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I suck, you really don’t have to tell me. It’s been months, MONTHS!, since I’ve posted a damn thing on here. I totally blame Lily. If the little shit hadn’t learned how to walk I’d be much more able to update you on our lives. She’s a whirling dervish, never stops moving. I’m exhausted. Um, don’t get too excited, this isn’t going to be some massive post. I just wanted to inform everyone that we are alive and well and sufficiently thawed out from the winter of my discontent. It was a rough one folks, but we survived. I am not a hearty mid-westerner that can just chalk it up to another one for the books. I was miserable, hated it, don’t want to ever do it again, but unless you know someone that wants to buy a house, I think were here for a few more of them (God willing not as long or as cold, or as snowy).
So on to why you’re really here, Lily. Oh man, she’s just the coolest kid. We had a few rough spots (teeth, a viral thing, a couple of boo-boos, etc.) since I last updated, but all in all she’s just the shit. I have photos updated and posted in the link on the side bar. I hope they do justice to her amazing little personality.
I can’t guarantee I will update more frequently, but there’s always hope, right?
We’ve been telling the Grandmas for a few days now that Lily has been taking steps and I finally caught it on video. There is a small hitch though, you’re going to have to crank your neck to the side to see it the right way. Oops, my bad! Enjoy it anyway, and yes, she has a cord in her mouth. Cell phone chargers are way more fun to play with than any Fisher-Price toy.
I haven’t really “blog” blogged since starting up again. In all honesty there really isn’t anything interesting enough to write about going on. John goes to work, Lily and I hang out and do our day, sometimes that includes playgroups, Kindermusik, or runs to Target. See, not worth wasting energy to document, but if anybody cares I had a bad case of food poisoning last night (which is weird because John ate the same thing I did and no, I’m not pregnant), Lily is cutting tooth #11 and it’s a molar (those suck so much more than regular teeth, which I didn’t know was possible), and there is like 30 feet of snow in our yard. Ok, maybe not 30, more like 29. Does everyone know I hate living in the Midwest with the passion of a 1000 suns? Well, now you do.
So what’s with the post title? It seems our beloved camera, the one Lily thought needed to take a plunge in the toilet, isn’t as dead as we thought it was. This is good and bad, good because I love this camera and we didn’t really have the funds to lay down for a new one, bad because I found an Olympus I think I could love just a little bit more and didn’t care that we don’t have the money for it. Here are some shots of our not dead camera. Enjoy.
This is our driveway after being partially shoveled out. It’s still snowing, but we had to start sometime.
Lily’s been making this new face where she scrunches up her nose and sort of gives a snort. It’s pretty darn cute.
Such pretty blue eyes.
UPDATE (5:20PM CST): It’s snowing again. I’m thrilled.
Got some more Lily goodness to share with y’all.
The background on video #1: As per our usual, we were sans camera when I made our Lily Girl laugh like a mad woman. How the story normally goes is that one of us parents will do/say something that the girl finds high-larious and therefore we are required by parenting law to do it over and over and over and over and over and over yet again in order to receive the bounty that is our baby’s laugh. This time it was me making fun of John (I do this quite a bit, he’s an amazingly easy target. Nice, no. Delightfully enjoyable, yes) and his new swimming begoggled breathing technique (you’ll understand once you see my flailing about in the video), well the wee babe thought this was oh so funny and after she laughed for almost a good two minutes we remarked “we should film this.” As in most cases the “let’s try this again” version isn’t as monumental as the original, but this is pretty damn cute. Fair warning: naked baby contained herein.
These were filmed today. The first one has my Annoying Mom Voice (Why? I don’t know.), but they are both adorable because they star Lily.
One thing to note: there won’t be any new videos or pictures for a while. Lily decide to drop the camera in the toilet. As our good friend Unkey Ry-Ry asked “why was the baby playing with an expensive piece of electronics?” My fault, as was the raised toilet seat (the thing I verbally beat into John’s brain because the baby could drown in it!) So yeah, we’re down a camera. We’ll buy a new one, of course, with money we don’t spend on the dog, because, yeah, we don’t have a dog anymore. Long story short, he’s going to be some other person’s problem. It’s best for all parties involved. We’ll just leave it at that.
