Fall Leaves

Lilyana "helping" cleaning up all the leaves.

 

           Love this picture, I can totally see her smile behind that leaf.  Her eyes are smiling

 

Lilyana and Jubie 2 years ago.

Some things never change.

 

 

Trick or Treat

Day after Halloween with Lilyana

On the way home from day care:

Lil: I like being outside in the dark

Me: You do?

Lil: Ya, Its ok because the houses and pumpkins are all lit up

At this point I realize she had been thinking about her trick or treating experience all day

Lil: I want to see my treats

Me: Ok, when we get home you can pick out 3 treats for you & 3 treats for me.

 

The second we get inside the house

Lil: My treats! My treats! (repeating as I take off my coat – lilyana's eyes are starting to tear up)

We sit down at the table and I dump her bucket of candy out in front of her. (turns out she did pretty good the night before) Lilyana quickly grabs a roll of smarties and a tootsie roll and reaches out for a third piece of candy but then quickly holds back and thinks about it for about 30 more seconds before deciding on a mini hersheys chocolate bar.

Me: Ok, what 3 do I get, can I have this one (pointing to the mini Payday)
Lil: Ya, you can have it (she also picks out a tootsie roll and a 2 pack of starburst)

By the time I have my payday down, Lilyana has opened the tootsie roll and the smarties (with bites of each in her mouth) Now she is starting to open the hersheys bar. I can tell Lilyana likes opening the candy just as much as eating it.

Lil: It's chocolate!
(she breaks the bar in 2 pieces and hands half to me)
Lil: Here ya go daddy
Me: Thank you very much
Lil: I want to open that for you
(she grabs the starburst & opens the outer wrapper to find 2 pieces inside)
Lil: One for you and one for me, I want to open yours for you.
Me: Ok

This wrapper turned out to be a little more difficult to open than the other ones. Lilyana was concentrating very intently on the starburst.

Lil: Its like opening a little present

After a little while she gets it open and hands it to me, then moves on to open her half.

Maybe we will have another 3 treats tomorrow.

Making room

With the recent exciting news of adding another child to our family we had to make some decisions on our home.  First thought we considered was moving.  Think again, although housing prices are still low ( ie we could get more house for the money), we would also have to sell our house first.  Although we not underwater we probably couldn't sell and have money for a down payment. Boooo, maybe in a few years.

Plan B, renovate the house.  Move the spare bedroom to the basement, and make the current spare bedroom Lilyana's big girl room. 

I felt that it was necessary to keep a spare bed at the house, since when Grand parents come to visit they can have their own space for the night or week.  So we are building a wall in the basement. When I say we I mean Matt and his friend.  Renovation is in progress..... Here is the list of what still needs to happen

1) Finish wall / Hire electriction to rewire light switch & convince Matt that we need 2nd light.
2) Paint spare room
3) Buy carpet / get dresser from Aunt Dawn's house, get rid of brown cloth couch ( hopefully this will       happen when Grandma & Grandpa come to visit and bring their truck for hauling. )
4) Install Carpet / molding in spare room.
5) Move furniture into spare room
5) Paint Lilyana's room ( former spare room ) I'll get share inspiration photos below.
6) Painting Lilyana's recycled headboard.
6) Rearrange closets ( ie. move Matt's cloths to either basement closet or buy new dressers to hold all of our stuff.
7) Seting up lilyana's room with her new bed and dresser.

Let the countdown begin.
Here are some inspiration photos what I'd like to do with Lilyana's room

I want to paint one wall a deeper shade of the teal, like in the top photo and then 3 walls in a light teal.

In inspiration room #3 I have that exact rug so with a teal wall and  her fuchsia bedspread the rug will tie everything together.

I will work harder at keeping everyone updated on the list. 

Lilyana Video Update

Splish Splash
Filmed 1-12-2012


Attempt at shoelaces
Filmed 4-16-2012


Tricycle
Filmed 4-25-2012

Oh it's been awhile

Lilyana is 21 months old

She is a chatter box, sometimes we can't understand anything that she's saying but other times we know exactly what she's talking about.
Most recently phrases:
"Yapup" = wrap up , talking about wrapping her babies in a blanket
"dark in der" = it's dark in there, when she going into a room with the light off.

Everyday she says a new word, she pretty amazing

She counts, not well but it's something. normal counting goes something like this:
"Two, three, four, five, six, eight, nine, six, nine."
For some reason she rarely says ONE, SEVEN or TEN.

When asked her shapes, she knows, circle, triangle, star and heart with out any help.
She know specific books: she will find her hiccupotums book when she has the hiccups. A book about a hippopotumus that has the hiccups. That was too sweet.

She will sit on the potty chair, sometimes we get luck and she goes.. we're try but not pushing the issue too much yet.

Lilyana in the leaves

Lilyana has a new pair of shoes