8 months!

Lillian is 8 months old. I can hardly believe it. She is growing so fast. She is an expert crawler, great at pulling up to a standing position, but a little uncertain about sitting back down. She even occasionally stands without holding onto anything for a few seconds.

She says "Da-da-da-da-da" and makes a noise just like Ernie from Sesame Street laughing.

She loves solid food, especially avocado and mango. She even ate sweet potato without complaining for Christmas dinner.



Her stranger anxiety increases but she is very sweet about it. Whenever she wants to be held by someone else than the person she is currently being held by, she does what we call the "Lily Lean". She makes almost no noise, just leans towards them. If she doesn't get what she wants, she will whine very quietly.



She takes most of Abby's overly enthusiastic affection in stride, even with the face smooshing, head bonking and arm pulling that it entails.

Here she is checking out a Christmas present from Grandma and Grampa.

Confusion

Becca: ...I'm talking about TO-matoes. Are you talking about TO-matoes or PO-tatoes?
Abby: Tatoes!

The world may never know.

UPDATE:

Becca: Abby say "TO-MA-TO".
Abby: MO-ta-TA-to!

Grampa

Dance Class with Juliet

Juliet invited Abby to visit her dance class one afternoon in November. (The pictures were taken through a dark window so the quality is not very good.)

Edaville Railroad

We bundled up and went to see the Christmas lights at Edaville railroad. Lily was not too happy (except in the warmth of the train.) Abby had a great time: she rode the carousel and similar rides 6 or 7 times. Jencie and Gary were good enough to take her on over and over again.

7 months

(Ok, I'm so late in posting this Lily is nearly 8 months.) Her big achievements over the last 6 weeks have been crawling, sitting and pulling up. She basically starting doing all three really well within one week of each other. Now that she can get around more quickly and sit up, she is much happier. She watches Abby, plays with toys, especially Abby's play kitchen, and finds pieces of junk on the floor and tries to eat it.

She loves her tongue

Story Time

Twins

On a day to day basis, I don't think that Abby and Lily look too much alike. And then I come across a pair of pictures like these.

Feb 2008:


Oct 2010:

Halloween

Abby had three Halloween-related events. At first she wanted to be a butterfly but changed her mind and was a princess. Her crown made it to the first event but broke before the second. Luckily we had a backup princess hat. She started with a scepter and purse but they were quickly cast off. Here are the three events:

A costume parade at school. (Parents weren't invited to the actual parade.)



Trick-or-treating at the Children's Museum.

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(Here is Lily at the museum dressed up as a kid big enough for this stroller.)



And a neighborhood treasure hunt with friends.









And finally the babies carried along on the treasure hunt. (Check out Lily's teeth.)

6 month video

6 Months

Trying to crawl...



and sitting up...



almost.

More Birthday Pics

Abby requested a strawberry cake and a pirate table cloth.

Sweet Potatoes

Lily apparently inherits a dislike of sweet potatoes from Nana and Uncle Patrick.

Happy Birthday Abby

2 parties: 1 at home


and 1 at school.


More pictures to come.

First Meal

Abby the Teacher

Here is Abby presiding over her class at circle time.



After saying good morning to each student and asking them if they are feeling happy or sad, it was music time.







After music time was story time, but the teacher had confiscated my camera.

Cleaning

Cleaning the bathroom after Lily's bath.

On the Move

We are definitely not ready for a mobile five month old, but that's what we have.

5 months old

Lillian is 5 months old!





She no longer resembles a newborn at all. She is long enough to wear 9- and 12-month size clothing. She wants to sit up and wiggles and spins on the floor to get to her toys. She tries to grab everything within reach, including food. We haven't started her on solid foods save a few pieces of puffed cereal for her to play with on her tray. She continues to be very sweet, smiling at everyone and crying only when she is very tired. She is beginning to show a preference for Becca over everyone else, but she is laid back enough not to demand her all the time.

Bait and Switch?

Who put that there?

Girls

Abby-isms

There have been a bunch of great Abby quotes lately:

Abby: "Mama, you are very not tall enough."

Daddy: "We're going to Grandma and Grandpa's house for Christmas!"
Abby: "Not now Daddy, I'm too tired"

Abby: "Daddy, remember, you love me!"

Abby (wearing a Drake's Island shirt): "Look, my shirt has a duck on it! That's so silly, ducks live in ponds, not shirts!"

New Toys

Now that Lily can sit in her high chair she can use a whole new set of toys, including this one.

Back to School

Abby has been back at school for a couple weeks now, but we just got our camera back.

Exhausted

July - August 2010

Our trip to the states was wonderful, but exhausting.