Mud Shampoo and Trader Joe's

Thursday, August 28, 2008



When we got to the beach someone had built a mote for us! Lily and Ollie plopped in and that's when the complimentary shampooing took place. Ollie's new thing is to put whatever is spreadable on his hands and then in his hair. What's more spreadable and fun to put in your hair than mud?





Lily also had her first experience pushing a shopping cart! A couple weeks ago we spent the Saturday outside watching the air show,



shopping at Trader Joe's





and playing at the park.




Lily LOVED the shopping cart, it was so funny to watch her push the cart down the aisle and throw items in. At one point she got going so fast she couldn't keep up with herself so she fell and the cart kept going. After that she let the Trader Joe's employee in the aisle know that she had "scraped" her knee by saying "knee" and pointing to it over and over again. He was pretty impressed.

"PAPI"

Friday, August 22, 2008



We don't know why, exactly, but when we ask Lily to say "grandpa" she says "papi." It's really cute and I'm sure her grandpas love it. Her Grandpa Mark came to visit the first weekend of August due to a business trip. We had a lot of fun! I'm sure the highlight for Mark was when Lily first saw him. She ran up to him with her arms open, ready for a hug. It was pretty adorable. She loves to give hugs and, lucky me, I get to be the recipient of most of them.



She enjoys playing in the fountain at Millenium Park. We took Mark down there and she loved showing him around. Taking Lily down to the fountain and the bean is one of Scott's favorite things about Chicago.






The other thing Lily loves is to go to the sculptures at the park. She loves to climb on them, sit on them, and watch other kids do the same.





Another thing Lily loves about Grandpa is that she can tell him where to go...and he'll take her there. Or, now that she's walking, she'll take him there and he'll gladly follow!!






Thanks Papi!!!

LILY'S "COOKIES"




Lily started calling every treat a "cookie". I was making cupcakes and put her up on the stool next to me to help me frost them. She ended up dipping whatever she could into the frosting, transferring it to another container and then licking it. She loves to help me in the kitchen. The other night while I was making dinner she was ornery because I wasn't playing with her. So, I put her on the stool and let her get some flour and muffin batter into her own cooking bowls. I wasn't really paying attention and heard her say "mmmm". I looked over and she was licking the flour and muffin batter...I tried the batter, it wasn't "mmmmm". She also helped me make her a PB & J the other day by dipping a small piece of bread into the peanut butter and eating it off the bread, she honestly had to have had more than a full tablespoon of peanut butter on the end of that bread.

She loves cookies so much that whenever I ask her what she wants to eat she says, "cookie!" So the other day Scott gave me the idea to call pancakes, cookies....it worked, to say the least, and she eats "cookies" at least twice a day. I slip canned pumpkin in to make them a little healthier. She loves them!!! She is starting to act like such a little girl...

OLLLLL-EEEEEEE!!!

Thursday, August 21, 2008

In July Grandma Gayle and Grandpa Paul came out for two weeks and the last night they were here was Grandpa Paul's birthday. We went to dinner and then to a frozen yogurt place to celebrate.



Lily was at the yogurt place before Ollie so she yelled for him until he got there.




Once he did...well, as the pictures will tell you, she didn't let go!!! Most of the time Ollie doesn't mind Lily attacking him and often hugs back, but not so much this time.




WHO SAYS TODDLERS DON'T WEAR SUNGLASSES?

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

When we first moved here I was at Gymboree with Scott’s mom. I wanted to buy some bows to put in Lily's hair when she wears pigtails. Then I decided that sunglasses wouldn’t be a bad thing to protect her eyes either, since I knew we’d be spending a lot of time outside. So Lily grabs the “flamingo” (that’s what they were called on the tag) sunglasses and won’t let me take them off to buy them. Finally, I get them from her long enough to buy them and then she isn’t interested…only for a second though. Just long enough for the saleslady to say, “yeah, toddlers NEVER keep on sunglasses, or bows for that matter.” Of course she told me that AFTER I had purchased them. However, I’d like to tell this lady that she should never say never because MY kid wears her sunglasses, and her bows (when I put them in her hair, which is rarely because it’s not worth the fight over who gets to comb her hair-me or Lily.)

These are just a couple pictures of Lily during her eighteenth month of life. She loves the beach and her grandparents…and Ollie is her best friend. Don’t all best friends take baths together?