Do you think she's mine?

I once was lost, but now I'm found.

My camera is found! Woohoo! Apparently I just needed to clean my bedroom. Be sad that you missed pictures of Lily's first black eye, but be comforted by the fact that school group pictures were the same week. I'm sure that when they come back, you'll be able to see what happens when you hit your face on the bed frame. It's a beautiful yellowish green color now.

Aunt Sonya has recently taught Lily how to cross her eyes. She thinks it's funny because everyone laughs. You can't help it. As punishment to Aunt Sonya, I'm posting a couple of shots of her teaching Lily some advanced eye crossed funny faces. For your viewing pleasure:

This isn't even a good one. She's very talented at crossing her eyes.

Imagine Lily making this same face. It'll make you pee your pants laughing.

Sonny thinks it's so fun, she walks around with this face all day.

Christmas favorites

Lily absolutely loved her doll house. She thought it was fabulous.

Playing with the baby.

Her stocking haul. Her second favorite gift was the bag of marbles. Needless to say, there are marbles all over my house. It's a little game to find them when you're cleaning. She loves them though.

Hiding under the Christmas tree!

For some reason, she thought this was hilarious.

Lily and Lillie

Opening presents with Josh's family. This was just before the fun wore off.

Visit with Santa

Before Christmas, Aunt Sonya and Uncle Sean took Lily to see Santa. Mommy and Daddy had a night to ourselves. Apparently our night went better than Lily's. She looks like she had a bad time in all of the pictures.

Not a fan of Santa.

Uncle Sean helped her write a letter to Santa. She didn't get a reindeer, a baby, a puppy dog, or a kitty cat, but she did get a cooties game.

Mailing her letter.

Coloring a pretty picture.

Pequeña hermana

Lily has developed an obsession with babies. I think a couple of the children in her class have recently had baby brothers or sisters, plus my sister baby sat a little baby the other day and Lily got to play with him. She very seriously told me last week, "Momma, we need to have a baby at our house." She's been telling everyone at daycare that her sister has a baby in her belly, and she's been telling Josh and me that everyone at daycare has babies in their bellies.

On Saturday we spent the day out for Josh's birthday. Lily's jabberbox was on as always, and she was steadily chatting about her baby sister. I said, "Where exactly did this little sister come from?" She quickly replied, "Her came from Mexico." What? How does she even know the word Mexico, let alone that's it's a place where you can come from??? She's the silliest little girl I've ever known. She cracks me up. So next time you're out and you see a little Mexican girl, I want you to ask yourself if that's Lily's little sister!

Bad news

The reason I haven't updated for 7 years is that I don't have any pictures. "Why?" you ask. My camera has disappeared from the face of the earth. Maybe Susan took it with her. Or perhaps Sara-Beth. Either way, it's missing. Maybe I'll send Lily on a search for it this weekend.

Nothing too exciting has happened since the holidays. We've been catching up on the things that we neglected while we were busy, like the house work and laundry and such. Lily likes staying at home and doing nothing as much as we do. She's stuck on the Ladybug Game, which is fun but takes forever. She's also adopted a new obsession with her clothes and more importantly her shoes. She got some new black dress shoes this past weekend and has begged to wear them everyday this week. Today I let her wear a dress to school. Even though we discussed what she was going to wear last night, this morning she decided she didn't want to wear that. (We've started laying her clothes out the night before in an attempt to help Mommy and Lily get to school and work on time. She gets to pick from 2 or 3 things I chose. It's not really working time wise, but we get to battle about things besides what to wear in the mornings now.) I got her dressed in an Abby Cadabby, Elmo, and Cookie Monster dress with stripped tights that Grandmu got her for Christmas. She started trying to take it off and told me, "This don't look good." Really? Are you kidding me? You're 3. I distracted her with going to get the black shoes she wanted to wear. She went to school with pig tails and looked too cute. I would have taken a picture, but well, you know.

Jack

Thanksgiving also brought us a new little friend. Jack arrived at our house. Don't tell anyone, but Jack reports to Santa. That's how Santa knows if Lily has been good or bad. Every night Jack flies to the North Pole to give Santa the report and then returns to our house to keep an eye on Lily. She wakes up every morning, anxious to find him. So far he's hidden in the kitchen window, on top of the refrigerator, in the living room curtains, in the Christmas tree, and when I left this morning, he was sitting at the computer desk.

Thanksgiving Day!

On Thanksgiving we go to Josh's aunt's for lunch and my mom's house for dinner. Lily loves to go to Aunt Debra's and play outside. She spent part of the time chasing grasshoppers and the other part chasing Dah. Here are some pics:

An action shot.

Lily and Dah

Come on, Dah! Run!

Gobble, Gobble!

For Thanksgiving Lily and I made turkey cupcakes.


Lily making sure it tasted all right.

She didn't want to share with Daddy.

The finished product.