Month 9

       It’s July and it is hot!  I can’t believe that I have already been on summer break for a month.  It is going too fast, I am already starting to miss Lily!  Lily and I have gone to several barbecues and parties.  She of course has been the hit of them all. 

 

       The big excitement of this month is Lily’s first camping trip outside of the womb.  She is so tough and loved it so much!  Unfortunately, fire danger was “Extreme” for most of the summer and the fire ban didn’t lift until midnight on the last night we were there.

       We spent a lot of time hiking while we were there.  Lily did phenomenal on the hikes and couldn’t quite understand why everyone was so tired.  She even napped on the way when she was bored of seeing us struggle.  On the hike to Nolan Lake we were all worried because we lost Fiji.  As we were slowly making our way up, we heard from other hikers (on their way down) that Fiji had “guided” them part of the way and then disappeared.  We eventually caught up with her.  When we got to the top, a little Spanish girl yells out “Fiji.”  We look at each other and ask, “Did she just say Fiji?”  Apparently she had been the Sherpa for that family before meeting back up with us.  Lily was not surprised, she knew the whole time that Fiji was safe.

       Grammie and Papa had invited us to stay in the cabins, but Lily insisted that she wanted to stay in the tent.  Lily, the dogs, and I were so brave we even stayed 2 nights in the tent without Rob. He had to go to work in the middle of the week and we were without him for about 2 days.  While camping we also celebrated Rob’s birthday.  Lily loved celebrating with him and helping him open presents.

       We also celebrated Kyle’s first birthday.  Lily made her debut as a beach babe.  Kyle’s birthday was a pool party.  Lily enjoyed showing off her new bikini.

       Lily and I spent a lot of time in Denver while Rob was working and working over time.  We enjoyed getting to see our family and friends so much.  We also got to take Auntie Jenna out to lunch on her birthday.   Lily had a blast showing off to anyone who would pay attention.

 

New Developments for Lily:

       She is definitely crawling now!  She is not super fast but she can get around much better than when she was just rolling.  She likes to hang out with older babies because it inspires her to try new things.

       She has also started to pull herself up on things.  She started by pulling herself up on the high chair.  She like that it had two bars to shimmy up.  She is getting quite confident in holding herself up on various things around the house.  Rob and I are getting much more confident in our baby proofing however, each new milestone Lily reaches we realize we have more work to do.

       Still no teeth.

Month 8

       I am officially out of school and loving spending my time with Lily.  We start out the month with a trip to Chicago to show Lily off to Rob’s family.  As I said in my last post, Lily only got a little sick and only threw up a few times.  The last time she threw up was on the way to the airport.  This made Rob and I very nervous for her first plane ride.  Luckily, Lily is the perfect baby and was just fine on the ride.  We actually got compliments from other passengers, who I am sure were not excited to be seated next to a baby!

       Chicago was fantastic, but very short.  We were only able to go during Rob’s 4 days off.  Unfortunately, we did not get very many pictures, I should just bring Jenna along on my trips to document what we did.  We arrived Wednesday June 13^th in the evening and then left around noon on Saturday the 16th.  We spent a lot of time eating all the wonderful Chicago food while we were there.  It was even more wonderful to see family and be able to show off Lily.

When we arrived we had Chicago Beef sandwiches, they were good but a little rough on my barely healed stomach.  (Still not feeling 100% after being sick.)  Lily, of course, was wonderful and entertained her Dzia Dzia and Busia (Rob’s parents) right off the bat!  Busia had an entire wardrobe for Lily for her visit out to Chicago, I shouldn’t have packed a thing for Lily, Busia had us covered.  Thursday was a pretty relaxed day.  We went out to a nice Italian restaurant for lunch.  Lily wore an adorable dress and sat in the high chair like a big girl!  We tried to mash some peas to feed her, but they were too thick and she hated it!!!

That evening a couple of Rob’s cousins and aunt came over and it was nice to visit with them.  Friday we spent the morning shopping around, which Lily loved!  We went to Cabela’s and Lily got to see the large aquarium in the store!  When we got back it was bath time for Lily (see funny story below).  Busia thoroughly enjoyed bathing Lily in the sink!  That evening Dzia Dzia and Busia threw a big party where family and friends stopped by to meet Lily and see us!  It was fun to see all of the little kids running around.  Lily is very excited to have so many friends when she goes to Chicago.  Saturday morning we were off to the airport.  Lily was wonderful again on the plane ride.

       Funny Story:  While we were on our way home from shopping (while in Chicago) Lily started to freak out in the carseat.  She has been doing this lately, not really enjoying being in the carseat for extended periods of time.  We tried to ignore it, but it was hard, because she cries so hard she chokes herself.  Dzia Dzia stepped on the gas in an attempt to get us home faster.  Rob decided it was just time for us to pull over.  I pulled her out of the carseat in an attempt to calm her down.  That’s when I noticed there was poop all over my arm and shirt because Lily had exploded out of her diaper.  Rob came back to help me change her and wipe her up the best we could until we got home.  While Rob and I were frantically cleaning Dzia Dzia and Busia… were laughing in the front.  I guess that’s one of the perks of being a grandparent, you get payback for all of the drama your kids put you through!

       Lily and I spent a lot of time at Grammie’s house while Rob was working.  It was fun to see her play with Grammie and Papa.  It was also nice to have some help with Lily.

       Lily’s new friend Trevor was born at the end of June, so we went and visited them in the hospital.  Lily got a big kick out of seeing another little baby.

       We finished off this month with the 4^th of July celebration.  Lily has so many cute clothes that we had a costume change half way through, to make sure we got all of her Holiday clothes on her!  Unfortunately because of all the fire bans we were unable to do fireworks, so we will have to see what Lily thinks of them next year!  Lily’s betrothed, Kyle was at the party as well.  We had a blast getting pictures of them and watching them “play” together.

New Developments in Lily:

Lily will get up on all fours now, but will not crawl yet.  She still drops her legs when she is ready to go somewhere, but let me tell you she can really cover some ground when she wants to!  Rob and I have been reevaluating how baby proof our house is.  I assume we will have to reevaluate every time she learns a new skill.

Lily is still trucking along with trying new foods, pureed of course!  She is also still waiting for her teeth to come in.  I keep thinking any day it will happen.