Beautiful
Shiny pink vest? Check. T-shirt her friend gave her? Check. Floaty floral skirt? Check. Hello Kitty leggings? Check. Ultra cool sunglasses from a birthday party loot bag. Check! She’s five years old. Her fashion sense is a mix of what she thinks is beautiful and what makes her happy. She’ll dress up in pretty [...]
Name the Baby Extravaganza!
(First off: Boo to missing my first day in the Summer Blogging Challenge yesterday!! In my defense, I did blog from my BlackBerry in bed bitching about being in bed with the baby because the kitten kept waking her, but my battery died before I could publish it. And then I fell asleep. And nobody [...]
The many faces of the Lil
What happens when you let an almost-4-year-old play with your camera? First, you get lots of pictures. Lots of blurry close-ups, many of which are hard to identify. Secondly, you get self-portraits. Many, many self-portraits. And if that kid happens to be Lily-Lou, you get some that look like this: 59 minutes til your birthday, [...]
Relief
I’d like to preface this entry by saying I hope I’m not jinxing myself. I’m knocking on wood as I type. As some of you probably remember, when Lily was a newborn she spent some time at the hospital due to having seizures. The shortish version of the story is that on her fifth day [...]
Lily Lou
This is my Lily dear AKA Pinky, Lulu, Doll Doll, LuBelle, and For God’s Sake Lily. I love Lily. She’s a bright light in our home and she’s quirky like nobody else I’ve ever met. I get some hilarious photos of her since she’s a general goof who loves to ham it up for the [...]
Um…
There are moments of parenting which leave me speechless. One of them just passed when Nicholas ran across the house. He was chasing Lily with a toy ark yelling “Look out! Noah’s coming for you!!!” As I wrote this, I heard him saying “But that was our only chicken!”. *snort*
