LittleLilly: April 2009

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Jackson is Three!

Friday was Jackson's THIRD birthday! We went out to dinner on Friday night & headed back to his place for cake and presents. Then Saturday afternoon

we all went to the Norfolk Botanical Gardens for the children's gardens....which was a BLAST. The weather here is HOT. It was 95 today! 95! Its April!!!!

ANyway - the kids LOVED running around in the fountains and exploring all of the

playhouses and adventure places, and then we all had a great picnic dinner.

We also finally found the brick I had bought for Lilly in the children's garden when she came home ... TWO YEARS AGO!

Lilly has been soooooo excited to move up to the 3 Year Old Class, and tomorrow is the BIG DAY. She has been so excited that we had to start a giant count down with a sticker each day this month until the BIG RED CIRCLED MONDAY where she starts the transition to the new class. Tomorrow she "visits" the new class for a couple hours, and then a little longer each day so that by Friday she does everything but nap in her new room...making the "real" transition next week easier. I am fascinated to see how it goes. She has been so psyched about it, I am almost worried that she will be disappointed or won't let herself be nervous. We shall see....

And, the last week of her twos she made "Superstar of the Week...." enjoy the pics. Will post again with pics from Jackson's bday and our fun outing to the botanical gardens.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Hat Day

So while most people think of today as Earth Day, at Lilly's school it was Crazy Hat Day...as part of "Week of the Young Child." We spent last night looking through her hats and trying on options... she then tried on some cinderella-esque slippers that she had gotten for Christmas. She loved it until she tried to walk...WHOA! She said she likes the bows but now how it hurts. A girl after my own heart. She also wanted to wear her butterfly wings and Guatemala hat. Fabulous!

Then she ditched the shoes, wings and hat and changed into her (formerly my) superhero cape (circa 1977) and did some sort of dance...more fab!

Then today she decided on a different hat at the last minute...and when Mae Mae picked her up we got some fun pics in the back yard.

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Catching Up....

Here are some overdue Easter pics & stories (see above: investigating her Easter candy up close with her new magnifying glass). Its been a busy week & I have managed to come down with a pretty bad case of bronchitis. But, mom & dad have helped out a lot, taking Lilly both days this weekend so I can rest. I do pretty good if I don't have to talk or move much...but then as soon as either of those have to happen I am a coughing mess.

The funniest overdue story is from Good Friday (what I am now referring to as The Great Milk Debacle of 2009) .... the Coopers ended up coming over for a last minute dinner. It had been a long week for all, and so lets just say that after a long week, and a good dinner, the three adults let our parent radar fall just a smidge...and man did we pay for it! The kids were running around playing and having a great time while we chatted at the table. They came in and asked for more milk in their sippy cups, which we gave them. About five minutes later they came back and asked for more milk. I looked at Lil and asked what she was doing with the milk...to which she replied "We're not spitting it on your bed." !!!!!! So I asked immediately got up and headed back to see what they were spitting it on...turns out they were taking gulps of milk and spitting it at each other and doing this all over the house. EVERYTHING was COVERED in milk...my bedroom, her bedroom, the bathroom, the hallway, and a lovely path to through the dining room. So - we each grabbed our kids and gave them a talking to & jumped into clean up mode. Jackson immediately jumped on the clean up and be good train. Lilly...not so much. She had a complete meltdown...screaming and crying and throwing herself on the floor...for an HOUR! I kept telling her that she either needed to be in timeout or cleaning up. She didn't help clean up...so I kept putting her back in timeout. She kept standing up and throwing herself on the floor....and teh HILARIOUS part was that everytime she got up, Jackson would come wipe down the timeout chair. After 45 min - an hour, she finally pulled herself together and helped clean up and apologized to all involved. I think she had never been in that much trouble before and didn't quite know what to do with herself. So, for Good Friday, Kendra, Coop, Jackson, me and eventually Lilly mopped the floors of the whole house, and had to soak the various fabric items that had been doused with milk before it went sour. They also managed to spill milk all over the scrapbook I had made of her year in Guatemala...but luckily we were able to pull out the actual scrap pages and save those, but the book and photo sleeves had to be trashed. When Kendra told Jackson they were going to Mae Mae's house for Easter dinner...his comment was "we don't spit milk at Mae Mae's" Uh...right. Thus endeth The Great Milk Debacle of 2009.

The pics of the egg hunt here are from a party we went to the Saturday before Easter at one of Lilly's classmate's house. It was a fabulous party that the whole neighborhood participated in, and they had one whole yard for the "under 5" crowd and four other yards for the "above 5" crowd...and the cul de sac was filled with all of the neighbor's grills. Too fun.

Easter was fun too, and included one other Lilly meltdown, but she pulled it together after 10 minutes or so. The Easter Bunny was a hit...and she is still enjoying the stamps, magnifying glass and gardening gloves.

We took some video and I am trying to learn how to upload it, but I need some technical assistance from Rhonda...but stay tuned!!!!

Monday, April 13, 2009

easter sneak peek...

Running late, but I know there is a certain someone (Jo!) who needs a picture fix...so here is a sneak peek of the Easter fun....I promise there is more to come.....