Thanksgiving Play at School

OMG!! That is all I can say about this. It was, perhaps, the cutest thing ever! All of the kids were in it--and they were all dressed as Pilgrims, Native Americans or Turkeys. Lily was a pilgrim but ditched her hat shortly after walking in. They danced along to a man singing songs and then we meet afterwards for the feast! It was a lot of fun. Plus, I got to meet the 2 boys that she always talks about--Lincoln and Davis. Okay, actually, she talks about Lincoln the most--she'll lay in her bed at night and sing to herself when she can't get to sleep, usually singing her ABCs or something else along those lines, but sometimes she'll sing "Lincoln is a bad boy!" over and over. I thought Lincoln was her true love. However, her teacher told me today that Davis is sort of her boyfriend--they play together a lot and Davis likes to put his arm around Lily. She said Lily only plays with one girl--Vivi--because Vivi will play babies with her, but other than that, she's with the boys. Her teacher also said Lily is the "mother" of the class and will pat or rub the other kid's backs when they are upset. It's so fun to see this side of her that I don't get to see when we are at home with just the two of us.

This is right after walking in--Lily got teary to see me sitting in the pew and not be with me. I ignored her, like any good mother would :), and her teacher distracted her quickly. How cute is she in that pilgrim hat?!? By the way, her "boyfriend", Davis, is the boy in the orange striped shirt in front of her.

Video of the kids walking in--she had to come and give me a quick hug and kiss, which I am always happy to get! I know my days of her doing that willingly are limited! You can see Davis walking next to her here as well. Vivi, who she plays babies with is the little girl in the polka dot dress in front. I think Vivi and Lily might have similiar personalities because during the play Vivi was antagonizing the little girl in the pink shirt that the teacher has to pick up in this video. The little girl didn't want to be touched, so Vivi kept poking her leg, not hard, but enough to cause the pink pant girl to have a meltdown--SO something that Lily would do!

Lily and her favorite teacher, Miss Linda. It makes me happy that Lily likes one of her teachers so much! It's good to know she's well taken care of when she's at school.

Lily dancing during the play. She loves to dance and Miss Linda says she loves it just as much at school.

UPDATE: I had to add one more video of Lily dancing. Also, in this one, you can see Lincoln, the boy we thought was the boyfriend, who turned out to have gotten stuck in the "friend zone." He is the little blonde boy with the curls that you can see briefly at the beginning of the video.

26 Weeks

I'll be 27 weeks on Wednesday and things are moving right along. Feeling lots of baby movement, etc. We have started to get things ready around the house and I have even already packed my bags for the hospital!!

When Lily arrived 4 weeks early, the only thing I hadn't done was pack my bags--we finally decided we didn't really need any of the 30 things on the list that the doctor's office gives you, grabbed my purse, camera and pillow and headed to the hospital. And, of course, I still catch flack for the fact that I also grabbed my work stuff and pager since I happened to be on-call for the entire hospital that night--we stopped by the Case Managment office on our way into Labor and Delivery so that I could leave notes with information for my co-worker and then proceeded to keep my pager on the whole time I was in labor, just in case!! Anyway, even though I really didn't need anything other than what I brought with Lily, I decided to go ahead and start packing so I'd be ready this time around. Of course, I have absolutely no bottles for the baby, so if he or she decided they want to eat something, then we have a problem! I guess I still have some getting ready to do...

Anyway, here is a short video of the type of movement that's going on in there--you can see the remote sort of bounce while it's sitting on my belly because the baby is moving so much. Excuse the background noise--I was watching Parks and Recreation.

What holiday is it?!?

Here a picture of Lily wearing Christmas PJs while standing with our Thanksgiving/Fall scarecrow. She first wore these PJs because they were the only fleece pair we owned in her size when we had that unexpected freezing week in October. However, now she loves them and would prefer to wear them over any other pair we own. (She has suddenly started caring very much about what I put on her, particularly in relation to shoes. I don't like it...I want to go back to the time when she had no opinion on matters like that.) Anyway, she also loves the scarecrow a lot and actually asked me to take her picture with him. As I've said before, how can I say no to that?!?

Softball Game Fun

We thoroughly enjoy going to Bryan and Uncle Chris's softball games in the evenings. So, when they had a game on Friday and Bryan was out of town, Lily and I still went to cheer on Uncle Chris, which translated means talk to the other player's wives. Here is a cute pic of the girls that Johanna's Dad took while at the game.

50 Fun Things to See and Do in Atlanta... (cont.)

Today we did #50, Zoo Atlanta!! If you are just tuning in, we are not going in order, so by no means does this mean that we are done, but I'm happy to be able to cross another one off the list. Today, Lily and I went to the zoo with some friends. I am a bad blogger and a bad mother, because I didn't take a single picture, which is particularly awful because this was both of our first times to the Atlanta zoo. I actually looked frantically for my camera before leaving, couldn't find it, went without it and found it when we got home in the diaper bag that I had with me the whole time. Ugh. Pregnancy brain will get you every time. We were at the zoo for about 4 hours and saw almost everything. Lily enjoyed most of the animals, some were a little scary to her, but liked the pandas best--I did too! The mommy panda was nursing her baby while we were there, so that was special to see. Second best on Lily's list was the playground, which was super cool! However, it was a long drive and a lot of money and I'm not sure we'll be re-visiting the zoo anytime soon. My friends live close to the zoo, have season passes, and frequently pop in for an hour or so to kill time--that would be nice!! I'm glad we've done it, but I think we are done there for a while.

I also get to check #5 off the list--The Falcons at the Georgia Dome. I'd forgotten that Bryan and I have both been to Falcons games before. So...2 more down and only 37 to go!!

Happy Halloween!!

Okay...I promise that this is my last Halloween post. I know there have been a significant number of them between the pumpkin patch trips and the numerous fall festivals, but what can I say...I love this holiday!! You should all just be glad that I had to work on the day of her school party or that would have been another Halloween post. Today is actually Halloween and we went to Woodstock's Kids Fest in the downtown city park with Hanna, Chris and Anna and Ramsey, Robin and Marley. Unfortunately, it started to rain right when we got there. Lily played in the bounce house some, got her face painted, got a balloon animal, played the fishin' game and danced some and then we left. We all came back to our house to eat pizza and go trick-or-treating. Well, everyone went but Robin and I--we stayed behind to pass out candy, which was a job in itself--I didn't expect quite so many trick-or-treaters...we would have run out of candy if the kids hadn't come back when they did so I could steal some of theirs to hand out. Everyone said the kids had a great time trick-or-treating--all 3 girls would go to the doors and actually say "Trick or treat!" Lily has been looking forward to this for weeks so I'm glad she had a great time! The first thing she said when she got up this morning was that she wanted to go trick-or-treating!

As you saw in my previous post, the costume that I bought for Lily is a super cute witch costume. However, she has a princess dress in her dress-up basket that was $2 at Garden Ridge that she really wanted to wear for Halloween. So of course, we let her and she was very happy to be a "princa" as she pronounces "princess".

At Kids Fest, in the rain.

To stay dry (and because Lily loves to dance) we went under the gazebo for a bit to dance. Lily loved it until a kid in a very scary zombi-ish costume showed up to dance as well. Lily didn't like his costume one bit and wanted nothing to do with him. I can't say I blamed her.

Playing at the Park

We had such fab weather some days this past week, that we got to make a park trip with Hanna and Anna. Lily was very proud of herself for climbing this rock wall!