Lillian on a morning walk - saying birds!

Lillian is almost a year and a half (just 3 weeks shy) and she is a communicating machine. She has been amazed with her recent forays into the outdoors and LOVES birds. We dropped Simon off at school in the morning and then she and I took our time walking down the sidewalk to get home. Here she is saying Car, Birds and making her hysterical surprised face. 

Sleeping Simon

I know a couple of these are a little dark, but thought you would enjoy.

PEANUT BUTTER FOR EVERYONE (except Alan)

The current American Pediatric Association's guidelines if there is a close family member who has food allergies is to get a scratch test at an allergist at around a year old. We are a little late for Lillian, but it was the soonest we could get an appointment.  Lillian was awesome in the waiting room waiting for the doctor. The scratch test was done on her back with 10 items and a pin prick for each one. She didn't cry but got progressively more annoyed with the nurse who was pricking her (totally understandably). We watched her back closely while waiting the 15 minutes for the results to appear. There was one big hive appearing and Alan and I worried about what she was reacting to - trying to figure out which thing she was allergic to and plan the rest of her life without it. When the nurse came she told us that the hive was just a control to make sure she could make a hive at all - so...

RESULTS: NO ALLERGIES!

We are still introducing things slowly just to be extra cautious, but she is very unlikely to have a reaction to anything. She had peanut butter that night.

Waiting patiently in the room.

Scratch test on her back.

First spoonful of Peanut Butter

Simon Writing his full name

He got a little distracted on his first name because he kept looking back to make sure I was watching
But he's very proud that he did it. He said his name is very very long

Greetings from the tiniest baker!

Photos from Simon's Classroom

Simon's teacher does a blog daily and I have pulled out some of the pictures from the past couple months so you can see them.

Learning about magnets.

Much to  her disappointment, Pearl is not magnetic.

Author came by to sign books!

Simon is under all those books on the left.

Making a yogurt parfait for a friend's birthday treat.

Story time.

Ahoy!

Practicing making pizzas - sequencing and counting.

Eating with the class.

Bagel Faces!

Couple cute Lillian videos

She will be 17 months at the end of the week. My how time flies!