Let it SNOW!!!

I can only remember it snowing in Houston 2 or 3 days total out of my entire childhood (birth to 21). Would you believe it has snowed 3 times in the last 5 years. David was let out of work early, so he was home in time to enjoy the snow with all of us. Too bad we didn't get nearly as much snow as my parents did...that would have been fun. Gracie enjoyed the snow the most. She was having fun running around and biting the snow that had stuck on the fence. Lily enjoyed watching Gracie go crazy outside. (which is why we had to move to the front yard to take pictures.)

Fun in the exersaucer!

I love how much Lily is exploring and playing by herself. She is getting so adventurous and daring. We try and keep her contained to the living room, but she loves to escape out to the dining room or bedroom. I think it is so funny how simple things are so fascinating to a baby.

The other day, while we were hanging out at home, Lily crawled over to her exersaucer. Usually she just pulls herself up on the side of it and plays with her toys. I guess she wanted to get one of the toys that was underneath it because she decided to crawl right into it!

She thought this was very funny, and she kept looking down to peek at me. The seat of the exersaucer hangs pretty low, and she kept hitting her head on the plastic ring of it. I decided to remove the seat because of this. Lily liked this even more, she could now stand up and play with all of her toys the right way.

I just love the progression Lily has made with this toy. We used to have to put her in it for her to play, and now she just crawls over and stands in it when she wants to. I think these pictures are so cute!

I love my girls!!

I am constantly amazed at the relationship between Lily and Gracie. They are absolutely adorable together. Lily loves her so much and isn't scared by anything that she does. One of her favorite things to do is to grab Gracie's toys and taunt her with them which makes Gracie bark very loudly at her. You would think this would make Lily cry, but is has the complete opposite effect....she starts laughing. This happens at least once a day, and I am determined I am going to record this happening. Once I get a good video of it I will post it on here.

Every time we give Lily a bath, Gracie gets jealous. I don't know if she wants to play in the water, if she wants to get a bath, or if she just wants a drink of water. The other night Gracie jumped in the tub with Lily. This wasn't a huge deal because we have Lily's smaller tub in the large tub, so Gracie wasn't actually in the water with Lily. At first she was sitting beside her, but then she laid down next to Lily's tub. I ran and got the camera because this was definitely a photo I would have been very upset if I had missed it.

I have been trying hard to get a picture of them together for our Christmas cards, and I joked I should send this one out. Maybe I can get a picture today with the snow!!

I love her laugh!

Every day Lily and I watch Seasame Street together. Because of this, she has developed quite a fondness of Elmo's World. She gets so excited when it comes on, her legs start going crazy, and she starts laughing.

The other day we were watching while she was eating breakfast (which happens frequently). The episode focused on helping. Well, one of the characters was a lifeguard. He talked about how he helped people in the water, but they gave him a surfer accents, so it sounded more like wadah. Lily thought this was very funny, and laughed every time I repeated it. So I grabbed my camera to record her chuckling. Enjoy these videos, and try not to listen to me sounding like a fool :)