So lately, we've been bored while Ella is napping, and Lily has discovered the game "modeling" where we take a bunch of pictures, she changes poses and then looks at them on the camera, then she changes outfits and we do it again. Anyway, while I do delete most of the pictures some of them were so funny so I had to share. I've come to discover that she has quite a range of emotions to portray, and don't you just love the flower prop too!
Lately when I tuck Lily in for bed, her new stalling technique is, "Mom wet's jist tawk about some fings" So we talk and I've been finding out a lot more about her cute little self.
Favorite Things: (These answers are her words, not edited, and every answer the first time I asked the question was almost always PINK )
color- pink
person- Dad, no me
2nd fav. person- Grandma Harmon
food- strawberries, tuna fish (what we had for lunch that day)
animal-pink mingo (flamingo)
song- 2 hrs. I can sing a song after I go to bed (?) (after more prodding) Twinkle star, hakuna matata (Lion King), a dream is a wish your heart makes (Cinderella), I know you I walked with you once upon a dream (Sleeping Beauty)
friend to play with- Emma and Kylie
book to read- Goldilocks, The magic locket (it's a pink book)
toy- my pink baby named Lily
show- Dumbo
treat- beans (jelly)
place to go- at school (?)
thing to do- running
thing in your room- jewry box (jewelry, and if I ever loose ANYTHING it is in her jewelry box, I think she thinks that whatever lands in there is hers forever)
most scared of?- monsters
who will you marry?- Dad & Mom, and a bird, and all my friends, and Emma and Kylie
If you could have any dress, what would it look like?- pink skirt
(Ella lounging on the pool chair outside)
CAUTION: These next two posts have a TON of pictures, but too many cute ones of the Lily girl and so I just posted almost all of them. What do you expect from a weekend spent sitting by the pool watching your husband and daughter swim (and every 10 seconds while I'm trying to read my book, "MOM look!") We had a blast though for Chad's birthday, and although I was a little wary to take both kids to a new place for only a couple of days, they did great! Lily slept in the closet of the master on the aerobed, and Ella in our bed. We literally did nothing but eat, watch Olympics, swim, read, and relax. I think we both love it so much there because it reminds us of AZ (especially the fun lightning and thunder storms we watched from the HUGE picture windows in the house). The only bad thing about our trip was coming home! And now I am trying to think of different excuses to make trips down there.
As you can probably tell from the pictures she LOVED this PINK tube that is actually her friend Kylee's and wore it all around the pool
Naked Swimming Anyone?
You can see her squishy leg rolls so well in this one, I LOVE them!!!
The pool has a nice 4 ft. wide little bench that Lily mostly hung out on because she liked standing up in the water
For Kelly: High School Musical 2, oh yeah! Our house is just down the street from this.
Ahhh the Hot Tub was Lily's next favorite place in the pool and she spent a lot of time "waxin" as she called it (relaxing).
The Sky was so blue and the clouds so white, I coudn't resist this picture from the backyard.
Yummy Texas Steakhouse rolls, our only eating out.
Ella stared at the lights the WHOLE time, I love sweet newborns who are so easily entertained.
So I rented Dumbo for Lily to watch, as a change from the princess movies she watches over and over. I remember liking it as a kid and it was fun to watch it all over with her. But the sweetest thing happened. I will summarize the plot in case you've forgotten, but basically at the circus where Dumbo and Mrs. Jumbo (his mom) are on display, some kids come to the show and start laughing and making fun of Dumbo's big ears. Well, as any mother would, Mrs. Jumbo starts to protect her baby and then spanks the boy who is being the biggest teaser. The circus folks think she is getting out of control and start to whip her and then proceed to put her in a mad elephant circus car that is all locked up and away from everyone. Well, Dumbo goes to visit his mama there and because she is all locked up, the only way she can touch him and rock him is with her big trunk. Both Dumbo and she are crying and the song, "baby mine" is playing. So I realize after lots of confused questions from Lily about why they are putting her in time out, I try to explain that they don't realize she was just protecting Dumbo from the teasing and they were being kind of mean to her. She has talked to me a lot over the past couple of days about how naughty those people were for locking her up like that and why couldn't Dumbo see his mama. Well we watched it again today, and when that scene came up and Lily started to ask me why Dumbo was sad, and I said he just loves his mama and wants to be with her but he can't, well Lily just starts balling. I felt so bad that this was causing her distress and immediately hugged her and told her that in the end Dumbo is with his mama and they say sorry to her and never put her in the cage again, and I will always be with her. This seemed to settle her down, but at that moment I just realized how I want to just hug her and protect her from all the evils in the world, and I always will. This just reminded me of how tenderhearted she really is and very sympathetic to people around her. I love how sweet she is and this moment was just too cute for me not to remember.
