Animal Sounds: Lily does some cute animal sounds! She does "aaaaa" for sheep and "ack ack" for duck "oof oof" for dog, "ooh ooh ooh" for monkey.
Sign Language: Lily signs: please, thank you, more, all done,wash hands, brush teeth, cracker, hat, eat, milk, kitty, dog, bunny, bear, potty, hurt, banana, baby, bird, fish, clean, flower, grass, ball, mama, dada, grandma, grandpa, outside, potty/poop, monkey (this is our favorite because she bounces up and down and kind of hang swings her arms while going "ooh ooh ooh"). That is more than 30 signs!
Body parts: Lily loves to point to her own nose and everyone else's nose. She points to her hair, her eyes, her mouth, her ears, her tummy, and feet with some help.
Talking; Lily says "IIIIIIIII" for bye, ma ma, da da, please, soft, all done, hi, bloon for balloon, doll for ball, baby, no, no no (nose), yes, kkk (for milk),
Walking: Lily is a professional walker now! Its getting harder to keep up with her. This girl likes to be everywhere and is always busy and moving. She pretty much runs.
Eating: Lily loves quesodillas, toast, bagels, english muffins, bananas, crackers, cookies, muffins, oatmeal, pureed veggies, fruits, french fries (who doesn't?), fish crackers, fig newtons, and pretty much everything we are eating she wants to try too!
The doctor was worried about her weight. She suggested giving her carnation drink mix with her milk, slathering butter on everything, having her eat lots of high calorie meats, and food like avacados. We are trying! She doesn't much care for the carnation. She likes her milk plain. I am trying to feed her more often to see if that helps too. So instead of 4 times a day we do 5 or 6.
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| Lily in Grandma Stoker's high chair. |
Drinking: We are down to one bottle a day and the rest are sippy cups of milk/water. She still has a bottle of milk before bed. I dropped the dinner bottle first, then lunch, then breakfast and replaced them with just a sippy cup of milk with her meal.
Teeth: still only 2 little pearls on her bottom!
Illness: Lily had a horrible March. First she had a cough/flu. Then that turned into croup, then that turned into a double ear infection! We went to the doctor 3 times in a week! She lost her voice from screaming so much because her ears hurt so bad. She kept doing the sign "hurt". It was the saddest thing ever :( Then a couple days after she stopped taking her antibiotic her ear infection came back along with hives all over her body :( Poor girl! So now she is on Augmenten which is a super strong antibiotic and Benadryl. Hopefully she gets rid of her illness once and for all!
Sleep: HER SLEEP WAS HORRIBLE THIS MONTH! Her illness kept her up a lot :(. Then she got used to getting up and hanging out with me in the middle of the night so she just didn't want to do it! Her naps were crazy too. About 80% of March she only took one nap a day instead of two. I don't know if this is because she is ready and wanting to go to one nap or if it was just thrown off by her illness. I guess I will keep trying to do 2 for a couple more weeks before I really switch to one. She seems too little to just have one nap! And I don't think I'm ready for just one either!
Daylight Savings Time: We decided to just have Lily's schedule change so she would be the same but going to bed an hour "later". So now instead of going to bed at 7, she goes to bed at 8 and wakes up at 8. We figured it would be easier for the summer months to go to bed a bit later and then when daylight savings happens again she will just go to bed at 7 again :).
Walks: We got lily a cute new pink jeep stroller and she loves it. We also got her some pink goggle sunglasses so she can really be cool when we be strollin'! She loves being outside. She hardly even relaxes in the stroller, just looks around at everything and signs everything she sees.
Playing: Lily is so good at playing independently. As long as I am nearby she is happy to play with her toys alone. She often brings me books to read her or toys or wants to feed me or clean my face as well as her babies and bears. She loves to destroy things. She likes to just go King Kong on her Little People Castle and house and just throw all the little people out of it and the beds and chairs and anything else that comes off. She loves playing with balls too. She is so fun to watch!
Social Butterfly: Lily loves people! She has to wave and say hi and blow kisses to everyone! She is only scared of her 3 tall boy cousins, Andrew, Jaren, and Kaden. They are all over 6 feet tall bean poles and for some reason when she sees them she runs to Michael or I and hides :)
Fish: Lily got some pet fish to help cheer her up while she was sick. We bought 3 of them at Animal Arc. We named them Harry, Ron, and Hermione. Sadly, Hermione died just 2 days after bringing her home. Ron died of grief for his lost love just a few days after. Now only Harry is left (well we think it is Harry. Now we are wondering if it is really Voldemort and he killed Ron and Hermione). We'll see how long he lasts. I don't think we will be replacing them any time soon. They kind of gross us out. Michael has to move them when he eats so he can't see them.
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| Harry and Ron. Hermione has already passed on here. |
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| Happy St. Patrick's Day! |
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| First Ponytail! |
Snuggles: Lily is still so sweet. She loves to come and hug my legs now when I'm in the kitchen cooking. Or if she is scared she will come and hide in my legs. She gives us lots of kisses. Michael will lay on the floor and pretend to cry and Lily sits right by his head and puts her little arm around his neck and gives him lots of kisses :)
We love our little baby! I guess she isn't a baby anymore =( ! We love our little Toddler!
