Speaking of sleep, Lily was an absolutely horrible sleeper all week. She went down pretty well but would not stay asleep. Most nights she was up crying between 1-4am and nothing we did helped her fall back to sleep. We tried letting her cry it out but she cried hysterically for 2.5 hours straight with no signs of stopping. After leaving her alone didn’t work, I tried nursing her and cuddling with her. I tried keeping her in her crib, rocking with her in the rocking chair in her room, and taking her to our bed. Paul tried taking her downstairs to feed her. He also tried taking her down to watch boring nature shows on his lap which usually knocks her right out. Nothing worked. She just wanted to be awake and play but we wouldn’t let her. This severely ticked her off hence the hours of crying. Paul and I were beyond exhausted all week. I love Lily dearly but I am going to collapse from fatigue if she keeps this up much longer. My whole body aches and I keep doing dumb things because my head is fuzzy. These are all side effects of lack of sleep. Not to mention, I think that I can pack for our upcoming vacation in the bags under my eyes. I would give anything for a full night’s sleep!
On Saturday, we went to a Mom to Mom Sale in Davison. It was put on by an organization that my cousin’s former girlfriend, Felicia, belongs to. It was nice to see her. I got a few clothes and some shoes for Lily as well as a small tricycle that she can use right now. Lily found this adorable boat that she played in for most of the time that I was shopping so we had to buy that for her as well. Since we were in town, we stopped by after the sale to visit my dad. My mom was up north with a group of friends. After our visit, we stopped at Carol’s house to drop off her jewelry order from my Premier Designs party. I only got to visit with her briefly because Lily fell asleep in the car on the way to her house and I didn’t want to wake her as she had refused to take her morning nap and desperately needed some sleep. We also tried to stop by my Aunt Gloria’s house but she wasn’t home so we went back and left her jewelry order with my dad. We then went to Wojo’s Nursery to pick up more of the cool bicolor impatiens that we got from there last time we were in Davison. Paul shopped there for quite some time as I waited in the car with Lily. We tried to stop by Auto Ad Onz to look at toppers for Paul’s truck. Hardly any place sells toppers to fit double cab Toyota Tacomas but oddly, one exists in the small town of Davison. Unfortunately, they have very limited Saturday hours and were already closed. We then drove to Howell to drop off Laura’s jewelry. She wasn’t home but I chatted for a while with her husband, Chris. Again, I didn’t stay for long because Lily was still asleep in the car so Paul stayed in there with her. We then drove past home down to Dunham’s in Ann Arbor so that Paul could get some new running shoes while I waited in the car with Lily. She finally woke up after 3.5 hours of sleeping when we pulled into Once Upon a Child. I had dropped off some outgrown clothes there to sell on Friday so I had to stop by again on Saturday to pick up the clothes that they didn’t want and get my money for the clothes that they did want. While I was there, I did a little shopping for 18 month summer clothing for Lily as she is getting too big for some of her 12 month clothes. They were having a big sale that got even better each hour so we killed some time and paid for our purchase after 6pm so that it was 70% off. Awesome! We then headed home so that Lily could play.
After Lily’s morning nap on Sunday, we went to the Imagination Station in Brighton. I watched Lily play in the playscape while Paul fished in the Mill Pond for more fish to use as fertilizer in our vegetable garden. Our tomatoes grow so much better if they are planted on top of chopped up fish. After Paul caught his limit, we all walked along the boardwalk to Dairy Queen for ice cream which is an Imagination Station tradition that we started back when Rachel was little and we took her there all the time. Later that evening, I got out some stacking toys for the first time and was amazed at how well Lily instantly learned how to stack them. She wasn’t too good at aligning the blocks that were 2-3 units in length but was great with the single blocks and spent a long time playing with them with intense concentration.
Lily’s speech development has really come along this week. On Monday, she started saying “uh oh”. She says it so adorably with a high pitched “uh” and a long drawn out “oh”. She is very consistently saying “bee” whenever she sees a bug and “apay” whenever an airplane or helicopter flies over. She also started saying “baby” but I don’t think that she realizes that she is one, too. She loves to point at cars and now says “a ca” (a car) when she sees them. She hasn’t learned the “r” sound yet so she sounds like she is from Boston. She was very into the clock at my parents’ house on Saturday and kept pointing to it excitedly every time it chimed. We kept telling her that it is a clock and now she is practicing the “k” sound every chance that she gets.
Here are some pictures from this week.
Lily loves to stop and see the baby chicks at Tractor Supply Company:
Look, mom!:
Hanging out in her new carseat in the truck:
Sleepy girl with her beautiful baby blues:
Lily started playing in her new sandbox that Papi Tim made before it was even done getting filled with sand:
Lily loves her new sandbox:
It is nice and big with ledges along the sides to sit on. As you can see, we needed to get another truckload of sand to fill it:
Lily playing in her sandbox again on Friday. It’s her favorite place to be:
So happy:
Lily making a funny face while working with her sand tools:
Watch me, mommy:
Practicing with the shovel:
She was mesmerized as she picked up fistfuls of sand then watched it trickle back out of her hands:
Back to using the tools:
Sometimes she sticks out her tongue in concentration. It’s so cute:
My happy girl loves playing in her sandbox:
Every once in a while, she gets upset that her hands are dirty and holds them out for me to wipe off for her. Once they are clean, she digs right back in the sand with them so I don’t know what the sudden fuss is all about:
I was not too pleased when Lily flopped over and started rolling around in her sandbox, getting sand all in her hair, but she thought it was hysterical:
Lying down and playing with her tools caused Lily’s face to get coated in sand but she didn’t seem to mind:
Playing in her new boat from the Mom to Mom Sale while visiting with Papi Tim on Saturday:
Swinging at the Imagination Station in Brighton on Sunday. I get nervous because she loves to lean really far forward in bucket swings:
Driving the fire truck:
Lily loved wandering all over the playground:
Enjoying some Dairy Queen with Daddy after he finished fishing:
A crazy statue at the Imagination Station. There was chalk there to decorate his face with:
Lily loves stacking:
Intense concentration:
Lily spread out birdseed for the chipmunks on the patio then sat down to play in it. As you can see, the chipmunks at our house are not at all shy and come right up to her to eat:
Lily tends to stuff her cheeks when she eats. I have a feeling I know who she learned it from:
Lily and her little friend:
I put Lily's beloved new boat in her favorite hangout- the sandbox:
Steering the boat:
Thank you for my sandbox, Papi:
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