Happy Thanksgiving from the mountains!

Lily had a wonderful Thanksgiving in Steamboat Springs with family.  Earlier in the week she went swimming at the hotel and watched the Packer game with her cousins.  When we got to Steamboat, we went to the hot springs right away.  Lily liked the warm pool and watching all the people.  We even had her go under water a couple times.  She had so much fun at the condo playing with her cousins.  They carry her wherever she wants to go and were constantly entertaining her.  On Thjanksgiving, mommy and daddy left Lily with all her babysitters and we went to the Strawberry hot springs.  It was nice and relaxing after stuffing our faces and Lily loved hanging out with everyone.  Each night before bed she would give everyone in the room a kiss.  On Friday we went to dinner and to the tree lighting.  It was quite cold so we left right as they lit the tree.  I am not sure what Lily will do without all these people to entertain her.  She will be very bored this coming week.  Lily seems to feel mostly better, but her ears are still bothering her so we may be headed to the doctor again this week.

Sick Day....or 4!

Lily had a rough week and got a terrible cold.  She was down and out for at least 4 days.  Throwing herself on the floor while screaming, had her pacifier all day long, and completely irrational.  One night she asked for a banana so I gave her one, she took two bites and asked for a new banana, eventually I gave in and gave her a new banana and she took one bite before screaming for another.  This is just one example of how things went this week.  The good news, everyone came to visit and Lily is seeming to turn it around.  We went to the doctor and they say she has another ear infection.  Today though Lily is seeming slightly better.  It may just be all her new playmates, but she was smiling and giggling and acting somewhat like that happy girl I know and love.  So excited to spend the next week with family!

And a couple from last weekend
with Grandma Krings.  Thanks so much
for watching Lily for us!

Happy Birthday, Great Grandma!

I love you so much!!

"Where's my coat?"

Lily is so excited about figuring everything out these days. Earlier in the week she stayed home with daddy and she went to get her coat and boots because she wanted to go play outside. 

Mom and dad, who?

Lily is learning more signs and still all over the place.  She is getting a little better about drop off time at daycare.  This week I dropped her off and she was being very clingy until her favorite teacher, Maggie, asked if she wanted to go get breakfast for everyone and she left my lap to go to the kitchen with Maggie.  I tried to say bye, but she didn't have time.  Later in the week Travis dropped her off and another teacher asked her if she wanted to paint and Lily took off and waved bye to Travis.  I can definitely start to see all the benefits of sending her to daycare now, even if I am still sad to leave her some days.  She has such a blast all day with everyone!

14 Months

Where did this gorgeous, fun, destructive, independent girl come from?  Each day is more and more fun and I love watching her grow!

Trick or Treat...I Got This!

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Lily had an amazing first time going to trick or treat.  Her friend, Anna, came over and we all went around the block together.  At the first house-our next door neighbor- Lily found out she got things with wrappers , but was very confused as to why we were going to someone's door and not going in.  She walked up to the door like a pro, but to leave I had to pick her up and she started to scream.  She got over this quickly when she found out we got to walk up to another house!  She continued to walk up to houses all by herself, but needed a little help to grab the candy and then leave.  She started to get the hang of it after a few houses though.  She had her little pumpkin bucket for her candy and no one was allowed to take this from her.  I tried to take it once and got the look of death as she clung to it.  We then went back home and had a party until 10 pm!  We figured with daylight savings time we better keep her up late.  It was such a fun night!