Lily's tooth to teeth and step to steps.

In the past 3 weeks Lily has gone from a step or two to six or more. She also went from 1 tooth to 2 teeth, and soon a 3rd will be in full view.



Various pics....

Grandpa Fritz 'the Snowbird" has returned from Florida.












Austin's 4th b-day a few weeks ago.











Lily sooo exhausted she fell asleep in her jumpy chair. If you know Lily, this seems almost impossible!










My little "helper".












First day this year in the pool. They had a blast. Lily was able to get in and out herself. Pretty good for never having been in it before.

Hello??

I already posted about Lily picking up my cell phone or the house phone and putting it to her ear. Now she uses the remote, or just her hand, as well. In fact, if you say to her, "Hello", she will put her hand to her ear and say something to the effect of 'hello' or 'hi'.

I have said to her so many times, "Lily, what's in your mouth? Show mommy." And then I open my mouth and say "ahhh". Now when I say it she opens her mouth and sticks out her tongue for me.

I forgot to post last week that Justin slept in his own bed all night, one night.

It's re-official (is that a word?)

Lily's first tooth went away after it showed up a couple of months ago. It is back today. We figured it was coming because she has been very cranky and chewing her fist. She was a different kids today.

She has also been putting my cell phone and the home phone up to her ear.

And I swear she nodded her head 'yes' when I asked her if she wanted a cheerio yesterday.

She has spent all day standing, bouncing while standing, picking things up and standing.

And she's up!

Today was the big day for Lily to stand up w/o holding onto anything. She did it first for Grandma Sue in the living room. But during the course of the evening she did it many more times, some of them even on beds. She recognizes this is new for her, and she seems very tickled. It also appears that the tooth she cut a couple of months ago went back under the gum. However, this week also seems to be a big teething week as she has been very cranky and chewing on her fist.

Spit bubbles and standing alone.

Lily has realized she can make spit bubbles these past couple of days. Great timing when she also has a cold. yuck Today she has regularly been pulling up with the help of something, and then letting go to stand alone. Big girl!

Overheard....

Lsat night, while I was in another room finishing up with Lily after her bath, I heard the boys in the bathtub...(Justin had just gotten a spanking for getting a lot of water on the floor)....Austin to Justin, "Okay, turn over and I will spank you." spank spank Justin to Austin, "Okay, now I spank you. Bad boy." spank spank spank This went on for several minutes, back and forth. Then I heard Austin telling Justin he would wash the red off of his hiney.

Justin funny...

I will never be able to write this down as funny as it happened, but here goes nothin.....Set up the scene; The kids and I were all outside Saturday (over a month ago now)enjoying the great weather in the backyard. We had a visitor (one of Matt's co-workers child) who was playing w/my kids. I had given them a bowl of grapes to share. While the 2 older boys were playing on the batter operated jeep, Justin was stuffing himself w/grapes on the patio. I was sitting in the middle of the yard on a blanket w/Lily. I called out to Justin to please bring me 1 grape to feed the baby. He looked up, chewing, looked back down at the bowl of grapes, picked 1, looked back at me, looked back at the grape, and proceeded to eat it. This went on for a couple of minutes until I called out to him again. This time, he filled his mouth w/ grapes, and began walking towards me w/1 in his hand. But by the time he got to me, it was 1/2 eaten. I had to giggle, asked him why it was half eaten, he looked at me as if I was speaking Swaheelee, and went back to the grapes. I peeled the grape for Lily, fed it to her in pieces, and then asked Justin for another one. Here we go again. Finally he comes out to me, again w/a half eaten grape. Stifling ,my giggles, I asked him to bring me a whole grape. After some time, he returned, chewing. I asked him for the grape, and he graciously opened his mouth and began to pull out the partially chewed up grape. I was quick to encourage him to put it back in his mouth and return for another. This time, after he picked it and began walking with it, I verbally encouraged him to bring it to me w/o eating it or biting it.