So Lily is so funny to listen to these days. She is so full of imagination and between her imitations of us and making up her own worlds we are always amused. She has tons of fun making up words and changing the words to songs or things that we normally say. For example there is a song she sings at story time at the library to get the kids to sit down on the floor before they begin but at home she changes the word “floor” to “duck”. So she’ll say “Everybody come and have a seat on the duck” and she’ll watch to see our reaction and just laugh and laugh. Other times, when we’re watching football, we’ll tell her to say “Go baby!” and she’ll say “No. Go davey!”. She gets such a kick out of being silly with her words and usually we do too.
She has picked up a quote from the movie Monsters Inc. that she uses ALL the time! At least once a day she’ll tell me, Clark, or whoever comes over to “Get it together, man!”. It never fails to make me laugh and I am amazed that it usually fits the situation. She is such a little smarty.
She recently discovered my garlic press and has decided that it is a phone. She’ll flip it open and talk on it like a phone and say things like “Hi. how are you.”, “That sounds like fun!”, “Oh really”, “Um, ok, lets do that”, or other things like that. When we ask who she’s talking to she’ll casually say she’s talking to the bunnies. Whoever they are :). I love watching her little face while she is on her “phone”.
She has also discovered that our colander makes an excellent hat!
One of my favorite Lily quotes recently happened early in the morning while she was saying her usual “good morning” to the baby in mommy’s tummy. She had her head on my stomach and she heard my stomach growl. She turned to me and said “Mommy- the baby’s tooting!!” I just about died with laughter but didn’t even bother with trying to explain what was really going on. Lily has now had 3 friends within the last 2 months get new babies in their families and I think she is very aware of what is going to happen next month. She is so in love with these other little babies and seems very excited to get “her own” very soon. I have been so lucky as to not be very big during this pregnancy and I didn’t even really show much until my third trimester, but with 1 month to go Lily can finally see my large stomach and imagine a baby in there. Lil hasn’t been patient enough to actually feel the baby move but I’ll fake it for her and she’ll get so excited to feel my stomach move. I know she’ll be a great big sister and just fall in love with our new little one, whether it is a brother or a sister.
I have been struggling with slight feelings of guilt at the thought of taking away Lily’s “only child” status. I don’t want her to be an only child nor do I think it’s wrong for us to have more children, but I get sad at the thought that it might make her sad for a little bit. She currently has all of our attention and I don’t want her to feel inferior in any way to the new baby. I know she’ll be so excited she probably won’t even notice, but I still worry. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see. I love my little angel and hope she knows that!
