personality

this pic is just a random one i found... she looks drunk but i swear thats just juice is her bottle

i figured since most of you haven't met lily (or those of you who have, haven't seen her in months) i would tell you some of her little quirks.. lets start with fears..

#1 the blow dryer... she just stares at me and whimpers in concern until i turn it off.

#2 the shower... now that shes crawling she crawls the to the edge of the tub and puts her hands against the tub and watches me.

#3 the toilet flushing... now i must admit this toilet is loud enough to wake ME up... and i am a heavy sleeper.

#4 sneezing.. poor thing is just afraid of noises in general... she gets startled really easily... as you can see especially in the bathroom..

the child wants to walk so badly... she crawls with one knee and one foot and tries to stand up all the time. she even crawls with her but in the air on both feet..she pulls up on me quite often and then holds on to me and bounces up and down.. shes a little thrill seeker... always wanting to jump or be thrown and caught over and over again..

She remembers EVERYTHING esp if its edible and we let her try it even just once.. she is obsessed with food and is really good at eating with her 2 teeth... i give her everything in taco soup and she eats everything that she can manage to scoop into her mouth (she still drops a lot of it since she still isn't the best with her hands. she is like a dog... i feed her my veggies when i don't want them... and she loves spicy food.

she loves to climb... she climbs over the bottom rails of her jumperoo.. and the other day i found her on the second shelf of our entertainment center. (as pictured) she also climbs all over me of course.

she is always posing with her hands... she does this cute little shy pose... i can't explain it but i love it so much. she also poses for the camera (as audra pointed out she always looks suprised)

the thing i love most is that she loves people. she smiles at anyone that walks into the room and loves to flirt... giggling and then acting shy when they respond. she is so cute. anyway that's my girl... a total goof and a ton of fun.

growing up so quickly

lily is now crawling... the first time she was really able to get anywhere was when i was getting ready in the bathroom. i left her on the floor by the bath tub and when i looked down she was behind the door about 4 feet away from where she started.. she hasn't gotten it down but she's good enough that i have to watch her. we also got a crib last week. we found a new one for 50 bucks off so we jumped. then i went out and bought a cheap bumper and sheet (didn't feel like spending 50 bucks on a set) and last night she slept in in for about 6 hrs... it was great... tonight i'm going to try feeding her in her room and putting her back down in the crib because i think she sleeps much harder on her own. anyway here are some pics of the crib, lily crawling in the crib and then a random cute one and one after she ate dried dragon fruit

2 milestones

so on my birthday lily said her first word... at first i thought it was just babbling... "dad" but then she looked directly at seth and nodded as she said "dad" and i brushed it off and later i asked "where's dad?" and she looks at seth and states dad again... so she meant it... then today she got her first tooth on her bottom right. hopefully this means she will start sleeping better again. anyway she is growing up so quickly. she tries harder and harder everyday to crawl. the weather here has been "nice" we had a few days about freezing so about half the snow is melted and our parking lot is a lake. our apt is almost unpacked and the living room and kitchen are clean... so life is good.

lily's present to me...

you are probably thinking isn't it really early there??? yes yes it is... lily's birthday present to me today was waking up many times through the night and finally staying up at 3... so today i will have a grumpy bug and a husband at school all day. happy birthday to me.

love of strawberries hate of carseats

it was a frozen strawberry and she did great with it.. the carseat pic doesn't do justice without her desperate cries

reader beware

DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN I AM LEGEND.
so this weekend we went to the theatre for the first time since i was about 7 mos prego and saw i am legend. first i really liked it.. it was way too scary for me ( i had to walk out 3 times to calm down) but there were a few things that bothered me. first robert talks about how the dark seekers have lost all human characteristics... so i therefore expected him to later point out that they were still human and that love or something of the sort would cure them. i felt that when the female dark seeker was captured and the male dark seeker came into the light to see her it was because he loved her... and this is why he continuously leads the attacks on robert ... since she was almost healed when they attacked i thought that they would have been calmed by the fact that he had a cure and stop attacking. also they set a trap which is a a trait of humans. they also huddle together in the dark. the ending in general bugs me... first they shouldn't have gone to the basement... that was the only place that when it turned light the dark seekers would have still stayed there.. this does show that he had no choice but to use the bomb (except the above solution with love invloved) oh and it bugs me that we don't know if his family die or not. anyway i really did enjoy the movie and felt it was well done. tell me if you think i'm wrong or point out more ways they are still human.

so small

lily had a wic appt yesterday and she is 12 lbs 12 ounces and 24 1/2 inches long which puts her under the 5th percentile in weight and the 10th for height... anyway i got distracted and she woke up.. so here are pics of her feeding herself.. she would only eat the food off the spoon so it was really cute. we leave for provo fri to see my sister in law who is recovering from brain surgery.