Lily and Ella get to spend alot of time together each week. Lily goes to Auntie Jill's house on Wednesday mornings when i go to work and Ella comes to our house on Friday mornings while Jill goes to work. Over the past few months the girls have started to "play" with eachother and it's been fun to watch. Last week i found the girls tearing into my magazines/caelogs. Ella was showing Lily the joys of ripping paper :) I figured there are worse things and let them have a good ol' time doing this. At least they are practing those fine motor skills by tearing paper! :)



Ella wanted to give Lily a kiss...but Lily wasn't so sure she wanted a kiss from her cousin!!


Lily started crawling last week...she started out slow, but now is off like the wind. She also loves to pull up and stand on anything....the coffee table, the fireplace, her toys, us,...anything. She thinks she is big stuff!

What i'm up to at 7 months...

It boggles my mind that my baby girl is already 7 months! I remember when we took her home from the hospital and it seemed like it would be forever until she would sit up, crawl around, eat baby food, and "play" with us...however the time has come and gone for many of those things. It makes me sad that my baby is becoming less and less of a baby and more and more of a big girl, but she is so much fun and we are enjoying this stage with her more than ever. Here are some of the things she has been up to over the past month or so...

She has finally decided to like babyfood...bananas and oatmeal cereal are her favorite by far, but she also doesn't mind green beans or applesauce. Sweet Potatoes, and carrots didn't go over so well...but we will try them again soon :) Here is a picture of her during her "Gagging" stage. Jake and I would sit and laugh and laugh when we would feed her...you will see why :) I have decided that it wasn't that she didn't LIKE the food...it's that it just took her a while to get use to it. Each day it gets better so we are happy about that!



She LOVES to play. Often time people want to just hold her and walk around with her, but she would much prefer to sit by herself on the ground and play with her toys. She likes to sit next to her basket of toys at home and pull them out and stand up using the basket to help. She things she is so big :) She loves to read her books and she loves to be read to. Her favorites are "Goodnight Moon", "I love you through and through" and "baby colors". (yes she has favorites...i know this because she will sit and listen to certain stories and not others...very smart baby haha)




Cousin Ella is letting Lily borrow one of her toys for awhile...Lily loves this toy and plays with it several times a day! We will need to invest in one of these the next time around....but are happy that Ella is such a good sharer and letting us borrow it for now.:)


Listening to lily is one of my favorite things ever....here she is laughing and laughing while daddy tickles her :)


Lily is on the move...she can get just about anywhere between rolling, scooting, sitting up and flopping back down. She will be crawling any time...it is still just a matter of figuring out how to go forward :)



fianlly, lily loves to have her sippy cup...at this point it is more of a "chew toy" but when does get water out she thinks it is pretty fun!

Holloween

This Holloween lily was a caterpillar. As you can see, she was very excited about this :)


My Grandma Essenburg was in the hosptial because she had her shoulder replaced so we thought we'd stop with brad, jill, and ella jeanne to visit.


Going to visit with grandpa and grandma koning...


Both girls were curious as to what the other one was wearing...


and then ella decided she wanted lily's "feelers"....YANK :)


All tuckered out from a fun afternoon...

6 months old and happy about it!

Lily went to the doctor this past week for her 6 month check-up (although she will be 7 months next week). She checked out great and aside from having a little bout with croup a few weeks back she has been healthy thus far. She weighed in at
17 lb 9oz which is the 70% and her height was 26.5" which is the 75%. We have been giving her rice ceral now for a few months. She is not a fan of it, and i started baby food this week and she gags horribly on this as well. I have decided that it isn't that she doesn't like the taste it is that she doesn't like to swallow it. She has a horrible gag reflux. I know it isn't the taste because she LOVES to suck of "big people food" but once we try to have her eat her food it's worthless. She not only gags like it is the grossest thing ever, but it often is followed by vomitting. She seems to go okay if i totally delute it so its very liquidy...but ugh what a pain. Any helpful ideas?
I will leave you with some recent pictures of out little toots. She is such a HAPPY and content little girl. She loves to "talk" to us, clap her hands (a new trick that grandma koning taught her!), jump around, and try to crawl. She almost has the crawling thing down...in a couple weeks she'll be flying around i'm sure.

Happy as can be!


Daddy's attempt at making Lily a "hunting girl"....it isn't gonna happen :)


Playing outside with Macie...

The Pumpkin Patch

This weekend we decided to go to Post Family Farms with Brad, Jill, and Ella. Neither of us had been there before but i have heard great things about it from several people. We had a great morning watching the goats, taking a hayride, picking out pumpkins, and of course eatting the yummy pumpkin donuts and apple cider! This might just have to be a new fall tradition.
Here we are spending some time by the goats. They had this really cool contraption where the goats can walk up this ramp and eat the food out of a little can. I should have gotten a picture...of well! Lily liked to watch them walk around...Ella loved letting them lick her little fingers! :)

Enjoying the hayride on our way out to the pumpkin patch...


We found our pumpkins!! Yeah! Here is Lily with her little pumpkin she picked :)

A family shot...

Enjoying the hayride back and relaxin with dad...

Lily and Ella playing on the hayride...aren't they cute! Ella loves to point at lily and laugh and Lily just stares back at Ella... :)



Yeah!!! i have such a fun time at the farm today! Can't you tell?!

6 months old....

Time flyes that is for sure! Lily just turned 6 months on oct 3 and i had her 6 month pictures take yesterday. Christy Pacanowski is wonderful....and as always we love the pictures she took!
Here are a few that she posted for me, but if you want to check out the rest of Lily Pie you can do so by going to her website
www.clpphotography.com

click child and family site...then click on "the client" and the password is lily.
Enjoy!

Changes...

It's been about a month since i last updated and in that short time i feel like Lily is starting to become so much more of a little girl. She still is all baby, but she is starting to reach milestones that are exciting to see...but yet a bit sad because she is growing up way to fast! In a couple week she will be 6 months old...where does all the time go?! She is a fantastic little baby...happy as can be, and she loves her mommy :) When she is playing with her daddy I often times need to be out of the room or sitting right next to them, because otherwise she whines until i pick her up. However, no one can make her smle like her daddy can! She loves him to peices and is always excited to see him when he gets home from work.

About a week after she started rolling around she thought she should also start sitting up like a big girl, so right about at 5 months. She is now fairly stable and i dare to let her sit up without me being right next to her to catch her fall. She seems to really enjoy sitting up and playing with her toys and reading her books!







She also now sits in her high chair to eat. She LOVES LOVES LOVES sitting at the table. We love our Tripp-Trapp High chair...she is at table height and we don't have to have a honkin' highchair in our house. It sits at our table like a chair. It's perfect and she can use it for years to come (it can transition to a toddler chair also).


Macie wanted to come and say hello :)


Our upstairs in finally complete. It was a long time coming, but Jake did most of the work himself. So, about a week ago we moved Lily up to her crib. She seems to like it up there :) She sleeps through the night most nights, but ocassionally will wake up once to eat still. It's so nice not having her in our room anymore. We don't have to tip toe around before bed, we can turn the lights on, and even watch tv in bed again.
Peek-A-Boo...I'm awake! :)

Rolly- Polly!

Lily had been able to flip over from tummy to back for about a month now...but she fliped over from back to tummy for the first time yesterday. Today she has done it several times and seems very please with herself each time she does it!