My sweet girl

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Christy

Today we went to the local library’s music and movement program and had a little fun time together. After the music and movement we stay for story time. To go along with Lily’s new found chattiness (which has continued to hold up) she’s venturing out from me a little. She sat on the story time carpet with the other kids (this is a major first) and I got to sit fairly comfortably on the little chairs all by myself. By the last book Lil was in a chair right next to me, but this was a huge first step and I’m very proud of my girl.

Anyway, the librarian read the kids a book and then they did a felt board activity together and I noticed that there was one felt piece left in the bucket. I got up and handed it to the librarian. She thanked me and as I sat down Lily looked up at me and said “That was very nice of you Mama, thank you”. All of the women in the story room awed and oohed at her and I just glowed with pride at my sweet girl.

Chatty Lily

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Christy

Something has changed in Lily this last week. It’s like a switch has been flipped and it’s amazing to witness. And a bit frightening. On Monday Lily and I got in the car to go to the post office, I decided to make a quick stop at the gardening store to get some garlic. While I was talking to the lady about how to plant garlic Lily pushed her way past me and said to the woman “my name is Lily and this is Minnie”, she held up Minnie Mouse and proceeded to talk to the woman the rest of the time we were there. This was the first time my child has EVER said anything to an adult stranger other than Meow or on very rare occasions a very timid hi. There was nothing timid about this kid. I was shocked. When we got outside I praised her and realized I had better start in with the stranger danger talk. For almost 4 years I haven’t had to worry about that because Lily never talked to anyone and was attached to me like a barnacle, a really cute barnacle but a barnacle none the less.

While I drove to the post office my brain was working overtime on how to tell Lily about strangers. As we left the post office I told Lily and talking to people was a nice thing, but she shouldn’t talk to people if Mom or Dad weren’t around. I had also noticed that she hadn’t spoke to anyone at the post office and asked why. “Men are strangers so I can’t talk to them” she informs me. I laughed and agreed.

Today we went to the library and Papa Murphy’s and Lily was like a little chatty bird the whole time. While I looked for books for her she tried to talk to a little girl and the girl ignored Lil. Lil walked up to me and pronounced “that girl was mean and didn’t say hi to… Oh that girl looks nice” and off she went to talk to the other girl. Luckily this other girl was much nicer than the first one and they ended up talking for a couple of minutes. It was so cute. When we were checking our books out she chatted with the librarian and when we got out pizza she talked non-stop with the cashier.

As we walked out of Papa Murphy’s I told her how she was getting so big and I was so proud of her for talking to people, but reminded her that she shouldn’t talk to people that we don’t know if Me or Daddy aren’t around and she said “well you are here so it’s fine”. I giggled and agreed.

This parenting gig is something else. You think you’ve got everything under control and know how to do this kid thing and then they change the rules.

Random Mobile Shots

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Christy

Lily’s cooling her feet by the fan.

Don’t even ask me.

I made Lil a Pink Birdie. She has an imaginary Pink Birdie friend so now she has a slightly less imaginary one to play with.

I made tomato soup for the first time and baked mozzarella balls to go with it. The cheese balls didn’t survive the baking process, but it was all still very yummy and super rich.

We went to a bar-b-Que at a neighbor’s hour and right before we left Lily finally started to warm up to the other girls.

Pumpkin patch

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Christy

This weekend we tossed on Lily’s 2012 Halloween t-shirt (I get her a new one every year) and headed to The Patch. It’s the same Pumpkin Patch that we went to last year. We really liked it and will probably keep going year after year for as long as we are here.

I have a thing for white pumpkins so we found a couple that were the perfect size.

On a side note this trip to the pumpkin patch was the first time I’ve used my real camera since July. I could hardly believe it when I was looking at the memory card. Only phone pictures since fricking July. I’ve got to remember to grab the real camera more often.

This is my favorite picture from the Pumpkin Patch.

We ended up coming home with the two white pumpkins for painting and one pretty good side orange one for carving.

While we were paying for our pumpkins we went into their little store and saw Waldo’s brother’s honey for sale. It’s raw, unfiltered, local, yummy honey. This was the first time we’ve seen it for sale anywhere, it was pretty cool. I also bought one of their home grown loofa’s and came home and cut it in half because I thought it was too big. Huge mistake, now I have this tiny loofa that does nothing but annoy me because it’s hard to hold on too. Live and learn.

We had such a nice time together, as is the norm. Now I can’t wait to carve pumpkins and put Lily in her witch’s costume and go trick or treating.

A view from Lily’s world

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Christy

I was cooking the other day when Lil asked me to take a picture of her. Then she asked to take some of her own. This is some of what I found when I looked through what she took.