Week 50, Jan. 11-17
Wow, we're at Week 50 already! Lily's one-year mark is just two weeks away.
This first year crept by at first (when we were grateful if we got 30 minutes
of sleep at a time), but has been zipping by since she started crawling
and sleeping better.
This is the room Lily's in at her new day care center, Greentree.
Michelle has had a hard time dropping her off in the mornings.
(Until this month, I always did the dropping off.)
The new school is another change for Lily, so she's been crying in the morning, but
it's been getting better, and this morning she only cried for a few minutes.
The staff said she was happy the rest of the day.
She has started holding her own bottle. This is probably because the
new day care just sits her down with the bottle without feeding her,
so she has to do it herself if she wants the food! (They'll feed her
if she really can't do it.)
Lily's doing more and more walking. Here she's carrying her
sippy cup with her. There's no law against drinking and walking,
though, is there? (That's just water in there!)
She has started playing with a walker we bought her months ago,
but she still likes the newer walker better (the red one). Even I
think the red one looks more fun!
We went out to a restaurant Saturday, and Lily was way more interested
in looking around at all the other people than in eating anything.
Nosy girl!
We used a small umbrella-style stroller for the first time this weekend,
which folds up much smaller than her usual trunk-hogging one (the bigger one holds
a car seat). Lily didn't seem to mind the change.
At the grocery store, Lily sat in the cart, and pulled all the potato chips
up next to her! She gets that from Michelle -- I'm a sweets fan myself.
(An observant reader might wonder what all those snack foods were doing in
our cart in the first place. Because they taste good, obviously!! Why else?!)
She grabbed a spool that holds CDs and thought it was the world's largest
pacifier!
Lily still loves riding around on her fire truck, and riding toys
in general. Unlike her train and roller coaster, this one doesn't push
itself! It's Daddy-powered, and requires a lot of leaning over (aah, my back).
We bought her a new ride-on toy, a small bike for 1-year-olds.
Since she's smaller than most kids her age, she can't put both feet
on the ground to push it yet. More pushing and leaning work for me!!
But it's hard to resist when she enjoys it so much.
Lily, stop pulling things out of the garbage! Yeesh. She gets
into everything now. It's a combination of mobility, curiosity,
and more energy than we parents can keep up with.
See those empty bottom shelves? That's new this week. There used
to be boxes of photographs there, but Lily kept opening them up and
throwing them around. So I moved them, but now she's grabbing at things
on the next shelf up (second picture)! Look at that trouble-making smirk!
Lily had her first taste of a lollipop this week. Yum!
Her bear Snowball is very soft, and she's been hugging it a lot! I should
say hugging "her" -- I think Snowball is a girl, based on the light-green
bow and her long eyelashes. (I'll skip the DNA test.)
All this playing sure does tire a kid out. Looks like nap time.
