Month 21, October 2006


Lily is not just the star of ObenauerWeb.com. She's also its biggest fan! In these last two months, she wants to see her web pictures and movies every time we pass a computer (which is quite often in our house). She's good at using a mouse. I often let her play on a computer while I'm doing something else, and I'm always surprised to see windows appearing and moving around as she clicks randomly and presses keys. I think she's used shortcuts I didn't even know existed!


She has gotten a little better at riding and steering her cars. She crashes into things (and says "Bump!"), but at least she's figured out that moving the handle affects where you go.



On Halloween the kids at Lily's day care wore their costumes in the afternoon. Cailey was a ladybug, Madeline was a cat (I think), and Cameron was a skeleton. The other kids dressed up as a pirate, Simba the lion, another ladybug, Nemo, Blue (the dog), and a train engineer.


And Lily's costume at day care was -- nothing! We bought a monkey costume, but she screamed and cried hysterically when the day care staff tried to put it on her. She had the same reaction the previous day when we wanted her to try on a penguin costume. Last year she didn't much mind wearing the goofy pumpkin costume we got her, but this year she keeps freaking out for some reason. We had two other costumes ready: one was a devil, and one was a half-angel half-devil. The half-and-half costume was more like a dress than the other ones (didn't cover her hands, feet, or head), so we were hoping she wouldn't mind it as much.


We tried putting on the half-angel half-devil costume at home to go trick-or-treating, but she screamed at that again. After a few young kids came to our door in costumes, though, she wanted to do what they were doing, so we finally coaxed her into the half-and-half costume. It comes with one red horn, half of a white halo, and some red and white wings, but we couldn't get her to wear those, so she just wore the dress. (Michelle accessorized it with one red shoe and one white shoe.) We only went to two houses before she wanted to come home because it was very dark out (our street is poorly lit).


After seeing me hand out candy from this cauldron to the trick-or-treaters, Lily decided it was more efficient to hand out the candy to herself and put it in her pumpkin.


Our little skeleton named Junior participated in Halloween again this year and helped hand out candy. We dressed him in the penguin costume that Lily wouldn't wear.


Michelle carried Lily around on her shoulders, and both ladies laughed a lot and enjoyed it.


On one of our many trips to Babies R Us, Lily saw a small bike there and rode on it in the store, so we took it home. To my surprise, she picked this pink-and-purple one over a red-and-blue (boyish) one. Sometimes I forget she's a girl! Notice her jammies match the bike colors very well!


We bought way more candy than we needed for Halloween. I always worry about running out, but we've never even come close. Lily took quite an interest in the brightly colored wrappers, and we filled up her shopping cart with some. She has a look on her face like, "Stay away from my candy!"


Here are a few of the outfits she wore this month. The middle one is pretty cute.


Here's a video of Lily saying the names of other kids at school. She pronounces "Cailey", "Cameron", "Abby", "Witt" and others fine, but she insists on calling Madeline "Nangy"! (And Madeline answers to it!) If clicking on the picture doesn't work, you can download the Quicktime movie from here.


Lily likes to color a lot now, using crayons, chalk, whiteboard markers, pencils, or pens. Here she's sitting in her Elmo chair with a table for drawing. The crayons are in the side pockets of the table.


We've really gotten our money's worth out of this red recliner ($250 at Big Lots). Lily has fallen asleep in it almost every night she's been alive, with one of us holding her. We're jealous of other parents who can just put their kids in a crib or bed and they go to sleep by themselves. Eventually we'll have to figure out how to do that.