Family

Lots of Lily videos uploaded.

I finally went though my videos and uploaded 11 videos to YouTube. Some are from the past couple weeks, others may be a few months old.

Here are a few of my favorite:

Feeding cows on grandpa’s farm

Lily’s 2nd Birthday

Lily dancing with Lily

Daycare: In-home, at home and now a center.

Daycare Day

Lily started her new daycare today and she was very excited. It was a bit like sending your kids off to school as she had her little backpack, supplies and some new clothes. She was going someplace new with lots of other kids, toys and the unknown. Ok, so maybe it was more Mom and Dad that was nervous about the unknown, Lily was just excited.

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Cupcakes, Cows, Presents & Water

Our little girl is now two years old! What better way to celebrate than with two parties and doing all the fun things she loves to do.

It started out with Uncle Josh visiting on her birthday. That’s pretty special as he was in from California. Josh gave her some plastic food so she could feed her dolls and pretend she was cooking like Mom.

Uncle Josh

Then she had the weekend with just Mom and Dad. She got plastic plates, bowls and cups to go with her plastic food and she loves to play with them. She also got some Elmo things and other fun toys. Plus we had ice cream cookie sandwiches!

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101 Things To Do With Your Toddler

101 Fun Toddler Activities

Looking for something to do with your toddler? Here are 101 ideas! Some of them you already do and others are a little weird. All look like fun though.

Color
Blow Bubbles
Play Hide-and-Seek
Peek-a-Boo
Play Chase
Do Finger-plays
Sing a song
Collect rocks in a basket
Make an obstacle course out of cushions and/or furniture
Make a fort out of cushions and sheets
Go for a Walk
Make a Car out of a Box (it’s not just a box)
Read a book

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This is the way we plant the flowers.

Lily is having to much fun playing in the dirt.

Dear ear infections, you suck.

Last night Lily woke up crying again. We tried the hug & a book approach but this time it didn’t work. She’d go down for short periods of time, but then she’d be backup and crying.

We then tried to let her sleep with us, but that wasn’t working well either. She’s sleep for maybe 30 minutes, then be up just bawling. 9pm turned into 11, 11 into 1am and things kept going the same.

Finally around what was probably 2am, our 30 minute stints turned into an hour and we all got a few hours of sleep. However not nearly enough.

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My little girl kind of looks like me.

Lily and Dad Jan11 Holy cow, my little girl kinda looks like a little me. It’s a little bit weird, and yet really cool!

When we first had Lily everyone we knew said who she looked like. Everyone on my wife’s side could see baby Christi and everyone on my side of the family could see baby Thomas. And to us, we didn’t see either. She was her own person.

However, as Lily grows, we are starting to see a little girl that looks like us.

Yes, it’s obvious that Lily should look like us, but we haven’t seen it until recently.

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Does spoiled start with an L?

Toys Christmas has come and gone and what are we left with? Toys toys and more toys.

It’s amazing how one little kid can have so many toys.

I didn’t think we got her that much stuff, but it’s everywhere. Not to mention the toys the family gave as well.

Lily loves them all though and we are thankful for every gift we get.

We are now working on hiding some toys so we can swap them out a few weeks later with some of her current toys. That way they’ll seem new, even though they won’t be.

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