Lillian's New Slippers

I got Lillian some slippers while I was at Target the other day and she loved them! She walked and walked in them for the first 20 minutes or so. Then she realized she could take them off and they haven't both spent more than 15 seconds on her feet since. As soon as you put them on she pulls them off and kisses them (aka eats their faces).  She still loves them though!

Lillian gives kisses

Lillian gives kisses to everyone now as she heads off to bed. She laughs and laughs when she gets close to Simon though, so he usually just gets giggles. Most of the time kisses are actually licks, but there is a certain charm to them just the same. She gives kisses to her baby doll all the time and will often bring her over to us to help shhhh, rock and pat and while we do that she kisses the baby. 

Lillian stacking blocks.

Lillian and I were stacking blocks and then I realized that I hadn't posted on the blog about it so I pulled out my phone and found that she really didn't want to stack blocks for the camera (thus the first video). I put the camera away but close by and then when she started stacking blocks again I gave it another try. 

Thanksgiving 2014

We had a small Thanksgiving this year, but fun just the same!

Morning snuggles!

Working out! Lillian is 20 lbs and Simon 30 lbs. I was tired after this!

Relaxed Thanksgiving Meal.

Saturday at RoscoeBooks

We got a local bookstore! I'm so excited! I dragged the kids, Alan and Jenn (who was visiting) out to their grand opening. It was a fun day and we all got new books!

First we checked out the digger at the end of our street.

At RoscoeBooks, Jenn and Simon are reading on the bench.

Lillian is so excited!

Lillian - all over the place.

Things Lillian knows (13 Month)

After she turned a year I figured I would stop the monthly updates on Lillian, but I was so amazed at how much she learned this month and how much she knows in general that I couldn't resist one more monthly post.

1. Lillian has 15 signs: More, all done, hungry, banana, clean (aka wash hands), drink, banana, diaper, book, milk, hot (blows on thing), blows kiss, waves, please and thank you.
2. She has 10 words: Hi, Mama, Dada, shoes, socks, Go, Si (for Simon), See (for Jessie), Ph (for up) and of course dog.

Middle of the night...

Last night Simon walked around the bed (past Alan) and woke me up at 3 o'clock in the morning to look me in the eye and tell me 'I want daddy'. Sigh.

Lillian eating

Blocks and dancing with Lillian

Lillian has had a rough couple days with four of her molars coming in. She is sleeping poorly and generally hurting, but she still loves to dance! She also loves the phone, so many of my pictures are blurry because as soon as she sees the phone she makes a dash for it. She will often come up and pull my phone out of my pocket. I'm not sure what she plans to do with it when she gets it but she knows that she wants it!

Who cares about blocks now that there is a phone here!

You are making me sit here, I will get that phone.

I am watching you, lady.

Whew! Now I get to see my lovely face close up!

Removing Wart from Warty Toe - First Surgeon Visit

We went in for our consultation with the plastic surgeon today. We all got there a bit early and so Simon and I showed Alan the fire engine. The boys got in a good 15 minutes of play in before we had to go down for our visit.

Simon was a rock star, as always. He was patient with all the measurements and talking to the nurses. When the doctor came in he remembered some of the questions we had talked about on the ride over and for the past couple days.  After the appointment the nurse brought us into their offices and on top of the shelves there were tons of toys and games that had been donated for the kids with appointments. Simon honed in on the basketball immediately! He asked the nurse to catch and they played for a while - until finally we tore him away. The whole way home he talked about how awesome his basketball was.

Surgery is scheduled for December 5th.

We thought this was an old disconnected phone and that Simon was talking to himself so we let him play.  Turned out it was a direct line to the registration desk.

Look Dad! A fire! GO FAST THAT WAY!

Happily getting his blood oxygen level taken.

Pictures of Warty Toe for the file.

Playing catch with the nurse.

Funny Lillian faces

Some fun faces from Lillian...

Lillian is getting coordinated!

Simon's 2014-2015 School Photo

Full size for anyone who wants to download it.

Breakfast out, Lillian tries cold milk

Simon had hot chocolate (in an expresso cup) and Lillian laughed and laughed while Alan tickled her. Then she tried some cold milk. She was undecided and drank the first couple times it was offered and spit it out the second time. 

Warty Toe Checkin at the Children's hospital

Because of the weird location of the wart on Simon's toe (partially under his toe nail), we've been going to a dermatologist at Laurie's Children's Hospital for checkups while using a topical wart remover. We went today for a checkup and found out two things: 

1) There is a really cool fire engine in the hospital. A real engine that got cut into the right size and then hauled up onto the 12th floor by crane! The kids can climb all over it and press all the buttons which really make noise and flash lights (but no siren, it is a hospital). There was even a tree top overlook that let us see down to the lobby below. Simon was more impressed by the fire engine. 

2) He will need to have his wart surgically removed because it's not responding to the wart peal we've been doing. We'll see a specialist later this week - a plastic surgeon.

He and I took the opportunity of us being on Michigan Ave to go to the Lego Store and play a bit. 

Seeing if he could play with the ball from the statue kid. He couldn't get it off.

Playing at the Lego store. We didn't buy anything, just played.

Lillian's Hand Eye Coordination

Lillian is getting quite dexterous! Here she is putting blocks on the counter bar things.

Here is yesterday morning, just Lillian walking around and hanging out. Nothing really special happening:

Raiding Jenn's Phone

A few Saturdays ago, after Jenn watched the kids I raided her phone and got a bunch of older videos and pictures. There are a ton of super sweet pictures and videos. Here they are, in no particular order...