Lilly's First Birthday

Lilly turned 1 year old yesterday. We had a lovely party to celebrate. Thank you to all who came to make the day special for Lilly. She recieved so many wonderful gifts. It's hard to believe that it has been an entire year since she entered our world.

At one year old Lilly can:

-Cruise around the furniture and stand up to just about anything. She isn't walking but it won't be too far away!

-Say "Oh wow!" and answers "Woof" to the question "What does a dog say?" (Along with many other words)

-Patty cake

-Climb the stairs (rather quickly, I might say!)

Lilly LOVED her cake!

She woke up and went right to her new wagon!


The Henning Family

Addyson and Lillian getting ready to go for a wagon ride
Lilly visiting with Grandma Campbell

Lilly and Addy sitting pretty

One Year Ago....

One year ago, Lilly made her entrance into our world and forever changed our lives. What a joy and blessing she is to have! It's amazing how much Lilly has grown and changed in just one year. We look forward to all she will learn and accomplish in the year ahead!

Stay tuned for birthday party pictures!

First Birthday Bug

Isabella County Fair

We took Lilly to the County fair last night to see the 4-H Animals. We saw horses, cows, pigs, chickens, roosters, and bunnies. She wanted to pet them all and was so excited the whole time we were there even though it was her bedtime! She seriously loves animals. Must take after her Daddy!

Petting the horse

Trying to pet a bunny

Coming soon....photos for Lilly's First Birthday!

Stinker Face!

A picture is worth a thousand words!

Lilly's First Camping Trip

This weekend we went camping with the Campbell's, Grimes' and Anderson's. This was Lilly's first experience with camping (let alone her first vacation). She did....okay. I think she's been having a little trouble with her teeth so she was a bit crabby anyway. She slept in grandma and grandpa's trailer. She woke up a few times but grandma was willing to love on her in the middle of the night. I found Lilly sleeping in between Grandma and Grandpa on Monday morning! Here are a few pictures from the beach. Lilly didn't want sand on her hands and she only liked the water once we made it to the sand bar. The waves washing up on the beach were scarey to her! Hopefully her camping experiences will become more enjoyable in the future. We'll try again next summer I'm sure....


On a side note...her new favorite word has changed from "doadle doadle" to "doady doady." Still don't know what it means.......but it sure is cute!

Half a smile. At least it wasn't her usually pouty lip. I tried not to post the pictures with the pouty lip. Though maybe I should. It best describes her camping experience!

Listening to daddy's Ipod? Or chewing on it!

Hanging out with cousin Ana."I've got some goggles!"

11 Months....already!

I can't believe Lilly will be 1 in just a month! Wow, time sure flies when you're havin' fun!


Lilly was sick last week for the first time in her short life. She was running a fever all week so I took her to see Dr. Fox and she said she had a virus and sore throat. Because her fever was so high she wanted to draw some blood just to be sure. Boy that was fun. Here is a picture of our sick little girl with her right arm wrapped up in gauze. It's a good picture of her two bottom teeth too.




Here's some fun facts about Lilly at 11 months

*Lilly can say da-da, dog, kitty and occasionally I get a mumma. She will look at Dozer when he walks into the room and say "dog." She mimics the sound I make when I say "hiii!" Her favorite word however, is "doadle doadle doadle." I'm not exactly sure what this means but she says it all the time and it sounds so funny. It almost sounds like she's yodeling.

* She pulls herself up to standing around the furniture. She doesn't quite cruise around it yet.

*She can climb up the stairs but she's careful and likes to have someone behind her.

*She makes this squishy little face we've termed the "stinker face." She thinks she's halarious when she makes this face (ok, we think she is too!)

The Stinker Face

*She still loves dancing. She'll start dancing to almost any music, TV commercials, toys, etc.


*She eats lots of real foods now. Some favorites are cheese, macaroni and cheese and of course, bananas. She doesn't refuse much of anything though!

*She has three teeth. Two on the bottom and one on the top. I think the other top one will be making an apperance soon.

*She loves books (that's my girl!) Her favorites are touch and feel books. We've checked out all of the touch and feel kitty books from the library now (they have three!)

*She loves the kitty. And he loves her....most of the time. One day I caught her with her thumb in her mouth snuggling up to him.

*She loves her special star blankie which we call her "spleepy." She burries her face in it and sucks her thumb. She also sleeps with her "pinky" every night (which is the green blanket that's pink on the other side).

Here are some recent pictures I took of Lilly at Nelson Park and some at home.