Christmas Morning! It's here, it's here!

Well, usually mommy is the first one up on Christmas morn, and she was expecting to have to wait on miss Lilly who never wakes up before 8:00 a.m. So when mommy was laying in bed wide awake at 5:45 in the morning and heard her Lilly Bell start to fuss.... she was SOOOOO EXCITED! She elbowed Lil's daddy and said "It's a Christmas Miracle!", he rolled over the opposite direction and mumbles not so quietly...... "Crap." LOL!

We were all up and opening presents by 6:00 A.M.

Lilly was only a little spoiled...... hehehe.
At first she wasn't so sure about the rocking horse, but she really seems to like it now. She smiles and even knows how to make it rock.

Her papaw Russell got her this super awesome radio flyer rocket! She can't quite make it go by herself yet, but she loves sittin on it and pushing the buttons while mommy or daddy pushes her around the room.

These classic, simple, stackable bowls are her fave toy that she got. They don't have any bells or whistles on them, just stackable bowls, and she can play with them forever! ( $10 toy..... woohoo!)

Lilly sittin on the "front porch", patiently waiting for her daddy to get her new b-ball goal put together.

Continued...

Daddy, the basketball coach, was showin Lil how to shoot hoops with her new Bbal goal! She loves it and has already figured out how to hoop it up! =)

Daddy, amongst the madness. The aftermath of all the opening was a little crazy... but totally worth it!
Even Mable got spoiled on Christmas morn. She got to wear her elf hat (lol, poor doggy!)

She got a few squeak toys, a new ball, and a candycane shaped bone! (which was more that half gone before we left at 9:30 that morning!)

All that present opening and playing with new toys really made Lilly bell hungry! She was standing at the gate yellin at her Papaw Russell to hurry up! =)

Nana and Papaw Sulli's

After an early Christmas morning at home, we loaded up and went to Nana and Papaw Sulli's house. We had a wonderful Christmas breakfast and got to hang out with Uncle Landon, Uncle Seth, Aunt Amber, and Lilly's Gigi!

Lilly got lots of clothes, and a few toys. I think her fave's are the elmo hands from Gigi, and the elmo shake up doll from nana and papaw.

Mommy and Lilly got matching hats! Aren't we so cute! =)

Lilly was all fired up and ready for more......thankfully, because we still had two more to go!

Christmas with the Pendergrast side!

After leaving Lilly's nana and papaw sulli's house we went to my cousin Lauren's house. We were so excited to see aunt Cyndi and uncle Doug who were in town from Arizona!

Lilly had so much fun helping out with Christmas Bingo.
Daddy won a prize! A bottle of wine which got stollen later. I think we ended up with some chocolate covered pretzels, a snowman happy holidays sign, and a book on the language of teenagers! LOL! Ya gotta love Christmas Bingo.

Lilly and her Great Aunt Cyndi!

We had a lot of fun, so much that we didn't leave until around midnight!! Wow, that was one long Christmas Day!

Our fourth and last Christmas celebration of the year was at my Grandma and Grandpa Luke's. It was so nice to see my cousin Ryan and his family who came over from Iowa.

Lilly was tryin to help others open their gifts too!
And Ryan is startin her off early.... he was showing her how to use a blackberry, she even left me a message on my facebook wall!
Lilly just loves her Great Grandma Luke. She gave her a cute Christmas Peekaboo book , a stuffed Christmas mouse, and a little nail bench with a hammer so she can learn early how to swing a hammer like mommy does!
Ahhh, relaxation!

Lilly had a wonderful first christmas! Thank you to everyone!

WALKING!

Holy Cow! I can't hardly beleive it! She will be 10 months old on Christmas, a week away, and she is already taking her first steps! She is growin up sooo stinkin fast. It is so much fun to watch her tryin to walk, soon enough she will have lots of bumps on her head i'm sure. =)
She is lovin the preasents under the tree already. We put the tree up last night and decorated it today. Lilly put on the 1st ornament with her daddy. Mable even got to put on her own ornament too! Lilly love staring at the pretty lights on the tree. We just got a little tree on a table this year so that Lilly will not be able to get to the ornaments.

WALKING!

Our Lilly is gettin so big!

Make a Smilebox photobook

Catch up!

So Lilly is growing and growing! And it seems like everyday there is something new.

But one thing we can count on is her bein super silly! =)

This is what happens to her hair after it has been in a ponytail all day. LOL!

She walks down the hallway holding onto whatever she can get her hands on... including Mable!
She is really impressed with herself.... most of the time!

And when there is something across the room that she wants to get, she will not crawl over there... she will try to figure out what she can hold onto so that she can walk over there!

She has soooo much fun with the triplets! Grant and Mayleah are both crawling now, and Mason just started scooting backwards so I'm sure that it won't be long before he figures out how to move forward! It gets more and more interesting everyday. Today Grant figured out how to climb on to the bottom of the brick fireplace! I am ready for crawling... not CLIMBING!

Lilly is movin faster and faster on her feet everyday, I am gonna guess that she is walking by Christmas. She is gonna be 9 months old in about 2weeks! I will post about her doctors appointment and let you know how big our little angel has gotten.

Happy Halloween!!

Lilly's first Halloween was GREAT! We went to her Nana's house and some crazy hippie lady that sounded like her GG showed up! GG had us cracking up! She walked up the sidewalk sayin "Heeeyyy Man" and "Peace Man". She is so crazy!

Well, I tried to flip this pic, but for some reason it did't flip! You can still see how stinkin cute she is!
Here is the back of her costume. She went to her first costume party, and had a blast! There was a clown there that she just loved watching! She really had fun with ALL the kids that were there too!

She didn't seem to mind her costume at all! But she did seem to try to eat the tutu! =)

Her first Halloween was great! Can't wait till next year!

Miss Lilly is growin and growin!

Our little angel is gettin so big! I put her on the scale at work and she now weighs 18.2 lbs!

She is a little hoss. =) She will be 8 months in 5 days, which is soooo hard to believe. Time really flies when you're having fun.

She has had a little bit of a cold the past few days, but we think she is feelin better already. She is still cute as a bug!
We got her a little stroller for her baby that she can walk behind and she LOVES it! She is doin so good with it, she just paces the living room floor with it, which is very cute!

We have bee working with the triplets for a few weeks now and Lilly is fittin right in. She loves playing with the babies, and is napping like normal again while she is there.

We can now get her hair into 1 pony tail! Isn't it the cutest little fountain on top of her head!?

Lilly is also VERY close to crawling, today she actually crawled about 4 feet! Then she flopped down on her belly and army crawled the rest of the way. =) She is so silly!

TOFU!

So we are working on finger foods! I cubed up some tofu and rolled it in crushed up puffs..... and she LOVED it!

"What is this yummy new stuff mommy?"
"It is a little messy.... but soooo good!"

Once she gets it in her mouth she keeps her hand there to make sure it doesn't fall out...... and sometimes it still finds a way to fall! She is so silly!

"Where's the rest?!"

This was the end result..... tofu in her nose, hair, on her belly, up and down her arm, and Mable even got to have a taste!

Watching her learn to feed herself is already soo much fun!