Time is flying. Everyone survived the seven millionth stomach epidemic and we have been enjoying a very quiet week off. Lily had a great Easter and was spoiled with lots of presents from Grandma and PopPop Mick. She has gotten really into building with blocks and playing with her Little People animal sets.

The craziest thing these days is the garbage disposal that is Lily’s stomach. For the past 6 days straight she has woken up, sat up straight, and said “BREAKFAST!”. And let me tell you, breakfast is no joke around here. She will eat two pancakes, four or five pieces of fruit, eggs, a slice of turkey bacon and still want more.

Well, Halloween came and went.. and we had a blast! Lily spent the afternoon at Mom’s school, getting to be in the big kid parade. She had so much fun hanging out with all the cool 10 year olds!

At night we came back and spent the evening handing out candy with Mom, Dad, Kory & Aunt Lynn. Seth and Lily were quite the neighborhood hit in their costumes. Lily had some chocolate and didn’t go to bed until 11pm! Good thing she got to nap the whole next day with Daddy! Check out more pics in Lily’s October folder under Pictures!

Now that Halloween is over, we get to move in to Mommy’s favorite part of the year! I already bought Lily most of her presents and I can’t wait to open them. (Sometimes I think toys at this age are more for the Moms and Dads to reminisce!)

On the learning side, Lily has also been experimenting with taking a couple steps here and there, although she is not quite ready to walk. I am starting to think after watching everyone else with their walking kids I may just never let her learn… sure seems a lot easier! Her vocabulary continues to astound me, she knows many animal sounds now and can say Thank You when you give her something. She is one smart little Yoda!

Well, Lily is officially one year old! We celebrated more on Thursday with more chocolate and even more presents. Lucky baby!

 Yumm! Delicious!

Lily even had some more pictures taken at Picture People to celebrate the day.

I had to create a Second Year folder in Flickr. How crazy is that? Second year already?

Be sure to check out some of her new pics!

This weekend we had family over to celebrate Lily’s First Birthday (a few days early)! We had a duck themed party (largely pulled off with the cake decorating expertise of Kory!) and Lily had fun smashing cake into her face (and a little bit into Daddy’s too!). For her first birthday, Lily got a special gift from Mom. All summer, I have been working on a special present for Lily. I wrote and designed a book featuring Lily and her lost duck and had it printed through MyPublisher. Be sure to check out a copy of the book at: http://www.mypublisher.com/bookstore/book_viewer.py?order_id=M389379&sp=x

Check out the all-new BIRTHDAY PARTY FOLDER under the Pictures link at the top of this page.

Lily takes the holiday VERY seriously…