Just a quick drive by post of some Lillian cuteness after having past 5 days off with her.
She is getting good at puzzles, the shapes she has almost mastered, including the colors of some of the pieces. The animals seem to be a bit harder for her. I didnt know it but the animal puzzle I got her has a picture of what the animal 'makes' under it like bacon, milk, etc --kinda weird (good thing we arent vegan eh?).
She also is in LOVE LOVE LOVE with elmo. The only real time we ever let her watch is when she was sick and that was while I was holding her, we have only used it as a 'babysitter' when she was small a couple times, I think she watched two baby einstein videos. Of course we watch too much tv, at least in my opinion (that opinion is NOT shared by my darling husband). The daycare has tv on in the morning and afternoon for the older kids that get on and off the bus since that is what they like but now that it is summer I think its a bit more prevalent. Lillian was saying ello for a couple weeks before we realized it was ELMO (thanks to uncle Jason), so to test it out we brought up a sesame street on screen and she went BEZERK ELLO ELLO ELLO LA LA LA. Now we have some elmo toys she loves, I rotate her toys and they happened to be 'out' of rotation, now that they are out she just LOVES them and yesterday she started insisting on taking her hard chicken dance elmo to BED with her LOL! She asks to watch elmo all the time (I am sure the 'he's sleeping trick' wont last much longer). I already know I am fighting a loosing battle with the TV and computer.
Besides Elmo, some of her favorite things are sliding, splashing in her kiddie pool (but not actually sitting in it), coloring is BIG right now, she absolutely adores phones and will beg for your 'hello', she just recently is into a stuffed singing animal that has lights on its chest and says different phrases and sings--she will sing the 'itsy bitsy spider along with it' and talk back to it. She also loves bubbles but they are so messy I broke down and got her a bubble gun so all she has to do is pull the trigger, we will see how that one goes.
She can say all her animal noises, including the bunny for which she tries to move her nose and the fish which she does really cute. She actually has a couple of her colors down to the point of getting them right more often than not, of course her default answer is 'pink' if she doenst know. She counts to three but now her new favorite number is 9 and she often just repeats 2, 9, 2,9 etc--it's cute. She still likes taking wagon and 'beep beep' (little car) rides but she prefers to be doing the walking now and gets impatient after a block or two.
She is such a hoot right now. For some time now if you act like you are sleeping she will wake you up by yelling your name, well now when we 'wake up' she cocks her head over to the side, leaves her eyese WIDE open and goes "shoo, shoo, shoooo" like she is sleeping, she tries not to smile but she always does and it is SOOOO cute, of course then she refuses to be 'woke up' without a full minute of saying her name and tickling--its adorable!
A couple things she JUST started doing is if you want something, like say a kiss and she cant be 'bothered' she will smile and close her eyes like shes making you go away, then she laughs! She also just started saying 'hug' and runs up and gives you a big hug and then says 'luvu mommy' spontaneously---I must admit that melts my heart!
thats all for now, pictures soon!