Our girl gots to dance! Lily loves music, any tune will do. Her new fave thing to do is listen to our cell phone ring tones. She scrunches up her little face in a goofy grin and be-bops her little body up and down. IT. IS. A. RIOT! Thanks to Motorola she has plenty of rump shakin’ tunes to choose from. She thinks she’s so cool, it’s downright adorable. I’ll try to get a video of it, but the little rascal has become self-aware and whenever the cameras make their appearance all activity stops.
Sorry for the lazy, I’ve been meaning to post this new video of Lily as well get the 14 month photo link up in the sidebar (which will be later this week). Things here are pretty good. Lily is getting to be a decent cruiser, but still won’t take an independent step. She stands on her own really well, but isn’t quite confident enough to move without support, but she’ll get there.
Her eating is improving and we are actually getting some whole milk down her. Her nap schedule, which was so solid (2 a day), has started to change. She’s starting to transition to one and it’s hard on all of us (probably hardest on me as I really relied on nap time to get some things, like showering, done).
The weather is awful, freezing cold. -5 right now and that’s not factoring the wind chill which makes it about -15. Just ridiculous. Lambeau is a big wimp. When it’s this cold he won’t go potty on the lawn, he does his bidness on the patio, so right now we have frozen puppy pee puddles that I’m pretty sure we could just go pry off. Gross! We’re pretty happy with how the house is handling this cold overall. There is only one window that we feel needs replacing as it’s currently covered in frost, which is not a good sign. Today’s the big Green Bay game. I can’t imagine the level of insanity it would take to actually be at Lambeau Field, but we’ll be watching it in glorious HD on our big screen, snuggled up in warm blankets on our way too comfy love seat recliners rooting on the Packers. I’m a Denver Broncos fan (and yes, you do remember correctly, we DID beat them in Super Bowl XXXII), but have no problem rooting on GB. I’m especially happy for their success as there are two former BSU players on the team (Daryn Colledge #73 from North Pole, AK and Korey Hall #35 from Glenn’s Ferry, ID) that I used to watch (in person) play on the Smurf Turf.
Okay, I have to go get ready for church. This is my week to serve in the children’s ministry. I work in the K-1 class and I really love it. I’m stunned that services aren’t canceled today, but I have to remember that these freakin’ Midwesterners have dealt with this kind of weather for generations.
Here’s Miss Lily:
Last Saturday we took a road trip up Nort’ to Wisconsin so I could finally meet John’s cousins on his dad’s side. We’ve been together for three years and this had yet to happen. The most ridiculous part thing about it is they actually live the closest to us out of all his family. That’s just nuts. John’s cousin Tammy hosted and Lily and I also got to meet her children Charlie (3) and Sophie (20 months), his Uncle Fred, Aunt Mary, cousin Monica, and her son Auggie (3). Like most good Wisconsin men Tammy’s husband, Ben, was ice fishing so we will have to meet him the next time we visit.
I did take the camera, but I must have been having a really bad day as most of the photos turned out awful. Here’s the best of the bunch.
Lily having fun with all the new toys
Lily and Charlie
See what I mean about awful?!!
Lily and Sophie hanging out together after naps
Auggie - I wish I had this kid’s energy!
Riding the see-saw!
They also had gifts for us! So nice to visit and get gifts. Mary made us a beautiful afghan and Tammy gave us a cool vase/candle holder for our wedding (which was in November of 2005! ) 
Lily wasn’t left out of the gift giving either. Mary’s gift, it’s a good snuggle size. 
We had a great visit. Monica and her husband own a bakery so we got a quick tour at the end of our day and she sent us home with some yummies. No photos of those as they were eaten right quick! I don’t know why it took this long, but we’re excited to see them again soon and I think Lily will have a great time growing up with a girl cousin so close in age!
This was shot on my Pentax digital camera, so the quality isn’t the best. I’m still waiting for my Firewire to do some editing from our video camera. Apologies for the annoying “mom voice.”
Guilt, it’s a powerful thing. I’ve heard from some folks that they really miss seeing and hearing about Lily, because let’s be honest, nobody really gives a rip about John and I. That’s OK. We get it. We think she’s pretty great too.
It’s a new year, so a new blog. Your Lily-fix is here. Feel free to OD!
