Random shots of the boys

Easter weekend we went to
the park after getting some
yard work done. I walked as
did Jonah and Jeremy rode his
bike, Andrew his scooter. It
was an overcast day so the
weather was just right.











The boys had crazy dress up
day at school a couple of weeks
ago. Andrew decided he was
going to dress up as a girl. I
didn't think he would really do
it but sure enough he borrowed
one of my skirts and then proceeded
to put pants on his head. He didn't
make it all day. Jonah and Jeremy
didn't either with their bulges, but
they had a lot of fun putting them
together and going to school that

way.

Here are the boys one

morning that we

worked out in the yard.

We were cleaning out

all the dead stuff from

the year before. We

tend to procrastinate this

until it gets too cold to do.

Jeremy was very happy to be

out doing yard work, because

I told the boys I would do their

chores if they worked in the

yard. It can be challenging to

get out there with Lilly. He was

also happy because he had earned

MP3 time.

I recruited Andrew and Jonah, who

recruited the next door neighbors

to help crush soda cans so we could

recycle them. Jonah really had a

blast doing it.

Some of Lilly's new tricks

These are some of Lilly's new tricks. I was surprised

that she cooperated with me as she doens't usually

do on demand. This does not contain her giving me five

nor clapping (as this occured after this video). I really

don't like hearing my own voice so you will just have to

hang on through that part. I must have been pretty

shaky too, so sorry if you get motion sickness! ;)

Catching up on Lilly

Lilly has been growing by
leaps and bounds. I can't
hardly keep up with it all.
About a month and a half
ago I was laying in bed
trying to ignore Lilly's
chatter because I wasn't
quite ready to get up yet and
I look over to see her standing
in her crib. If I remember right
this was the second time we
caught her standing up. It took
her a month before she felt
comfortable doing it out in the
living room as we have the
wood laminate and she's
smacked her head many times
already. The second pic took
forever to capture because every time Lilly would carry
something in her mouth I would get the camera out and she
would quit doing it. I just think it's really cute to see her being
a little puppy.

This was taken during Easter
weekend. The boys and I got
quite a few weeds pulled that
morning so I told them we could
walk to the park that afternoon.
It was overcast so the lighting
wasn't so great as you can see in
this pic, but she just has her
adorable scrunched up face and
huge smile that I find so endearing. Had to share it.

This one you have to look at
closely, but I had just gotten her
up from a nap to see hand prints
on her face. One on her cheek and
she managed to get a second one
up above her ear. She is definately
like her brothers when they sleep
in that she sleeps all over the bed.
Lilly also is like her Dad and Andrew
in talking in her sleep. No one has ever told me I do so I don't
believe she gets it from me. Lilly has so many new tricks of late.
She's learned to wave, she apes me in laughing and coughing,
her standing up, she puts toys up over the handle of her car seat
and drops them, she recognizes object
permanence, she crawls all over the place (army crawling on our floor
& regular crawling on carpet) and this last week she picked up
clapping. Also, one time I was singing a little ditty with do-do-do's
and at the end of she said "do-do-do". Too cute!
At her last dr. appt, 9 mo, everything was good. Although she is on
the shorter side at this point. She only grew an inch in 3 mo. and is
in the 35 percentile. I'm not too worried yet, though.
I have been blessed with such a happy well behaved baby. After
watching my niece I've really come to recognize this. She's content
to play, crawl around and get into stuff 95% of the time. She
generally only gets fussy when she's pretty hungry or ready for a nap.
So far with teething she'll have a couple of rough days where she is
more clingy and then she's as good as new. I've been blessed so
completely!