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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!
Parades are so much fun when you’re a kid.
Lily went to her first parade over the weekend and I think it was almost more than she could take in, but she enjoyed it.
Lily enjoying the parade.
From the horses to the floats to the candy, there was always something to look at and something to do.
When floats played music, we danced. When there was something being handed out, we wanted it. When the big vehicles honked their horns or backfired, we ran into daddy’s arms for safety.
This could get dangerous.
Going for a drive.
My little girl is behind the wheel; buckled in for safety of course. Oh and the car is on thanks to remote start.
Taking a ride on the carousel.
Lily has been really excited to go to the fair this year and tonight was the night. She loved the cows, horses and all the people. Most of all, she loved the carousel.
Enjoying the carousel.
Look at us go!
It was mom’s idea to go for a ride and it was a fantastic idea. From the moment the horse started to move, her face just lit up.
I’m pretty sure I’m growing a child who will love rides. And, as she gets bigger, so will the rides!
Sometimes parenting is messy.
While taking our daily photo, I must have spun Lily around one to many times as she gave back some of her dinner.
Spew Photo
Indoor picnic turns into a food fight.
Since it was so hot out, we decided to have a picnic inside. I laid down a blanket and we brought out chips, drinks and sandwiches.
Within 5 minutes Lily picked up a bag of chips and dumped them all over. Then we had to pick them all up; well most of them up. And of course eat some along the way.
Then she grabbed a bag of kettle corn and turned it upside down. It didn’t all fall out, so she shook the bag and swung it around until it was empty.
We now have a water garden.
Lily in her rain boots.
Thanks to all the rain, we now have a water garden. However Lily doesn’t seem to mind.
Lily loves the water this year.
Last year Lily wanted little to do with the water when we were at the beach in San Diego. Over the weekend we visited Lake Ann Park in Chanhassen and this time she had no issues when it came to water.
At first we thought she’d freak out because her socks go wet, but it didn’t faze her. Then we got her to take them off and go barefoot and once again, she didn’t care.
She ran up and down the beach, played in the sand and even laughed it off when she nearly fell face first into the water.
I’m a nerd about my daughter Lily.
At work they created a contest for employees to showcase what they are a nerd about. All you had to do was make a video and one lucky winner would get an iPad 2.
So I was wondering what I was a nerd about. There are more than a few topics I could go with and I decided to make a video on Lily. She’s been brought into my techy world since day one and we do plenty of nerdy things together.
Out of everything we do, I decided to focus on the photos we take.
Lily’s practicing rock climbing.
Lily has two uncles that will want to do all sorts of fun stuff with her; like rock climbing.
And, as it turns out, most parks by us have a rock climbing wall on the play equipment so we started showing her how it works.
Learning how to rock climb.
No, she won’t be going solo anytime soon, but she’s experiencing something new and having fun.
