Like most toddlers, Lily is really into being naked and cannot wait for her few minutes of clothing and diaper freedom before bed each night. She runs around the house dancing in circles and proclaiming "I naked!" over and over. The process always starts with her saying "dress off," "pants off," ext. until she is down to a blissful nothing. The other night when she was fully undressed, she started pulling at her hair and saying "hair off." Blake and I of course rolled with laughter and when she realized the joke, she started naming everything... "eyes off," "ears off," etc. and laughing.

Lily is learning new things every day and constantly keeps us in a state of laughter and amazement. She is still a little inconsistent on her colors, but knows several shapes, a few letters and can count to 10. She still loves monsters and has added dragons, dinosaurs and hippos to the list of things she wants to "watch," "read" and "color." She also loves to play with stickers and feed and care for "Baby Lucy" (which is the name she calls both of her baby dolls).

Allergy Update: Lily's 1-year allergy follow up tests were a few days ago. The good news is that her milk and egg allergy numbers have decreased significantly and we will be able to test with real eggs when she turns two. Milk will probably follow next year. The bad news is that she is definitely allergic to Cooper. This was not really a shock, but hearing it as fact packed a heavier punch. The verdict is still out as to whether we will indeed will have to say goodbye to Coop... stay tuned.

Getting Baby Lucy ready for bed.

Watching the snow.


Giving Baby Lucy her supper.

Merry Christmas To All...

Christmas has come and gone in a blur this year. It doesn't seem like we had the house decorated or the tree up for more than a few minutes before it was time to take it down again. If not for our tree that turned into a shedding green porcupine in a matter of days, I would have hung on a little longer.

Christmas Eve began with Lily getting sick over breakfast at a Cracker Barrel and then again in the doctor's office. At least we were in the hands of a well seasoned physician whose first comment to us as she entered the exam room was "augh... don't get it on me, I don't want to get sick." Hmmm... a pediatrician who didn't realize she might come across a sick kid that day at work... awesome.

Sickness aside, Lily LOVED all things Christmas. I had a hard time even picking out an ornament for her because she loved all of it... Santa, Rudolph, the "Bumble" from Rudolph, Frosty, the Grinch, etc. etc. Christmas morning though, she was a little hesitant to go see her loot and just wanted to "eat bekfast" and "watch ginch." So that's what we did until she was ready to go at it. It was nice to take our time and just enjoy hanging out together.

Opening a wagon with PaPaw.

Jingle Bell Run

                                                                                               

Lily LOVED this Santa.

Didn't love this one.

World's Tiniest Drumset

Asking Mommy to play.

Tea party with Dad.