Play Date

Last Sunday while her daddy was sleeping, Lily and I went over to my brother, Dwain's house to meet the extended fam. for a BBQ. Lots of good food (yummy pineapply brauts), lots of great people, and lots and lots of kids. With all the cousins, there were 5 little ones running around all over the place. It was a lot of fun.

Here's Lily and some of her "peeps"

Lily and her cousin-in-law, Wes, "play" with blocks. There was actually more taking away of the toys going on than actual cooperative playing. Everybody's still working on the concept of sharing.

Wes and T.J. read a book with Dwain (T.J.'s daddy).

Lily's cousin, Abby, watches all the fun from the safety of the couch.

Lily chills on the patio with Uncle Dwain and a formula-rita, perfect for a BBQ.

Lily also gets to sit on some grass for the first time this year. The last time she was on grass was last summer, and she was still working on sitting up and grasping objects. This time she was able to interact a lot more with it.

She's growing up so fast!

This weekend I was finally trying to put some decorations in Lily's room and make it look more cute and adorable. Right now it's just the room where she sleeps and where we change her diapers. It's pretty drab. Some of the decorations we have are picture frames, and one in particular holds photos throughout Lily's first year.


Here's Lily's first year so far...


SEVEN DAYS OLD

ONE MONTH OLD

TWO MONTHS OLD





THREE MONTHS OLD

FOUR MONTHS OLD

FIVE MONTHS OLD

SIX MONTHS OLD

SEVEN MONTHS OLD

EIGHT MONTHS OLD

NINE MONTHS OLD

Nine full months of adorable. What a cutie pie!!!

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.

On the Catwalk

Lily began her modeling career yesterday at Sears Portrait Studio. We had too much fun with her. Even the photographer was having a good time playing with Lily and getting her into some really cute poses. Here are some of the photos we got to take home. We bought the CD with the copywrite release so we actually are able to print these photos wherever we want.