Big girl pants and a bike

We got Lilly this bike for her birthday. We were worried about whether or not she would like it. I am not sure what we were worried about she loves it! She also loves her big girl pants. (One day she will be so embarrassed about this post) I think she is ready to be potty trained but being that I am days if not hours away from giving birth I am just not ready to tackle that right now. So Lilly gets to wear her big girl pants over her clothes and ride her bike. This makes her so happy! She also loves counting. She has this thing though were she does not always start with the number 1 and for some reason she never says the number 7. She is so funny about things.

Look who is 2

Today we took Lilly to get her 2 year old pictures done. She was great in the photo shoot. She is looking so grown up to me.









Ryan and I were not really planning on being in the pictures with her. But we took a few okay ones.

Lilly's 2nd Birthday

Wow Lilly is 2! Ryan and I can hardly believe it. It seems Lilly has grown up and changed so much even in the last week. She had such a fun birthday. On Friday we had lunch with Ryan. She was so excited because many times throughout the day she will say "I want daddy!". Then when Ryan got home she got to open her presents.

She was so excited to open presents but she really loved her bike. We let her ride it as long as we could before we went to dinner. She loves pizza so we went to a local Italian place for dinner.

Then on Saturday Lilly had a birthday party. She was so excited for her birthday party. She requested birthday balloons, birthday cake and none of it could happen with out her birthday hat. She was so happy the whole day. I am so grateful for the friends we have made here.



All about Lilly...

- She loves to cuddle with mama.
- She knows her colors.
- Loves to sing.
- Is good at expressing herself.
- Favorite food is pizza and pasta.
- Lilly could play outside all day every day.
- She hates bugs. (Just like her mama.)
- She often runs around the house exclaiming "I am running."
- If she wants me to pay attention to her she says "Look mama look!" over and over again.
- One of her favorite saying is "I like that!"
- She seems to have a great memory. (Not like her mama)
- Lilly loves to play in water.
- Helping mama is one of her favorite things.
- She is going to make a great big sister.

I am so grateful for my Lilly Girl. What joy she has brought to our lives.

Easter

Lilly woke up Easter morning to find that the Easter Bunny had left some eggs in her room. She could not wait to get out and investigate.



Next she found her Easter basket.

After looking at all the neat things we emptied the basket and she was off for an Easter egg hunt.




Then it was time for church. Lilly favored us with one of her songs using her new microphone.


We had a great Easter Sunday. We told Lilly all about Jesus. We explained that Jesus died and went up to Heavenly Father for three days. Then he came back and had no more ouies because he was resurrected. We tried to explain the wonderful gift he gave us that our family will be together forever. Lilly was very interested because she has seen pictures of Jesus and we have talked about him before. Now Lilly often comes to me and says "Jesus died". I always remind her of the rest of the story and then she says "No more ouies. Jesus happy. Mama forever." I think she understands more then I thought she would. Kids are amazing. I hope everyone had a Happy Easter!

Easter Activities

The Saturday before Easter we decided to take Lilly to the zoo to see the Easter Bunny and the animals. Well Lilly did not really care for the Easter Bunny. In fact as soon as we got close to him she started shaking. We did not make her get to close.


Next we headed straight to the elephants. I still can't figure out why she loves the "ella" so much.

This is Lillys new trick. She loves to hang on stuff and swing her legs. She is getting pretty good at it.




Then our friends the Sessions called and invited us to an Easter Egg hunt. So we headed off to the park. Ryan and Lilly were on one side of the field of eggs and I on the other. Lilly tried to cross the field of eggs to get to me. All the other kids thought it was time for the egg hunt to start so we had to keep pulling her back and telling her to wait so the other kids would not go crazy.

Lilly did a great job at gathering eggs and candy.

Madison Wisconsin

Last Friday Ryan had school off for Easter break so we headed to Madison with our friends Trent and Britni. We had heard that Madison was a beautiful city. Ryan and I love to go and see new places. We really liked the city. It seemed so clean and has a beautiful lake that surrounds the city. They also have a free zoo. The kids loved the zoo. It is a smaller zoo but it still had a bunch of cool animals.

Lilly ready for a fun day at the zoo.


Ryan and Lilly checking out the big polar bear.


Our little polar bear.

Lilly thought Ryan was hilarious.

Lilly and Ryan with Camden and Trent


Our ride home.

Little Helper

Ryan is an awesome husband and father! I am not sure if I have ever mentioned that before. Being pregnant and having my recent incident of kidney stones has really taken a lot out of me. He has not complained at the lack of house cleaning or dinners. He simply picks up the slack where ever he can. Lilly has become quit the little helper as well. Whenever I start to clean something she is right there to help. Ryan is great at including Lilly when he cooks. This particular night Ryan made his famous spaghetti sauce. He would slice the veggies and then put them in Lilly bowl so she could then put them in the food processor. The sauce turned out great and the best part was we were all happy. Thanks Ryan for being so fabulous!!!!