"You make me so happy"

Oh my.  Lila has been a nut lately.  "Cause" is her new word.  She hardly ever uses it correctly in a sentence, but she gets her head moving and her attitude going and it's "cause" this and "cause" that.  Anytime I ask her to do something, after a yes or no comes out of her mouth, it's followed by a "cause" and brief explanation as to why that was her answer.  This explanation almost always has nothing to do with what we were talking about to begin with.

Now this morning we were in the car on the way to school and I was asking her what she thought she might do at school today.  "Cause my friends not there, Momma".  I told her that they would probably be there today and that they would have lots of fun playing.  Then there were the words that just make you feel so special to be a mother!  "Momma, you make so happy.  Cause, I'm missing my pieces.  My friends...cause my pieces at school not there."  It could've just broken my heart that her "pieces" are missing.  I mean, I guess I never really thought how good of friends you can have at that age.  Turns out that her friend Ky'Lynn really wasn't at school yesterday.  :(  But it made me feel better that I make her so happy.  I'm so hormonal, I'm quite shocked that I didn't start crying.

That's my little Lila bit for today.

For my kids

Growing up, we listened to a lot of music.  I have very few memories of when I was a little kid and I really don't know why that is, but most of what I remember is music related.  Dancing to records that Dad had on old albums or belting out our favorite songs with Mom in the car when she would pick us up to go somewhere.  Over the years, there have been several songs that have meant something to me.  My mom has a habit of turning song lyrics into a sappy entry for a card on big occasions.  i.e. confirmation, college graduation, you get the drift...

For my Confirmation, my mom included the lyrics from I Hope You Dance by Lee Ann Womack.  I still think about my mom every time I hear that song.

For my college graduation, it was Rascal Flatts', My Wish.  Again, I always think of her, but now I cry when I hear it because I think, "wow, that's what I wish for Lila too".

So I've been watching the show Parenthood by suggestion of my good friend Sarah.  I have seen the show before, but have not kept up.  I decided that I would start watching it from the beginning a couple weeks ago and OMG!  I love it.  One thing I always look forward to every episode is the song selection that they choose.  They always always always have awesome tunes.  The theme song is Forever Young by Bob Dylan.  Bob Dylan is pretty amazing and seems like you can listen to most of his songs and get a good meaning out of them.  Now every time I watch an episode, I immediately think of Lila and baby sister and them growing up and it makes me happy and sad.

So this post is for them (and any other kids we decide to have, LOL)!

Forever Young by Bob Dylan

May God bless and keep you always

May your wishes all come true

May you always do for others

And let others do for you

May you build a ladder to the stars

And climb on every rung

May you stay forever young

Forever young, forever young

May you stay forever young

May you grow up to be righteous

May you grow up to be true

May you always know the truth

And see the lights surrounding you

May you always be courageous

Stand upright and be strong

May you stay forever young

Forever young, forever young

May you stay forever young

May your hands always be busy

May your feet always be swift

May you have a strong foundation

When the winds of changes shift

May your heart always be joyful

May your song always be sung

May you stay forever young

Forever young, forever young

May you stay forever young

Read more: http://www.bobdylan.com/us/songs/forever-young#ixzz2JOoVjBJr

New Beginnings

I decided that with new things in our horizon that I needed to adjust my blog accordingly.  I never really liked "Here Comes Baby Girl" and especially with"Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" all over the TV these days, I just really want to get away from it now.  I started thinking of all things little girl and this is what I came up with.  I plan on keeping much of the content the same, however, little sister will be taking up her residence in this blog as well when she gets here.  I hope everyone continues to read as I *think* things are going to get a lot more interesting in coming months!  :)

I'm now 24 weeks pregnant and actually feeling great!  I'm still able to work out, run, and spin and am so glad since it gives me a chance to get away from everything when I do this.  I haven't been a diligent about taking pictures this time around, but I will have Neil get a belly shot tonight.  I'd like to generate some comparisons from my pregnancy with Lila and with this baby.  That may not be a good thing... :)

I had my glucose test yesterday at my checkup and I was a little nervous.  As you may remember, I had some trouble around this time with my last pregnancy.  You can read my post about it here.  I haven't had any "episodes" like that this time, so I'm hoping to keep it that way.  I just got the call and I passed the screening with flying colors.  Whew...  Next appointment in 4 weeks the twice a month after that!  This is when it seems to start flying by...until that screeching halt around 36 weeks when you think you will NEVER deliver a baby.

