Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Hang Time

While Dean was living with us we acquired a day bed from some friends. Even though Dean’s gone now we’ve decided to keep the bed to use for Lily whenever we decide to move her out of her crib. Until that change happens, though, the bed is being used as a launch pad for Lily’s tiny little feet. Not only is she going through a stage of wanting to remove all blankets and pillows from each bed in our apartment, but she takes the chance to jump on the beds any time she can.  We’ve been so fortunate as to only have had a few falls off the side of the bed, but even that doesn’t deter her for too long. I think my favorite part of the jumping is that she usually sings while she jumps and I can feel her joy. Here are a few pictures from a recent bounce session with Atlas. Lily was definitely the one getting more air…

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We’ve also been trying to branch out on our movies. As anyone could have guessed by now, Lily is obsessed with Tangled. As much as I love watching that every day, I’ve been trying others out to break things up a bit. Lily has been pretty receptive to the new movies and has her own little names for each of them. She usually goes through the whole list multiple times a day trying to get me to say yes to one, and sometimes she is successful, but no matter what we watch or don’t watch, she’ll never forget to ask for Tangled. She’s coming along great with her words, but here’s the list of movie titles only I could interpret: 

Beauty and the Beast = B B Beast

LIttle Mermaid = Yittel Menain

she calls Monsters Inc. “Mike Wazowski” = My Owkowski

Hercules = Her Kittys

Kung Fu Panda = Pana Bear

Friday, March 16, 2012

Happy Birthday Clark

Yesterday we celebrated Clark’s 31st birthday. Clark seemed to think it fate that it happened to be on the first day of March Madness and therefore decided to stay home from school and watch basketball all day. And when I say all day, I mean all day. We turned the games on at 9 in the morning and finally turned them off at around 8:30 at night, and that was even before the last game finished. By 2 or 3 in the afternoon I was ready to pull my hair out from all of the games but I knew that would ruin the birthday fun so I stuck it out. Definitely one of Clark’s ideal ways to spend a day, if only he had done better on his bracket ;).  We had some pizza and cake and he even got a birthday song from Lily. I spent a good part of the day making fun of how old he is (I know it’s not that old…). It’s so great to spend time as a family and celebrate these special days together. We even got a visit from Clark’s brother Dean, who finally gave Clark ownership of the tie Clark’s been begging for and never actually returned after he borrowed it…

Here’s a pic after Lily blew out Clark’s birthday candle

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