Lately {14 months}

These past two weeks I've noticed so many little things Lilly Rose is doing now. Lately, there seems to be a new accomplishment or adventure almost daily. It blows my mind that we celebrated her 14th month last weekend (at the beach but that's for another post). Lilly Rose is growing so quickly, daily I'm seeing more of a Toddler and less of a "Baby" (insert a big emotional sob--yep, I'm THAT mom).

 

Lilly's Latest:

 

-- Actions: Cups her hands like "come to me, come here." I believe she caught on to this when she was learning to walk and I would do similar actions when trying to get her to walk to me. It's really cute.
At the store today Lilly said "HAY" (loudly) to everyone. Everyone! She's such a social little girl and wants to smile at anyone who will look her way.
Yesterday she and I got into a giggle fit while she was in the bath tub. Lilly made me laugh and I had put my hand over my mouth while laughing at her. Now, she puts both her little hands over her mouth, throws her head back and laughs really loud. Super hilarious... I cannot get enough of this child's personality sometimes.

 

-- Growing: Outgrew her baby pink Chuck Taylor's and first pair of jeans. Last week it seemed each day there was something that didn't fit all of the sudden. She literally grew one night while sleeping. ;) So, we purchased size 4 diapers, packed away a few of our favorites and began the summer wardrobe shopping. I believe we are set until later this Fall. Boy was it weird ordering 18 month clothes, she's supposed to be in 6 months still. Can you tell this has been hard on me?

 

-- Walking: Really well! I told the lady at the nursery desk this past Sunday when they asked if she was walking yet that "she is walking but a little wobbly still, not quite there" - when I picked her up after church I was told "Lilly Rose was all over the place, she had no problem walking" --- that about sums up this past week too. Lilly is everywhere and loving her freedom.

 

-- Goodbye: We said "bye-bye ba-ba" this week. As of 2/25 Lilly is drinking her milk from a sippy cup at bed time (and nap time). She's been doing great from a sippy for a while now but has been given milk from a bottle until recent. *Lilly, you've done great!!!! Not one cry about the change and you have not even asked for your ba-ba. I'm so proud of you big girl.* Now, to clean them really well and pack them up...am I ready for this? Yet another sign my girl isn't a little baby... which leads me to her swing...

Lilly loves the playground swing, too!

 

-- Nap time: naps have always been in the swing because Lilly loves her swing. Since her birthday I've slowly made the change to naps in the crib. We haven't used the swing in 2 weeks. I'm not ready to pack it up yet. It's too final. But, Lilly has taken a couple big girl naps in her crib. Most days she just talks for an 1-1.5 hour(s) but there have been a few naps so I know she can do it. I am thankful that we don't have any problems at night (12-14 hours straight) so I won't complain too much about a long nap.

And here we have the traditional fall asleep 6 miles from home nap

 

-- Meal times: still a pretty picky eater when it comes to "real" food or anything with texture. Therefore, we are still doing baby food to get in the veg/fruit nutrition for breakfast and dinner. We are slowly adding more foods and the most recent success was chicken. Yay for finally eating a protein at dinner. Favorite snack right now: Greek yogurt granola bites, gold fish and rice snacks. Loves a ice-cold sippy of water with all her meals.

 

And I'm just now realizing how terrible I've been at taking pictures in the month of February. I am not sure I have any to even post except iPhone pictures ... I'm going to look and dig something up. Blogs are no fun without picture's... :) I'm going to try and be better about taking pictures in March, cannot believe tomorrow we begin the month of all things Irish AND Easter! Didn't we just put the Christmas decor in the attic!?

First Publix Balloon: So Excited!

Ride Home, fell asleep holding her pink balloon :)

Valentine's Day {love}

This was Lilly's 2nd Valentine's Day and a much more active day compared to last year. Our little valentine is a busy girl so we enjoyed the day with daddy playing, cuddling, playing some more and napping (while I went to the salon)! This is just a peak into our day:

 

 And a little throw back...Valentine's last year -- my how much she's grown in one year!

 

Walking {one proud baby}

We officially have a walker! This past Saturday night (2/9/13) Lilly Rose surprised us as we were sitting in the living room playing and she started taking 6-8 steps at a time. As of today she's pretty much mastered her cute little wobble walk and is gaining confidence. They even moved her up to the next stage in her Sunday School class this past Sunday. :( This all has gone by extremely fast.

 

We are so proud of our sweet girl and she is so proud of her accomplishment. You can see it on her face...

 

Good job Lilly Rose on becoming a walker!!!!

A few other things to note from the past few days:

-- Lilly now plays with her stacking ring toy "properly", she can stack the rings! Way to go LR!

--Tooth #7 broke through over the weekend. Updated stats: 4 top teeth and 3 bottom teeth

--Naps this past week are scarce! Today we are moving Lilly's nap time to after lunch in hopes that she'll take one. Lilly has not taken a nap in the past 4 days. She just talks in her crib the entire time. Maybe a later nap will solve this issue. I'm afraid it will mess up our bed time though... we'll see.

 

Happy Valentine's Eve! xo

favorites & not-so-fav {13 months}

How is it already February? I'd like to know where January went. I'm certain time speeds up when you are a parent. I'm frightened at the speed of time if we were to have another child. One makes it move fast enough...

 

Lilly Rose has been cracking us up around here lately. I love seeing her little personality emerge. Last night while Billy and I were eating dinner Lilly Rose was playing in the living room. We watched her reach onto the couch to grab the remote and then she held it up pointing at the TV as if she was going to change the channel. No doubt she's picked that up from us. It was quite hilarious to watch this tiny girl trying to hold a remote in the air and control the TV. What a reminder to us that she's watching our every move, even at the young age of one. 

 

It seems everyday there's something new that Lilly is doing. A few of my favorites lately are:

 

-- stepping out of her pants when it's bath time. so cute to see her little legs know to lift up to step out of her pants. how did she know to do this is beyond me but it's adorable.

 

-- dance (Lilly Rose, you are quite the dancing queen!)

 

-- pretends to sip tea from her play tea set

 

-- takes things apart: this isn't really "new" but Lilly is getting much better at it. :)

 

-- removes her socks any chance she gets. During nap time, around the house or if I put her to bed with socks...they are always removed. We don't have this problem with shoes and socks when we are out for the day but if we're home the socks come off. I don't understand why she does this as it's winter and some days it makes her feet cold.

 

-- shakes her head no: everything is "no" (already!?!)

 

-- This past week we went to visit some old work friends and Lilly wanted everyone to hold her. She's quite the social baby. When leaving she waved and said "bye" - too funny.

 

And the not-so-favorite things lately (just to keep it real):

 

-- pooping in the bath tub! so. gross. (it's mentionable because it's happened 3x in the past month. again, so. gross. However, I *may* have learned my lesson and will wait a full hour after dinner instead of the usual 30 minutes).

 

-- refusing to drink milk from a sippy cup resulting in much crying and no nap (maybe she's just not ready as she loves water from her sippy??)

 

-- refusing "real" table food at dinner time. I would really just love to have her eat table food but it ends up with a frustrated family and happy dog because LR throws it. <sigh>

 

-- tantrums (they've already begun)

 

And some random iPhone pics from the past couple weeks:

**yes, our wardrobe is completely confused because the weather here in FL is as usual**