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I used to be worried that everything had to be just so for Lillian to sleep. Not so much anymore. She doesn't nap at home but will usually fall asleep in the car in the afternoon. She used to wake up when you got her out of the car, but not anymore. Here a just a few pictures of her sleeping on the couch after falling asleep in the car on the way home from the pool.

Bathtub Posing

Localvore

We have apparently brainwashed Lillian. It started out simply with discussion and emphasis on fresh fruits and vegetables and eating healthy. We try to stay away from HFCS and partially hydrogenated oils. The fast food restaurants she has visited Moe's and Chipotle. She asks me to read the labels on packages to make sure there is no bad things in it. And if there are, she quickly wants to put them back on the shelf.

We belong to a local CSA, Double T Farm, and get our weekly allotment each Saturday. She loves to nibble the produce. In fact, this week we received fennel and she nearly ate an entire bulb by herself, raw. Actually she prefers her veggies raw. As I am writing this, she is nibbling on a piece of raw corn.

Sunday she asked to got the big farmers market to look at the plants. While we were there, we bought some blueberries and blackberries. In the car this morning, she was eating some of the blueberries and exclaimed, "These are the best blueberries ever!" I said they probably tasted so good because they were fresh, grown from a local farmer. Then she screamed, "I know. That's because local food is best mommy, right?"

This was our produce from Double T a few weeks ago:

This is/was our first tomato out of our little garden for the season. I was transplanting some mint and Lillian said the tomato was ripe and could she pick it. I said sure and she came over to me eating it! The whole thing was gone in a minute.

A quick thinker

Lillian asked me if she could watch a video on the small DVD player we have in the bedroom and I hesitated to ponder the question. Before I could reply, she blurted out, "I'll take your silence as a yes." And with that she scampered down to the bedroom and brought back the DVD player. She proceeded to set it up all by herself and turn it on.

Ft. Lillian

As I made banana muffins this morning, Lillian was creating a fort under the desk in the living room. It has all the necessary things: blankets, pillows, critters, flowers (wilted lilies), a muffin, paper, pencils, stickers and a strict, no-panty wearing policy.

Mermaid on a pirate ship

This is what awaited Lillian when she came home from summer camp today:

There is a small leak somewhere in the pool but it was free and not that big of a problem. She had lots of fun in the fun this afternoon. She was a mermaid on a pirate ship.

Flower Child