This is one of Lilah’s new favorite things to do: putting on socks, shoes, gloves, leg warmers, etc.

Lilah loved posing for pictures with these glasses on.

Lastly, here is a video of one of Lilah’s favorite past times. She’ll ask me to turn on the music, then get me a blanket so we can play. Lilah’s outfit is adorable right?! Since she is potty training she needed to have something on that we could take off easily… many times… But I don’t want her little lets to get cold. I am happy that we aren’t having many accidents now so I can just put her in her normal clothes. The real challenge is trying to find underwear for a 16 month old! The smallest I can find is 2T/3T. They’ve worked alright though with pants over the top, to hold them up.

Here is a video of Lilah saying some of her favorite words for me.

Lacey, Lilah and I at the elementary school carnival. Tom was there with us too, but he was taking the picture. Lilah couldn’t go on any of the bounce houses, but she still loved walking around with all the other kids. We have such a fun neighborhood with tons of kids.

Here’s Lilah sitting on her very own potty seat. We have been doing this a lot lately. Things have developed quite a bit since my last post. On most days Lilah will go #2 in the toilet 2-3 times depending on how many times she has to go that day. I have gone for 4 day stretches without having to change a poopy diaper! She is very regular and always goes #2 at least 2 times a day.

She’s having a more difficult time with #1, but sometimes catches it really well. One day she went #1 6X! I think she still goes #1 so often that she doesn’t realize it’s happening sometimes. It’s probably because she’s still so young. I wasn’t even expecting her to be interested in doing this so early. She thinks it is really fun and gets excited to sit on the toilet. We get some false alarms because of it. When she does go potty or if she just wants to sit there for a while, her reward is getting to read a book. She never ever gets tired of reading books! I usually just let her run around in clothes without a diaper until lunch time. She is usually really good about telling me when she needs to go during that part of the day. Things get tricky when we are driving or somewhere other than home.

Lilah enjoying her very own bowl of stove-popped popcorn while we watch ‘Biggest Loser’ together as a family.

Here are 2 videos of Lilah all dressed up in an outfit of her choosing.

Here’s a video of Lilah’s crazy static hair after going down a slide.

Tom actually took our camera with him, so I thought I would just take pictures with my phone. Well… I should have known better. I totally forget to take pictures. I did take a few videos though and I’m grateful that I at least got that. Lilah decided to grow up on this trip. She started by learning to climb up the toy slide and slide down all by herself! I was so surprised that she could figure out how to do it! She’s quite determined. She probably went down the slide 50 times a day. After she learned how to climb up the slide she realized that she could climb up onto all sorts of things! She loved climbing into the high chair, onto the kitchen chairs, and across the kitchen chairs set around the table. She had a blast!

Here’s a video of her going down the slide…

Some of the highlights were: watching Lilah run through the water fountains, going toy shopping with Grandma, playing Yahtzee and Clue, taking walks around the loop, playing at the park, making delicious food, late night talks, Lilah’s big hugs for Grandma, Grandpa & Uncle Cole, and much more. Cole has been working super hard this summer at his job, harvesting some corn fields. He ended up falling asleep on the couch one afternoon, and I found Lilah setting a stuffed animal on his chest to share with him. She loves her uncle Cole!

Here’s a video of Lilah dancing to the bop it game…

Thanks again for having us Mom  and Dad! We had a blast and Lilah still seems pretty sad about being back in our quite house.

Lilah loves shoes right now and will try to put them on no matter whose they are… She keeps saying “that” in the video which is what she says all the time now when she wants something. She’ll point to something and say “that….that…” or she’ll hand it to you and say “that” if she wants your help with it. I think it’s so cute…

This is a video of Lilah at Blickenstaff’s Toy Store. We are in love with this place! Now if I only had a million dollars then I might buy something from there… lol Lilah especially loves the stuffed animals in the store and decided to give out lots of kisses with a suggestion from her Dad.

Lilah has her own little sense of humor and personality and loves to get attention and make people laugh. When she was really excited about something she use to tense up so much that her whole little body would shake… Well she saw that it got her a lot of attention and now she does it just to make people laugh… especially me cause I think it’s hilarious. In the video you can’t see, very well, that she is actually shaking but you can hear her when she stops holding her breath. She usually has that funny little smirk on her face while she’s doing it, then she shakes her whole face really fast… lol She is quite the little entertainer!

After the show we we’re planning on making italian soda’s and watching Moonstuck (per recommendation of Sarah’s dad), but Smith’s was out of the right kind of flavored syrup, so we just did the latter. Cher and Nicolas Cage in an Italian comedy? I didn’t know how it could work, but it was surprisingly funny.

Tonight Kristie and I didn’t feel like cooking, so we went out to dinner at Los Hermanos for a little mexi-excellence (or at least mexi-mediocrity, depending on your mexican food standards). I personally happen to be fine with the Del-Taco-Bell’s of the world, having never lived south of the border, or anywhere near it.

After dinner we met up with Kristie’s girlfriend Amanda and her fiancee Houston for dessert at Maestro’s (tasty gelato…check it out). It was great to catch up with them and get to know Houston. He plays QB at Snow College (a renowned D-1 feeder school) so we’ll be keeping tabs on his college career.

When Kristie and Amanda were talking earlier, they discovered that both of us had purchased movie tickets to an 11:30 showing of the new Batman movie, The Dark Knight. So after dessert we headed to the theater, where we were met by a monstrous line, even thought we were 45 minutes early. Despite having to sit in the wayyy close seats, we all really loved the movie. Ledger’s Joker really did live up to the hype, as did the film in its entirety. See it if you get the chance…

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