Lily Bug is a doll. She adds such JOY to our family.
I love seeing her grow and blossom and become a little girl.
* The girl loves some dance. She laughs the entire time I put her leotard on each week.
At bedtime, after Peter is asleep (he's our early morning bird and she's our night owl) and she has Daddy and Mommy as a captive audience, she asks us if we want to see a dance. Then she dances, turns, jumps, twirls across the room. She often thinks she needs a headband to dance, even if she's just holding it. She usually want to wear the heels that Aunt Emmy gave her but I tell her those aren't the best for dancing. ;)
She's second from the left in pink.
Isn't brother sweet watching?
Remember how Peter had a fever last week. He's continued with a low one off and on this week. I took him back in yesterday on Day 10 and they think he has mono. We've tried to ease back into our routine this week. He's come along for most things but has NO ENERGY. So mono totally makes sense. And he has lots of swollen nodes in his neck. He's been extra snuggly, which I've tried to take full advantage of! I enjoyed having him sit in my lap while we waited for Sissy at dance class.
* She is a chatty little thing. She has lots to say and talk about. She spent yesterday afternoon with Goo and Goo said she talked the whole time. Because she talks so much at home, I forget that she can be shy around others. I've heard that she is quiet at school but always smiley and happy. I love it that Peter's outgoing personality encourages her to be more talkative around others.
* She loves some pretend just like her brother. Peter bought these two cookies for Lily and Goo last eve. Lily thought they needed to talk to each other! :)
* I don't know what it is about Lily's hands that I love. (Mike thinks this is wierd of me.) She uses them so well and so kindly. She loves making "cards" for people and LOVES paper. Maybe TMI, but she loves washing Peter's back and putting lotion on my hands and arms. I pray she uses them to bless others as she grows. Maybe one day she'll be the next Katie who cares for orphans.
* She LOVES her brother (and gets equally annoyed with him). It really stresses her out when he doesn't keep up with us or is lagging behind. She screams a stressed out/worried scream that "Pete's not coming!"
* You know until recently, she wanted to be a "bunny what changed colors" when she grows up. (She often uses "what" instead of "that", and I don't correct it. :) Recently she told me that now she wants to be a Mommy when she grows up. She wants to have 4 kids, or 5 kids.
I hope she gets her wish.
* She still says her R's like W's. And I think it is the cutest thing ever.
One of Peter's SLP's has told me I don't need to worry for a few years.
(Hope that's right, Cha!)
* I think she's a rule follower.
(Tho from being one myself, I know that outside rule following doesn't equal internal rule following). She's walking down the hall at the school with her "Bubble and Duck Tail". I'm glad we'll have early training in how to walk at school. The cuteness kills me.
* She LOVES to sing! She loved all of the new songs she got to learn around Christmas and is still singing them. She loves to sing all the songs she learns at preschool. She also loves to just make up her own. At bedtime, I usually sing her three songs (don't imagine that!). But lately, she's been singing #2 and/or #3. It fills my tank instead of giving, giving. I love it. Her make up songs often involve God or Jesus. It flatters or blesses me to think that's what she wants to sing about and I'm thankful for all the places and people she hears that from. Her other favorites are Christmas is Coming, I "Heared" the Bells on Christmas Day, Who Made You? (I love hearing her say "I know God made me." Thankful that she knows that.)
* She wakes up clapping her hands,
but its more of a quiet, cupped hands clap, from happiness.
Another part of the hand thing. I mean, seriously, that makes a morning a little better.
And I'm not a morning person.
We love you so very much & cherish you, Lily Bug.
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