LillyAnna Love

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Valentine's Day 2010..my smallest sweetheart

This a dress that Eric sent from Korea, Annalese was too big to fit in it at time he sent it, but Lilly isn't.

This was taken on Feb 10th, she was 11 months and 1 day old in this picture, she began crawling & pulling up this day.

Since she is a preemie her development is right on track for her gestational age. In this pic she's trying to stand up.

Lillian & big sister Annalese. Annalese is so excited that Lillian is crawling now, she keeps saying "she's getting bigger." They both can't wait to run and play together, I'm sure it will be happening in the blink of an eye.

Monday, February 1, 2010

I have to post a few of these pics...got the girls matching Tutu bathing suits, I LOVE dressing them alike! I know I won't be able to get away with it for many more years so I'm doing this while I can. =) I had to share these, I just think they're too cute!!! These were of course taken before Annalese hair cut, just a couple of days before.

Friday, January 29, 2010

more pics of Annalese's new do

Annalese's First Real Hair Cut

So I woke up in a funky mood...I should have known when I acknowledged I was in a funky mood not to do anything rash but alas I did. I took scissors to my poor trusting toddler's hair. I think it was the scissors that went bad and not my skills because it did not turn out like I had hoped. I had been thinking about cutting her hair for a few days because lately she's really been fighting me when its time to pull her hair up in any way and it was getting so long to leave it down just resulted in her looking shabby within an hour of good hard playing. Well after I took a few inches off I realized that I was doing a pretty shotty job at trying to make it to not look like someone took a pair of dull scissors to her hair. So I called my ever-faithful friend Anna and asked her where she took her son Jimmy to get his hair cut and she told me of a place that I could just walk in at. The only other time Annalese had had a professional cut her hair when while I was getting my hair done another stylist trimmed her bangs up (and got them way to short for my tastes). But no professional had ever cut the back of her hair. So off the girls and I went, we had to wait for about 15 mins but the girls just waited patiently without a fuss. Annalese got to sit in the barber seat that had a little red car attached to it so she was happy. I explained to the stylist what I had done and the lady looked at me like "yep seen this one before." Annalese was a perfect angel, never cried or fussed just happily sat very still and let the woman cut her hair. After all was said and done I think it looks cute but I do miss her long hair Oh well, we can grow it back out again. But from now on we'll just keep it trimmed nicely (by a professional) so it doesn't look so shabby when it gets long.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Funny things Annalese has said today (keep in mind she's only a 3 yrs & almost 2 months old)---
On the way home from preschool I was confronting Annalese about her teacher saying that she wasn't following directions very well today and Annalese was avoiding the conversation. She repeatedly attempted to change the subject and I kept confronting her, she then said "Oh Don't Worry about it Mom."
After a non-nap-naptime for Annalese I was talking to her about her responsibility chart and how she would not be getting her smiley face for taking a good nap today and how she would also be missing the one for showing respect due to her behavior at preschool today. I am baffled at her behavior this week because last week she did so well and only missed 4 smiley faces all week. I was thinking maybe I need to change the reward for getting all her smiley faces in one day to motivate her more, so I asked Annalese "what would you like to get for getting all your smiley faces in one day?" and she held up both index fingers and said "CANDY OF COURSE!"