This summer has been so much fun with Lily! She is such a vibrant little girl who loves life and loves to have fun. She is always exploring and finding ways to get into things. She is trying to imitate us more and more is all kinds of ways. Not only what we say but how we do things as well as what we do. For example she’ll throw a bag over her shoulder, get her little stroller and tell me she’s going “bye bye”, then she’ll drive around for a while and “park” her stroller and tell me “I’m coming home now!” She is all about testing boundaries but has been responding very well to consistency and clear rules. For example, she was having trouble staying in her big kid bed at night but when we stopped letting her in our bed and we ( I ) put her back in her own bed every time she finally got the idea.
Lily is amazing me with her love of singing. She picks up new songs and tunes incredibly quick and will be singing them around the house all day long. We were at Target the other day and she spent the whole time at the cashier singing the Olympics theme song at the top of her lungs and making everyone in line laugh. We also started learning Christmas music for ward choir last week and she was singing along with us. The great part about that is that the song we were learning says “Gloria, Gloria” in the chorus and Lil (due to her Tarzan obsession) kept saying “Gorilla, Gorilla” instead. I love this little girl!! :) We definitely spend a good portion of the day with Disney songs on the Pandora station and she sings her little heart out. I would much rather prefer that to songs she would pick up (or already has) off the radio or having the TV on.
We have spent lots of time at the pool this summer and Lil is a little fish. She LOVES the water. She loves jumping in and luckily doesn’t get freaked out when she goes under the water. She does seem to have a problem, however, with splash parks. She will not go near the squirts of water for some reason.
We’ve been having fun around the house trying to find new ways to entertain her. I love that she has a much longer attention span and can focus on an activity for more than 30 seconds these days. She is so fun to watch when she is filled with wonder and amazed by new things, or even just when I can see her thinking and trying to figure things out on her own. She has been having fun with chalk lately and has filled our patio with scribbles. This is the best alternative I can give her for coloring on the walls inside… I also made her some bath paints and let her loose in the tub, which was a big hit! Kind of a waste of body wash, but… anything that lights up that little face of hers! She has also spent more time helping me cook and bake and she loves it. She has figured out how to move around chairs or her little princess potty to use as step stools and loves being able to get into everything. She also now knows how yummy cookie dough is and will stand there with her mouth open saying “Ahhh” until there is no more dough left.
I recently got Lil a set of rain boots and an umbrella and she could not be more in love! We took a little trip to the park for a photo shoot and got some great little shots. I love my beautiful sweet little girl!
