Before I get into today's post I want to give a little update on Lily. She's still the cutest thing ever. She's "potty trained" (potty trained in the sense that she only wears diapers when she sleeps, not potty trained in that she never pees her pants) now and her little bum looks absolutely adorable in "big girl panties" and she rarely forgets the two "nims" (M&M's) she gets after using the potty. Last night she forgot she wasn't in a diaper and peed on my lap. It's not as bad when it's your own kid for some reason. She has also figured out how to get her arms out of the car seat and contort her body sideways enough to roll down her window in the car. On the way to singing today she yelled "hello people!" out her window.
The other day she told Scott after he said he couldn't cut her hair, "You can cut it Daddy, you're strong!" Right answer.

MR. SINGER




Over the last number of weeks and months we have had weekly singing classes with Mr. Singer. Mo hosts and a bunch of us sing and dance as Mr. Singer makes us all happy...almost like a drug. Lily LOVES Mr. Singer. As you can tell from the above pictures, she really liked the idea of sitting on the couch to take a picture with him. This is a VERY small number compared to how many kids were actually in the class. Not all the kids liked the idea as much as Lily did. The girl she's BFF with is Claire, and she's not really BFF with her! She hardly knows her! She sees her in nursery at church but I'm not sure they really play together. Lily is just a sweetheart and loves to hug anyone who will let her.

The following pictures are from today's class. It was the last one:(. That's okay. He sings at the zoo weekly and will be at Millennium Park in the summer so it wasn't the last time we'd see him!




Lily is blurry in these pictures because she's dancing and holding on to Ollie's hand...trying to get him to dance too. I think he's thinking "I love YoYo (he calls her YoYo) and love that she never gets that I don't want to hold her hand."

FIRE TRUCK SONG!!!!

Lily always requests "the Fire Truck Song" when Mr. Singer asks what song the kids want to hear.




Put on your fire hat!!





Snap the buttons on your fire coat and make sure you help Ollie!



Turn on the engine! After that Mr. Singer said, "let's check your sirens!" And without hesitation Lily made the funniest (and kind of terrible) siren sound and everyone started laughing. It was so unprovoked and awesome.







Put out the fire and YEAH!! We put the fire out! Right after this photo she stood up and put her arms in the air in triumph. I wish I could have gotten that photo. She looked so proud of herself.

POPCORN

Mr. Singer lost his voice one day and asked us if there was a song we could sing to him. We kind of looked at each other and said, "Popcorn?" He had never heard it!? What? Mr. Singer knows ALL the children songs. Well, it was a success, he loved it. We told him we all know it from church. He did some research and found out that it was actually written by a Mormon for her daughter. We sang it every week after that.



I looked out the window and what did I see?



A popcorn ball...



Smell so sweet!

DANCING, DRUMMING AND WELL...TACKLING!











This is Asher. We are working on an arranged marriage.



Lily wears "big girl panties" now! Thus...her bum crack.



After all that, she needed a break.