Sleep Time with Lily

It is pretty common for me to walk into Lily's bedroom after she has fallen asleep for her nap or for bed at the end of the day only to find this...

Not pictured:  her blanket- she usually kicks it off and leaves it at one end of the crib

I've gotten in the habit of checking on Lily within 5 minutes or so of her falling asleep because she tends to stick her arms and legs outside of the crib.  I slowly move her legs or arms inside the crib and put the blanket back on her.  

On another cute note, on Wednesday morning, Lily woke up around 6:30.  She fell back asleep while I was nursing her so I brought her to our bed with Alec and I got in the shower since I had to be at work at 8.  When I went back into our room, this is what I saw.

It was so cute I just had to take a picture.  

Teeth!!

I FINALLY got a good picture of Lily's teeth!  It was a complete accident too.  She had just finished lunch and I grabbed the camera to take some pictures of her because her hair was such a mess.  She just happened to smile the perfect smile when I took the picture!

Today was one of those lazy days where I didn't feel like doing anything.  I did manage to vacuum the living room, and I fed Lily and changed her diapers and did all of those other mommy duties.  I did not, however, change Lily out of her PJ's or do her hair...  

Instead we spent the day rolling around on the ground together, cuddling on the couch, racing across the floor, and playing airplane.  I think those are good alternatives to getting dressed. :)

Lily has been army crawling like crazy lately!!  I don't think she'll ever crawl normally because she can army crawl so fast!

Today she ended up crawling almost completely inside her exer-saucer.

It was a crazy hair day!!

Her smile is contagious.

Hmmm I found a water bottle...

Mom, can I play with your water bottle?...

Too late!!

We had a wonderfully lazy day together.

All About Lily

Really what post is not about Lily on this blog?... I just can't help myself!

Lily sure is becoming quite the little character. She loves attention! She babbles all the time and matches the volume of her surroundings so she's heard.

She knows when we're about to take a picture of her and she smiles for the camera or phone! I am a terrible photographer so it is nice that she smiles long enough for me to take enough pictures to get the shot.

She says mama and dada all the time. She also says blah blah with a lot of attitude which makes me laugh. The other day, she was sitting on the floor playing with some toys and she turned around, looked at me, and said "Mama!" It melted my heart.

Lily loves to do raspberries. She learned from her daddy. :)  Her favorite time to practice her raspberries is when she is eating... She also clicks her tongue and tries to imitate any noise that we make.

She finally got her first tooth!! Then she got a second... and a third!  They sure are sharp! She now has two top teeth and one bottom tooth.

Her absolute favorite toy is a plastic cup... That's right. Her favorite isn't one of the many toys we and her many adoring relatives and friends have bought her. She prefers a simple plastic cup. She loves putting it up to her mouth like she's drinking out of it and talking. I think she likes the echo-y sound it makes.  She also loves anything that we are touching or using.  In this case, it was my computer...

She isn't crawling yet, but that doesn't mean she's immobile... She rolls all over the place and does the army crawl all the time.  When she's sitting and wants to crawl, she does the splits to get onto her tummy.

Lily has become quite the crazy sleeper. After 7 months of sleeping on her back, she decided that she wanted to sleep on her stomach. She has also decided that sleeping with her head at the head of the crib and her feet at the foot of the crib is boring. She twists and turns every which way until she ends up in a seemingly uncomfortable position, and then she falls asleep.  Sometimes I walk into her room only to find that she has stuck one of her appendages out between the bars.  Often times she has both of her legs sticking out.

Her hair is soooooo long!!  I'm trying to let it grow out, but there are sections right behind her ears that grow much faster than the rest of her hair, so I've had to trim those sections a few times.  Her hair is always a MESS when she wakes up in the morning.



She is still a thumb-sucker.  We have tried to get her to take a pacifier, but now she just views it as a toy.

Lily has a love of eating my nose. She does it to Alec too. She put both hands on my cheeks, then grabs my hair and pulls my face to hers. She then proceeds to bite my nose and slobber all over me. I think it's how she gives me a kiss. :)

Lily is growing into an adorable little girl. I still can't believe she is 8 1/2 months old!! We sure are enjoying every moment with our beautiful baby girl.

Oh Kelsey...

Sometimes there are moments when I just have to put my forehead in my palm and say, "Oh Kelsey..."

Yesterday, I had one of those moments.

Do you see anything out of the ordinary in this picture??

.......

Let me help a little bit.

Yes those are my keys, yes they are caught in the door, and yes I locked the car before I shut the door causing them to be really stuck.

