We are so proud of Lilly – hard to believe that she turned 2 years old today!  We spent the morning swimming at Barb’s pool with Nana, played on the porch with new toys this afternoon, and celebrated this evening at Stroh’s with ice cream (Lilly chose Anniversary Cake ice cream) and candles.

Lilly is doing more imaginative play every day. This morning she dragged Mickey and Minnie Mouse around the house and introduced them to all of her toys. We love it when she talks to herself and has little conversations with her toys – amazingly cute! When I put her down for naps or at night now she talks for awhile about what she did during the day or what she wants to do when she wakes up (last night she said, “umm…play in the sandbox, and play with toys, and get wet, and see Nana Bapa, and Roary, and Robin…”). She also loves to sing and knows Ring Around the Rosie, The Wheels on the Bus, and other songs by heart (also knows ‘Goodnight Moon’ by heart). She knows most of the ABC’s and counts to 20 (although she skips number four and mixes up the ‘teens’). Lilly LOVES doing art projects and asks to do one about 4x a day. Lately she is experimenting with asking questions and starts sentences with ‘happened’ or ‘doing’ to ask what happened or what we are doing.

Lots of love to our baby girl!

Weight: 25 lb, 3.5 oz
Length: 33.5″
Head: 48cm