Playtime

Lily's first drawing

Here is Lily's first recognizable face.

Preschool!

Abby has been back to school for a few weeks, but Lily has now officially become old enough to attend preschool as well.  Today was Lily's first day.  She was a little nervous at first, but warmed right up and had no problems.

Dinosaurs

Abby loves reading about dinosaurs and visiting the dinosaur exhibit at the Museum of Science.  She knows many of their names and what they eat. Her favorite is the triceratops.   We got her a set of plastic dinosaurs, which she loves to play with, but these dinosaurs do not say "roar".   This is an example of what they say:

- Protoceratops, what's wrong?
- I lost my sister.
- Oh, no! We'll help you. My name is Sarah and this is GusGus.  We'll make a plan and search the woods. 

Sharing a Bed

Now that Lily is out of a crib, Abby and Lily share a big bed when we go visit Grandma and Grampa.



It is still too exciting for Lily to go to sleep in this arrangement. So we have to put her to sleep in our bed and transfer her once she is asleep.

Fair

Ever since seeing a fair in an episode of Max and Ruby, Abby has been asking to go to a real fair.  So we finally got to the Marshfield Fair last week with Jencie, Gary and Juliet.







A week later, I asked Abby and Lily what we saw:
Abby: We went on the cars! (a kiddie ride)
Lily: cars, too. ummm... cows, cow pee, I peed too, and....  (It was actually horse pee.)
Abby: Did she tell you rabbits?
Lily: Rabbits
Abby: Train things.  (Model train set)
Lily: And we jumped (bouncey house) and I fell down.
Abby: Juliet. We saw a ferris wheel. We saw ice cream. I saw an ice cream truck. Oh. We saw a wiggly ride for teenagers.
Lily: That's it.
Abby: I think that's it.

Help from Big Sister

Abby tries to teach Lily everything she knows.  Here she is being very helpful and reading to Lily while Lily sits on the potty chair.