9:15pm

This photo is not of anything interesting, just the view out my back door at 9:15 last night. I took it for those of you who are curious about the light here.  It doesn't get totally dark until about 10pm and starts getting light around 6:45am I think. 

I laugh every time

I laugh every time I see this photo, and yes I have looked at it several times a day. 

Lilly Learns

Lilly has become quite mobile and more curious than over in the last few days. She still isn't crawling but spends quite a bit of time on her knees rocking back and forth and also up on her toes, she's going to have the best abs in this house here pretty soon. She has, however, discovered that with her limited mobility (bellying crawling and barrel rolling) she can get pretty much wherever she wants to go. So gone are the days of leave the baby on the floor and she'll be there when you get back. Chances are she won't be, she'll have scooted herself from the living room to the kitchen in the time it takes me to walk down the hall and get a diaper. Here are a few pictures of her discoveries this week

Cabinet doors open and close making noise, I'm waiting for squished fingers. :-(

Ahh yes trash bags and bleach...

And if you pull on the trash bags they come out of the box, FUN!

This is my fault, I should not have left the lazy susan open.

Onion skins make such great noise! At least she helped peel them, right?

This one was a good roller, I think she played with it for a good 10 minutes, pretty good when your attention span is as short as Lilly's.

Mike and I are both, for the most part, enjoying this new stage. Lilly continues to be a very happy little girl and a constant source of entertainment!

It has been warm, well warmer here the past week or so, by warm I mean 40's.  Much of the snow has melted so I thought a hike would be nice this morning. Well it was a little snowier than we though and real boots instead of tennis shoes would have been nice but we still had fun. It was a bit cloudy but the thermometer on the car said about 46. We went to Lake Lucille Park, about 10 miles from where we live. I picked this specifically because I didn't want anything too strenuous, and Mike usually picks trails that take all the fun out of being outside. ( I know he doesn't do this intentionally, we just have different ideas of hiking)  We were only gone for about an hour, couldn't do much exploring due to all the snow but it was nice to be outside. Lilly and I got to try out her back pack from Nana, we both decided that it's a keeper. I'm glad we have it, it will make exploring and hiking so much more fun this summer.

I also finished my first knitted sweater last night. So here it is on Miss Lilly. I am quite proud of myself and know consider myself a true knitter. It was fun and I will do more things. I'm not nearly as afraid to tackle a pattern. As Mom says, 1 step at a time, it doesn't matter what step 7 is until you get there and you have to do 1-6 first. She's right, and as she also says, step 7 usually makes sense by the time you get there.

I had to add this one to show that she is learning to crawl, she spends lots of time on her knees.

And this one, well I just though it was cute, she's enjoying real food and ate almost an entire pumpkin pancake after nursing this morning. Piggy Piggy :-)

Lilly's First Made by Mommy Dress

I made Lilly a dress yesterday and have 3 more to make. It was fun and easy.