Cutest Ever

Who is the cutest dog ever? (sorry Roxi)

ugh

Today is THE day. It's supposed to get up to 101F plus a heat index of whatever. I can't complain too much because I sit in an air conditioned house all day. I haven't been for a walk in awhile. Also, little Miss Lily was awake from 2 to 3 something this morning. Pedro woke me up and made me go and sleep with her at 2:30. She wouldn't settle down so I finally went and got her some water. She gulped it down and fell asleep in 2 minutes. I cannot wait for her to talk.

Oh man, I'm tired. I have been fairly productive. I wish I could get around the back of the house and cut down some of the saplings so the guys don't have to fight with them tomorrow putting up gutters. But it's too hot! Let me see... Lily has been grinding her teeth. I guess because they're so new, it sounds squeaky. Anyway, I hope everyone keeps cool and tries to have a good Wednesday. :)

Hotter!

Gosh, it's been 96F today with a heat index of 105. I only go out when absolutely necessary! blah! And Mary Lou, I haven't been posting because I haven't been taking pictures. Lily and I haven't been out or doing anything special. But today we took some silly pictures and that was fun. :)

I've also been cleaning up after disasters. Well, it was one big disaster. Lily found my drink this morning and knocked it over onto a living room chair and then, of course, on the rug. Anyone who drinks Crystal Lite knows how badly it stains so I was rushing like a fool trying to get it all out! I think I succeeded.

Let's see, I was going to get gutters on Monday but that got pushed back to Thursday. I've been sort of busy trying to clean up. Some days I feel like, hells bells, I'm a mom with a 9 month old, the house isn't going to be perfect! And I snuck myself in that last picture, ha! Oh yeah, I was going to mention how usually Miss Lily's developments are physical in nature but lately she's become quite social. She claps her hands and laughs at us and she thinks the reporters on tv are talking to her so she smiles at them. :) She's becoming a lot of fun to hang out with. :)

Wii!

Well, what a day. I haven't really blogged about Pedro's quest for a Nintendo Wii. Basically, the people at Game Stop hate looking at my face. I call or drop by there sporadically. Or maybe, often. Anyway, I had to return something at Toys r Us. I remembered that their electronics department was usually empty so I thought I'd ask if they had the Wii. They did. I bought it forthwith. I thought Pedro would be jumping up and down when I got it back to the car. He was slightly excited.

The pictures today are of Lily and her new monkey. She always gets excited in the baby aisle at Whole Foods when we pass by the stuffed animals. She loves her monkey. :) And the proceeds go to starving children, blah blah blah.... Lily loves her monkey! Check out her tongue. Lifting monkeys is hard work!

Also today, Pedro bought me a new computer monitor. We do tend to watch movies more in the study so I guess it makes more sense to get a larger monitor. It was just one of those days. Plus it's no tax weekend in Virginia so it was a good time to buy. :)

PS - If you're looking for a Nintendo Wii in the Charlottesville, Va area, check out the Toys R Us store on 29 - they had 3 on Saturday. Granted the people behind me were buying one too so HURRY!!!!!!

PPS - For people like auntie Mary Lou who might not know about a Wii (or care) here's a link.

Humble

Sorry that I haven't posted in a few days. I've been really pooped lately. Well, I've also been cleaning up the house a lot more so perhaps the 2 things are related. :) I'm even too tired to download the pictures from my camera so today will feature some old ones. This one is from April. Those big ole chubby cheeks!

Anyway, I'm feeling a little humble because of the lady in Arkansas who has given birth to 17 kids. First of all, how is her baby machinery still in such good working order??? It's amazing that it is. Second, 17 kids???!!! I know from one of my friends who is the oldest of 10 that the older kids help take care of the younger ones but as a mother, she is still responsible for 17 children! Ack! Congratulations to her on 17 healthy children. :)

Let's see, Lily has started this thing of waking up between 2 and 3 in the morning. She's so full of beans that she hangs onto the edge of her crib and bounces up and down. Poor daddy. You know, I read one of my baby books and it says at her age Lily should be sleeping 12 hours at night and 2 to 3 hours during the day. Well, she doesn't sleep 12 hours at night. I know, it's a guideline and not what every child does. I guess I'm going to have to try and keep Lily up more during the day. We don't get up and play with her in the middle of the night so I'm not sure why she's doing this. I will say that I feel blessed to have a happy, healthy baby and although I miss sleep, it's a fairly easy thing to give up for my child. (At least for now!)

