Lilly-isms

I absolutely love Lilly's speech right now. She picks up words so quickly these days-have to be really careful what you say! She will attempt to say almost anything you ask her to say. As I'm sure it's normal for most kids, Lilly says some words really strangely. Her little mouth and tongue are still trying to figure out how to make some sounds. I thought it would be really interesting to record all the funny words she says because I'm sure it won't be long until she starts pronouncing them correctly.

Elephant-aletant

Kathy(her babysitter)-Kaw-key

Glasses-gassens

Blocks-blockens

Zebra-vreefra

Lilly-either just baby or Yee-yee

bucket-bucken

giraffe-raff

toys-coys

tree-cree

guinea pig-inny pig

Some words she repeats the ending sound (especially if they end in s or sh). For example, Brush is "brush-sh." Purse is sometimes "purse-ss." Josh is "Dosh-sh" (although Lilly still seems to call him Matt much to Josh's dismay!)

She also has a lot of generalizations. For example, all bags are purses. Any furry animal she doesn't know the name of is either a bunny or mouse. All dogs are called "Dozers" (and yes, it is plural!) Blankets are "sleepies" because that's what her lovey is called. All drinks are "babaa's". All birds are Peekas (that is our parrot's name).

Also, she starting calling me "mom." I don't really approve of this because I think she should still be calling me "mumma." I don't really know where she came up with this! Like, she'll run up to me and say, "Hi Mom!" Or the other day I got the hiccups and she kept saying " 'cuse you, mom!"

I have some videos of her naming things in her book and looking at the fish tank but I can't get them to upload. I will try in another post.

Snickers

I just realized that this is my 115th post. In the blogging world people often commemorate their 100th post. Oops. Guess I missed that one by 15 posts. Oh well.

So we have settled into the hum-drum of summer at our house. Things seem to have settled down a bit and Lilly and I have spent a lot of time at home. We have been going to the library on Monday mornings for story time and Lilly has finished the summer reading program and earned lots of coupons for free ice cream cones. Good excuse to go get ice cream, right?


I wanted to take Lilly's picture in her dress last week before we left to go out to Levi's parents for dad's birthday. Lilly had to bring all the stuffed animals she could carry. She calls her giraffe a zebra even though she knows the word giraffe! This was taken in the sandbox. I made her take off her clothes before she got in.
I brought Snickers, the guinea pig from my classroom, home for the summer. Lilly absolutely LOVES Snickers! She goes up to her cage and screams at her, stuffs toys in between the bars and feeds her "snacks." Then she will run to this chair, sit down, and say "lap, 'Nickers, 'inny pig?"

She has to give anything soft and furry a kiss!

Debbie and Jim's Wedding

Aunt Debbie and Jim's wedding was at Apple Mountain in Freeland on Saturday, July 11th. My pictures are all out of order, sorry.

Lilly discovered the joy of ranch dressing. Want some carrot with your ranch?After the ceremony. Our little Henning Family.

Peeking over grandma's flowers.

Aunt Debbie and Jim at the chapel.

Lilly and Uncle Josh. She called him "Matt" all night. We're working on this!

Pretty Chapel.

Daddy throwing Lilly in the air.
Running in the grass. She got a corsage too!
Lilly and Uncle Matt (AKA "Mott")
My recent favorite picture. Doesn't she look like such a little girl here? Not a baby anymore!

Powder

I don't know why this won't appear anymore but here is the link right to youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CAAHwqXCvM

The McElroy's Visit

Our friends Erich and Carrie came to stay with us on their way up north. They brought their girls, Cassidy and Flora. Lilly really had a good time playing with Cassidy who is her same age.

First they read some books together.

We went for a wagon ride around the block.
Lilly sure is a little lady, huh? Good thing she's got shorts on and leggings. Wouldn't want to be showing everyone her diaper.
The girls picked some flowers for their mommies on the ride.
Then they played in the sandbox. Cass was a little unsure of this. Lilly likes laying down in the sand and Cass didn't even want to stand in it!

Then, of course, we had to have a tubby. They girls LOVED having someone to play with in the tub!

This video is the essence of everything a little girl is! Listen to all those giggles and screams! (Don't mind my giggles in the background!)

Then Lilly got to hold baby Flora. Doesn't Flora looked overjoyed to be held by Lilly?

Thanks for coming McElroy's! We had a fun time!