Lily has discovered all of Rachel’s old toys in the basement and is in heaven. She especially likes the little plastic animals and would play with them for hours on end if it didn’t get so cold down there. She loves to group the animals together by type and every animal has to be in a mama-baby pair. It is so cute. She gets very worried if a baby animal doesn’t have a mama or vice versa.
Lily had a cold with a goopy cough all week which wasn’t fun for any of us. She preferred to sleep propped up on Paul or I which meant that neither of us slept well all week. She was almost over it in time for her two year well-child visit on Friday. She is still ahead of the curve for motor and speech development. She is 35.16 inches tall which is in the 82nd percentile and weighs 23.15 pounds which is in the 8th percentile. Being so tall and thin, her BMI is only 13.2 now which is the lowest it has been since they were trying to get her to pack on the pounds as a newborn. We told her pediatrician that she is not opposed to eating and eats a wide variety of foods; it is just that she is so active it is hard to get her to stop playing long enough to eat. The entire visit, Lily was leaping and running around the room so her doctor definitely got to witness her high activity level. Lily’s pediatrician still isn’t too worried about her being underweight although she did schedule Lily for a 6 month weight check just to be safe. Lily thankfully only had to get one shot for hepatitis A and didn’t cry too much. When I got home, I plugged Lily’s height into a height predictor tool I found on babycenter.com (http://www.babycenter.com/child-height-predictor?intcmp=Nav_Global_Tools_heightpredictor&scid=mbtw_post24m_1w:1047). According to it, she will be 5’7” at age 18. That sounds reasonable when you compare the tall women in Paul’s family to the short women in mine. It will be interesting to see how accurate it is. The disclaimer says that based on the formula they use, there is a 50% chance that her full-grown height will be within 0.7 inches (above or below) of this prediction, and a 90% chance that it will be within 1.7 inches.
On Saturday, my friend Mary’s daughter, Madelynn, came over to babysit Lily for free because she needed to earn some community service hours. We were certainly glad to help her out! However, putting Lily to bed is an activity only seasoned veterans can handle so we opted to have her come over at 4pm right after Lily’s nap and we planned to get back home by 9pm so that we could handle bedtime while still allowing Madelynn to get in 5 hours of volunteering. We ran some errands which went so quickly toddler-free, had a nice dinner in downtown Brighton, caught a movie, and were home and in bed by 10pm. A nice date night with an early bedtime, the perfect combination for a sleep-deprived couple. Meanwhile, Lily absolutely loved Madelynn and had a lot of fun playing with her. She even kept asking for her the next day!
On Sunday, we had dinner at my parents’ house with my grandmother which was nice since she was unable to attend Lily’s birthday party last weekend. Lily really loves her grandma nana.
Here are some pictures from this week.
My goofball wanted to wear her shoes, hat, and bib but refused to wear pants when we got home from work on Monday. Here she is opening a present from Meghan in her most attractive attire:
This is how Lily set up Rachel's old animals in the basement. As you see, every animal has to be in a mama-baby pair:
The mama cow sleeping with her babies:
And most of the mamas and babies had to be oriented face to face:
Animals were also sorted by type:
Lily received her birthday present from her Aunt Eileen in the mail on Wednesday. She was thrilled that everything was Dora themed. She even went so far as to hug her new "juice cup":
She really liked the Cooking with Dora interactive book and plays with it all the time now:
Looking out at a "puma" on the patio on Saturday morning:
Playing with her babysitter, Madelynn, on Saturday evening:
Paul was in charge of dressing Lily for bed on Saturday night. For some reason, he always tries to dress her like a boy and has no concern for matching, as you can see below. Lily liked the dinosaur on her shirt, though, and kept trying to scare us with it and her stuffed dinosaur on Sunday morning:
She still hasn't outgrown the 'baby bridge':
Lily made my grandmother play with her little animals at my parents' house on Sunday evening. I like how even though there is an 88 year age difference between them, Lily still thinks of grandma nana as a playmate:
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