Hold You!

Lilly is the cutest little girl ever! I can often just sit and watch her and be completely entertained. And sometimes I can't help but laugh out loud at some of the amazing and cute things she does and says. I will just mention a little bit of her cuteness today.

She loves her "babies" and sometimes has to try to hold all of them she can. She does have her favorites though. There are the two small ones, Shrimp and Shrimp cocktail (yes they all have names) and then her two most favoritest are Annie and Andrew. She thought it was funny when she heard Marni call me by name and started repeating it once, so when we asked her what she wanted to name the baby that Nana gave her for Christmas she decided on Andrew.

She loves to walk. If we let her she will get her boots on, go outside and just walk. Usually all around the yard, but since we have been house sitting we are only 2 blocks from Marni's parents so we just walk over, and Lilly always wants to walk, not get carried. She hates it when we make her stop walking and we pick her up or make her come inside.

She also loves to "draw" which usually consists of her getting a crayon or a pen and scribbling all over a coloring book page or a piece of paper. They are really good though.

She also loves to play "up high" which is actually flying my radio controled helicopters. And she loves bubbles, probably because they distract the kids with bubbles in the nursery at church. But she loves all bubbles, the ones you blow, the ones in her hair when she takes a bath and the ones in the sink after the dishes were just washed. But if anything looks like a bubble she will point it out, like the little spill proof thing in her sippy cup.

Even though she loves to walk, you will often hear her saying "Hold You" which doesn't mean she wants to hold you, but rather that she wants you to hold her or pick her up. It is funny because when her cousin Gentry was about the same age he did the same thing. She often refers to herself as "you" because that is how she hears us refer to her when talking to her.

Potty!

So the day after Lilly pooped in the big potty, we decided to go to the store and get her a big girl potty of her own. She loves it so much! She loves to sit on it and hates to leave the bathroom. I think it is her new favorite place in the house. Unfortunately even with all the sitting she won't go to the bathroom in it. I think she thinks of it as a fun new toy. One where you get naked to play with it. Oh well. We always talk to her about what she is suppose to do on it, so hopefully one day she will decide that is what she wants to use it for. These are some pictures I took with my phone while she was "playing" with her new potty.

Poop!

So tonight was bath night. After Lilly's bath Marni took her to get her ready for bed. I went in a few minutes later and learned that Lilly had her first Poop on the potty. I guess she was tooting a little and Marni didn't want to waist a diaper, so she asked if Lilly would like to poop on the potty. She said yeah, so Marni held her up on it and she did! We are so proud of our little girl, but she is growing up so fast. She is so smart. Tomorrow after work we will take her to the store to get a present and a big girl potty.

Mouth

I figured I would post this after reading Alison's post about the binky's. Lilly is also a binky addict. She was getting pretty good with it, only really "needing" it for bed, or if she saw it she thought she needed it. But a couple weeks ago when she got sick she thought she had to have it all the time. I guess it was like comfort food, without the food. In fact she lost like 3 pounds when she was sick, (which for her is a lot) because she would not eat much at all. Now that she is not sick any more, she is eating A LOT! I am sure she has put on a couple pounds more than she lost. But even though she is eating now, she still thing she needs her binky all the time! It doesn't matter if she is going to bed or sees it or anything. If she doesn't have it, she will ask for it. It is funny though because she doesn't call it a binky, she calls it a "Mouth", I guess because that is where it goes. She knows what a mouth is, and we call her binky a binky and she knows what that is. I guess mouth is just easier to say than binky.
Needless to say, I don't know if we are going to get her to give it up anytime soon, even though we would like to. She even has a doll ("baby") that has a binky and when she goes to bed she wants to make sure her baby has it's "mouth" in it's mouth too.

Getting Started

I have decided to start this 2nd blog and have it dedicated to family stuff and happinings. I guess a family journal. I probably won't post many pictures as Marni does a really good job of that. Her's is the photo journal, where as this will be more the text version. Feel free to use both to not only read about but also see what is going on in the Marni & Andrew Potter Family. My goal is to try to to post an update at least once a week, maybe more often if things of note are going on. Feel free to call me on this if you notice me falling behind a little.