Colors

Lilly and I spent a little time playing with her blocks and working on learning colors before I had to go to work for the day.  She wants to talk so much and tries to imitate a lot of what we say.   It's so cute!!  I'm not sure she quite gets which color is which yet, but she sure does like to say them!  Adorable :)

PS more birthday posts coming :)

Happy 1st Birthday Lilly! (part 1)

Hard to believe that a year has passed since Lilly was born.  And what a year it has been!  Greg and I are just so in love with our little girl.  She is just the best thing ever!!  We celebrated her birthday with several parties and events :)  Here are photos from her actual birthday ~ Friday, May 4...

 Birthday candle in her waffle didn't go over so well...

 not sure what to think about this!

 hmm, interesting...

(you can see her rash pretty well in a few of these photos... poor girl got some lovely viral illness the week of her birthday with fever and a full body rash.  she was a trooper but unfortunately we had to postpone her party because of it...)

 Lilly in her birthday outfit!!  And with her toy Lemonade set to go with her party theme :)

 Cutie :)

 Didi (Greg's mom) came over with a gift for Lilly.  :)  And took us out to a birthday lunch with friends!

 Noah and Lilly are too distracted by laughing at each other to look at the camera :)

 so cute together!

 me and my birthday girl :)

with Didi at the restaurant

Greg and I took Lilly out to a local Italian restaurant for her birthday dinner, but didn't take any photos. I can't believe my girl is ONE already!  What a joy and a blessing she is.

(many more photos to come from her various birthday celebrations!)

Best Buddies x 2

Greg got up with Lilly this morning and let me sleep in, since I worked nights this weekend and then all day yesterday... he snapped a few cute pictures of her playing with the kitchen we got her for her birthday.

 Lucy is hanging out with Lilly, of course!  I don't understand why Lucy likes Lilly so much, given that Lilly is anything but gentle with her, but she always wants to sit right next to her!

 Lucy thinks she is smaller than she is... and is trying to fit into the little box that Lilly's pretend veggies came in :)

 Isn't my girl so stinkin' cute??  Her hair is getting long-ish in the back and there is a definite curl... I LOVE it!

Noah came over today to check out Lilly's water table.  They were so cute splashing together!

 Yay!  Water!

 Lilly's toy of the day (she always has one that she carries around with her) was a plastic otoscope from a Fisher Price doctor set :)  Apparently she didn't know how to use it properly, because first she splashed with it in the water table, then she hit Noah over the head with it several times!  Apparently I need to take her to work with me and teach her how to use my equipment... :) ...and also not to hit her best friend!

Lilly's new word of the day was "Noah"!!  She says it quite clearly several times, although it's a little hard to tell in the video because she's walking away from me.  

Sorry for my commentary :)  The sign for water, by the way, is a "w" made with your fingers held up to your chin.  Which seems difficult to teach a child... although the word "water" is pretty hard to say too.  I've been trying to teach Lilly "water" since we are going to the beach in a few weeks.

Aren't they cuties??