The
last two weekends were busy one for us.
On Saturday 9/7, we went to a 1st birthday party for our
friends little girl Vivian. Lilah had a
blast with all the kids there. The
parents got a fisher price bouncy house and the kids went gaga over it. Lilah was bouncing everywhere and giggling
the whole time. Vivian, Rodger, and
Amelia got their own time as well but they were not as into it. I got to play with Rodger and Connor
(Khalia’s baby) and they got their first taste of cake. They both fully approved of it.
We
also managed to get a lot of yogurt so we were extremely happy but not so much
considering our fridge looks like a grocery store of yogurt (that’s what we get
when two people individually go and buy yogurt for the house). But at least we have enough until October
24! Later on in the evening, David’s
parents went with us for a walk and to go to Jimmy Cone for ice cream. They had a classic car show then as well. Lilah was telling us all about the different
cars that were there. After that, we
went to Michelle and John’s house for pizza, and Lilah and Jonathan played with
each other.
On
Sunday 9/8, we took the family, David’s Mother, and Jonathan to Larriland’s for
apple picking (or rather we got David’s mama to drive us and back because she
has a bigger vehicle). Lilah and
Jonathan had so much fun picking apples though they needed a little assistance
in picking the ripe ones. We also scored
some peaches too! This weekend, I’m
going to make some pies and cobbler because we have so much!
Here are some pictures
of the little pickers!
Lilah
has lately not wanted to go bed at night.
She cries until I bring her into bed and gets some more snuggle time and
then put her back.
Here are some pictures
of Miss Running Star!!!!
And here she is when
she's tired of running and starts dragging herself across the floor.
This
past weekend was interesting too. On
Friday, Lilah had her first dentist appointment with Rock Ridge Dentistry. The dentist could not do more than brush her
teeth and could not clean them with the other instruments. But she was calm the whole time it happened,
they even had movies picked out for her and she got to watch Cinderella while
that happened. The dentist said her 2
year old molars were coming through, and once those come through she would have
all her teeth. David was next on the
appointment list (mine is 2 weeks away).
They also had a play room with a train table and Lilah was infatuated
with it.
After
appointments, we went to Burger King where Lilah and Jonathan played for 2
hours and had a blast. Later on, we went
to Michelle and John’s house for dinner and had tacos.
Saturday
was interesting. David’s dad Walt did me
a favor and distracted David by taking him to an auction. You might ask yourself why in the world I
needed David distracted. Well…it was his
BIRTHDAY!!!!!
So,
after Lilah’s dance class, I picked up Rodger from Carol (she was nice enough
to watch him during dance). Then we went
to Columbia Mall to get one of David’s favorite desserts…cookie cake. But it wasn’t any old cookie cake, oh
no. This one had a big truck on it and
they wrote 28 on the truck and underneath it was Happy Birthday David. I also managed to get a birthday present for
him without him noticing because I had it delivered to his sister’s house. I really need to go through some effort to
hide it from him (it’s more difficult because we have the same work schedule
and we’re together most of the time.)
Luckily,
the church next to his parents’ house (where we were having his birthday party)
was having a barbeque chicken dinner.
So, no one had to cook dinner!!
But Michelle was sweet enough to make an apple pie and ice cream for
dessert.
On
Sunday, we went to Centennial Park for a bit.
Then we went to Roots Market, and then to my cousin Pam’s. It was really nice seeing her and Lilah had a
good time with her cousins.
One
development in the past three weeks is that Rodger is crawling!!!!
Here is a video of it.
He
also says “Mama” which is his first word.
Now, I normally would just think he was saying it because he associates
it with food, but whenever he screams it he starts flailing his arms to me
until I pick him up. He will not do this
for anyone else. So, that makes me feel
a little extra special and I get all tingly.
Now I’m about to cry because he is growing up too fast. He will also walk around if he holds on you
to balance.
Lilah
is such a character and she has this spunky personality on her that reminds
everyone of me. I thought I was the
easy-going baby until I learned the truth.
Then I learned that Lilah is my mini-me.
But she has gotten so sweet and her understanding of everything is
phenomenal. It is really interesting to
see her development and see her grow with everything. She can now count to 14! I’m seeing her say letters and even some
words. We figured this year we would get
her some learning toys for her.
Dance
class went much better this week. The
first week the teacher held her the whole time.
But this week the teacher grabbed her and brought her in the classroom. It really got to me because she was crying
when she went in. Afterwards, she came
out with a Kung Fu Panda sticker and she was very proud of it. She is the youngest one in her class but she
is the same height or taller than the other girls. I really do have a little amazon on my hands.
Here is a video from a
couple of months back of her in a bouncy house.
