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.

Andouille Run 2010

This past week I was looking up festivals in the area and found out that the Andouille Festival was this weekend, in LaPlace.  I remember wanting to go last year but we were in the middle of Lilly’s recovery from her surgery.  So this year I did some research and found out they have a 2 mile or 5 mile race on the last day!  Despite being pregnant I am still running (with the OK from my OB of course), in efforts to stay in shape and possible have an easier labor (wishful thinking, wishful thinking!).  This morning Lilly, Demo Deux and myself woke up bright and early and decided to concur the 32nd Andouille Run!

 

We got there early enough to pose with Miss Andouille 2010, both of them!

Lilly needed to stretch her legs after a long ride in the jogging stroller, and danced to the band as they were warming up.

After the run, we met up with Mimi at our house and went back to the festival once all of the booths opened up.  Lilly was interested in the big stuffed Scooby Doo that the humane society was raffling off so of course Mimi entered her in the raffle, my fingers are crossed that a family who needs a 3 foot tall scooby doo wins, because we sure don’t!  We also had some great Louisiana food, jambalaya with andouille sausage, boudin balls and bread pudding.   Lilly wasn’t very happy with the Cajun selection and only wanted “fry fries” (french fries).

After our long morning Lilly and I came home and both took a nice long nap.  Daddy got a little lonely around 4:00 and went to get Lilly up, but not before he snapped some very cute pictures of our baby sleeping!  She rarely sleeps through her bedroom door opening, let alone the flash on the camera multiple times, she must have been very sleepy!  After the photo session Daddy got Lilly up, then let her wake me up.  I woke up to Lilly running at me full speed yelling, “momma, momma” and making kissy noises!

Do you remember…..

In a previous blog post I mentioned something about a “few surprises”?  Well I am proud to finally announce that surprise.  While on vacation with my mom and Lilly I was experiencing some strange symptoms and found out we will be parking here for the next 6 months or so.

 

Since Mike was not with us on vacation and I found out the day before we were scheduled to fly home, I decided to keep it a secret for just one more day so Lilly could tell Daddy when he picked us up from the airport.  We looked all over Taylor, MI for  the perfect way to tell him and came up with this…

So far this pregnancy has been the same as when I was pregnant with Lilly, full of morning sickness, or as I like to call it All Day Sickness.  This time around I decided that throwing up all the time wasn’t going to work with a toddler running around and asked for the anti-nausea medication.  That has by far been one of the best decisions I have made in a while!  As of today I’m about 13 weeks along and feeling good, I’m starting to get my energy back and have even been running for the last 2 or 3 weeks! Baby number two should be here sometime around my birthday next year.

Do you think she likes Momma’s spaghetti?

The answer to that question is YES!  Lilly loves Momma’s spaghetti.  This dinner is reserved for bath night due to the shear messiness of the meal.  But this night’s spaghetti dinner was a little different, Lilly decided to finger paint her Buddha belly with noodles and sauce!

What animals say

Lilly and I have been working on her animal noises lately, bath time is about the only time I can keep her still long enough. I’m sure Lilly will love me for this later in life, but oh well!

My little traveler

Lilly and I went on vacation with Mimi for a little over a week.  Unfortunately we were pretty busy so I didn’t take many pictures at all.  We had some flight mishaps (cancelled flights, bad weather, etc.) ending with my decision to never fly delta again.  But our first two flights were great.  There were a few extra seats on the flights so Lilly was able to sit all by herself, in her car seat of course. 

   

Blankie (Lilly calls it “bye bye”) was a favorite during this trip, the only problem with it is that as soon as you give blankie to Lilly her thumb goes directly into her mouth!

 

I was very surprised that Lilly allowed us to get off the plane without the SkyMall magazine, that was her very favorite “book” of the trip.  Every plan we went on she asked for the “book” an knew exactly where to look for it.

Tigger also made the trip with us.

We even spent one night at a hotel, and I had to get a picture of my baby totally exhausted.  She’s only 3 days into the vacation.

I also shared my love of Red Robin with Lilly, for those of you who knew me in high school, I worked at the only Red Robin in Baton Rogue from the time they opened to the time they closed.  It was a really fun job, and I really liked the food.  So now every time we go anywhere that has one, it is mandatory to go and get a burger, endless fries and a mud pie!

 

All in all we had a great trip, we got to catch up with lots of friends and family and we even got a few surprises along the way!