Pretty Pretty Toenails

On Sunday, we bought Lily a pair of light-up Dora sandals. I told her we should paint her toenails, and when we got home from shopping, she asked me to paint them. So, after our baths, I painted them, and she sat really still while I did. She even sat in the chair for about 20 minutes to let them dry!

She couldn't wait to get to Nana's Monday morning to show her. Nana said that Lily kept asking her all day if things would mess them up - like getting in the sandbox or putting on her shoes. She's such a little diva!

This is from last weekend. Lily had "her family" together on the couch :)

Birthday Parties!

The past two weekends we've went to birthday parties. The first party was Zachary's 3rd party last Friday. And yesterday was Luke's first birthday party!

Daddy and Dillon hanging out at Zack's partyThe kids pulling strings to open the pinata!

Blowing her whistle

The birthday boy!

Lily playing with her favorite thing, balloons!

Decorating cake cookies at Luke's party yesterday!

The birthday boy and Dill Pickle

My two favorite boys!

Lily playing with another little boy that was at the party.

Watching Luke and Megan open gifts. Lily helped too!

Two tired kids. They were both asleep within minutes of leaving Brent and Megan's.

I took these this morning. Lily kept asking if she could hold her baby brother.

A couple of videos of Dillon that I took this afternoon. Lily was asleep and Daddy was out shopping so it was just Dillon and I.

A couple of other updates:

• I was in South Beach, Miami this last week for work. I was gone Monday through Thursday. It was fun but exhausting, and I was glad to get home to my family.
• No bites on the house yet :( Our next open house is May 23.
• Dillon is walking better and better every day. He says "mama" and "dada" and waves hi and bye. He also shakes his head no when he doesn't want something. Especially if you say "Time for nightly night."
• Lily amazes us everyday when her vocabulary! She has an awesome memory too. She is definitely transforming into a little girl right before our eyes.
• We are looking forward to the weekend of May 14-16 when a lot of the family is coming to town for a visit!
• We are thinking of taking a vacation soon! Can't wait to make plans!

Pickle taking steps and other various updates

We've been going to the park a couple times a week. Lily and Sampson love to run in the big field.

Exploring the grass. It was bright out so I couldn't get him to look up at me.
Lily loves to pick "Candylions." We don't have the heart to tell her that they are weeds.

Giving Dillon a "candylion."

We haven't had much luck flying Lily's kite. The wind seems to die off once we get to the park. Daddy did get it up a few times, though.

Thursday I took the day off to clean house for our Open House that we had today. I also wanted to spend some time with the kids.

Playing with Dillon's bubble machine.

Friday night we ate Spaghetti. Doesn't Dillon look like an Oompa Loompa! Good thing it was bath night!

Dillon crawled into the toy box all by himself!

Lily loves to help clean. She mopped the kitchen floor for me. I hope this continues as she gets older and wiser!

She told me the first picture wasn't good, so she made me retake it. She liked this one much better!

Sporting her shades

Blue eyed baby!

Videos of Dillon taking some of his first steps. Last Friday was the first time we saw Dillon take 3 steps. Since then, he has taken a few steps here and there, but he hasn't really taken off yet. It's hard to catch him on camera, but I tried...

House Update: Had our second Open House today. Two more sets of people came but no real leads yet :( We drove by a few houses we've been eyeing online. One has potential but the others weren't what we are looking for. It's amazing how your opinion changes once you drive by. You can learn a lot. We are going to drive by some more tomorrow.

Weight Loss Update: The first round of the weight loss challenge at work ended 2 weeks ago. I lost 14 pounds. The next round started Wednesday and I'm really hoping to lose another 20. The challenges are 12 weeks long.