Let me explain how this happened.

Lily had fallen asleep while I was driving home from campus that morning so I was trying my best to keep the sun out of her eyes as I got her out of the car. I put my key chain on my wrist along with my jacket and diaper bag while I struggled (as I always do) to unlatch Lily's car seat and pull it, as smoothly as I could, out of the car. Once I got the 35 pounds of baby and car seat out of the car, I pressed the lock button on the clicker (is there a real name for those things?) and I awkwardly swung the door shut. At the precise moment that the door was about to latch, my keys swung and got in the way. Unfortunately, they did not get in the way enough to cause the door not to close. They somehow aligned perfectly to allow the latch to still function and became completely stuck in the door. I tried for a while to pull them out, but they were stuck. Every single one of my keys was stuck in the door. I was locked out of my car AND my house. This was when the forehead in palm moment occurred.

What did I do? I called Alec. And then, since I had my camera with me, I took some pictures.

Lily slept so peacefully in her car seat. Luckily, it was a beautiful day so I just enjoyed the weather.

Lily and I sitting at the top of our stairs.

My hero!!

Alec laughed when he saw the keys. I don't think he quite believed me when I told him they were stuck.

Our second clicker for the car is broken, so Alec had to move the keys around as much as he could and press the unlock button on the clicker that was stuck in the door with a bobby pin. He sure is resourceful!

Lesson learned: Don't lock the car until after I have taken everything out that I need, and have successfully shut the door... without getting the keys stuck in it.

Sunglasses

Our weekend trip to California included:

time spent with family
stroller rides around USC
Lily getting a performer from one of the a cappella groups to give her his handkerchief by smiling at him
4 wardrobe changes in one day for Lily...
and sunglasses!!

She's gotta be the cutest baby I've ever seen. :)

Thanks for the pictures Cassie!

Pregnancy

No I'm not pregnant. Haha! Wouldn't that be funny...

One of my closest friends is about 6 months pregnant and hearing her talk about her pregnancy makes me think about mine. It's amazing how the mind works. I almost feel like I have blocked out all of the pain and discomfort I felt. I can say that I almost ("almost" being the operative word) miss being pregnant. It was just such an exciting time. Sometimes I think back about how miserable I thought I was during the last trimester, but I can't really remember how the pain felt and I am still so excited for when I am pregnant again. I always wondered how some women could have 4, 5, or 6 children even when they were sick the whole pregnancy or had horrible deliveries. Now I know. I wasn't sick the whole time and I actually had a very pleasant delivery(if you can call delivering an almost 10 lb baby pleasant), but when I think about it, I only remember the good things.

Don't worry! We don't have any plans to get pregnant ANY time soon... I am most definitely enjoying my perfect little only child. :) It's still fun to day dream about it though.

I also forget how incredibly HUGE I was right before I delivered!! The last belly picture I took was at 38 weeks, exactly one week before Lily was born.




Look at that thing!! It looks like someone stuffed a watermelon up my shirt! I can barely fit my arms around it!! It's a good thing Lily came a week early. I don't think I could have handled delivering a baby any bigger than 9 lb 10 oz. Just think how big the next one will be...

So, here's to pregnancy! I'm so excited for you Alyssa!

The Messy Life I Lead

WARNING: The following post includes the words pee and throw up. Continue reading at your own risk.

Lily woke up late this morning. She kept falling asleep while I was nursing her so I thought that she might go back to sleep, but she eventually woke up. I took her to her room and laid her on her changing table to change her diaper.

Her wet diaper was off for no more than a second when she began to pee...

I guess I didn't let her wake up long enough before changing her diaper. She hadn't had a chance to relieve herself. :)

After I fed her breakfast, cleaned her up, and got her dressed, I took Lily to Alec's work so I could go to class. While Alec had her, he smelled a stinky diaper so he decided to change it.

Her diaper was off for no more than a second when she began to pee... again!!

Really, Lily?? When I got back to Alec's office after class, his door was shut (he normally keeps it open). When I went in, I found a slightly flustered daddy, a half naked baby, and a pile of peed in clothes in a bag on the floor...

I put my topless daughter in her stroller and put her bib on. I thought that it would disguise the fact that she was naked... It was sunny outside anyway, so I had both of the canopies covering her. Lily napped when we got home and then she got a bath. Before long, it was time for me to go to work. While at work, Lily threw up all down her front... I hadn't learned my lesson from earlier in the day and I forgot to pack an extra onsie.

Oh what a messy day we had!! But how can I be mad at a face like this?... Besides, she cleans up pretty nice. :)