Lily learns to crawl, but mostly to stand

Lily's first solid food.

Yummy! Yummy! Organic brown rice cereal is just sooooooooo good!

Silly Lily!

Just so you know, I had nothing to do with this...

Daddy's Girl

Koichi and Lily are great buddies. They love spending time together hanging out...

A little bit of chillin'

A little bit of illin'

A Couple of Firsts

Before Lily could crawl, she had to meet the milestone of sitting up unassisted. It was quite a process getting there. She was like a Weeble, except she kept falling down. She finally got it though, and her balance keeps getting better and better.

Here's her first sitting experiences...

First, trying to get her to sit upright

Then, attempting to let go

To help strengthen her back muscles we bought this neat little seat to help her sit up.

She sometimes got bored of it.

Another first experience...

Taking a shower!

Koichi scrubs her down in the bathtub.

Yes, I actually DO realize what a loser I am...

just in case you were wondering. I would apologize for not posting for eaons, but since I will probably be apologizing again in the future for the next time I don't post for months and months, I'll just wait until then.

Ok, so lots has happened in the several months since I last posted. Lily has practically doubled in size. Her Japanese grandparents had to cancel their trip to the US because of health issues. Lily started crawling, and immediately pulling herself up to standing so she could practice falling down and bumping her head. Halloween happened with all its costumey cuteness. And Lily has now gained 2 cousins! It's been a busy few months.

Since the whole reason I have this blog anymore is to post pictures of Lily, I'd better get to it. Luckily our handy-dandy camera holds lots of pictures, so I have some from waaaaaaaaay back in August. Let's start there....

This August, Lily met her first cousin, Abby. Abby is my younger brother, Dustin, and his wife, Natasha's daughter. She's a cutie! Here are some pictures from Abby's birthday.

Here's Abby getting her first taste of some yummy formula.

Abby meets her Grammy for the first time.

Abby and PaPa bond.