Weekend Update

On Friday night when I got home from work, I took the following video. Lily is soooo close to crawling. She gets up on all 4's but doesn't seem to know how to move her arms and legs at the same time. She moves her knees but not really her arms yet. I bet in the next few days she'll be taking off.

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I took these sweet pictures yesterday before Anson and I went shopping. Lily has been really fascinated with her binky lately. She sucked on it the entire time Anson and I were out shopping yesterday. It kept her happy as could be!

Last night was Jeremy's 30th birthday party. We had his party at his friends' house in Stow. Jeremy had a really great time. I took a bunch of pictures but I used his camera instead of ours. So I don't have any photos to share. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JEREMY!

Earlier today, we took Lily outside to play in her sled. She was so bundled up that she could hardly move!

Sampson played in the snow too.

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Weekend in Cincy

This weekend, Anson, Lily and I went down to Ft. Thomas, Kentucky (near Cincinnati) to visit with Anson's Uncle and Aunt and their 7 kids. We had a great time, and Lily had fun playing with all the kids. We drove down Friday night and got there around 10. Saturday we all went to the Children's Museum for a few hours, then we went to Skyline Chili. The Children's Museum is a great place for kids. There is so much for kids to do. The kids' favorite area is a make believe area where there is a diner for them to serve their parents, a veterinarian office, a grocery store with cute little shopping carts, a post office, a garage where they can fix their cars. It's a great place. Dennis and Jeanne have an annual membership so they can go all the time. Saturday night we hung out at home. Sunday morning we went to church. Sunday afternoon we hung out at their house until 4.

Then, on the way home, we stopped at Carmen and Jodie's house in Mason, which is about 30 minutes north of Dennis and Jeanne's. We went to dinner with them to the Olive Garden. They have two kids, Bella who is 2 1/2 and Blaze who is 11 months. Carmen is an old friend of Anson's. They went to high school together and lived together for awhile. I know Carmen from McDonald's. He was a manager like Anson and was certainly part of the orginial McDonald's gang. Although we haven't kept in close contact with him over the years, it was great to see him and his beautiful family.

We had a great weekend. We got home last night around 10:45.

Lily and Anson are both napping right now. Today we've been cleaning, doing laundry, Anson went to the grocery store...basically recovering from the weekend. I had today off work for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and Anson took a day of vacation.

Lily going down the slide at the Children's Museum
Michael (6 months) and Lily (8 months) looking at themselves in the mirror. There was a baby area where parents could take their babies to play. Bigger kids aren't allowed in.
Rachel was a little Mom to Lily at the Museum. She took her everywhere and showed her all the baby-sized things to play with.
I think Lily got a little overstimulated. She wasn't really herself and she did get upset a few times. She wasn't really used to all the kids around and all the commotion.

She looks so tired in this picture

Miss Rebekah playing in the sand.

Me and Lily Bug
Rachel and Lily playing in a house.

Rachel and Lily in a spider web.

"The woods" have tunnels and ropes to climb on and through. The kids made Anson go through the tunnels with him. They played hide and seek.
Looking down from the rope bridge at Dennis, Jeanne and the babies.
Anson hiding his eyes while the kids hid. Either that, or he's peeing in the corner. We aren't too sure.

The museum wore Babe out, so he took a nap when we got home. Lily and I also took a nap but upstairs in the bed.

Miss Lydia reading to Michael

Lily turned 8 months on Saturday
Rebekah, Lydia holding Michael, Rachel and Lily
Lydia with the babies

Lily's first Big Girl Bath. She had fun splashing around in the water. We are going to take the shower doors off of our tub so that Lily can graduate to the big girl tub at home too.

After Lily's bath, the girls wanted to do Lily's hair. They put it up in a ponytail atop her head. It was adorable. Miss Sarah taking a photo of herself.

Blurry photo, but it's cute with Anson, the hat and the babies.
Lily all dressed up for church. This will probably be the last time she wears this precious dress. It was kinda tight on her, but isn't she so cute? Esp, with the ponytail and bow.

Family picture

I couldn't resist taking these photos this morning. Lily's hair is so funny from the ponytail. The top one look like she's hungover! I suppose she is hungover from such a busy weekend. She had just got done eating Chicken Noodle Dinner.
Lily's Newest Things: She can wave hi and bye bye. She does this in the morning when she sees Grandma V and when Anson and I are leaving for work. She's so precious. I'll have to try to get it on camera. Also, she can pick up her binky and put it in her mouth. She's so amazing. Still no crawling. It will come very soon. I'll actually glad she's still somewhat immobile. Still no teethers either. Those will come soon, I'm sure.

Update on Lily Pad

This blog is all about Lily. She is growing so fast and it seems like she is doing something new everyday. I know that's an exaggeration, but it seems that way.

Lily has her first cold. Since Christmas Eve, she has been sick with a cold. I called the nurse last week and she said that as long as she didn't have a fever or signs of an ear infection then to just let it run it's course. We kept waiting for her to get better, but it seemed like she was getting worse. So, yesterday I called the nurse again and she said that since it's been 2 weeks to go ahead and bring her in. She didn't have a fever, but she does have an ear infection and RSV. The doctor gave her amoxicillin. She seems to be doing a lot better today. She still has a cough and runny nose, but we can definitely tell that she is feeling better.

Lily has a bit of a temper. While the doctor was examining her she was kicking and screaming. You would have thought someone was hurting her. She hates being restricted in any way.

Lily playing with her vtech computer.

Sticky fingers. I say Lily has sticky fingers. She grabs anything and everything she can. And she does it so fast! I can't believe how quickly she gets a hold of things. And whatever she gets goes straight into her mouth.

Me and my baby...not sure why my mouth is open like that?!?

Lily likes to kick her legs. Stomp, stomp, stomp on the floor.

Lily likes to wake us up in the middle of the night...again. Friday night we were up for 2 hours. Saturday night for about 45 minutes. Sunday night she slept the whole night...thank goodness. And last night she woke me up at 5. I was going to get up at 5:50 anyways, so she just gave me some extra time to get ready. I hope she sleeps tonight!

Lily gives "kissers." Grandma and Grandpa Heaton taught Lily how to give kisses on your cheek. So when you tell her to give you kissers, she does. It's the sweetest! I missed it in the picture but Lily was giving her daddy some sugar.

Playing blocks

Lily is so close to crawling. She can get up on her hands and knees, but she just rocks. She doesn't go anywhere quite yet. I tried to catch it on video (below) but it's a short video because she fell on her block and started crying...

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Lily loves her baby. She's a natural mom. Everytime I give her this babydoll from Grandma & Grandpa Cross she gets so excited. This video doesn't really show her usual excitement. Mostly because she was still recovering from the video above and because she was interested in the camera.

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