Little Pumpkin

We went the the Johnny Appleseed Festival today and Lily loved all of the people, music, drums, and loud sounds there. The farmers market was fun and our little one picked out her own pumpkin to take home.

18 Month Doctor Visit

Lily is now a year and a half old. Everything looked good at her doctor's appointment but we found out that she hasn't grown a whole lot in the last five months. She grew an inch and a half and gained one pound, which puts her into the 25th percentile now. She still fits comfortably into her 12-18 month size clothes (mama wants to get her new ones out)!

Lily has started building her vocabulary and saying a lot of words, and it's wonderful for us all to be able to communicate better. She can identify her body parts and pictures in books and it's so cute how proud she is of herself. She sleeps really well at night now and is finally taking naps in her crib, but never for more than 30 minutes! We're really hoping the naps will lengthen out, but for now we just leave her in her crib for an hour every afternoon.

Already, Lily has shown interest in potty training but it will probably be a while before she's actually ready. She tells us when she has gone or is about to go in her diaper by pointing to her bottom and saying "bop". Sometimes she wants to take off her diaper and sit on her potty and she even peed in it once...but really she would just like to run around naked and not mess with it. So we're leaving it alone for a while!

Baby Alistair

Over the weekend we visited Michael's stepsister Jessica and her husband Michael in Indianapolis and got to meet their new baby, Alistair, for the first time! He is seven weeks old and adorable. Lily was cute with her new cousin.