Botanical Gardens

4.28.11

Lily and I went to the Botanical Gardens with our friends Linda and Owen. They were awesome enough to let us tag along on their membership.

I was amazed with how many different varieties of tulips they had!

not so little anymore

We keep telling her she can’t get any bigger. That she has to stay our little baby forever. Unfortunately she’s not the greatest listener and keeps getting bigger anyway.

Lily loves to help me with the dishes. I can’t seem to keep her from climbing up whenever I have the door open.

About a month ago we got rid of the binky! At first, we just put her in her bed without it and she screamed for over an hour. Then I heard that it might help her transition if I gave her a cut binky so she could see that it wasn’t the same and that I wasn’t just holding out on her. But it didn’t seem to work, she still screamed and screamed until she fell asleep.

It’s been a long road to get to a point where she doesn’t cry for at least half an hour. There’ve been many times where I wondered if it was really worth it, it wasn’t really hurting her to have it. But we didn’t want to give in, so we stuck it out and are happy to say she has gone to sleep with no crying for the past three nights and we’re loving it. We make sure that she has her blanket and snuggly toys (right now she wants to sleep with her baby and monkey), we sing songs, read a book, and wave goodbye for the night. Hopefully this new phase will last, I really don’t want to go back to the screaming! I caught her last week trying to suck on her doll’s binky so I thought I would do a little test. I gave her one of her binkies (I know, risky!) She put it in her mouth, chewed on it, and then gave it to her baby. That’s my girl!

She’s also discovered that feeding herself is way cooler than mom feeding her. When she has her mind set on feeding herself, it’s nearly impossible to convince her otherwise.

It gets quite messy!

Doesn’t she look so big in her booster seat!? We are borrowing it from Matt’s brother and Lily couldn’t be prouder of herself sitting in her big chair!

April Randomness

Jessica has been making some SUPER cute shoes and gave some to Lily. Aren’t they adorable?! I love them.

Admiring her shoes

We go through quite a few diapers around here and have lots of these boxes. Lucky for Lily, they are the perfect size for her to ride in. And Daddy happily gives her rides around the living room with his belt.

And one more…very random…

Our Little Bunny

Easter was a blast this year. Lily is very into filling (and emptying) any type of container so she was totally digging the whole eggs-in-the-basket thing. We were invited to be a part Daniel and Jessica’s neighborhood egg hunt. While we were waiting for everyone to come Lily was practicing her basket filling with sticks (her favorite outdoor toy) and this park was like stick heaven for Lily.

She was pleased as punch with her two eggs! For the first little while, she had one egg in her basket and another in her hand, totally content to watch all the other kids running around like crazy filling their baskets to the brim. Sophie’s basket was overflowing and was disappointed when she had to take some out for the slower kids (like Lily).

She spilled her basket probably six or seven times. Each time, all the surrounding kids would race over and watch excitedly hoping she would miss some.

For lunch, we went to Village Inn and had some very yummy food. Then it was back to Daniel and Jessica’s to watch the girls while they went to the Temple. Since they were going to be gone a while we took the kids to Chuck E. Cheese’s for an  early dinner. Which they LOVED!

Lily loved riding the cars and the horse, and running off any chance she got. This girl doesn’t have much fear of getting lost yet, which scares me. Luckily, we were in a closed area and she had a sticker with our group number on it so I wasn’t super worried.

 

Sophie loved riding the horse (like 30 times!) and playing games to get tickets. She and Matt got quite the stash!

And Tessa loved the climbing area. She needed some help from some other kids to actually get to the top, but once she was there we didn’t see her again for quite a while.

Easter Morning

The Easter Bunny visited us and Lily was spoiled with bubbles, books, and toys.

On a side note – about a week earlier, Lily took a spill down the hill in our front yard and scratched her nose on the sidewalk. I felt so terrible. We were about to go on a bike ride and I had brought the bike down the hill and she was just following me not realizing the ground wasn’t level in front of her. I was on the other side of the bike and couldn’t get to her in time. She’s more leery of hills and stairs now though.

Playing with bubbles before dinner.

We had a very yummy dinner at the Lawrence’s. Hope you were able to have a wonderful Easter and remembered the resurrection of our dear Savior.

Happy Easter