And one last thing. Yesterday, before Pedro left work, the man who hired him told Pedro that they were really glad they had hired him. Isn't that nice??? Pedro is a hard worker and smart and stuff. :)

Hot

Gosh, it feels like summer has finally arrived. Of course, I sit in A/C all day but I can tell. :) Mostly by how often the A/C turns on. Anyway, on to what's important, right? This is Lily being VERY silly. Daddy was helping her jump. I'm not sure why she looks like she's already started smoking.

And this next picture makes me so sad because it had the potential of being devastatingly cute. :) Darn blurriness! Sarah mentioned how BG and Lily seem to get along. BG doesn't mind her. He lets her pet him and sometimes gets close to her on the floor. That's what being desperate for attention will get you. Unfortunately, today she pulled one of his whiskers and he bared his teeth. Which got BG a quick short ride over the babygate. Nobody threatens my baby!

Wow!

How much fun are we having today? I didn't actually get all that much sleep last night. I swear I wake up when Lily wakes up, even if I don't hear her (cuz I'm in the other room). Either that, or the futon is too hard for me and Pedro is being mean by not letting me sleep on the pillow top mattress. I'm willing to concede it might be a combination.

BG is the only cat to hang out with Lily and I. Daphne hides herself in some corner - I find her by listening closely for cat snores. Riley finds the most comfortable place on a bed and hunkers down until the next feeding time. Well, I think BG mainly hangs out because he gets a little too friendly with some of Lily's toys. That's why I have to pack everything up at night.

No, I didn't make Lily do this. I took her Milkbone away from her and she substituted a burp cloth. But look, the cloth and her onesie match! How sad is that???? I'll bet no one thought I was going to put up so many pictures today. But we have had quite the day. Check out what happened a little while ago....!

I went to look outside to see why it was so dark (one clue - it rhymes with loud) and saw 2 deer in the front yard. I'm surprised they didn't run as Lily was yelling to herself and I was storming around trying to get to the right window. How spoiled are my deer?














And last, but not least, the crazy baby picture of the day....

Hiiiiii

Lily has a new word down. "Hi". I don't think she really knows what it means. She uses it to say Riley's name. "Hi-yee". She puts a lot of effort into saying that cat's name and he doesn't deserve it! Okay, I'm a little jealous. Today she was helping me put together the new baby gate. It feels so much better to not have to worry about Lily knocking over the old one.

Unfortunately, (for Daphne) there's no way into the living room now. Riley can make it easily and B.G. has developed a new flying leap which is entertaining to watch but poor fat old Daphne just cannot make it. I'll have to set her up in a new room. I love watching Lily on her toes!!!! She zooms along holding onto the furniture. I'm sure she'll be taking her first unaccompanied steps any day!!!

I guess that's about it. Pedro's surviving his first day of work. Oh and Lily is back to napping without any struggles. I think with all the excitement of having the Rock Star (daddy) home she didn't want to miss out on anything. Mommy is pretty boring, I guess. But boring means dependable! And ummm, safe! ha! Take that, Hi-yee.

Back

Pedro, Lily and I spent the night at grandma and grandpa's house. It was notable because Lily didn't cry when we got there. :) Lily's getting over her separation anxiety. These are some old pictures. I guess from last week. It's weird, with Pedro home the last week, or so I should have had lots of time but I feel like I haven't had any time to update Lily's blog. So sorry to those who have come by and had to look at the same old picture all this time. :) Pedro starts his new job tomorrow so hopefully we'll all be back to business as usual. :)

Oh and this is Lily using the flashlight to make a Lily scary face. :)

Wherefore Art Thou Netflix???

