Lily's Hat

Before Halloween Lily and I were at the craft store and this is one place that for some reason she really dislikes, probably because I could spend hours just walking up and down the aisles. They had pumpkin buckets for $.99 so I gave her one to keep her from screaming in the store. Since the day we brought the thing home she has loved to put it on her head and walk around the house. I guess she can see through it because she doesn't run into anything and Colin undid the strap on one side so she wouldn't choke herself. Tomorrow is December 1st and I still can't bring myself to put the thing away with the rest of the Halloween/Fall decorations because she likes it so much, she even calls it her "hat".

Black Friday Shopping

Yes, Lily and I braved all the crazies and went shopping on Black Friday. We had a mission and we accomplished it. Lily is not a fan of her highchair and likes to stand up in it and has now started to crawl out onto the tray. We have tried buckling her in but she somehow manages to get out of them. I have been afraid that she is going to flip the highchair over when she climbs onto the tray and although I do watch her my reflexes are not so fast these days. So, Friday morning at 6:30 we ventured out to Babies R Us in search of a booster seat for the kitchen table and luckily we got the second to last one they had on sale. Does she look like such a big girl now.

Making sure all those Cheerios get in there.

Lily's first shiner

The inevitable happened on Thusday night. Lily leaned over to pick up a toy and banged the side of her face on the corner of the coffee table. We were those over protective parents that had the foam barriers over all objects in their home until Lily took tem all off so she hit the side of her face right below her eye right on the wooden coffee table. I meant to take a picture the next day but keep forgetting but it's still there so hopefully tomorrow. It was never really too bad and was contained to just under her eye but after 4 fulls days it is still visible. The one good thing to come of this is at least we had taken her Christmas pictures that morning before the incident occurred so they turned out beautifully.

Oooops......MAMA

Part of our living room is kind of sectioned off by the furniture. This creates some separattion from Lily's toy area and the rest of the living space. When she's over there you can see her from pretty much anywhere in the room unless she is right in front of the toy basket which is blocked by my big chair. Well she was playing happily and all of a sudden I hear a thud and she starts to cry a little. It wasn't a big cry so I wasn't too worried but of course she was blocked by the chair so I couldn't see her. I just waited a minute and said you're ok. If you have ever seen Lily walk you have then seen her fall because she does it on purpose all the time just so she can say her favorite phrase "oops". She kept crying a little but again she really didn't sound hurt. Finally being the loving mother I am I get up to check on her and this is what I find.

I once again being the loving mother I am ran to get the camera because she of course was stuck and couldn't get up. As you an see from her outfit this did not happen recently (t-shirt and capris) but I just got the pictures from my camera downloaded and had forgotten all about these. She was perfectly fine and was content to play with the cow until I finished my picture taking.