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11.26.10
Bill and I just celebrated our 5 year anniversary! It was a very special day for us and Nana Judy took care of Lilly so we could celebrate. We went to see the Nutcracker ballet at the Detroit Opera House and then drove to Ann Arbor for the evening (where we fell in love 6 years ago). We dined at, where else?, Yotsuba, and I had a miniature replica of our wedding cake made for dessert. We stayed overnight and had a wonderful brunch at Angelo’s in the morning. Bill gave me a pair of beautiful diamond studs as a gift. It was a perfect day.
We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with Nana and Bapa! We spent the day at home cooking and playing with Lilly and watched for Bapa Bill, who was part of the Distinguished Clown Corps in the Thanksgiving Day Parade. When Lilly woke up from her nap we went to Judy and Bill’s for dinner. We ate wild mushroom shephard’s pie, roasted vegetables, and the traditional fixings with homemade pumpkin pie for dessert, of course. It was a wonderful day!
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20 Weeks
And it’s a…good looking baby with 20 weeks left to bake! Bill and I had the 20 week ultrasound today and decided not to find out the gender of the baby. Everything went well – the baby measures exactly to date (as opposed to Lilly who was always a week behind) and everything is developing as it should be. Getting to the ultrasound this morning was a bit of a challenge. I was up all night with a stomach bug and felt just awful this morning, so Bill had to physically help me get dressed and get into the car. I started feeling a little bit better once we were in the doctors office and made it through the appointment just fine (it couldn’t be rescheduled for several weeks).
We are VERY excited for the ‘surprise’ that awaits us!
While Lilly has yet to be really sick (no sick visits to the doctor, high fevers, or interrupted sleep – knock on wood!), she has had a few minor bugs and 1 degree fevers the past several weeks. She’s certainly exposed to her fair share of germs with the one day of daycare and several playdates/classes throughout the week. Not to mention the fact that her teeth are sprouting quickly. Last week I was really sick for the first time in years with a stomach bug that came on quickly and lasted 24 hours. Fortunately Bill was in town and Nana Judy was able to watch Lilly for the day while I recovered. Fingers crossed that there’s no news on this topic for awhile!
Lilly wakes up happy, alert, and ready to take on the day each morning and afternoon – just like her mom. She is learning new words every day and expressing her wants and needs like never before. She loves to ‘help’ around the house and continues to show interest in building things and taking them apart – definitely takes after her daddy in this way. L is far more interested in playing with plastic cutlery or blocks and sweeping up her cheerios than she is in playing with baby dolls. She is quite the handful when the two of us are alone together (constantly wants to be picked up and points to different objects around the house she wants to pay with – very short attention span), but when we go out to classes or playgroups she is off on her own playing and observing the other kids. This is why we get out a lot! She is also the ideal child when I take her to grocery shopping, etc. Can’t wait to see how different her little sister/brother will be. 🙂
As Lilly becomes more verbal we are amazed with how good she is at communicating her needs and desires. She uses the words ‘up/down’, ‘more/all-done’, and ‘on/off’ to communicate just about anything, and makes her desires obvious by placing objects in our hands, pointing, or moving to a certain location. She recently began standing in front of her highchair to let us know she is hungry and now even stands at the bottom of the stairs saying, ‘up, up, up’ when it’s time for her to take a nap or go to bed. She has one strong internal clock!
The other day at the park Lilly had apparently had enough playing because she walked up to her stroller, said ‘UP!, ah-duh (all done)’ and waived goodbye. Love it!
Here is the list of words that she says frequently:
Mom, Dada, Up, Down, Ah-Duh (all done), More, Off, On, Car, Bath, Ball, Book, Home, Socks, Door, Cat…
Grandma has the magic touch when taking care of a sick Lilly
We just wrapped up a one week visit with Grandma! It was so much fun having her here. We went shopping, ate a lot of good meals, spent time with family and friends, and watchced some good tv – the usual mother/daughter stuff. She spent a lot of time bonding with Lilly, who said her version of ‘grandma’ (gah-ma) accouple times but mostly called her ‘dada’. Lilly can’t wait to spend a lot more time with her next month!
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