lily lately

lily reached the 18-month mark and started growing by greater leaps and bounds.  here are a few updates.

lily is great at helping clean up her messes.  
(seriously, a drop of milk spills out of her cup, she goes and finds a towel,
and wipes up the "spill."  i need this to continue.)
she is very good about putting her toys and books away in their appropriate bins,
and always puts her shoes away when we ask her.  i hope we can keep this trend going.

lily has learned the fine art of eyeliner.
you're never too young to start.

she still loves maggie.  a lot.  maggie...well, maggie does not have the same level of love for lily.
unless there is cheese involved. maggie can hear string cheese opening at a hundred paces
and will come running, and follow lily around until she has gained a piece.  

a love of ice cream cones has been developed.  french fries and ice cream.
i'm pretty sure this girl would live on those two staples forever if she were allowed.

lily has made friends with a stone statue of a little boy sitting on a bench in the backyard.
it is a daily thing for her to go out there, sit on the bench, and put her arm around him.
sometimes she gives him kisses.  sometimes she tries to feed him rocks.
it's all about the love, though, right?

mama's shoes have become a hot commodity around here.
she's figured out that she can wear them,
and keep them on if she shuffles veeeeerrrrrryyyyy carefully.

entertaining herself with random objects around the house happens a lot more frequently.
and mama's shoes are still a hot commodity.  

the swings at the park are her favorite thing.
lily can sit and swing forever.  the higher she goes, the better she likes it.
her giggles are infectious, and i love the pure joy and total bliss of her.

she has been showing signs of getting ready for potty training.
while i spend a weekend at the beach with my lbc girlfriends,
kevin is taking one for the team and will be spending
the weekend potty training lily.  we'll see how that goes.  

lily lives for our walks so she can hold maggie's leash.  

maggie is ok with it as long as we're moving.  

besides, if lily is holding the leash, she isn't showing her 

boundless affection to maggie, which is all maggie really cares about.  

plus, maggie lives for our walks, too.

also, i'm in love with lily's giggle.

lily hears the frozen soundtrack at her sitter's a lot.  and she loves it.

lily will randomly sing "let it go, let it go" or sometimes just "go," and

has even woken up and started singing it.  we bought her the soundtrack

and have it on pretty much constantly around here (luckily it's good and

kevin and i enjoy it, as well.  and we're not sick of it.  yet.).

however, i've been trying to capture lily singing for about two weeks now,

and was finally able to catch it.  

our lily bean is getting more and more verbal every day, and is able to do more every day.  it constantly amazes me how much she changes.  i'm loving this stage, and just love our little family and the place we're in right now.  it's pretty much perfect for me.