being a flower really fit her this year.