Things I want to remember FOREVER!

I have got into a runt, Lilly does and says the cuttiest little things and if I dont make it my status update on facebook than usually it never gets wrote down. Honestly I know it stuff that I will forget over time but I would love to read years down the road and laugh at what a amazing little girl she is. So here it goes... a few Lilly-isms!

-When we drive down Walnut Creek across the rail road tracks she almost always knows where we are at, The Donut shop. "momma donuts, yes Lilly that is donuts who takes you there, daddy" please note that I never take her to get donuts.
-When driving by downtown Fort Worth on I-30 she gets all excited to see the "Princesses Castle", "big castle" Im not sure exactly which castle she is refering to but Im pretty its the old abandon post office.
-She is such a people person, (see she is NOT Jennifers child) on most occasions she wants to hug everone and has to know everyones name. I can tell when she is not in her comfort zone.
-She is sleeping in a twin size bed now, her Big girl Bed as she calls it. So when she wakes up her normal rutine is to bring all of her bedding, which includes her pillow, princess pillow, Lillian pillow, night night, one or two stuffed animals and possibly another blanket with her to our bed so she can watch cartoons. It use to be a nice cuddle time while we tried to wake up but here lately its turned into a wrestling match and pretty much makes you jump out of that bed!
-She loves loves loves taking pictures, finally something that she gets from her momma! So we are selling her iPod touch and gave her one of our old iPhones that has a camera on it. Let me just say that she is pretty darn good. While at the Ranger game the other night she stole Natalies phone and took a few group pictures of all us adults (note a few of us may or may not have been consuming an adult beverage) Im sure the near by fans were amused at our parenting skills! Then best is when she wants to take pictures of us while we are driving.
-Taco Casa, this is a little old but still a good one. Oh how this girl LOVES her some Taco Casa. It was really cute when she was learning how to say it "oco asa, nooooo Taco-Casa". When driving by she gets all excited to see it, we have been on a diet from Taco Casa so lately we have had to tell her that its closed. So what does she do know when we drive by "Taco Casa (in her excited voice), no Taco Casa closed" We have taught her so well.
-She is terrified of Snakes, and anything that might look like a snake (ex: stick or wire). Although she did pet a snake at the Zoo yesterday, she was very proud.
-Butter put a frog in his mouth the other day, wrong choice buddy. So while Lilly and I are watching through the back door while butter acts a fool in the grass and foams at the mouth Lilly is determined that he needs to go to the Dr. ASAP. She has such a motherly soul. Maybe she will be a Dr one day, she loves watching Doc McStuffins on Disney Jr.
-Chris wins daddy of the year award for teaching her Wistle Baby by Flowrider. Yea yea yea, I just cant take my 2 and half year old singing about THAT... so now as soon as we hear the opening of the song I hurry and change channel and she tells me "Bad song, wistle baby bad song mommy, daddy sings it" BUSTED Daddy! lol

Yes Im sure this list could go on and on but thats good for now.

Okay!

Just a WHOLE lot of rambeling and updates about Lilly. One of the cute things she is up to lately is instead of saying "yes" everything is either "no" or "okay", It makes me smile every time. She is growing up faster then I could ever dream possible, it seems like just yesterday her okays were high pitched, with much excitment "NO!!!!" somewhere along the line she learned what she was doing was wrong.... hmmmm funny how we learn stuff! Well our lifes are changing again and I hope the optimistic, Chris took a promotion at work. Thats sounds all excting except that means a lot of retail type hours which stinks if you ask me. SO I pray that he gets the experience he needs in a leadership role and gets the heck out... in Gods timing I suppose. And for me, well, I should already be signed up to take my HESI test so I can register for nursing school but taking a semester off has been really nice and Im procrastinating a little bit, OUCH! At least we always have eachother. I tell Chris quite often that I cant picture where we were before Lilly and I honestly mean in... Like what did I do with all my time? Thats my excuse for being fat! I must have sat on the couch eathing all the gosh darn time! Here are a few pictures to update the blog a little bit!

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The Beach is a B-E-A-uitful place!

