Lily Sings!

Lily is going through the requisite "I'm obsessed with trains" phase of toddler-hood. Check out how exited she gets when the Thomas the Tank Engine theme song comes on. In case you can't tell by the ending, her favorite train is Gordon.

Ring around the rosy

A Day Off!

Since we all had the day off, we figured we'd spend the morning at some of our favorite DC spots - The National Gallery (you can check out the Hopper exhibit online in case you missed it!), one of J. and I's favorites, and the Air & Space Museum, Lily's favorite.

She looks so big here as she's giving her dolly some loving before we head out.
Wait a minute... not so sure about this whole big sister thing!
Stopping for a snack in the concourse of the National Gallery. Lily loves to look at the "Water coming DOWN!!"
Thirty degrees... no problem for Lily.

Lily always talks about the airplanes and rockets at the Space Museum, but she shocked us by shouting out "astronaut!" and "satellite!" and "telescope!" as we were walking around today.

Fun with Mikey & Sarah

We're having a great visit with Mikey & Sarah over the long weekend!

Lily LOVES Sarah... when she woke up this morning, I brought her downstairs and her first question was "Where's Sarah?" Pretending, for Uncle Mikey's sake, to be an Irish fan yesterday... there battle against the Hoyas didn't go so well.
Yeah, the seats weren't great, but they were $5.
Fun at the National Building Museum
All smiles with Uncle Mikey & Aunt Sarah

Recent Video... enjoy!

January Updates

It's been cold lately! But Lily can't stand to be inside for very long, so we've been bundling her up for trips to the park. Jeremy and I stand there shivering while she has a blast. Daddy's girl...
I read the Metro section while Lily eats her breakfast, then she grabs a pen and has her way with the photos in the Post...

One of Lily's teachers put her hair in a ponytail the other day, and it made her look like such a big girl!

More Christmas Photos

A few more shots from Christmas. Thanks for sending these, Brandy!!

This is one of my all-time favorite pictures of Lily....

Jeremy passing along all his beauty secrets to the girls.

Christmas Highlights - McFun

No trip to the 'ville is complete without a stop at Dave and Tara's. We headed over on the day after Christmas - Lucas, Liam, Seamus & Colin were nice enough to let Lily try out their presents.

"I'm with the band"... that's right, Lily is apparently a groupie in the making. She jammed along with Lucas and friends as they played Guitar Hero.

Tara, Jeremy and the kids playing with Lucky Ducks - quite possibly the most annoying game ever invented... but of course the little ones loved it.
Lily & Colin - born only 3 days apart! - inventing their own version of air hockey.
The mommies and the babies. Awww.
Out of a pile of toys, Lily selected the lightsaber. Jeremy was so proud...

Christmas Highlights - The Big Day!

Lily had a lot of fun opening presents on Christmas Day with her two cousins!

Here she is getting things started... For some reason, Lily needed a snack to keep her going as she opened all her gifts. She had trouble balancing crackers and wrapping paper, but managed to work through it.
Three little girls among all the chaos...
Getting some help from Daddy.
Playing with one of Aurora's gifts

Christmas Highlights - Day 3

What better way to start off Christmas Eve than with a trip to the park? I was too cold to enjoy it, but Lily and Jeremy were brave enough to bundle up and have fun. Back at the house, waiting for Jeremy's dad's family to arrive...
Riding the hobby horse that was built by her great-great-grandfather!
Chilling in the rocking chair with cousin Katey
Posing in front of the tree with Grandma and Pops

Christmas Highlights - Part 2

On Sunday, we took a trip down to the Louisville Science Center. It was pretty chilly outside, so Lily desperately needed an indoor space to run around.

As on Saturday, she was really into playing doctor. Guess who's getting a doctor kit for her birthday??
Lily climbed up and exclaimed, "Choo Choo!!"
Loved the water table, but the apron did little to keep the water off of Lily....
Checking out the rocket with Daddy.
Working the lats with Mommy and Mr. Bones
I think the only reason she sat here for so long was because I let her touch the keyboard. The laptop at home is off-limits so Lily really enjoyed being able to "type" away.

Thanks to an episode of Curious George, she's really into rockets. Check out how intensely she is paying attention to Daddy's piloting skills!
Cutest reindeer ev-ah!!!

That afternoon, Lily loved following Aurora around Grandma and Grandpa's house. Here we are taking a little snuggle break. Aurora was ready for a sleepover!

Christmas Highlights - Part 1

Lily had a blast in Louisville over the holidays. We arrived in the 'ville on Saturday, just in time for some pre-Christmas celebrating with Jeremy's mom's side of the fam.

Opening the first of many presents with Daddy...

Showing off her fancy new shoes to Aunt Evelyn
Going in for a hug from cousin Kaylee
Getting a smooch from cousin Aurora (oh, and J. says to ignore the wallpaper in the background... Go Cards!)
Lily was obsessed with playing doctor and made the rounds to several family members... starting off with her godmother, Aunt Mandy!
Onto cousin James
and then Julie....
We tried settling her down by getting her in her PJs, but that only led to a round of giggling in bed with cousins Jill and Aurora!!