Our daycare was closed on Friday and all of our backup caregivers were busy so we used the Safe at Home service. We have only used it once before back in March and were very pleased with the caregiver they sent. That caregiver was not available but we had another very nice lady that Lily warmed up to instantly (which is always a miracle). Lily had a good day with her. It is certainly a great emergency daycare option and we are so glad that U of M offers it. Unfortunately, we only have 10 hours left for the rest of the year at the U of M subsidized rate then we have to pay $20/hour for it. Yikes!
We had a very busy day on Saturday. Paul spent the morning prepping the recycling while I started packing for our vacation. We kept putting off Lily’s nap hoping that she would sleep through our errands but she stayed awake while we got the oil changed. We ended up not being able to head into Ann Arbor to do our recycling because the MSU/U of M game traffic had southbound US-23 at a complete standstill. Instead, we stuffed Lily with McDonalds to help knock her out and hit the road to Davison to attend the Pumpkin Fest with our recycling along for the ride. The details and numerous pictures of our time at the Pumpkin Fest will be on another blog post. Thankfully, we didn’t hear any details about the game all day so we watched it on the DVR when we got home. Even though I have worked for U of M for nearly 9 years, my loyalty always lies with my alma mater so I was very excited that MSU won. GO STATE!
On Sunday, we went to Frankenmuth for my grandmother’s 90th birthday. That will also be a separate blog post. Paul was nervous about taking Lily back to the city of her arm incident but I kept reassuring him that we were going to Zehnder’s, not Bavarian Inn, so everything would be fine.
All week long, Lily talked about her ride on the Huckleberry Railroad. All we heard was, “ride twain… wif gwamma… was fun.” She was very excited to tell us all about it multiple times a day. We finally got some videos of her talking about it on Saturday morning which will be featured on the next blog post. Apparently her visit to Crossroads Village made a huge impression on her!
Speaking of talking, Lily is a nonstop chatterbox now. She also constantly amazes us with her great memory. When we drive by Toot’s place, she says “arf” and “track-TOUR” as she remembers his dogs and tractor collection that she visited last week. She used to call all waterways “ponds” but on our daily crossings of the Huron River, we usually respond with, “Yes, that’s the river,” so now she calls it “river pond”. Silly girl!
We had wondered if last weekend’s counting had been a fluke but Lily has been counting a lot this week as well. I am no expert but I think that 19 months is incredibly young to be able to count to 10! She doesn’t always get the numbers in order and sometimes starts in random spots but she definitely knows 1-10. She did say them all in order from the beginning on Sunday. Lily likes the number 9 the best because she got such a rise out of my parents and I when she said it for us last weekend.
Here are a few limited pictures from this week which are mostly of our yard. The rest will be on the upcoming posts.
Silly Lily doing a modified version of what we call the “baby bridge” on Thursday evening. The normal version has her stomach down on the ottoman with her legs extended behind her onto the couch. I have no idea why she loves to bridge herself across the two pieces of furniture but she does so daily:
Our red maple in full color:
The autumn blaze maple is almost completely changed as well:
Despite the onset of fall, this morning glory is still in full bloom:
Two red maples in our north bed:
The new flower bed on our northern property line, still in progress:
Winterberry holly in the new bed:
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