I'll help you Daddy

Mike took apart the vacuum the other day, Lilly helped.

Sleep

Lilly was a great sleeper when she was tiny. Starting at three weeks old she slept through the night and by that I mean from 7pm to 8am with out fail. This continued through our drive to Alaska, so about 6 months. Once we got here though everything fell apart, she was up multiple times a night for no apparent reason. We tried everything and I never could get her to sleep all the way through the night. Lately it had been up 6-8 times and would usually end up with me sitting with her on the couch while she slept. 

She came down with a pretty nasty cold last week, one that left her so stuffy she couldn't eat with out getting out of breath. So after 3-4 days of this I gave her cold medicine so she could sleep. And sleep she did, all night usually until 9-10 am. I haven't felt so good in months. 

Last night however I did not give her any medicine and Mike put her to bed, well it is 7:30 am and she is still sleeping and she has been asleep since Mike put her to bed. Go DAD! 

I'm not counting on this to continue forever (wouldn't want to jinx myself) but for now we are enjoying it thoroughly. The only downfall to this is that when she does not get up until 10am she does not take a nap. Hopefully we will get into a routine of 8am wake up and one nap and then sleeping all night. 

It's all good until she gets another tooth and well then we start all over :-)

Caught red handed

I have to admit that last night I was not paying much attention to Lilly. I was playing a game on my phone and she was playing in the living room. I was aware that she crawled into the kitchen. I half listened for the cabinets to open and to hear pots and pans banging, nope. I didn't hear the tupperware drawere open either. I assume then that she was under the sink playing with "poison." (she knows full well that she's not suppose to open that cabinet) What I found instead was my little girl, with her hand inside the raisin box, with various canned goods thrown on the floor around her.

What Mom? I'm not doing anything, I just wanted a snack.

I guess it's good to know that she could fend for herself if she got left alone. Though I'd hate to be the one changing her after she ate an entire box of raisins. :-)

I really can do it!

Contemplating taking that BIG step...

Ok, maybe just maybe I can do this...

Here we go

I did it!!!!

Going for a walk

As you can see, Lilly is learning to walk.

She takes up to 6 steps on her own, and I'm amazed at how much her balance has improved over the last week.

She has also learned how to go up steps, not so sure about coming down yet.

Play time with Daddy.