Lily says some of the cutest things and I don’t ever want to forget them.
“Pick up me” for when she wants to be picked up. I think its just adorable.
All of her grandparents have special names, just like mine did.
“ReRe” is Waldo’s Mom
“Papa” is Waldo’s Dad
“Papaw” is My Dad (this is also what we called my Dad’s Dad)
“GG” is My Mom – it stands for Grandma Gail
Last Monday when I woke up I thought Lily might be coming down with something because she coughed a once or twice in the middle of the night and that is very unusual. As the day past I figured I was being overly paranoid because Lily was playing and have a lot of fun with her cousin Bryce. Then about 3 in the afternoon I noticed Lily was really warm and took her temp and it was just over 100. She and I spent the rest of the afternoon in our bedroom snuggling. At dinner time she didn’t touch her food and pretty much just snuggled on my lap the whole time. After a useless dinner we got ready for bed and then she was playing again so I figured she was doing a little better, boy was I wrong. At bedtime we sat down to nurse and when she was just about asleep she threw up on me. The was the first time in her life that she has ever thrown up and the poor girl did it again and again. I just kept rubbing her back and trying to help her feel better. When I took her temp it was just over 103. Waldo went and got my Dr. Sears Baby Book to look up fevers and that made us feel much better. After about 15 minutes of snuggling and a quick outfit change I got her to drink some ice water and the next thing I know she’s running into the livingroom and running around like a perfectly healthy crazy person. Again I figured she was at least a little better. That night I got so little sleep that I might as well of not laid down at all. Lily nursed just about all night long, coughed her little head off and sneezed approximately 500 times. Most of those sneezes producing a fountain of snot the likes of which I have doubts could fit inside my kids head.
The next four or five days are a blur of more of the same. More fountain producing sneezes, more coughing, more fevers (thankfully they never got over 101 after that one reading of 103, and most of the time it was right around 99-100), more trying to get Lily to eat, more snuggling and lots of nursing. Lily is finally feeling better and I’ve learned a lot during this cold:
This wasn’t Lily’s first cold but probably the second or third of this head cold type and this one seemed to be the worst. I am so glad that it’s mostly over.
I’m telling you right now, if your kid has a running nose or you sneeze in the area, I’m running for the hills. I don’t want to deal with this again anytime soon.
I don’t know what happened last night, but just as Waldo and I were laying down our heads to dream, Lily decided it was the perfect time to party. I did not agree, but after about an hour of trying to nurse her to sleep I gave up and we went into the office and tried to kill time till Lily was ready to go to sleep. Of course she had what felt like a really nice long nap and was ready to be awake and having fun. In the three and a half hours that we had to kill she pulled out some super cuteness and I of course tried to capture it.
I have sang her “patty cake” a bunch since she was little, but something about it a few days ago really stuck with her and now it’s her favorite thing. She especially love the “roll it” part.
Since her birthday last month Lily has been singing a lot of “happy birthday”. By the way I have no idea she got the idea for the “microphone” from.
I had all these grand plans for our Thanksgiving that involved taking family pictures in front of the Christmas tree because both of Waldo’s siblings and all their kids would be here. That got blown out of the water because one of Waldo’s nephews got sick the day before Thanksgiving so he stayed home with his Mom. Since I had this really pretty dress for Lily already I decided to keep trying to get pictures of her in it for our Holiday card. And really I would have done it anyway but the pretty dress was a extra good excuse. Over the course of the end of November and most of December I tried and tried to get pictures of Lily in different holiday outfits and I was never happy enough with any of them to use as “the picture”. Because Lily is adorable any picture would have worked but I was looking for the perfect one.
On Lily’s second birthday I put her in her pretty dress (and the extra snowman shirt I made) and took approximately 1,524,682 pictures and loved a bunch of them.
"fuhgettaboutit"
This next one is “The One”
In the end we decided to use a bunch of the pictures. I’m really pleased with how it turned out.
I placed the order for the card on Christmas day while Lily napped, I feel we were still on time and I won’t accept any other opinions. If you haven’t gotten your card yet don’t worry, I’m still trying to get them out. I have to add stamps to next weeks grocery shopping list.
We were hanging out last night and Lily started giving me “big hugs” so I told asked Waldo to get the camera. He took like three shots and as he was reviewing them he said “you are going to love her face in this one”. He was so right.
I think she likes me just a little.
