Guess what!

Lily turned seven months old yesterday!

But that's not the big news... as I was getting her ready for bed last night... I noticed that Lil is cutting her first tooth! It just barely split the gums but you can see the very tiny tip of a tooth! Bottom right, for those of you playing along at home. :D

Just for the fun of it :)

Here's a pair of shots from the day we spent painting.




Somehow we managed to get the house on a Friday. But we couldn't get the furniture delivered until Monday. So what did we do? We decided it would be the perfect time to paint. Lily's room is pink (of course!) and the kitchen is a nice sunny yellow. I have to get some pics of the place so I can share... you know... when its clean, lol.

The one when Lily got her hairs cut.

On the 20th of August little Miss Lily had her first hair cut. No, we didn't have any tears. And, no, I didn't save a lock. :p

Her hair was so long in the back! And the place where babies tend to rub their hair off while lying on the floor was missing, so there was a big "step" in the middle. I think she looked like she was sporting a baby mullet. At any rate I had hoped to do it before her baptism but poor Nancy, our friend who cuts my hair, had hurt her arm. So we made a special trip after the baptism to see Nancy and get Lil's hair trimmed. It looked sooooo much better when she was done.

Sadly, Lily is in need again... and we won't be anywhere near California until December. :(

Lily's Baptism

So we managed to time it so that we could have Lily's baptism while we were on leave in California. That meant we could have it in Southern California where most of mi familia reside. And it meant that she could be baptised at St Elizabeth's, the parish were I (and many of my cousins) attended elementary school and made my first communion. :)

Lily was great and didn't make a sound as the water was poured over her head, but she didn't like lying back too much. :) And boy, did she want that candle flame! Lily is blessed to have my cousins Ben and Kaitlin as her godparents.

Hi

So this video is from about a month ago... it's the only word she knows, but she blows people away when she says it randomly while we are out. "Did she really just say that?" Yes... she did. She knows if she says it, you'll say it back. Of course, I am prompting her for the sake of showing off on video... but whatever.

Once upon a time..

... we took our four month old on an airplane to California. Entertaining her looked something like this:

While we were there Lily met Gramma's dog, Sugar.

Ate graham crackers on the table.

Read a few good books.

Played supermodel in the fan.

Playing in her hand-me-down excersaucer from our friends Julie and Nicole. THANK YOU!

Met her Uncle Joe for the first time.

Watched some Olympics with her Papa Jim... they really were watching TV lying on floor, until they fell asleep that is.

Visited with her Great Grandma Mary.

Played with her cousins.

Visited with her Great Grandma Peter.

Went swiming.

Got Baptised. (more photos to come)

Had her hair cut. (again more photos later)

Learned about bubbles and Papa Jim's dog, Bradly.

And had an all around pretty swell time. :)

Working out?

I have decided blogging is a bit like working out. If you do it all the time, it's easy, no problem. But if you fall off the horse, so to speak, getting back on is a trick. Here is my attempt (once again, since we now FINALLY have internet!) to get back on the blogging horse... the work outs will have to wait. :)