Haunted Queen Mary

The past couples weeks have been really difficult with Lillie. She has learned how to pull herself up on things, but didn't know how to get down. This made napping impossible and so she was really grumpy/frustrated for two weeks straight. So I guess I was in crisis mode when I said that I would love to go to the haunted Queen Mary and get scared out of my mind. Yeah, not sure why I agreed to it now. No, actually it was really fun and nice to get out, without having to take a diaper bag with me. It was the first time (here) that we left Lillie under someone else's watch and went out of town.
The Queen Mary is a ship that is permanently docked in Long Beach and every year for Halloween they put together these mazes with scary things and scary people to jump out at you. We met up with people from Eric's class and Troy and Mikelle, it was nice being in a bigger group. And I have to admit it was fun watching this Pig Man chase Mikelle around, he would not stop bugging her. Freaky.
I want to go back and tour the ship, after the Halloween season. I was too distracted by gory scenes and freaky people to really enjoy the Queen Mary.

My Sister, the Princess

I know this is on my sisters' blogs but I wanted to post it also. One of my little sisters, Jody, was the Junior Princess for her high school's Homecoming this year. She's sassy but we love her. Congrats Jody. She's pictured with my handsome nephews. Miss you guys!

Florida? No, THIS is the SUNSHINE STATE

This is madness. I have never been in such hot weather at the end of OCTOBER. It is over 90 degrees pretty much every day. I hate to complain but man, I LONG for chilly days. Jackets, sweaters, hats, mittens, hot chocolate... I love it all. I just want to sleep with a blanket on my bed, is that too much to ask??

The Cat in the Hat

This is the before picture.
And the after picture. This is our little family as pumpkins. The mischevious one is Eric, the happy one is me, of course, and the crying baby one is who else, Lil.
Troublemakers, the lot of them.

Tonight was our ward's annual Trunk or Treat. I was really nervous because I didn't think anyone would show up (I'm the ward activity chairperson). However, there was a good turnout, we ran out of candy and it was a fun time. Lillie went as the Cat in the Hat and Eric and I were Thing 1 and Thing 2. I was really happy about how our costumes turned out since I made it all but the wigs. Lillie was really good about keeping on her hat and bow, too.

Some Pics

9 Month Visit

Yesterday Lillie went in for her nine month appointment. I didn't have the anxiety taking her to the doc that I normally have because I only thought she would be getting one shot this time, but I was wrong. She got two shots and a blood draw. Ouch! From my limited experience as a nurse I do know that it is DANG hard to get an IV in babies. So, let me just say that they did a remarkable job, even though there was a little digging for the vein. Needless to say, it was a traumatic experience for her and me.
Anyway, I just thought I would put up her stats from this visit. She is tall and skinny. 28.5 inches long, 75th percentile and 17 lbs 10 oz, 30th percentile. She's normally been in the 50th percentile for weight but the doc said its normal to lose some at this age because she is so active.
She is still army crawling (fast), loves to pull herself up on things (like our big shoe rack, which she pulled on top of herself today), and loves, even more, to walk around holding onto your fingers. She has said both Mama and Dada purposefully and correctly. She has started to imitate words and voice inflection that you say. Today, she was trying to say "I love you" back to me. Lillie loves to sing when music is playing. She loves spending time with Hallie, stealing her toys, etc. After a bout of not wanting to eat or drink, she now loves food again, especially whatever we're eating. Eric even gave her an M&M the other day. That would not have flied if I'd seen it go down. She has started to throw dramatic fits when we change her diaper, clothes, or put her down. Not good. She even tries to "tell us off" by crying and saying "Na, na, na" over and over. She loves reading books. She loves her dad, always wanting to go to him, wrestle with him, etc. She is a wonderful sleeper, which has made all the difference in the world the past three months.
We love her so much, love having her in our family, and are amazed at how much she is growing and learning each day.

Outting to the Park

climbing like a pro

Lillie took a while but we've finally got her pulling herself up on stuff. Here she is in action:

LOL

Tonight we had some friends over to play games. All three husbands are in dental school. So we were playing Catch Phrase and the word was "square root". The description for "root" was the bottom of the tooth and all the future dentists could come up with were words like "apices" and "furca". Both of which I have no idea what they mean, but neither sound like "root". So they didn't score that point. Come on, Brad, "square apices"???? It was a fun night.