11.20.2008

Dolls and the park

This post has two videos, so if you're getting this via email, you'll probably want to click on the title above to get to the blog website to watch them. It'll be faster than downloading them.


Lila has become really interested in her dolls lately. She likes to change their clothes and feed them, sometimes with her own cup or food. She spilled milk all over one dolls face, and the leather chair, the other day trying to give the doll a drink. The first video is of her dancing with two of her dolls.





She is still talking a lot, and learning new things/words all the time. If you tell her what something is, she'll more often than not try to repeat the word. We went out to brunch last Sunday and Roman asked if she wanted some bacon and she said "bacon". She's making animal noises too, which is really cute. If you ask her what does a dog, cow, bird, horse, etc. say, she'll make the sound. I need to try to get a video of it, but she tends to clam up in front of the camera. She's still very willful and quick to tell you when she's unhappy about something. She does listen pretty well though, if we tell her to do, or not do, something.


We suffered through the heat and humidity all summer, and now we're enjoying some really nice weather here. For all of you in MN, think spring--sorry, not trying to rub it in. We went to the park by our house yesterday and I just let Lila run around the soccer fields with Manolo. She thinks it's so much fun to walk him around. Here's some photos and a short video of her.








11.14.2008

Ultrasound and more Elmo

We had the baby anatomy ultrasound today. They were able to get good views of everything except his/her spine, so at my next appt they'll just do a quick check to see it. Everything looked fine, and we got to see some of the baby's face. We didn't find out the sex, so we will be just as surprised as you all will when he/she is born. The baby measures in the 80th percentile with a pretty big head to match. I don't know how as I've only gained 5 or 6 pounds. I was hoping for a smaller baby with a smaller head this time around (Lila was 8lb 7oz with a big head at birth), but I guess we don't always get what we want right?

Lila's love affair with Elmo continues. My good friend Michelle ("Auntie Michelle") sent Lila a collectors box full of five different Elmos called Elmo Through the Years. Her other two Elmo dolls talk so she kept pressing the bellies of the new ones and shaking them trying to get them to talk. I think now she's finally figured out they don't make any noise. So with the two she had she now has SEVEN Elmos! She loves them all and has been trying to carry them all at once around the house. She'll come around a corner with three or four of them crammed in her arms. It's pretty funny.


Lila and her five new Elmos

All seven Elmos
Baby number two at 19 weeks

11.08.2008

Elmo

Well we've officially hit Elmo obsession. We don't really watch TV when Lila's awake, but we've been letting her watch Sesame Street lately. She doesn't like some of the muppets though. As soon as she sees Bert or Tele, she says "no, no, no, no" and tries to crawl into my lap. There are some other random muppets she doesn't like as well, but mostly just Bert and Tele. On the other hand, she is in love with Elmo. One day last week she just started saying "Emo, Emo, Emo" and pointing at the TV (which was off by the way). Now at different times throughout the day she'll hand us the remote control and say "Emo, Emo" like she was wants us to turn on Elmo. We tell her Elmo went bye bye or Elmo went night night. Sometimes she'll accept that and sometimes she persists. She has a couple Elmo dolls that her Aunt Teri got for her and until this week she rarely played with them. Both of them talk and she's been playing with them all the time now. The video at the bottom is of her having a small Elmo fit.






Daddy got her a new track suit


We got a jogging stroller a couple months ago. She loves it so Roman takes her running with him all the time.



This is how Daddy gets some extra resistance doing pushups. Seriously!



A nice "summer" day here in Houston (and yep, it's Novemeber)



Lila got a hold of the mesh laundry bag


11.01.2008

Halloween

All-in-all I think Lila enjoyed Halloween. We carved pumpkins Thursday night, and then Jenna, the neighbor, went trick or treating with us on Halloween. Lila got scared of some of the decorations as we went from house to house, esp. those that made nosie. Roman or I had to carry her to quite a few doors, but she enjoyed looking in her bucket to see what people had given her. She's never really eaten candy so she didn't understand what it all was until we got home. It was time to go to bed so we didn't want to let her try too much of the candy. We gave her some Twizzlers licorice pieces and she was in love. Today she's been telling us "bum, bum" all day. That's what she calls her trick or treat pumpkin (and any other pumpkin she sees for that matter).

We're having problems with our camera, so the quality of some of the pictures is poor. There's a video at the bottom of her after we got home with her candy stash.



She liked scooping the stuff out of the pumpkin

Daddy threatening his pumpkin

Coloring on Daddy's pumpkin design
Her costume has a hood that has antenna on it, but she won't let us put the hood on her head. So I made these antenna instead and attached them to two red hair bows. This is how we determined they were a little too long. She thought it was so fun to swing her head back and forth so the antenna would flop around.
She loved her pumpkin...

...as evidenced by her kissing it.
Mama and Lala's pumpkins


All ready for trick or treating

Going to the first house




Back home with her "bum"

Our pumpkins all lit up

I got crafty and made this halloween wreath for our door