Happy Hump-day everyone!!!

Officially Potty Trained

I am proud to say that we are 100% potty trained. We were so blessed to have Lila potty trained in July. She showed interested earlier than we expected so we just went with it. Se has, however, been sleeping in pull-ups this whole time. No matter how much we limited her liquid intake, she would still almost always wake up pretty wet. I noticed a couple mornings about 3 weeks ago that she had gotten up dry, but just thought it was a fluke. She stayed at my Mom's the next night and I forgot a pull-up. My considerate mother so cleverly thought that a poise pad would be just the same. LOL I am still laughing at that. That's beside the point...she woke up dry again. It was at that point that I thought we would try panties to bed that night. We have been watching what she drinks before bed every night and so far so good. We haven't had an accident yet!! I'm not counting it out. I know better than that. We're just doing our best in trying to get her to pee before she really gets to sleep, if she fell asleep without us getting her on the potty.

I'm so happy about this. Having her potty trained before having another baby was something that was very important to me. I really didn't want two kids in diapers for multiple reasons!

You can read here how we started the potty training process.  I will say I highly recommend naked time.

It's a .......

Lila is very excited!

New Things All The Time

The reason I started this blog is to help track a lot of the stuff Lila does since I'm not great at writing things down in her baby book.  I'm going to try my best to remember some stuff for this post.

She is a hoot.  She is a brat. She is the sweetest thing you could ever imagine.  :)

My child loves football and basketball.  Since football went on so long for us in Harrisburg, she's still trying to accept that there is no more football and that now it's time for basketball.  Anytime we go to the basketball game she tells us that she wants to go to the football game.  Maybe by February she'll have basketball down.  :)  Lila LOVES to cheer.  I mean LOVES it.  She is obsessed with the cheerleaders.  She is getting pom poms for Christmas.  Her cheerleading uniform is too small this year too so she may also be getting that.  She will be set to go.  Everything is also "Go Capel" at our house.  She even cheers for him when we're watching NFL on TV.  Apparently he didn't tell us he went pro in football.  And it's him because if we tell her it's not, we get yelled at and put in our places.  LOL

Daddy still can't accept that she loves to cheer, but I say whatever!!!

Lila is one of the most loving toddlers I've ever been around.  She loves getting and giving kisses.  I love getting them from here.  The best feeling in the world is when she just grabs my faces and kisses both cheeks and then gives me a big fat one on the lips.  I swear I want a million of them.  Around her second birthday, for the first time ever, she grabbed me and said "I lub you mommy" to me without me having to say it back.  Talk about making you want to cry.  Oh my.  I have never heard sweeter words come from someone's mouth in my life.

Not only is she loving, but she's honestly very very polite.  I don't know where she gets it...LOL...just kidding.  We do teach her manners, no matter what my mom tells you.  She says "thank you", which just in this past week has turned into "thanks" out of nowhere.  We have to get her to say "please" most of the time, but every once in a while she will say it on her own.  She says "cuse me", "bwess you", among others.  We are so proud of her manners.

She loves drinking coffee in the morning with me if we're home together.  Lord help me now.  She's even got her own cup to drink it.

About 3 weeks ago she got her ear's pierced.  She has been asking for earrings since July.  I was hesitant and she knew it was going to hurt, but she took it like a champ.  She hasn't been gung ho on letting me clean them.  And (shame shame shame) I haven't been cleaning them like I should.  Luckily she twists them on her own and I think that helps.  Anyway, she loves them.

You can kinda see them here.  Side note, the lady that got the earrings out of the cabinet grabbed the WRONG ones.  They are a size bigger than the ones that I wanted for her.  Thankfully, they don't look too ridiculous on her.  She's just blingin' a little.  :)

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween from our little kitty cat!  She told us about three weeks ago that she wanted to be a kitty cat, so we thought, "ok, we'll see how long this lasts".  She never changed her mind.  So Lila Jane was a cute little black kitty cat this year.  :)

We went trick or treating at all of our family and friend's houses.  She was such a good girl and only got scared a couple times.  :)  I have to say she's a pretty cute cat.

He cousin Ally was cat too.