My weekend with Lillian

I simply cannot describe how much fun I had with Lilly last weekend when it was just the two of us.

Will drove Sophia to Grancy and Big Daddy's house for the weekend. Grancy took Sophia and Christina, Uncle Rob's girlfriend, to a Princess Tea at the Ritz. Sophia was head over heels in love with the idea of seeing Grancy again...so soon after seeing her at Thanksgiving, but that's another blog entry. Coming soon.

Anyway, Lilly and I had a magnificent time on Saturday playing with all of her toys. And for once she got to play with whatever she wanted to without worrying about her big sister getting mad.

She loves to follow me around the house to help me with my chores. One thing she is really good at is helping with the laundry. I hand the wet clothes to her and she stuffs them into the dryer. Then when the clothes are dry she helps me carry the pile to my folding area. I love having her helping hands around the house.

On Saturday we spent alot of time reading books since that's one of her favorite things to do now. That and turning light switches on and off. She's so proud when she climbs up onto her chair to read one of her books. She acts as if shes reading them...just blabbering away.

Since she sees Sophia brushing her teeth in their bathroom she also wants to be a big girl and brush her teeth too. While I was putting some clean clothes away she was in the bathroom standing on the stool giving her teeth a good scrubbing.

She was repeating almost everything I said and a few new words stuck with her through the whole week. CUP, UP and the sign for YUMMY. Of course, her favorite word is still SAYEE (Sadie). She's been saying that for months.

On Sunday evening we went to a birthday party for a little boy turning 1. The party was at My Gym and I thought Lilly would have a great time climbing and exploring, but instead it took her almost a half hour to warm up. She really got a kick out of the bubble machine and playing the games, but I think her favorite part was eating cake.

Of course we missed Will and Sophia, but I know we both really had a super time together. She's my little Lilly Bean.