Netflix has been down for a while. I got a movie today but I'm not sure when I'll get the next one. It would be nice if the little message said why the website is down. argh Lily is happily playing on the floor ripping up a Time magazine. We went out again today to run some errands. So much for Pedro's week off!

I haven't been updating much because I've been so tired. I'm currently waiting for Lily to get sleepy and take a nap so I can have one too! I don't think I have too much new stuff to report. I did manage to get a new bikini for Lily. I ripped her last one. :( I mean, I wasn't trying it on, or anything!

Picnic

We all had fun yesterday. The weather was perfect. :) Lily seemed a little apprehensive when we arrived at the lake but by the time we left she was having the time of her life. It's always a little hard the next day because she expects adoring fans whichever way she turns and real life just doesn't work like that. :)



This is the only picture I took yesterday. They looked so cute together on the lawn. :) Oh, Lily did NOT like going in the water at all. Maybe the squishy clay-type bottom put her off. Lily and I went on the pontoon boat. She did pretty well for having a baby's flotation device around her neck. Anyway, I'm so tired I can't think anymore. I have almost finished Harry Potter. I'll read it again more slowly to catch all the little details. I was really shocked at all the people who were killed in this book. And animals. eep!

Potty!

Pedro put Lily on her potty just after she woke up this morning. She made her first pee pee in it! I'm all a flush with pride. Yeah, I said it!!! I put her on it yesterday just for her to get used to it. She had fun although I was a bit taken aback that her legs are long enough for her to scoot off of it. Well, I need to start getting ready to go to the picnic. Welcome back, Auntie Mary Lou and I hope you get some rest!

Harry Scary

Well, the last Harry Potter book (finally) comes out tomorrow. I'm very excited even though I might not be home half the day to read it. Oh well. Daddy has next week off so he can wrangle baby whilst I read. :) I meant to post yesterday afternoon but a bad storm came through and we were without power for a couple of hours. I have to make sure the handheld Nintendo thingie is always charged up because I thought I was going to go crazy without any entertainment.

It was a pretty crazy storm and lots of trees came down, etc. Thankfully, our property was okay. The pictures are from one of Lily's naps yesterday. I don't even know how she was sleeping like that. Her leg was lodged in between the slats pretty well. It took me a bit to get it out. Then she cried. I figured it was better to wake her up then than to have her wake up screaming from all the blood pooled in her leg. She fell asleep like that again but fortunately I caught it sooner so she didn't wake up or cry. :) You know, you can read all the books you want to on parenting but you still have to figure most of it out yourself. :)

Wow

Did you guys know that babies can cry in their sleep? Lily woke me up at 12:30 and I walked in to see her crying and daddy frustrated. Daddy left and I calmed Lily down. She fell asleep but was making crying sounds in her sleep and breathing in that hiccupy way we do after we cry. I tried tickling her and she'd flail her arms around and then go right back to the sleep crying. I couldn't sleep while she was doing this so I was awake until 2!!! Which is funny because the house down the hill got TP'd and I didn't hear a thing! Would you call the cops if you got TP'd?

9 months old!

I meant to post earlier today but Lily has worn me out. She is obviously well on her way to becoming a manic toddler. It's so funny to see the cats come back in the living room after I put Lily down for a nap. I've been taking a lot of pictures of her hoping to get one good enough to submit for that photo contest. I've got some pretty funny ones but nothing that really stands out.

She's started cruising now. She can also bend over and pick stuff up off of the floor. Hanging onto the sofa, of course. :) It's so bizarre to watch a child learn so much so fast. I tried to get her to crawl down the hall to her daddy but she refused. I had to hold her hands so she could walk most of the way down the hall. That seems pretty huge to me. She knows there's another way to get around but she can't do it alone yet.

I know there were some things I wanted to mention but I just can't think of them now. :) Oh yeah! Pedro, Lily and I are going to his old company's picnic this Saturday. I thought it would be a nice way to have some closure and a good way for them to meet Lily. They had to put up with Pedro who was putting up with me when I was pregnant. :)

This picture is hilarious, but it's the last picture that I really want to show off. Doesn't she look like the spit from her daddy's mouth? Check out all those teeth!