Random Photos

Here are some highlights from the last few days: This picture is actually from Saturday night. She was filling up the buckets and trying to get me wet. The funny part was that she would turn the bucket towards her and just dump the water on herself. But instead of pointing that out, I yelled "oh, you got me!" every time and she had a blast and I stayed dry! :)


Sunday night after the Rangers game, we came home to relax and watched "Wipeout" from earlier in the week. Suddenly, Lily is climbing onto the ottoman and rolling off. I asked her what she was doing and she said "playing Wipeout!". I didn't get any pictures of her doing it on Sunday night -- but Monday morning I caught her doing it again. What a great thing for her to learn and copy.

Monday morning we had playgroup at Ava's house. Since it is summer vacation already for some kids, there were 3 older sisters with us today who were nice enough to let the little kids play dress up with them. At first Lily did not want to wear a dress, she was only into the shoes and accessories. But then she came around and put on the Minnie Mouse dress (that is her dancing on the left). I am not sure what Delia is dressed as with the mesh see-thru shirt! They had one of those Fisher Price Entertainment karaoke toys that projects the kids images on the TV set up in the media room -- so everyone was loving watching themselves dance and sing on the big TV screen. That blur on the right is Lily dancing by.

Her favorite part was the shoes!

After playgroup a couple of us decided to go to lunch at Pei Wei. I knew it was probably a bad idea since Lily had been whiny and disobeying me all morning, but I thought maybe she'd do better with all her little friends there. I should have gone with my first instinct. She would not sit (even though everyone else was sitting nicely). She would not eat. She took her shoes off. She was a disaster and I was exhausted so I made her say good bye to all her friends and we left. I was kinda hoping she'd be more upset about it and learn a lesson -- she was upset as we were leaving, but then over it as soon as we got to the car. When I asked her if she knew why we left she said because she wasn't listening to Mommy and didn't eat her chicken. So that is good. Hopefully someday soon it all sinks in.

She ended up taking a much needed 3 and a half hour nap when we got home and I was hoping she'd wake up in a much better mood, but she was still fussy. We went outside and played for a bit:

She dumped more water on herself.

See how she turns the bucket towards herself?

Even with all this fun, she just wasn't listening to me and was acting out. Chip was getting ready to leave to go to the airport to pick up my parents and I did not want to sit at home and deal with Lily and her attitude the rest of the night so we decided to take a ride with him out to DFW and surprise Grandma and Grandpa.

On the ride there the sun was setting and it was really pretty. Lily was really enjoying it and kept saying "look and the sun and clouds. So pretty. Look Mommy! Look Daddy" then she told me "take a picture Mommy!", so I had to take a picture. :)