I know, it's been a while. I'm not very good at keeping up with this (I think I went over this in my last post) and I really don't have much of an excuse. Maybe I'll do better... we'll see how that goes.
Lilly is now 16 months. She has been walking for about four months now. She gets faster and faster every day and has perfected the art of running away, especially when she sees you have a diaper in your hand. She has recently discovered "talking on the phone" (her version is without the talking, just holding the phone to her ear.) She loves books, well, likes to carry them around and get one of us to read, she's bored after about page three most of the time. She also likes to carry around anything the resembles paper and a pen and "take notes." I have tried giving her markers and crayons, it usually doesn't work too well, she is more interested in putting them all back in the box than anything.
I love seeing more and more of her personality come out. I am amazed at how much she knows and how quickly she picks up on things. I gave her her coat the other day and told her to put it away. I was assuming that she'd throw it on the floor and go off to do something else. I was wrong, no more than 2 minutes later she came back to me with her coat and a hanger, I certainly didn't teach her that.
She tends to be a very busy little girl. Busy in a good way, not a holy terror way. :-) Quite often you'll find her sitting on the floor organizing something. Or better yet in the "box" she discovered this a few weeks ago and it remains her favorite spot. She throws all the animals out, climbs in and then stuffs the animals in underneath and on top of herself. Pretty common to find her there or in the laundry basket.
Towards the end of April, she will be a big sister. I can't believe that it's 5 months now. Part of me wishes that she understood a little bit that there is going to be a baby, but I think it will upset her world less this way.
I think next on her list of accomplishments will be talking...
