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. 

The Big News

I'm sorry I haven't been updating much and I'm really disappointed in myself because this has always been the best way for me to document what Lila is doing and at what age she is doing it.  :(  So I'm going to try to update some pictures from her 2nd birthday and some other fun adventures we've been on since the last time I posted!

So the big news is that...

Lila is very excited that she will be getting a baby sister or brother.  It should be too much longer before we can maybe see what's in there!  LOL

Other things as of late...

Lately

Eating Fujiyama

Swinging at Nanna's

Concentrating hard on coloring

Playing by the fan with Dad

She looks so big here!  I can't believe it.

Back to a Routine

Thankfully, we are getting back in a routine now that school is back in session.  While we soooooo appreciate all the help we had and days off we had during the summer, Lila was just all out of sorts, never knowing where she was going the next day.  Going back to full time at daycare and been amazing.

In less than a month my baby will be turning 2 years old.  How is it even possible that two years have had a chance to pass.  It's insane.  I know people tell you have fast it goes, but WOW...it really does.

She has started a ritual where now every day she has to ask me who all is coming to her birthday.  She will say, "Daddy come to birfday me?".  "Yes Daddy is coming to a birthday for you.".  This goes on and on until she can no longer think of any family members or friends.  Sometimes this happens more than once a day. :)

Lila is having an owl themed birthday party this year.  I picked it out.  Everyone said I better pick this year because from here on out she will want to pick.  So I went with owls.  Once I got everything ordered, I got excited about it all.  She woke up the very next morning looked straight in my eyes and the first words out of her mouth were "Mommy, I like a monkey birfday".  Seriously?  I can't win.  Needless to say we're sticking with the owls.  I'm hoping she doesn't tell everyone at her birthday party that she wanted a monkey birfday.  :)

Lila Jane has also learned the infamous "Big Dogs" cheer.  Our mascot is the Bulldogs and my brother plays football.  She goes and gets her pom poms and says the whole cheer.  Poor daddy.  He made the comment the other day that he wants her to play sports.  LOL  I think we still have time before she makes that decision. :)

We are ready for more football on Friday night!

Vaca Pics

As promised, here are a few pics from our family vacation!

Florida

Today is our last day at the beach.  It has been the best week anyone could ask for.  The first day we got here and it started raining immediately.  The second day, it rained ALL DAY!  We were scared when the forecast said storms everyday this week.  Thankfully, just like our meteorologists at home, the ones here are wrong all the time too.  :)  There were a couple hours every day that the clouds took over, but the rest of the day was great.  Lila took to the beach quite after the first few hours of being pretty unhappy with the way the sad stuck to every part of her body.

I'm planning on posting a few of our pictures once I get home and get them organized on the computer.  Stay tuned for some awesome pics of our first vaca with Lila.