This past month has been a great month and we have been
busy, busy, busy! Lily is into
everything these days and loves to copy what Bob and I are doing. Bob and she have really fallen in love
this past month and Lily thinks Daddy hung the moon. In the mornings, she has to say goodbye to him multiple
times with no less than 3 kisses and 4 hugs. She calmly tells him that “Daddy work” and “Bye-bye
Daddy.” The apartment doors have a
distinct sound so sometimes she knows he is home even before I do. It doesn’t matter where we are or what
we are doing, Lily jumps up, races to the door all the while screaming, “Daddy
home, Daddy Home, Hi Daddy.” It’s
amazing.
Once he makes it home she
cannot wait to either sit on him,
do “uppies” with him or beg him to “tickle you.” Now, in Lily land, tickle you actually
translates to tickle me, but there is a bit lost in the translation. Fact of the matter is that she is so
smart that she picked up on the phrase when we would ask her “Lily do you want
Daddy to tickle you?” We never say
me, so naturally she thinks that you is me. I know its confusing, but in her little mind it makes
perfect sense. “Tickle you” it is.
Occasionally Grandma Jill skypes with us and we get to talk
to her for a while. Lily loves
seeing her Grandma and Jill cannot get enough Lily screen time. This past month, Lily and Grandma Jill
had a Skype Tea time complete with coffee, pizza and cupcakes. Grandma would ask Lily for something
and Lily would mosey over to her kitchen, “make” it and serve it to the
computer screen.
Whenever she
would turn around Bob would hide it and Grandma would say “mmmmm, that tasted
good.” Lily wasn’t the wiser and
it was precious to watch her interact with Grandma. Jill was so creative too because when Lily served her a
cupcake, Jill went and got a real muffin and started eating it. Lily was sure that cupcake had
transported through the computer.
What a precious moment.
These days Lily is really into cleaning messes. She is still pretty terrified of the
vacuum cleaner, but we have made the couch the “safe zone” which has made the
loud machine tolerable. Whenever I
say, “Lily, Mommy needs to vacuum,” she immediately stops what she is doing,
runs like mad to the couch, crawls up into its cushions and claims sanctuary. Nothing can touch her up there and I am
proud of her for finding a great coping mechanism other than screaming in
terror. Her next
favorite thing is the broom and the mop.
I know that if I start hearing banging and crashing, she is desperately trying
to either sweep or mop our tiny apartment with an appliance that doubles her in
height. It’s pretty cute. She is fascinated with my scrubbing
brush and any form of gloves.
She
is always quick to remind me that I need to put my blue gloves on when I do
dishes or clean anything in the house.
Laundry is another one of those extra fun activities. She loves to pull laundry in and out of
my basket, put the clothes in the washer and the dryer, pour the detergent and
push any button that needs pushing.
She is such a helper and I LOVE it.
Lily Grace is not a big fan of vegetables and she has had to
go to bed hungry on several occasions because Mommy won’t change the meal
plan. It’s a hard lesson and let
me tell you, she has let me know about it in a few instances. I have to work on it not frustrating me
because I don’t want her to grow up only eating hot dogs, eggs, peanut butter
sandwiches and grapes.
Her favorite place to be is still up at Mema’s house on the
back of a horse.
She loves to trot
and canter and we find her “trotting and cantering” throughout the house. It took us a while to figure what she
was doing, but now it all makes sense. When Mema and she ride the horses, Lily even gets to hold the reigns
while they canter.
She gets to help
feed the horses, play in the water at the sink and occasionally get to go up
and see the chickens at Aunt Jayne and Uncle Tom’s house.
This month I am especially amazed at the relationship that
has been budding between Mema, Papa and Lily. She loves them dearly and I can’t help but think of my own
precious Grandparents. I loved
growing up with my Mamma and Pampa.
Grandparents are some of those extra special people. You know, when I was going through
infertility and wondering if I would ever have a baby I would dream about
moments like this one here.
Such a simple moment, nothing extra special about it, but it will always and forever be one of my favorites. This “little dream” of ours is here, as cute as a button and
gonna be 2 next month. Only one
word comes to mind…..Grace. That’s
what our Lily is.
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