4th of July

Our 4th was fairly uneventful. We met some friends at a parade in the morning, but Lila got tired so we only made it through a short bit before we left to go home. In the afternoon we went to Grana Nana's house and had a little bbq. Lila slept through all the fireworks going off in the neighborhood, and there were a lot of them. That was it. Spent the rest of the weekend relaxing, running errands, and then went to church yesterday.

We have been having a really hard time leaving Lila in the church nursery. She cries and cries and is usually still upset when we go to pick her up. The church we had been going to only had one worker in each of the nursery rooms and there was no way that person could handle upset Lila while dealing with the other babies. We just started going to a new church and they have a great nursery there, with several workers in each room. When we went to pick her up after church this time she was actually doing okay. She was sitting at the little picnic table eating cheerios. As soon as she saw us she jumped up and started crying again, as if saying, "now I remember, you left me here!" The 20 cheerios that were in her lap fell to the floor, but in the midst of her crying she managed to shove the couple she had in her hand into her mouth. She's quite the character! We're hoping that if we stay consistent and bring her every week it'll get better.




Us at the parade







Lila checking out the floats


Her favorite thing--playing outside.


She likes to sit in this corner and play. The other day she barricaded herself in. She kept dragging more and more things over and then plopped herself down to survey her work.