A bunch of photos...

No time to write alot, but will review our past few weeks in photos:
Lillie's Birthday:
Birthday Kiss!!!

Nurse Jennifer came to Lillie's party! She was the nurse who took care of Lillie for 4 days at TCH. It was so special to have her at the party!!!



Sweet 1 year old Lillie Ann!



Emma's Pinkalicious Birthday Party!
(if you have a little girl, you need to buy this book for your daughter. It is the BEST book! It's called Pinkalicious)

We sprayed all the girls hair pink!!!


they put on makeup in my bathroom!


They all made their magic Pinkalicious Wands!


They made Pink Cupcakes (the book talks about the girl making pink cupcakes, eating too many and turning PINK!)


all 4 Pretty Pinkalicious girls!!!
(Megan, Emma, Ashlyn, Sloane)



Again!!! Different background!


Birthday Kiss!!!


These pictures are from this weekend:

James and Emma making cornbread. She LOVES to cook!!!


Emma and her Papa singing on her stage with her new Karaoke Machine!


Lillie joining in on the action! Never too early to teach them how to sing!!!


Check out that boa!!!


My van got hit in the parking lot of the outlet mall. Thankfully I do have HER information and will be getting it reparied!!! (NO cost to me and I get a RENTAL VAN!)





Well that is about all for now. So busy with things going on. We will keep everyone up to date as we can...

one update I have not talked about lately:
Lillie's milk allergy...
We are still calling her 'allergic' or sensitive to milk. She can't have any products made with milk or have milk in them. We are using soy here at home with her and are very cautious with her when we go out to eat. The tests came back negative, but each time we give her food with milk, she gets a reaction. We are experimenting with foods for her and have found LOTS of food in the health food section at HEB and Kroger. We even found her Soy Ice cream! She LOVES IT!!! As long as we stick to the foods she can have, the reactions are non existent.. We will keep with this for a while then try to introduce the milk again later. We are all learning! Emma even knows what she can and can't have!!! She will say, Lillie can't have that, it has cheese!!!

Reading and dishwashers

Interesting title. Now you know the 2 things that are new at our house this week.. Well not new items, but new found fun things...

Let's start with Reading...
Emma has a new found love... Reading. To a teacher mother, I could not be more excited! My boss gave me these books for Emma to read and practice. Tonight before bed, she read 3 of them. We would review the words on the cover, then I would have her look for the words in the story, and then turn back to the beginning and off she went. I had her take this one down stairs to show James (and of course to get the camera to video it!)




Also, notice the amount of animals she has in bed with her. This just started this week. (oh and notice how they are all laying to sleep. Everyone has to be on their tummy to sleep. Silly girl)




So Last night I was getting the dishes unloaded while Lillie played in the kitchen. I turned around to do something, turned back and this is what I found. It was so funny. (and yes I left her there while I took photos and video)






Yes, we have had Lillie's birthday party and about to have Emma's party. I will try to post the photos in a snapfish link soon which would be easier to view for everyone. I will do both birthday parties at the same time.

Lillie is still trying to figure out the walking thing. She can do about 10 steps at a time, but would rather crawl. I am not pushing it. She will do it when she wants to.
We are officially OFF the bottle! It took about 2 days, but she did great! She is on SOY milk due to the uncertainty of her true milk allergy. They are calling it a sensitivity to milk products. Eggs do not seem to bother her, its just the cows milk. But she likes the soy just fine and we cook with soy if she is going to be eating it, and we can't tell the difference!

More to update later. Just wanted to share these precious videos.