Festival!

Tonight we went to a festival near our house. Lila had a ball! Her favorite part was the fire truck.

Cheese, apples, and bananas came in a close second.

Well, the rolling slide was pretty awesome, too.  This thing hurt my butt, but Lila loved it.

(And speaking of slides, has anyone else ever noticed that it's dang near impossible to take a pic of your kid on a slide without photographing someone else's kid? Yeah.)

 

Busy, busy

Lila has been very busy lately.

She's already stealing the keys and driving away in the car.

Her grandma and aunt came to visit last weekend.  She was in heaven!  So many people to play with her!

And of course, lots and lots of trips to the park. Lila never gets tired of the park!

Opening Day at the Farmers Market

Yesterday Lila and I stopped at the farmer's market near our house.  We picked up a bunch of veggies for our garden, including Lila's favorite - cucumbers!

There was a nice lady with a hula hoop booth.  Lila was enthralled and spent quite a bit of time playing with the green hula hoop.

After shopping and exploring, we settled in front of the musicians to share a blueberry muffin. 

All Saturdays should be so lovely!

 

Happy Easter!

This morning, Lila had an Easter egg hunt with her buddy and neighbor Lauren. Lila and Lauren are just a few months apart in age, and they had a ball hunting for eggs together.





After a fun day of hunting for eggs and playing outside, we headed to family dinner with Lila's buddies Hudson and Grayson. We had Easter dinner together last year too, and I can hardly believe how much the kids have grown in a year. We didn't remember to take any pictures at Easter dinner this year, though. Guess that's the difference between having three barely mobile one year olds and three super-duper turbo mobile two year olds!

(Just for fun, check out Lila two Easters ago. Wow!)

Love.

A while back, we went out for a date night and Lila spent the evening with her friend Hudson. It was her very first time getting ready for and going to bed with someone other than Mama and Daddy.

Midway through our date, just as we were wondering how bathtime was going, we got this picture message.


And then we died of cuteness. (And vowed to go on lots more dates.)

Oldies but goodies

These pictures are courtesy of Lila's grandma, with whom Lila was fortunate to spend three weeks early this past winter.

Aside from so much time with her grandparents, probably the biggest highlight of Lila's winter was swimming lessons. She is quite the little fish!


Here's Lila at Grandma at Pate's house at Thanksgiving. All clean and ready to head to bed!


This is Lila and Daddy at the zoo at Christmastime. The lion was behind glass and yawned at just the right moment. Wow!


Lila is growing and changing daily, it seems. She's already so much bigger than she is in these pictures, and she's talking up a storm. She went from stringing two or three words together to speaking in complete sentences in about three weeks' time, and she hardly ever stops talking! (I have no idea where she got that from. Nope.)

We've been loving the warm spring weather and we've wasted no time indoors. Yesterday we took Lila's baby for a walk in her stroller, and when it started pouring rain halfway around the block, Lila was unfazed. She was so upset when I brought her in the house, soaking wet. She definitely got her love of the outdoors - rain or shine - from her dad, who took her back out to splash in puddles. They came back half an hour later, two muddy peas in a pod.

How to help your toddler overcome fear of the vacuum cleaner

Teach her how to vacuum.



Probably our best idea to date.

Who's two?

This girl.

In case you forgot.

Happy 2nd birthday, littlest love.

Two years ago today, we became a little family of three.

How is it possible that our tiny baby is two already?

make a wish!

Happy, happy birthday, baby girl. We love you more than you will ever know.

That's my girl!

On Saturday Lila and I had breakfast with Lila's godmother, Alex. Lila enjoyed pancakes, clementines, and peanut butter.

Not hard to tell what was Lila's favorite part of the meal!