Lilyana's New Tricks

Lilyana crawls

Lilyana props herself up

Lilyana plays with her toys

Apple Orchard

Wednesday we went to Gull Meadow Apple Orchard. The plan was to take some good family photos. We brought the camera, tripod, lenses and everything. . . everything except the camera battery (forgot it at home, Oops). It was still fun, we picked some apples, drank hot cider, took a wagon ride and picked out a pumpkin. All these pictures we took with our phones. We aslo bought a cheap throw away camera. Hopefully some of those pictures will turn out.

exploring new foods

Foods that Lilyana has tried so far
#1 -rice cereal
#2- Homemade carrot baby food
#3- Homemade white peach baby food
and today she had some of our # 4 -fruit smoothie
I know that last one is a no - no that was alot of different kinds of fruits in the smoothie, but it was so good and healthy i' couldn't resist letting her have some
I'm crossing my fingers for no allergic reactions.
She seems to like everything we give her. She's a little messy I'm learning not to feed her when i'm wearing work cloths. She also blows raspberry's, she epecially likes doing it after a bite of food. hence we get a food shower. She thinks it's funny

6 years

Matt and I celebrated our 6 year anniversay on September 5th. This year it fell on the same day , the Sunday before Labor day. We deceided to stay rather close to home, so we picked to explore Toledo. Why Toledo you ask? Well we've never really been there other than driving through to get to Cedar Point and Matt's been there for a couple concerts and the get his tattoo. A short 45 min drive (that is from the parent's house), we were in the heart of Toledo. The Ottawa River cut the city in half, so we started our day trip with a tour of the S.S. Willis B. Boyer. A coal freighter built in 1911 and sailed until 1980. The freighter main route was from Toledo, OH to Sheboygan WI. I'm not a boat or history buff, but it was still pretty intresting. It's not everyday we get to explore a boat that was built in 1911.




We ate lunch at the famous Tony Packo's Hotdog resturant. Made famous by local Toledoan, actor Jamie Farr, he played on M*A*S*H and mentioned the cafe during seven episodes. I choose not to get a hotdog, I went with stuff cabbage. Boy, that was good, with a side of chicken chili. Yum .....Yummy


The next stop was an art gallery, can you imagine how excited i got when we had to walk through the shop next door to get to the gallery. That shop was a bead store. It's like taking a kid through a candy store. Of course I had to get something. The best part, I already used the beads to make a pair of earrings. Yippey.


Next, Peanut Butter Sundae for Matt, Rasberry Peach smoothie for me, this day is getting better.


A 2 mile walk at the Metro park,(gotta walk off those extra calories.) Saw lots of people walking their dogs, big dogs and little dogs. It sparks the conversation what kinda dog would you want if we got one. Right now matt still likes Pugs. Me not so much, I prefer a cute pound mutt. It's ok cause weren't not in the market for getting a dog. so cute.


Being it a Sunday the other things we considered doing were already closed. That's ok with me cause earlier in the day we got the excited news that April & Erick Schuck had their 2nd child. Joy Sienna was born at 9: 35am. Cool.... Joy was born on our anniversay. Hey since we're in town we went straight from Toeldo to Oakwood hospital to see little Joy. All Matt could say was I can't belive 5 months ago Lilyana was this little. It was so fun visiting with the Schucks in the hospital.

Grandma & Grandpa got to spend all day with Lilyana. Grandpa wrote down everything they did, so we didn't miss a beat. It really was a terrific day the only down side was Patrick had to stay the night in the hospital. But everything seems to have checked out ok. He's home and everyone is happy. Happy 6 years of blissful marriage to us = )