life as of lately: April 2011

Hoo-hoo-hoo Lilly’s 2!

To say that Lilly has an obsession with Tigger is an understatement. She loves her Tigger so much it’s crazy. “Little Tigger” sleeps with her, goes in the car with her and is carried around the house all day every day. So it only made sense that I make a Tigger birthday shirt and cake. We have not had a birthday party for Lilly yet, Momma is way to pregnant to deal with party planning right now. But we did have a special Lilly day on her birthday. Lilly even gave Momma and Daddy a nice present and slept until 8:45! We started the day with a visit to Dr. Wendi, for Lilly’s 2 year well baby visit. I knew this visit would not entail any shots I didn’t feel too bad scheduling it on her actual birthday. Lilly weighed close to 29 lbs, in the 50%tile, and is in the 25%tile for height. We kind of expected her to be short since it seems like the tall gene skipped over her parents! Dr. Wendi even sang Lilly “Happy Birthday”

A big smile from my now “big girl”

Lilly’s Tigger themed shirt, I guess it could be confused with a Halloween themed shirt if you’re not aware of the Tigger obsession.

Lilly got a tricycle and helmet for her birthday, of course Tigger had to take the maiden voyage with her.

Lilly’s Tigger cake. She asked for chocolate with strawberries, so I used the rest of the strawberries from our visit to the strawberry patch in the cake.

She did a great job blowing out the candles, which amazed me!

And of course ate more cake than she should have but hey, it’s her birthday!

I can’t wait to see what this year brings for our family!!

First encounter with the ice cream truck

Maybe I’m a little behind on this first, but I am not a fan of messes at all! I have been feeling a little guilty that Lilly won’t be an only child for much longer so I want to do some super fun stuff with her before Raelynn gets here. Lilly and I were playing outside and heard the ice cream truck, I decided to be brave and let her make a mess. Lilly picked out a red popsicle (with Momma’s help), stripped down to her diaper and played in the back yard while Momma had an anxiety attack about the red stick mess that was taking over her toddler! Take a look at Lilly’s super cute cloth diapers while you are at it. I used one of of these pictures as a photo entry in a cloth diaper contest about spring.

That popsicle made her so happy, I think we may be doing this messy popsicle stuff more often! After the big mess, I tried to hose Lilly off, but the red would not come off! Cue another momma anxiety attack, we promptly went inside and took a bath, and with some scrubbing the red dye finally came off!

Strawberry Patch

Do you remember last year when we went to the strawberry patch? I still can’t believe how much Lilly has changed in a year! I wasn’t able to get as many pictures this year, due to Lilly being way more mobile. And this year we went took Daddy with us.

Lilly is ready to be a country girl, I think it’s time to move out to DeRidder!

Lilly has an obsession with bugs, I was ok with her playing with these they were pretty.Here is what we picked.

Lilly probably ate a pint of strawberries right off the plant while Momma and Daddy did all the hard work picking the strawberries to bring home.

It’s spring time!

Well spring time here in Southern Louisiana really isn’t spring it’s more like summer, but oh well. Lilly and I have been trying to spend time outside before Raelynn gets here and before it gets crazy hot.