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.

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Lily has been taking steps here and there for the past week, but for the first time this morning she walked to a destination (Mommy!) all by herself.

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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!

I haven’t had a chance to update since we have all been down and out with a stomach bug.

 Since last update we have been quite busy. We went pumpkin picking and met some animals at the petting zoo. We played with friends and spent some lazy days hanging around the house. Be sure to check out lots of new pics in the October folder.

Lily has been learning lots of new stuff. She blows kisses and gives big hugs. She growls at Aunt Lynn and makes monster noises. She says her new favorite word, “No” about 10,000 times a day. She has an ever increasing vocabulary, including Lily, Hello, Baby, Mommy, Dada, Elmo, Cookie, Baba, Horsey, Kitty, Meow, Dora, “Who is that?”, “What is that?”, Woah, Yum and Wow. She also can identify different peoples’ noses and touch them. When she does she goes “Beep”, even to Elmo and Cookie Monster.

One really new thing is she has begun to self potty train herself by only going to the bathroom in her Bumbo chair. It is quite entertaining to watch. I can’t believe all these things she is learning!