Week 49, Jan. 4-10

Lily started at a new day care center this month -- but we didn't get kicked out this time! We moved Lily to the one near Michelle's work. The best part is, Madeline and Cailey are at this day care center, so now she can play with them every day!


Now that Lily's started walking, she has a lot more fun with her walking toys. She zooms across the floor with this one!


She claps a lot for herself, and sometimes for us when she thinks we did something good.


I held a Cheeto in my fingers, and by the time I snapped the photo, Lily had snatched it out of my hand! Look at her smug, unrepentant grin!


Michelle made some gingerbread cookies, but her red frosting looked like the poor things had gunshot wounds. By the time she smeared the red stuff around, they turned into Ebola cookies!


One of Lily's new Christmas toys has a microphone, and she loves talking into it. (This is the high-tech version of making noises into a cup, which she's been doing for weeks.)


Here are a couple outfits from this week. In the second one, she looks like she's in a baby food commercial.


She's puckering her mouth in these photos for some reason.


Michelle and I both watch way too much TV. Lily is following in our footsteps, leaning over to see what's on TV in the next room!


I put Snowball and Homer on Lily's couch to see if she would let them stay there (last week she yanked Snowball off of her recliner). Homer got the boot, but Snowball was allowed to stay.


I'm very proud of how brainy Lily is acting. This is an "Alphabet Pal" bug that you're supposed to pull as you walk, and it sings the alphabet. But Lily figured out you can just turn it over and roll the wheel to make it sing! Much easier.


The music toy she's always liked has a hinged door that plays music when you open it, and stops playing when you shut it. Lily likes pulling the door off its hinges to play with it, and then she just presses the little white button on the door hinge to play the music.


We stacked more books under her piano to make it a stand-up toy. (Note that we were careful to put the left-brain books on the left, and right-brain books on the righ!) She still likes pressing the keys, but discovered that it's much easier to push one yellow button (third picture) that starts the "demo mode" and plays music on its own!


We have some Christmas photos of Lily's friends. Here are Colin and Cailey decorating the Christmas tree.


Cameron and Madeline are playing inside a rocket ship playhouse. That expression on Madeline's face is hysterical!


This is Julia, the daughter of Michelle's coworker Marisa, visiting Santa. Lily cried on Santa's lap, but Julia looks happy here.


Michelle's friend Cara sent these photos of daughters Alyssa (in the back) and Adriane.