January 2012 Update

    It's a new year, so it's time for a new blog post! Time has been flying like wild and I have not been so great at keeping a current blog, but I will try to do better :) I would love to blog at least monthyly and more if possible and then one day print or save this to look at years from now.
  Anyways, 2011 was a good busy year overall. Tim and I have been enjoying watching our little Lily girl grow and blossom right before our eyes. Over the past year she went from a crazy crab crawler to a  walking toddler around 15 months. She defantly had her own unique crawl to get her self around! But once she discovered those legs were made for walking, she was off like the races! Along with walking great she is also talking up a storm. Lily does pretty good at mimicking our words. Some of her favorite words are: dog, cat, more, milk, daddy, mommy, Jack, please, water.... She also likes to tell us what several animals sounds are. A typical convo goes something like this : Mom: "Lily, what does the dog say?" Lily: "woof!" She also knows what the cat, cow, frog, and pig say. :)
   At just over 19 months, she is taking one good nap with an occasional cat nap in the evening. It was a sad day when we said,"bye-bye" to the second nap, but oh well! She continues to go to sleep really well at night and sleeps about 12 hours. She has about 2 cups of whole milk a day with an assortment of foods including: bananas (nana's) , apples, any fruit really, broccoli, breads, chicken nuggets and a little bit of this and that... She is a pretty good little eater.

    Here we are outside during a few warmer winter days, looking for treasures!

Lily and Mommy

Lily loves her special mommy time on Christmas! It was better than all the presents.

New Pics

Fall Fun--5 Months

Lily is growing big and strong and fall time is here. I really wanted to capture her in the fall leaves outside our home. She is such a happy and fun baby, we are enjoying watching her grow and develop every day. She is starting to like her rice cereal and baby foods, Time also gave her some tastes of tomato soup the other day! Also she is good at grabbing her toy and finding it fun to drop it on the floor. May the fun games begin! Other fun things she is doing ... she is making tiger/dinosaur growls at us... so cute and trying to talk or just mimic the sounds we make. She is wearing the 3-6month clothes and in a 2 diaper. She is still getting breastmilk, but also getting formula about 50% of the time. She is starting to prefer the bottle, so I am debating at this current time if I want to continue pumping or just use formula... Oh man I hate making these big decisions, I know breastmilk is the best, but pumping is alot of work and just inconvenient. I know I Know, I should just pump, but I just don't know. She tolerates the formula just fine, I guess we will see.

I enjoy reading the Bible to her daily. I know it may just be going over her head, but I feel that is good to start developing these habits now so that we are always doing them as she grows up. Plus I think little ones soak up more than we know... I want her to know how important God's word is to us as a family and pray she grows up to have her own hunger for the things of God.

Posting Some Older Pics to Catch Up!

Pictures of Lily coming into the world! I know these are old, but I wanted them on the blog for the record!

Check Me Out!

What a cutie! Lily is enjoying chilling in her Bumbo chair! That's Bumbo, not Bimbo or Dumbo, for all you guys out there! Lily likes to sit in this while she is trying her new baby foods or just to sit and play with her toys... And Hey, check out these super sweet apple PJ's! Lookin good girl!

Almost 5 months!

Our little flower... so precious.

An update on Lily: She is still sleeping through the night, loves to smile and giggle. Lily can rollover and sit with assist. She loves to sit up and stand on her little legs. She seems to enjoy spending time in her "saucey saucer" chair and play with all the little toys on it. Lily also spends time in her Bumbo chair and is starting to take bites of baby food and cereal. Generally, she is a happy and content little girl and we feel so blessed to have the opportunity to be her parents. She is such a joy! :) Pictures taken at 3.5 months