Random Lilliness

Just some quick bits of Lilly.

Wagon
Granny bought Lilly this super cool wagon. She loves to ride around the neighborhood with it. I also found out that it comes in very handy to help with chores - such as taking the recycling bins down to the end of the driveway every week. Lilly also thinks the box is pretty fun. Joe took the box and made some handles on the "doors", cut a window and a secret tunnel for Lilly. She likes to get inside the box and close the "doors" and pop out of the tunnel. When she pops out of the tunnel, she asks for a coupon! Where she came up with that, I have no idea. Her coupons are smiley faces or pictures of her cousins that she likes to carry around with her.


Playspace
We joined the local children's museum a couple of months ago. Lilly really loves to run around in there. She does seem to have a thing for this red car. It is always the first thing she goes to and is always running back to it. She is learning the concept of sharing with other children but is not always willing to share. The other day a little boy came inside the ambulance she was playing in and she started crying "no share, no share." There was PLENTY of room for the both of them but she wanted that little boy out. Lilly also took a nasty tumble there last week. She had gone into the castle and wanted to walk down the stairs by herself. So I popped open to video camera do catch it on film. She made the first two stairs and then lost her footing and came crashing down five stairs and landed on her back. Of course all of this is on film. She cut her lip and got a bruise on the side of her head. I took her to the bathroom to inspect the damage and clean her up a bit and all she wanted to do after she calmed down and stopped crying was to get back and try to climb the stairs. I thought better of that and we headed back to the red car. She likes to remind me of the incident by saying, "I fall down stairs Playspace, crash."


Hair
Lilly has a lot of hair now. Joe likes to say she has a baby mullet but I like to think of it as the Lilly Do. The bangs are starting to go past her eyes, the front and sides are stick straight and the back can be full of curls depending on the day. This day the back looked like she had used a curling iron to turn her hair up:
My attempt at a snork (some people call it the Pebbles) to keep the hair out of her eyes. She would not hold still so this is the best I could do:

Talking
Lilly is talking up a storm. She starts as soon as she wakes up and doesn't stop until she goes to sleep. Many times she can be heard saying "Wake up Jeff" - from the Wiggles or "No DeeDee" - talking to her doll, when you first out her down for a nap. She has caught on to the pronoun I and to our amazement, uses it in the correct context. She will say, "I know Wiggles", "I bite tomatoes", "I talked phone"', "I pet Elsie." Probably her favorite subject is the Wiggles with Elsie running a close second. Bossing Mommy and Daddy around is pretty high up there as well. As soon as she see the video camera on, she stops talking so it is hard to let everyone hear her speak.