Lilly’s New Interests

Lilly is getting bigger and her interests have started to change. Here are some of her new favorite things:

Bears: Lilly loves bears. They are her favorite animal (at the moment). She collects all the bears she has and brings them to bed with her. She talks about them and loves to wrap them up in her blankets. I usually find one bear that Lilly has wrapped up in a blanket and put to bed in each room of the house. I am kind of shocked she has so many. She also loves watching YouTube videos of bears with daddy.

 

Princesses: I tried really hard to keep Lilly away from the princess scene. However, she has seemed to have figured it all out on her own. I am not sure how she learned about princesses. I am thinking it is from the princess commercial on the Disney Junior channel. She also likes Rapunzel and the Disney movie Tangled.

Now that she has learned about princesses she can’t stop talking about them. If someone is wearing a dress and a hat that looks like a crown they are a princess. She wants to be a princess and calls herself one every Sunday when we put her in her dress. She saw some of our wedding pictures and she called me a princess in my big dress. She also likes to play dress-up and is always a princess.

I finally broke down and got her some princess things. I bought her a crown, fancy jewelry and a princess book.

Sharks: Lilly has decided she is scared of sharks. If she sees one on TV she hides her eyes and usually comes over to me so I’ll protect her. I have no idea why she decided she is afraid of sharks. It is a little funny though.

 

I am so amazed with how much Lilly is learning. We talk about a word or subject and she’ll remember it a week or month later. I mention something to her once and she catalogs it in her little brain and pulls it out when she comes across it again. I assume she has forgotten but she shocks me every time.  She still remembers Christmas and likes to talk about Santa. She is also trying to figure out numbers and counting. She can count 2, 3, 6, 8, she can hold 2 fingers up and when she has 2 of something she can tell you but that is as far as her numbers go.  She also knows a couple of shapes and can tell you when something is blue.

January and February

As you all know by now I am pregnant. This is the reason I did not blog in January and February. I have been exhausted. I feel way more exhausted with this pregnancy then my last one. Maybe that is because if I was tired before Lilly I just took a nap. Now I have to suffer through sleepiness and attend to all of Lilly’s needs.

I found out I was pregnant on Christmas Eve. It was a nice little Christmas present for our family. I didn’t start getting sick until mid-January. On my first doctor’s appointment they did an ultra sound and told me I had a Subchorionic Hemorrhage which caused me a lot of worry. By the time they did a second ultra sound, 2 weeks later, the hemorrhage was gone and they said everything looked good. I am hoping they are correct and am looking forward to the next doctor’s appointment. My due date is August 31st.

My nausea has mostly gone away. I am feeling pretty good other than some dizziness, occasional headaches/migraines, and lower abdominal pain. I am still exhausted and my house is a mess. I have to pick and choose which chores I am going to do for the day.

I did finally blog about Christmas and our Utah trip. I posted dated them though so you have to look a couple of posts back to see them. I needed them in order for our 2012 blog book. The Utah trip post is kind of fun because it has pictures of the family so take a look.  

January and February were busy months for Lilly. She has officially stopped using her binky during the day. She only has it during nap and bedtime. It was surprisingly easy to get her to stop using it. I told her we only use it at bedtime and I have her put it in her crib every day when she wakes up. Every once in awhile, she will head upstairs very quietly and when she comes back downstairs she has her binky in her mouth. I tell her to go put it back, she’ll roll her eyes at me, and then bring it back upstairs. I am very impressed. Now I just have to take it away at bedtime. I don’t think I am personally ready for that. She is my baby and babies have binkies. Maybe at 2 ½ I’ll be ready for that.

Lilly had her first official haircut in January. She just needed a trim to even out the back. The day of her haircut was kind of dramatic. She tripped in the driveway into the house of the individual that was cutting her hair and lost it. The trip wasn’t even that bad, she had no injuries. But she was a drama queen for the rest of the haircut. Luckily the crying and wiggling didn’t cause any slips of the scissors.   

Lilly also went to her 1^st and 2^nd friend Birthday Party in February and March. They were for two of her nursery friends and we had a lot of fun. One was a Minnie Mouse party (which we know she loves) and the other was a dress-up party. Lilly’s new favorite thing is dress-up so she was particularly excited about getting to wear one of her outfits to the party. They also had play earrings that was an exciting new toy for Lilly to play with and a cat that she could follow around the house.  

I was just planning to take a picture of Minnie Mouse and her funny bibs but Lilly insisted on being in the picture. But then she wouldn't even look at me or smile.

Lilly and I have also stayed busy with some fun Mommy and Me classes. We did our music class again. Lilly has fun with the drums and the parachute activities. She likes to come home and do the activities we did in class all over again. It is cute because she’ll use things around the house to try and make it look like the class. She uses the hot pads to make a circle for Ring Around the Rosie. We started an art class as well. She loves the art teacher and follows her around. She likes the praise the teacher gives her about all of her pictures. We are also taking advantage of story time and music time at the library and the children’s museum. I am trying to squeeze as much Lilly and Mommy time in before the new baby comes.

Tyson has been busy with school. He has two classes this semester. He is gone Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Lilly and I sure do miss him when he is gone. He is still enjoying running and is preparing for his first race in Chicago during St. Patrick’s Day weekend.

Lilly has become quite a daddy’s girl. If he is home she is next to him. When he gets home she screams “Dadda Dadda Dadda” until he comes in and then follows him around. I need to teach her the primary song “I am so glad when Daddy comes home.” He is way more fun than Mommy is these days. I am glad they love each other so much.

 

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