Thursday, January 24, 2008

Happy 8 months, Lily!

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Lily is getting to be such a big girl!! Within the past 2 months (actually less!) she's gone from army crawling to pulling herself to standing position to crawling on all fours, and just last week she started standing on her own!! I can't believe that she's already (and only) 8 months old! She definitely is the center of our world these days. Even though she gets into everything now and still pretends to not know what the word "no" means, she can brighten our day with just one smile.

She can feed herself food and give us kisses. Daddy likes it when she calms down for just 2 seconds and sits with him or lays her head on his shoulder without fussing. She loves being mobile and doesn't want to slow down even the slightest bit - especially when it comes to changing her diaper. That is a challenge in itself.

Lily's personality has really started to blossom in the past couple weeks. We finally know what we need to do to make her belly giggle - scare her, actually! And she gets a kick out of chasing Mommy around the laundry basket.

What a fun little baby she is! We are extremely blessed to have her in our lives!!

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Some serious slacking!

I think about updating this every now and then, but we've recently rearranged our apartment so that our Christmas tree would have a home, so our computer desk is back in our room. So I don't get back there much! Anyway, I have a ton of new pictures and videos that I need to upload...so know that they're coming! And I really need to update regularly....

In the meantime, I'll let you all know that things are going well! Not much has changed with Jonathan and me. Lily is a completely different baby that she was 3 months ago, though! She's started cruising along the couch, she's proficient at pulling herself to a standing position on ANYTHING she can reach, is working on mastering feeding herself finger foods, and does new tricks like "sniff" and "dance." We had a great Christmas in Richmond - which was spent with my side of the family.

Hope everyone is doing well and keep looking for my update!