Happy Thanksgiving!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving celebrating with both of our families. It was a great way to spend Lily's first turkey day!

We started off by having lunch with David's family at his brother's in-law's house. It was a fun afternoon enjoying good company, good food, and good football. Lily behaved herself pretty well. She got a bit cranky when she was ready to eat, and again, when she was ready for her nap.

Then, later that evening, we headed over to my parents house for Thanksgiving dinner. Lily had a good nap on the way to my parents, so she was in a good mood when we arrived. At dinner, Lily got to experience some new foods! She tried green beans again, but she also tasted sweet potatoes and cranberry sauce. She started making the face below every time she had a bite of food, but she soon started making it over and over, after she realized we all liked it. We were laughing so hard at her my mom started crying. When we sat down to dinner we didn't know we there was going to be entertainment as well :)

After dinner, we watched the A&M game. We were sad the Aggies didn't win, but at least it was competitive. Lily enjoyed the first half of the game, but soon fell asleep.

We had such a great day! We have been so blessed and have so much to be thankful for.

Now...I can't wait for Christmas!!!!

I'm an HEBuddy Kid!

Last Thursday night we went to the new HEB that opened near our home. We were very impressed with the store, and we were even happier they had sent us coupons for free items. The nice lady at the front of the store gave Lily a balloon. At first this was a frightening new item, but it soon became Lily's new favorite toy. She was bouncing it around and trying to hit me as many times as she could. I think we had gone down 3-4 isles out of the 20+ in the store, when all of the sudden Lily let go of the balloon and it floated to the ceiling. It had been tied to the cart, but I guess the abuse made the knot loosen. Lily smiled as it floated away, but then soon realized she no longer had it to play with. Now we have an idea if we ever need any cheap entertainment.

Fun Times in the High Chair

Since Lily is now 8 months old, she can try all sorts of new food. I'm trying to give her as much as I can because soon she will be a year old and eating normal food. The first new thing she tried was yogurt. I thought she would like yogurt because she eats yogurt melts all the time, and that is just freeze dried yogurt. I was wrong. It was the first time she had eaten cold food, so I think that was part of the problem...not to mention how tart yogurt it. She has eaten it a few more times since these pictures were taken, and she is starting to like it a bit more.

I don't think these pictures do justice to the awful faces she was making, and I didn't get a picture of her gagging on it!

The next new issue we have had with dinner time is Lily loves to bite on the spoon every time I feed her. Most of the time, she ends up stealing the spoon and dinner is delayed a bit.

The next new thing Lily tried was some green beans. I was making green beans for dinner, so I took a bean out of the can for Lily before I cooked the rest for us. She ate it quite well, but I think she wasn't so sure about the texture. I was very proud of her eating actual food for the first time. I think we will have to try bananas for mashed potatoes next.

Finally, as I mentioned earlier, Lily loves to steal the spoon I feed her with. Well the other night at dinner she did just that. So, I asked David to bring me another spoon so I could feed her while she played with the spoon. My plan backfired! She stole the other spoon as well. She was having such a good time playing with a spoon in each hand.


In this picture she had the spoon in her mouth and was using both her hands to play with the pink spoon. She moved her left hand right before I took the picture, so it looks like she is holding the spoon in her mouth.

A Weekend Without Daddy

This past weekend David accompanied his friend Stephen to San Antonio, where Stephen was running a half marathon. This is the second weekend in a row we have been in separate cities, but it was good we got to go have some fun on our own.

Since I was by myself, my mom and sister came to stay with me for the weekend. We had a fun girls day on Saturday, lunch at the Cheesecake Factory, and then shopping! Lily was very excited to get some new clothes from Janie and Jack, and they look so cute on her. After we went shopping we came back home. It was a very fun evening. My dad drove up and met us for dinner, and I tried some new recipes. I made chicken, mushroom risotto, and asparagus for dinner, and vanilla bean panna cotta w/raspberry sauce for dessert. It was very tasty.

After dinner we all played with Lily before it was time for her to go to bed. Below are some very cute pictures of my dad playing with Lily. He is SO cute with her.

She also has a basket with her smaller toys in it. She loves to go to the basket and empty out all of the toys!

Vroom Vroom...

David was feeding Lily dinner the other night. To get her to open her mouth, he started making airplane noises. Apparently Lily thought it sounded more like a motorcycle, so she started making the appropriate hand gestures. We thought this was so funny! I had to tape it and share it.

Lily's first trip to Waco!

This weekend, Lily and I tagged along with my sister to Waco. I wanted to go by the bookstore to get Lily some additional Baylor attire, since you can only buy BU gear in Waco. We wanted to show Lily the bears, and then decided it would be fun to walk around campus. Below is our photo journal of our trip. After we took the first picture, we decided it would be fun to take a picture of Lily with certain Baylor landmarks.

Here is Lily in the echo circle seal.

Pat Neff Hall

Sitting with the Judge

Tidwell Bible Building...I think it looks like the Tower of Terror

Hankamer Business School (where I spent most of my time)

Burleson statue

Burleson Quad

Bailey plaza...this is Ashlee's former boss

The Immortal 10 memorial

Where's Lily????

There she is!!

On one of the Baylor signs

Outside the SUB

At the bear pit

the bears were sleeping, so we had to settle with pics by the signs

look what we found in the spirit shop!

Playing with her boyfriend, Weston! They were so cute together, not to mention the eyes they gave each other at dinner :)

They share a mutual love, respect, and obsession with Yo Gabba Gabba!

Side note: Ashlee was very close to Lily in the picture of her with the Judge, and she was holding her from behind when she was sitting on the sign.

We had such an amazing weekend. We need to go back again sometime soon. It was so great getting so see our friends!

Who knew a nap could be so entertaining...

So today, Lily was very cranky and refused to go in her swing for her nap, and she didn't want to play on the floor. So I held her for a little bit more, but she was very very tired. I decided I would go and put her in her bed (crazy idea, i know). Usually she plays in her bed before she goes to sleep, but not this time. She was sitting in the middle of her crib screaming. Since I knew she would eventually go to sleep I let her cry, but I was watching her on the video monitor downstairs. She got quiet, so I checked the monitor. She was still sitting up, but I could have sworn she was asleep. Then, I looked again, and she was now holding onto the side of the crib. I was sure she was asleep, so I snuck into her room to check. Here is what I saw.







After I took these, I went back to the living room, to watch her sleep. Well, it wasn't too long before she was back in the middle of the crib crying. Later, I looked at the monitor, and her head was in the corner of the crib, and she was out again. Here is the next crazy position she fell asleep in.

She is so funny! She didn't sleep for too much longer, but thankfully she woke up in a much better mood. She has a very similar personality to someone, but I can't think of who?!?!?!?!

Pictures

Here are some recent pictures of Lily. Enjoy!

Lily's First Halloween

Lily had a great first Halloween! We actually didn't do anything related to Halloween, but it was still a great day.

We drove down to Friendswood to go to a birthday party for one of David's cousins. After the party, we went over to my grandparents' house so Lily could spend some time with her great-grandparents. We had such a great time hanging out together. We didn't tell them we were coming over, and they were very surprised! Lily was in such a great mood, and she showed off her crawling and standing skills....she even waved at her Great-Boompa! I'm so blessed to have such wonderful grandparents, and I love that Lily can spend time with them. Lily is a very lucky girl to have 5 great-grandparents who all love her!

For our final stop, we headed to my parents' house for dinner. Yum! Lily had a great time with Granny, Grandpa, and Auntie Ashlee. She even got to pet kitty!

We had such a great Halloween!