Labor day weekend we planned a little family get away just the 3 of us. Although I was really wishing my parents might tag along just to have a nice family bonding time, it turned out really nice just being the 3 of us! Chris took off Friday and Monday so we dropped Butter off with the parents and we were south bound 45 by lunch time! Traffic was horrible, Im usually not one to get car sick but my anxiety was on edge and the stop and go traffic was about to make me go insane. Lets not mention miss priss in the back seat. Our last road trip she did so well, it was almost soothing for her driving 12 hours to Georgia but our 4 hour drive to Galveston, not so much. By the time we finally got to our room we unpacked and headed to sea wall to get something to eat (first real meal of the day :( ) Something about the ocean waves is so peacful. Saturday morning we woke up had a nice peacfull breakfast in our room that came with a mini kitchen... BONUS! watched some cartoons and got in our swim suits and headed to the beach... So much fun. Lilly was obcessed with the waves coming up on her and the sand/mud, she would have lasted for hours on end. There was this little girl who was quite annoying, I suppose it actually kind of sad when you think of it. Her young mother with 3 other kids was to busy sun bathing to play with her own daughter that she had to come try and drag my little kid around, Um no thank you! Other than her the beach was really nice, Chris even did his taditional cheetos to the sea guls.... scared the crap out of Lilly at first but she warmed up and tried feeding them her self. We built sand castels for lilly to destroy once her pretty blue eyes layed sight on them. Sadly the crazy wind slowed us down a little too. So we had delish Ice cream from downtown and then headed back to the room for a nap, that evening we went to Rainforest Cafe all for the Princess, We took a safari adventure ride and had a fabulous dinner, I pretty sure Lilly was in heaven because she was soooo good the entire time. We saw faces from her we have never seen before. There was some crazy storm coming in and the wind was INSANE.... if i didn't know better I would have said it was a hurrican! Sunday morning we grabbed some shipley's donuts and headed to the Deans house for a nice litte visit, Lilly feel in love with some pineapples thanks to aunt Belinda! then shortly after we headed to the Astros game. Chris wants to travel to all the MLB baseball stadiums when we travel and I thought it was a good idea! Lilly had a little accident due to a quick diaper change in the car- she really is too big for that :) but all in all we had a great time! Minute Made Field was extreamly nice to have AC because we have been to some Ranger games that were extreamly HOT HOT HOT! the energy in the stadium was a little sad... Lilly was boared out of her mind because there was no chants going on. After the game we were well on our way home to have a nice relaxing Labor day to our selfs!

Life is a weee bit CrAzY!!!!

Well I thought I should get on to update about this craziness!!!! For starters Deb went to Michigan and my parents went to Colorado at the same time, we are so greatful to have great sister who are so willing to adjust their schedules to help us out and flexible jobs! Aunt Jen is going to need a vacation when all this is over. So early last week I decided that I wanted to paint my bedroom. I had also agreed to watch Skilar, so I had my day planned perfectly. I got up early got ready, got the girls up and ready, then we headed to the home depot to get my paint. I planned on staying out and about long enough to wear the girls out so they would be ready for lunch and a nap by the time we got home. My plan was working out great, Chris even came home just in time to help me paint too... I love that man!!!! Not 30 min into painting my DUMB self spilt the paint on my carpet.... UGHHHHHHHHH... getting paint out of carpet is a pain in the A** let me tell you, so we did our best and cleaned up the majority of it and got back to painting before the girls woke up. Those cuties have ears like a hawk because the minute one calls out the other one is short to follow. So I put Butter outside and got both girls up gave them a snack and left them to play a little so we could clean up. I wanted to help out as much as possible with Skilar so I had planned on putting both girls in the tub and feeding them dinner before Jen came to get Ski.... When all was said and done and I started thinking about dinner, Chris asked where Butter was..... HOLY SHIT.... My whole world crumbeled. I had left him outside for over an hour and I know he had very little water. When Chris went out to get him he was hidding under the swing not moving but panting very hard, we rushed him in the bath to cool him off but nothing seemed to be working he just stayed very weak :( I freaked out neadless to say. So we pack up 2 1.5 year olds and a VERY sick dog and headed to the 24hr vet. They were extreamly nice but really I felt like all they wanted was our money, so $140 dollars later he was given some fluids and we were back home.... That whole night I was up with him, and when I finally went to bed I knew in the back of my mind that my baby would be gone in the morning.... Much to my surprise when my mother in law came over to watch lilly he was standing up on the gate. Praise the Lord!!!! I really dont think I have slept less in my whole life... even when Lilly was born. So that pretty much sums up my crazy day... whoooo

Lilly-isms

My child is a hoot, and really quite smart. She has mastered turning my lights on and off (which can be quite annoying in the middle of the HOT HOT summer to come into a room and find that the ceiling fan has been turned off or to come home one night and cant see the key hole at the front door because someone has turned off the lights), she LOVES to flush the toilet and Im not sure why but she always seems to find the flashy silvery handle when she is in the bathtub! The other day she found a paint sample on my bed and she turned it over to find the Home Depot logo and said "JEN", that didn't make daddy very happy, lol! Every night she does something to make me laugh, I love every minute of it. Chris and I were talking and mentioned that quite honestly she could be the only child we have. I then came to terms that I dont think that would be very fair for her in her later years of life, she needs a sibling for when we are old and dead... RIGHT? What else is this silly girl into? Her new favorite character is Elmo she points him out everywhere we go, and really enjoys finding him on her pampers. She is talking quite a bit, usually I can tell what she is saying but sometimes not so much. When I ask her to tell me agian she does, exactly the same way and most times I still dont know what she is saying. Im pretty sure she is going to be a great navigator, when we pull into my parents neighborhood she starts saying everyones names... Skies, papa, Jen, Gigi, Mimi (in no order of importants of coarse!) and when we pass by Ihop she says MMMMMMM, I wonder why? I can not begin to list all the things she is saying now but some of our favorites are belly button (bum-bum) and eye brow (eye- bum), she screams for yogart as soon as she sees those danimals in the fridge! Lilly is our little sweet, compassionate child, She loves to be rocked at night with her night night and bedtime prayers, we never say goodbye with out 'big hugs' and kisses. Kisses can be normal kisses, butterfly kisses and her favoirte eskimo kisses (or let me rub my nose in your face till you fell boogers!). None the less we love her SOOOOOOOOO much!

I have the best sister in the whole wide world!!!!!