Lilly Suddenly LOVES Puzzles!

We have had a few puzzles lying around that Lilly has shown no interest in (other than to dump the pieces out of) until recently. Now she LOVES puzzles and asks to do them once a day (or more!) I have tried to get videos of her doing them because the conversation she has with herself is just SO cute! But she immediately says "No Mama!"

During her puzzle time she will say 'This one match?" "No Match" or "This One Match!" She will have a running commentary on the colors of the animals like "This pink one", "This one purple" But the best is when she suddenly yells out "Lilly did it!" after placing what she felt was a more challenging piece. For the most part she completes the puzzles correctly and enthusiastically moves onto the next one. It is also a plus that for some reason we have allowed her to sit and lay on the table to do puzzles... probably because she is just SO cute to watch in action!

Building Forts

Since we have all been sick with one thing or another lately we spent most of the rainy weekend taking it easy and trying not to share our germs with others. Lilly was also feeling less than her ideal but despite being sick she still had tons of energy! After playing with lots of toys, doing puzzles and lots of dancing Lilly and her Dada decided to build a quick fort. She loved playing peek-a-boo and saying "I see you!"

Pumpkins My House Mama!

Lilly has been keenly aware of all the pumpkins suddenly appearing on porches through out the neighborhood since the beginning of the month. Every day she has been scouting out porches to see if they have pumpkins and asking repeatedly: "Why no pumpkins my house mama?" and stating: "I want pumpkins my house Mama." 

So FINALLY we made it to the pumpkin patch and brought home some pumpkins for HER porch. We even decorated the whole house over the weekend. Lilly claimed some of the decorations for her own and keeps them in a basket on her table. She also claimed a decorative Halloween mirror that she keeps at her table and laughs at her self in. 

Heres Lilly and her Daddy bringing the prize pumpkins to the porch. 

Very proud of the pumpkins she chose for herself and her baby sister.

Finally placing pumpkins on the porch!

She was excited about the pumpkins but was not interested in posing anymore. Maybe we will eventually post more pictures of her on the porch now that all the decorating is done. But for now she is content to have pumpkins at HER house! 

Pumpkin Patch 2010

We made it to the pumpkin patch before the downpours started over the weekend. We enjoy Leopold Farms where there are lots of things for toddlers to do. Lilly was able to do so much more this year! 

Riding on a mechanical "neigh"

Posed on the prickly hay bail.

Coming out of the hay maze with her Daddy.

Whispering "Hi Neigh" to the real pony.

Searching for the perfect pumpkins. 

She picked out a Mama sized one and a Dada sized one.

Walking through the pumpkin patch.

She also chose a Lilly sized pumpkin as well as one for her baby sister.

She also needed some extra baby pumpkins. You can never have too many baby sized objects and Lilly does have many babies to take care of at home she can provide pumpkins for.

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!