Grandpa Bart and Grandma Kiki came to visit for a long weekend and as always it was a great time. I took Friday off work and Grandpa Bart, Colleen, Simon and I went to a baseball game. The rest of the weekend we spent in the backyard playing with the water table and just relaxing. Oh, and there might have been some baseball played. Grandpa Bart and Grandma Kiki know their little grandson well and got him a set of his very own bases for his early birthday present. The *entire* weekend the first and only thing he wanted to do was play baseball. Anything else we did was pushed on him... Grandpa clocked about 100 hours as pitcher and Simon is hitting better than ever. We even got his glove on him and he is starting to catch - or at least not get hit by the ball every time. Lillian is a much happier baby than the last time Grandma and Grandpa saw her and Kiki especially loved the growling conversations.
A little snack with Grandma Kiki's help.
Hi Grandpa Bart!
Simon holding Lillian
Happy baby, watching her grandparents and brother play.
On my birthday Simon and I took some selfies... just me, him and his new flip phone. (which he got for free at a garage sale, it has no cord or charge.)
We are starting up sleep training again and while I'm really looking forward to having her sleep trained, I really hate the sleep training. Good part is that she is really starting to sleep better at night.
We had a great weekend. We got a watertable for the kids, so there were many hours of water play. Lillian stood and watched Simon and chewed on toys. Simon was very careful with her and though he complained a bit about her slobbering on the toys, he was very good about understanding that it was a shared toy.
We also had a great night out with Colleen and Joe on Saturday night. We'd been wanting to go to fondue for a while, bonus that the weekend we were all free was my birthday weekend!
She sure loves her brother.
Eating all the pancakes.
She likes sitting sideways, I just could not get her to face forward
Lillian was laughing up a storm as she swung. Sadly to hear her giggles you have to also hear my very loud boo. (PS her shirt says "stop texting and change me"
Alan was playing with the slow motion on my phone.
Lillian loves to growl. I think part of it is that so many people love to growl at her in order to get her to growl back so she gets lots of attention when she growls. She and Alan will sometimes have long conversations growling back and forth before she bursts into laughter. Here are the kids growling at each other today.
Lilly hasn't quite figured out how to crawl yet, but she is apparently now able to pull herself up into a standing position if she has a support at just the right height... like, say, the edge of her crib.
The other day I lay her down in there for a minute while I left the room, and when I came back she was standing up against the edge and so proud of it. She's still not great at remaining upright though, as you can see in the video after the jump...
