So Sweet

As I was tucking Lillian into bed tonight, she told me, "You are my joy. Daddy is my love."

Guess I was told

This morning I asked Lillian to move her doll stroller from the middle of kitchen while I was unloading the dishwasher and this is how she responded:
"Well you can just walk around it Mama."

Christmas Decorating - Lillian Style

You don't really get to decorate when Lillian helps you. She arranges items to her liking and if there is anything that resembles a person or an animal, that item will end up in a tea party, picnic or sleeping. And if it is a circle, it will end up on her head at some point.

It is all very cute but the critters having a sleep/tea party on the Christmas placemat HAD to stay like that in the middle of the living room floor for three days. Luckily I convinced her today that the cats might eat them if we left them on the floor any longer!

Can I get an order of 2 L's and a side of R please?

Today for playgroup it was just the L girls (Lillian and Lily) for preschool story time at the library. The girls had fun singing sons, some even in Spanish, and listening to books. The books were all about silly things such as a cow laying an egg. The girls took the silly theme seriously and had a a blast running around together once the program was finished.

Both girls (actually all three girls, Lily's little sister Rory) made it known they were hungry so we all headed over to the local preschool lunch spot for a bite to eat. The L's sat next to each other and when they were finished eating, announced that they were going to the bathroom by themselves. The mean mommies had to step in and I took the L's to the potty. I was not allowed in the stall, just the two of them where I overheard such things as: "Look, it's not automatic!" "No I will flush for you and you can flush for me." "I will help you with your tights." A few other things I did not quite understand and lots of giggles and squeals.

Big Girl Bed - for real

Lillian has been in a real twin-sized big girl bed for a few weeks now. Thanks to my seasonal employment with a certain company that we purchased her changing table/dresser from, we got it a great price. She loves it and it is much easier for us to snuggle with her on it!

Of course the new bed takes up most of her room so we had to do some reconfiguration and have not completed hanging things up yet but she likes it.

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Halloween 2009

Halloween started probably in September with Lillian saying she wanted to be a cat for the occasion. Great but she wanted to be a blue cat, specifically calling it the Cinderella cat. Now she is not allowed to have "character" toys so I was a bit stumped about how she came up with this idea. After informing me of how she wanted her costume, no tutu skirt and frills, we found a cat pattern and set out to look for fabric. Luckily Joe reminded me that if we got the fabric like Cinderella, the costume would look silly and not at all like a cat. So I took her to some fabric shops and she picked out this funky flower fleece fabric. At least it was a bit furry like a cat! (She had originally picked out a cute leopard print fabric and should have bought it but I had to try one more store!) So that is how she ended up as the Rainbow Flower Kitty.



So the costume got made (even with breaking my sewing machine, borrowing a machine and hair pulling and foot stamping on my part). I did not make the hood that the pattern had because Lillian informed me she was not going to wear a hood. So I re-purposed her ears from last year and was done with the headband. I also did not make the elastic for the wrists or ankles, we just used pretty gold ribbon. The red glitter shoes were all Lillian's idea. I found some cute shiny pink shoes that matched the oink on the fabric perfectly but once she saw the red ones, that was it. Lillian was talking to Granny on the phone one afternoon and invited her up for Halloween so show off her spooky decorating skills.

I had to work the day of Halloween but Joe and Granny took Lillian to get the pumpkins and around one of the shopping centers to trick-or-treat. That night we headed to the Governor's Mansion (a tradition) where Lillian fell asleep on the 10 minute ride and got super scared by a person popping up out of a coffin. She was shaking so bad that Joe picked her up.



We headed back home and saw tons of kids out in our neighborhood so we decided to go down two streets. This was her first time trick-or-treating at houses and she loved it. She did not love some of the lawn decorations and spooky music but she had a great time. After each house, she we meet us and say "More candy. I got more candy!" She asked if she could eat candy and we told her once we got home she could have a piece. As SOON as she had 2 feet in the door, she asked to eat her candy. She picked out a lollipop and hasn't really asked for much more than that.