Month 17, June 2006


Michelle's company had tickets available in a private box for a local baseball game. Although we don't care about the game or the team, we thought it would be a chance for Lily to play with Madeline and Cameron. There were balloons for someone's 40th birthday party, so Lily and Cameron spent a lot of time playing with them. Madeline crawled around that day, but later in the month she started walking.


Lily had a blast crawling underneath the chairs for some reason!


She was kind enough to share her lollipop with me. Blech! Unfortunately I'm used to her shoving food in my mouth that already has baby saliva on it. I consider it my parental duty to accept her "gifts".


Outside in the seating area, Lily pressed up against the glass windows to smile at Bill and Cameron inside! What a little flirt.


We went to the Children's Museum for the first time this month, and Lily loved it. It's like a huge playground. Here she's playing with water toys, crayons, and blocks, and posing as Kilroy.


She also went down the slide, climbed into a fort, rode a giraffe, and became puzzled that her fake glass of milk was something solid. (She tried drinking it several times.)


There was a tunnel for kids to crawl through. Lily was afraid to go in at first, but I crawled in the other side, and slowly she started venturing in too.


She walked up some stairs at the museum by herself, holding the railing. Although she can crawl up stairs, this was the first time she walked up some without our help. You can view a 20-second Quicktime movie by clicking on the picture, or download the movie from here.


Lily has been very vocal this month, copying words we say. Some of them she knows the meaning of. She can say "hi", "bye-bye", "ball", "ba-ba" (for bottle), "no", and "mine" (she's very good at that one!), and her "mama" and "dada" sometimes come out "mommy" and "daddy" now. She can point to a few body parts when we say their names (nose, mouth, hair, ears), and she understands commands like "bring that to mommy" and "pick it up". In the first few seconds of this video clip, she says "Lily"! She has been saying it pretty clearly for the last few days.


Since she's had so much fun playing with her blocks last month, we bought her some this month for slightly older children (1-3 years). They're a little harder to snap together, but she likes them. She still plays with her previous blocks too (though the two kinds don't snap together).


Lily is in a weekly music class at day care. Madeline's in it too, which is good because Lily moved up a room and doesn't see Madeline every day anymore. She dances more at home now, so here Michelle was dancing with her.


She talks into her fake cell phones a lot, mimicking us. Here she's playing with our real phone. It's funny to watch her, because she was grabbing our real phone, pressing some buttons, and then wedging the phone between her shoulder and ear (like we often do), talking into it and walking around!


These are some of the outfits we put her in this week. She usually has a matching bow in her hair -- unless we can't find the right bow when we're getting ready in the morning!


She found a teddy bear someone bought her months ago in the study (where some of her toys are), and carried it around. She looked cute curling up for a nap with her teddy.


Lily likes climbing into her toy boxes now. She's liked her ball pit for a few months, but had been ignoring her roller coaster. Now she's started riding it again.


Our little girl has learned to drink through straws! This is great because we don't always need a sippy cup for her when we go out now.


We're planning on having a 4th of July party, inviting the Willises over, so we finally broke down and bought a table for the kitchen (after 2.5 years of living in this house!). We also had a bunch of poison ivy and weeds removed from between the trees outside, so that the kids can play there.


Sometimes Lily moves around so much in her sleep that she falls off her bed!