Great Birthday Night

We went out with the gang last night to Cheeseburger in Paradise. Anson and I had never been there so I wanted to check it out. It was a fun atmosphere. Afterwards we went over to Starbucks and hung out for awhile. Thank you to all my friends for the birthday wishes =)

Baby Girl and Uncle Jamie
David, Mindy and Jill

Babe, Brent, Megan, Jamie

Me and my girls

Lily dancing on Megan's lap

New Tradition & Almost My Birthday

Elf on the Shelf...we started a tradition at the Cross household today. Anson's parents did this when he was little. Anson's parents bought us our own Elf this year so we can carry on the tradition with our kids.

Every day between today and Christmas this little Elf (yet to be named) will watch Lily closely to make sure she's being a good little girl. And every night, the Elf flies to the North Pole via Christmas Magic to report to Santa if Lily has been good that day. Today was the first day, and Lily already seems to know that the Elf is watching her. In the first video below, I ask her where the Elf is and she looks right up at him. Part of the fun is that the Elf moves to a different location in the house every day. As she grows up she will get excited to get up and find the Elf's new spot in the house =)

Cheese!!!!!!!!!! Random pic that Anson took. Mouth full of teeth.
Earlier today before we went shopping at the mall. This was right before we left the house. Lily loves playing with my phone.
Over at my parent's house tonight celebrating my 29th birthday, which is tomorrow. We went over tonight for dinner, cake and games. Tomorrow we are going out with the gang to Cheeseburger in Paradise.

This video is for you, Grandma Cross! Enjoy!

Lily playing with the kitty at Nana and Papa's tonight.

Happy Birthday to me!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

Hope everyone had a great day. We surely did. We ate lots of great food and spent the afternoon with my parents. Gobble, gobble, gobble...

Lily and Nana

Rocking on her Trigger horse

Making a mess with her toys

This was from last night. We put up our Christmas tree. Here is Lily putting her ornament on the tree.
This is from earlier this week. My work friend, Diana, gave Lily this Thanksgiving pop-up book.

Lily's 18 month check-up

Just a quick blog to let everyone know that Lily did great at her 18 month check-up this morning. She was such a happy girl and told Dr. Cochran a lot. She jabbered the whole time. He said she's looking great and is growing just right. He's a little concerned that she's drinking too much milk. I told him we've had a hard time getting her to eat lately. Some days she just refuses food and only wants milk. He said to limit her milk to 24-30 ounces a day. So we shaw see how that goes.

I also talked to him about weaning her from her binky. He said now would be a good time, so I think we are only going to give it to her at naptime and bedtime. And then eventually not at bedtime either. Just like the bottle...I think this will be a little harder than the bottle, but we shall see how it goes.

She got two shots today. One was her Flu shot and the other was her DTaP. She screamed of course, but that only lasted a few seconds.

Here are her stats...
Weight: 22 pounds, 11 oz. = 25th percentile
Length: 32 1/2" = 75th percentile
Head Circ: 19" = 80th percentile

Her next appt. isn't until she's 2 years old! Baby brother will be here by then! That's crazy!

Playing in the Snow

All bundled up and ready to go outside to play

Unsure of what to do or think
Touching the snow

Once she fell she couldn't get back up without help.

Playing with Sampson...giving kissers

Watching Daddy play with Sampson

Lily is 1 1/2 Today!

Our baby is 18 months old today!!! Here are a few pics and videos I took tonight. Her well-baby check-up is next Monday so I'll post her stats then.

Lily is an absolute darling. She is so sweet and loving. She gives kissers a lot. She isn't talking much yet, but she definitely communicates. She watches us push buttons or turn things, and learns quickly how things work. When asked, she can pick up toys or bring us things like the remote...which is really nice! I can't wait for her to be even more helpful.

One of my most favorite things (among the many) is when she gets her binky and blankie and goes over to Daddy when she's ready for bed. How much easier could she be!

Baby brother is doing well too. I had my 24 week check-up today and all is well. His heartrate was 160. Lily gives him lots of kissers too. It's adorable. I think she's going to be the best big sister ever.

Combing her hair!

On another note, I only have 5 more days in my current position at work. I got a promotion within a different department. The transition period has been 3 months so I am so excited to finally begin it. =)

Christmas Photos

Today we took Lillers to Sears to get her Christmas Photos....

Torturing her with hot curlers. I tried to tell her that being beautiful always hurts and she better get used to pain and suffering for beauty - haha!

Daddy save me! Waiting for the curlers to set.

Look how pretty!

But all worth it...isn't she adorable! We got off to a rocky start. Lily was so happy and excited that she kept wondering off and wouldn't sit still long enough for the girl to snap a photo. She even crashed the backdrop by going right through it! She was a trip. We got a few good photos (below) but it's actually a lot easier to choose the photos when there isn't as many to choose from!

Playing and waiting to see our pictures

Here are four of the best ones...

Later...eating black beans at Chipotle

At the mall by the fountain and Christmas tree.

Later...at home playing with puppy
Video of Lily & Sampson playing

Haircut & Katy's Baby Shower

Tomorrow we are taking Lily to Sears to get her 18 month / Christmas photos. So, we wanted to get her a real haircut (instead of my chop job). I just took her up to a local Great Clips. She was a very good girl =)

There were two little boys there also getting their hair cut. Their names were TJ and Evan. Lily was doing her usually babbling and pointing. I asked them if they knew what she was saying. TJ said "I can't understand anything she's saying!!" It was really cute.

Adorable outfit from Grandma Cross. It fits perfectly!

After the haircut, Lily and I stopped at Wal-Mart and then headed to Lolli's Restaurant in Belden for Katy's baby shower. It was a really nice time. I got to see a lot of Katy's family and friends whom I haven't seen in awhile.

Lily was the life of the party as Katy opened her gifts. She "helped" Katy and ran around being cute. She kept stealing all the toys and books after Katy opened them. Here she's playing with a monkey with Katy's Mom.

"Helping" Katy

Me and Katy and our pregnant bellies

Mommy & Daddy to be!

These two photos are from the other night. She was giving Slater hugs and kisses even though it looks like she's trying to eat him.