I get so many wonderful comments and compliments about Lily’s clothes, (thank you all so much) that I wanted to spend a little time talking about them.

I’d say that 99% of all of Lily’s clothes were either from my baby shower or hand-me-downs. Besides my baby monitor, a few blankets and odds and ends all I got for my shower were baby clothes. It was amazing. My co-workers and family went crazy buying cute little girl clothes. One of my ex co-workers whom we refer to as Grandma Starr bought cute baby girl clothes before we knew Lily was a girl and still buys her stuff.

As for the hand-me-downs, they came from all over the place. I worked at a credit union and if you’ve ever been a credit union member then you understand the close community that it can provide. I got bags and bags of baby clothes, a baby bath tub, swing and bouncer seat from one member alone; it was gggrrrate. One of the ladies Waldo worked with had just had a baby and gave us probably 4 big rubbermaid tubs of clothes. And my little (hahaha she’ll be 30 soon, how does that happen?) sister has a baby girl about 4 months older then Lil so she sends a lot of hand-me-downs too.

Here are some of the great shower gifts:

This is one of my favorite outfits ever, it was from Grandma Starr

and another shower gift from Grandma Starr

This is a shower gift. The “cherry on top” is a friggin’ button, I might rant about this one day

Another co-worker brought this back from Maui for Lily

I could go on and on and I’m sure some of you feel that I already have gone too far. As you can see I’m using this as an excuse to reminisce.

As for that other 1% of clothes in Lily’s closet I have bought new; one dress and one onesie and a few things at a yard sale. We are so thankful for the wonderful generous gifts that we’ve received.

These are the things I’ve bought new:

I need to wrap this craziness up so I can go to bed.

But one last thing that I meant to post a couple of months ago.

One day Waldo got home from work and there was a bag from the grocery store hanging off the door knob. When we opened it there were two baby outfits in it with no note. One was a larger size of this

Someone please explain to me how two people thought my daughter would want to look like Fran Dresher?

Dear Lily Bean,

Today you are 7 months old and changing so fast its hard to keep up. Some of the things that you did this past month were:

7/15 finally giggled at peek a boo. Up until this point you just looked at me like I was crazy.

Belly laughed for the first time on 7/5. You are still very hard to get laughing and as soon as we get out the camera its all over. You would rather look at the camera then anything else so of course you stop enjoying whatever it is I’m killing myself doing to make you laugh.

You enjoyed the swing we bought before you were born. You hated that thing and wouldn’t sit in it even for a minute before. Now you’ll put up with it for a max of 20 minutes but hey I get some dishes put away in that time so I’m cool with it.

You smiled at a few strangers, this is a big thing for us. You smile at Daddy and me all the time, but either just stare at unknown people or cry because they are looking at you.

Biggest thing is you got the all clear from the medical genetics from the children’s hospital. You’re small but fine. We knew that but now your regular doctor can relax and stop worrying us.

You can sit up pretty well if we put you in a sitting position. You can’t get there on your own, but its a start.

You are starting solids. I just don’t feel that you are 100% ready for them so we keep trying about once a week till I think you’re there. You eat something solid for dinner every day now and really enjoy it.

You didn’t start it this month but you’ve perfected it.  You just about always have a finger in your mouth, usually its your index finger but sometimes you add your middle one in and every once in a while you replace it with  your thumb.  Usually you are just biting on it but sometimes you will suck it and it is the most precious thing in the world.

You do this really cute head rub sometimes.  I wish I could get a picture of it because I can’t describe it.  But it melts my heart when you do it.

You are the most amazing little person in the world and I’m so lucky that you’re mine.

Love,

Mama