New pics March 2011

Lily is very much into dolly's lately. This doll was mine when I was a little girl, but it's one of her favorites. I caught this moment because it was so sweet. She was kissing the doll's head and rubbing her cheek.

Here she is just being adorable.
I've been trying different hair styles with her, and it's been quite fun!

Daddy is really into swords lately. He has a practice sword, and Lily has one of Matt's play swords. She is constantly picking up her sword and dragging daddy's to him to "fight."

We are still potty training. Every morning she sits on the potty and sometimes it is successful and sometimes not. It can take a good 20 minutes of sitting there! Her favorite past time is reading the Readers Digest.

Matt has been trying out Karate. He loves it. He's also very good at it. He was able to do it for 1 month, but we had to stop for baseball. After baseball is over (around June), he wants to start Karate up again. I think it's great for him.

I played with braids on her hair. I don't know how to french braid, but these little braids were fun. After we were done braiding, I let her get a treat. From the look on her face though, it looks as if she was stealing from the cookie jar!

More hair styles. We have so much fun! Jason and Matt keep saying that she is my living, breathing barbie doll and I just love to do her hair and dress her up. They are right! Thankfully, Lily likes it too, most of the time.

Potty Training

So, we are slowly trying to potty train Lily. It's kinda difficult with our opposite schedules and busy lives, but anything helps. Every morning, when she gets out of bed, Jason takes her to the bathroom to sit on her little princess potty. She just sits there reading her favorite magazine, Readers Digest, (I don't know if it's because it's more her size or what), but she never actually potties. She knows what she is doing though. So this morning, Jason emailed me here at work and told me the following:

Lily put Dora, her new dolly, on the toilet to do some potty training. It was very cute as she was trying to get her doll to read a magazine while sitting on the potty. She was using the same verbiage that Jason uses with her when we're doing potty training in the mornings. She was reassuring her to try and go potty and was giving her different magazines to look at while sitting on the potty. She then started taking all kinds of stuff out of the bathroom drawers to give to Dora to keep her occupied until she "pottied." After about ten minutes, Jason shut it down because he didn't expect Dora to do anything.

I'll be posting more pics soon.