February

Well, the trip to Boise was fun, but it seemed to trigger some regressive behavior in Lily - after five months of sleeping through the night, she started waking up every three hours demanding a bottle. It was probably the excitement of learning to crawl combined with the time zone change, but it took a good three weeks of sleep retraining to get her back into her old routine again. I don't really mind getting up for the 2am feedings, but it does annoy me when Jason doesn't realize that there WAS a 2am feeding. He's a bit of a sound sleeper...

New foods this month: Mango, broccoli, potato, and blueberry. I found blueberry a terrifying experience m- cooked and strained blueberry is essentially paint, and I was convinced every time I fed her that she would sneeze and I (and the living room) would end up covered in purple baby food. But it was fine, and of course she looooves blueberries right now. I figure cherries and beets are going to be just as much fun...

Lily gets to become a carnivore this month - as a Texan and twin sister of a professional competitive barbecuer, I'm a little excited by that. :-)

Okay, okay. So it's almost May. We've been a little busy. Mommy has been working 50-hour weeks, and Lily has been teething, crawling, pulling up, learning how to open tupperware...

But I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's pretend it's still February and I've just gotten up for a moment to get myself a cup of tea.

Lily has become a carnivore! We started chicken... and she hated it. Who could blame her? It was steamed chicken pulverized in a blender - I wouldn't eat it either. But with the addition of some sweet potato and some apple juice - best baby food ever! She's come around some. She also has occasional overpowering urges to hold the spoon. Not to eat from it so much as to fling it around in big circles over her head. for maximum wall food coverage.

And... (drumroll please - ) she has teeth! Two of them, and they were hard-won prizes. She doesn't seem to use them much, except on our fingers, when we're dumb enough to stick our hands in her mouth. They are awfully cute, though.

More new foods - barley, chicken, egg yolk, onion, apricot.

Did we do anything for Valentine's Day? I'm pretty sure we ordered pizza. Not a big holiday for us.

Blueberries! Nuff said.

Socks? What happens when Mommy and Daddy get bright ideas while folding laundry

On My Own...

Yep, she's pulling up. She'll start marathon training next week.

bleahh!
The picture is fuzzy because I was laughing too hard - Lily is trying to scrape chicken baby food off her tongue. Apparently, yes, it was that bad.

Brrrr!
Not Lily's first snowfall, but the first one she got to play in. She was fine until she got snow on her fingers, then she wanted to go inside.

Well, hello there!
Our friends Molly and Brady got Lily some sunglasses. She won't wear them over her eyes unless we're outside, but boy, does she love to put them on top of her head!

Just between me and the dog here...
Cristina caught Lily winking when we visited Boise.

Mmmm...
Lily finally decides to play with her baby doll... the way a cat plays with its dinner.