Lilly is: Excited!! Excited!! Excited!!

Lilly's 2 year old daycare class is learning about Feelings right now. We are doing the homework of sending books she likes about feelings and discussing feelings every night. Her favorite thing is to act out the feelings one by one and say the names of them. Her FAVORITE feeling is EXCITED! She gets very EXCITED, jumps around, claps and yells EXCITED! EXCITED! EXCITED! She likes being in the big 2 year old class... if only she would nap more there.. but sometimes she just gets too EXCITED! 

Girly Girl

Lilly is into EVERYTHING GIRLY! The other night she decided to put on a pink boa-like scarf and danced around waving a pink feather wand while requesting to be twirled around by her Dada. When I got the camea out she would twirl and then say "Now" and pose with a big smile when she was ready for me to take her picture.

Lilly Is Still The Baby

Although she is getting ready to become a big sister every once in awhile Lilly declares "Lilly baby" or "I baby" and wants to be rocked by Ryan. I think my belly is too big to be able tor rock her now. In this case she had just gotten up from her nap and was very sweaty! She still has a few more weeks of being our one and only baby girl!

Getting Ready For Baby's Arrival

Lilly got some baby accessories so she can take care of her babies when the new baby arrives. She also has a very extensive collection of babies now since they are one of her main interests! She has spent a lot of time taking care of her babies with her mini pack and play, tummy pack, mini car seat etc etc...

 

Carrying baby around in the mini car seat.

Trying to figure out how to add the baby car seat onto her trike.

Taking baby for a walk in the car seat after the trike idea didn't work out.

Lilly has also been showing off how she has a baby in her belly too. One day she found it funny to put a ball under her shirt and waddle around the room. Obviously I am doing a lot of waddling these days!

Here is Lilly showing off her baby belly.

Really it isn't that far off when you compare it to my real baby belly. A little over 3 weeks to go.. and it can't go FAST enough! We are SO ready to meet our second baby girl and Lilly is really ready to become a BIG SISTER now that she is such a BIG GIRL!

Lilly's Second Birthday Party

Lilly had a wonderful big birthday party last weekend to celebrate her BIG SECOND BIRTHDAY! She had so much fun and was just darling! We didn't get a lot of good pictures with all busy party time going on and sadly our video camera was doing some weird stuff too... but we got a few cute shots of her enjoying her lovely party! We all had a great time!

Lilly in her head to toe fish outfit. She added two new words to her vocabulary: tutu and purse. She had a cute fish purse too but it isn't in this picture.

Another picture of the darling birthday girl!

Playing the fish game my parents planned for the kids to play where they fished for prizes, it was a huge hit!

Ready to open presents in front of her birthday banner.

Flashback Friday - two years have gone too fast!

Here are some pictures of Lilly as we look back upon the last two years. It has gone way too quickly!

   

Standing up tall in her birthday dresses.

Enjoying her birthday treats!

Brand new to the world but already wide eyed and taking it all in!

Lilly's Second Birthday Dinner

We went out to dinner to celebrate Lilly's Birthday to one of our favorite kid friendly restaurants so she could be free to play in the kid play area, make lots of noise etc. She was pretty busy so it was hard to get her to pose for pictures, although she does love to say "Cheese!"

Lilly with Mama and Dada. She is such a sweetie!

Lilly with Grandma and Grandpa showing off her teeth.

Lilly standing big and tall with Grandmommy and Granddaddy.

Unwrapping the first gift of the season... so much fun! Checking out her new baby doll. She has frequently requested this baby doll at the store. It plays peek a boo and talks. She had to take it with her to bed tonight (with the sound turned off of course!)

Loving her new rain coat and boots that have cats AND fish, two of her favorite things. She loved them so much she wore them for the rest of the time at the restaurant...

including the time she blew out her candle (all by herself) and ate her cupcake (or at least the top of it). She even did a cute little dance when we sang happy birthday! She LOVED everything birthday! She is such a darling and happy little girl! We all just love her so much! Can't wait until Saturday for her BIG GIRL birthday party, she is going to LOVE it!

Lilly Turns Two!

Today was Lilly's Second Birthday! She is such a BIG girl now! Even stating at times that "Lilly Big!" The last two years has just gone too fast!

She started off the day with my attempt to make a pancake in the shape of a number 2. You might be able to tell she also had her fingernails and toe nails painted for the first time to celebrate becoming a big two year old!

Then she changed into her Birthday Girl outfit to start a fun day! Here she is giving her Da Da a BIG girl hug!

Then it was time to get ready for her birthday dinner. Here are a few pictures of her all dressed up and ready to celebrate!

She was a very happy girl all day and had a wonderful birthday! We just can't believe how grown up she is already!