Christmas was awesome!
At 20 months old, Lillian "got it" this time around - a leap from last Christmas and even her birthday last April. She watched other people ripping open the wrapping paper and soon caught on that the pile in front of her was actually FOR her. She was giddy with every package.
I think she got a nice mix of stuff without going overboard - perfect. She's latched on tight to a few things... her new baby doll (which replaces the dollar store one she literally wore out), her foam letters and numbers (with which she makes alphabet soup and feeds to us), and the memory game I made for her using photos of the family. I'm pretty stinkin' proud of how quickly she's learning to identify letters and family faces since she started playing with those two new toys. I'll try to post video of that soon.
New Year, New Rooms!
We changed things around just a tad at the house. Once again, Howard and Sally have been super flexible and helpful to us, this time going so far as to renovating a room for us! Lillian had been sleeping in the spa room, with a hot tub sunk into the
floor right next to her crib. Don't worry, we took all the appropriate precautions of course, but still the room wasn't exactly child-friendly, especially with the anticipation of Lillian learning to climb out of her crib any time now and with the room being pretty drafty and cold, which meant using a space heater at night. So, our former bedroom is now Lillian's, and Howard has built a floor over the hot tub and Ray and I have moved into that room. The transformation was complete on New Year's Day - how appropriate!
Halloween
I'm not all that big into Halloween myself, but last year I was pretty tickled with the super-cute ladybug costume we got for Lillian's first Halloween. The bonus was how many costumes we conjured up out of the black tights and onesie she wore underneath - remember the scrapblog?
I got such a kick out of that, I was looking forward to doing something similiar this year. Until, that is, the time actually came. My imagination failed me on the costume part, and when I did make a half-assed attempt at it, Lillian wasn't nearly as cooperative (I'd forgotten that last Halloween she wasn't yet crawling, and this year of course she was walking like a pro). I took a ton of video, hoping I could get some useful clips to edit and maybe a few stills to use in another scrapblog. But, no luck. Ah well. We'll see what happens next year! Here's a little glimpse of the 2009 effort... I dressed her in all white, so that I could edit the photos to make her look like an angel, a ghost, Mr Clean... you get the idea.
PS - Grampa planted pumpkins in the garden just for Lillian, and boy did she like that. And I liked the baked salty seeds mmmmmm.
Stomping!
One of Lillian's favourite (side note: you can take the girl out of Canada, but you can't take the Canadian spelling out of the girl) activities is stomping stomping stomping! It's sort of her version of dancing; she loves to do it, especially on her little red stool like a stage, and lately she lets her friends Elmo and Baby join in.
In early December, Lillian got some brand new shoes, and she fell absolutely in love with them. She was pretty enamoured with them for several days, and even now asks to put them on frequently throughout the day. In this video, she was showing off her new shoes for Grampa and Gramma, having a grand time stomping in them for everyone's enjoyment.
There a few other videos to check out of our little girl if you like, including some more dancing, some showing off of vocabulary (which was outdated as soon as it was filmed), some dusting, some driving, and of course some giggles. http://www.youtube.com/bosco79
Funny Face
Uncle Loren gave Lillian some ultra-cute overalls and red shirt, and she just loves that she gets to wear overalls just like Grampa - who, by the way, has become "Papa" lately. On her first day proudly wearing this outfit, Ray gave her one of Loren's had to model and of course we had to take some pictures. Unfortunately, we hit two snags - first, she wouldn't stay still so most of the shots were pretty blurry, and second, she has started to make the "fake" smile for the camera, so the only shot that somewhat turned out was this one... still pretty darned cute, if you ask the Mama.
Announcement Time!
Okay so maybe it doesn't really qualify as an announcement when so many people already know, but what the heck, it's still fun to put it out there into the world without any hush-hush: WE'RE PREGNANT! Yay! Baby is due July 23, but it's likely we'll have a planned c-section about a week before that. Ray is pretty tickled at the idea of sharing a birthday with the little one, so we're aiming for July 16. Just before Christmas, we saw the doctor and had an ultrasound at about 10 weeks along. The baby started off in the classic profile position, but while we were watching it shifted to face us, so to speak - that was pretty cool to watch. It already had little arm buds and leg buds, and when it turned the doctor noted how cute they are at this stage, looking like little Teddy Grahams! I just love that! Here's one of the shots she gave us, so you can play the Where The Heck Is The Baby In This Picture game.
style="width: 320px" src="http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c202/bosco_79/PregnancyNumberTwo/BabyNumberTwoatTenWeeksjpg.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket">So hopefully the pregnancy will light the fire under my butt to get on here and blog more often. If you're really lucky, maybe you'll get more glimpses of my bare belly. I know you miss those shots. Remember this one? My favourite. Maybe we can try to duplicate that one again this year, and try to get Lillian in there somehow.
Well, I think that about does it for today. I'll leave you with one last photo of our beautiful girl.
Ok just one more.
Ta-ta!
P.S. - Shout out to my Mom who has had a rough few weeks. Hang in there Mom, we love you!
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