I figured since I’m posting videos of Lily every Monday (well I’m trying to anyway) that I’d share this video. It shows just how far we’ve come. 🙂
This was the first time that I took video of Lily with my point and shoot camera, I knew it had a video feature, but had never used it before. It changed my life.
These truly are random.
I have started letting Lily blow bubbles while she takes a bath. She loves it and if she spills it’s no big deal.
I made Flan a few weeks ago and gave Lily some. She wasn’t too sure of it at first (she wasn’t the only one), but she realized it was really yummy.
I try to do some kind of art or sensory play pretty often (not as often as I’d like, but I’m working on that). Here’s Lily playing with toys in shaving cream.
My Father-in-Law has some fruit trees in the back yard and every year he has to fight birds because they eat his cherries. He put nets over the trees and they word pretty well, but birds still eat the cherries that are against the net. I made him some foil covered tubes that I hung from twine to help scare the birds. I don’t think they helped much, but Lily and I had fun making them.
Lily and her cousin Jude, I think they were watching Thomas the Train on a netbook.
We went to the zoo again last week. I know, big surprise. I hadn’t planned on posting about it because it wasn’t our favorite trip. There had to be 5 or 6 school’s there for field trips and those kids were rude and I almost had to smack a few because they kept separating Lily from us. The teachers were just as bad; one of them boxed Lil in between some kids and the glass wall in the Orangutans viewing area. Anyway, this post isn’t about the kids and the teachers, it’s mostly about the Orangutans.
The two Orangutans at our zoo had babies in the last few months and we got to see them and they are just so cute. And it’s amazing how they cling to their Mama’s, that is some amazing babywearing.
Just look at that sweet face!
There were other babies at the zoo. The keeper informed me that these guys are peccaries.
We stopped by the Tapir, which we usually forget about.
And we saw the peacock, who wanders around the zoo and we usually miss.
The Warthog is a new addition to our zoo.
We saw all the usual suspects too, when we could squeeze in around the school kids, but I’ve posted lots of pictures of those guys before. However here are the ones you all have been waiting for. Lily!
I know I’m a little late to the Easter post party, but better late then never.
We aren’t religious so we treat Easter pretty much the same as we do Christmas, it’s just something fun to do. We also don’t give Lily much sugar so she got no candy and didn’t miss it.
I bought Lil a little Easter basket and the color dyes for eggs sometime in early March, I wanted to make sure I didn’t miss anything. The day before Easter around 7pm (nothing like waiting till the last minute anyway) I got out a bunch of leftover birthday party cups and the vinegar and set to work activating the dye tablets. Waldo put Lil in her chair and put her art smock (one of my old t-shirts) on and as I grabbed the first batch of dyes to take to the table I spilled one. We knew this was a sign of things to come. Waldo dropped a egg in a cup and right then and there we decided this sucked. I grabbed all the cups (after cleaning up the pink dye from the white counter) and tossed them in the sink and went to my art box and grabbed the new Crayola paint I bought. I put some paint in a few of the leftover party cups and I showed Lily that it was okay to paint the eggs. While I was getting the paint Lily and Waldo tried using crayons to color the eggs (bust) and markers (worked good) so some of the eggs had quite the decorations on them. Lily and I had fun painting the dozen eggs I boiled.
We take egg painting seriously
The new art cover for the table needed some color - apparentelly.
Easter morning or more accurately early afternoon I went out and hid the eggs and then got Lily all dressed up in the cute dress my Dad and step-Mom bought her. We all went outside and the egg hunt began.
One of Lily's painted eggs.
I was a little worried that the paint wouldn’t dry on the eggs, but it dried very nicely.
She found her first egg.
And another egg.
The eggs that got wet did bleed a little of their paint, but it’s washable so not a big deal.
Oh look, there's one in the fern.
And in the tree.
Once she found them all (the dozen painted eggs and a few empty plastic eggs), she and I went inside and Waldo hid them again.
Kitty's helping.
There's a egg in with those rocks, somewhere.
Checking out her haul.
We went inside after this and she played and played with the eggs. It was really cute. She wasn’t thrilled when the painted eggs kept breaking, but she was a good sport about throwing them away.
I hope everyone had a good Easter, no matter how you celebrate.
