Lately…
In the past two months, Ben has been out of town more days than he’s been home. Work has kept him on the road, or in this case, on the plane. Life feels hectic. I’m never caught up on laundry, dishes, groceries or sleep. And our Lily is busy doing all sorts of things like, cutting molars, catching the flu, sharing it with Mama, and not sleeping through the night.
It’s been tough.
But there are bright spots, like listening to Lily talk. She says lots of words these days. Some of her favorites are… dog (she drags out the word like a soccer commentator yelling GOAL!!!), ouch (which is always paired with repeated open handed hitting so that you fully grasp the meaning of the word, hot (said with her hands spread above the suspected object as if feeling heat coming from it), hat (not to be confused with hot, like we did for weeks), hi (spoken with a quick wave), Godiva, Sasha, Papa, Mama, nom (our word for nursing) and her favorite word so far, NO.
Last night Ben watched Lily take several toys out of her toy boxes and sort them in three different piles according to how much she liked them. I’m not sure that I would have been able to figure out her sorting criteria, but he could. The two toys that made up the group of toys she likes most were among the first two toys that Ben bought for her right after she was born. She actually hugged one of them.
Below is a picture from Halloween. She was a little princess. It took her a while to get the hang of what we were doing. At first she tried to give candy back to the people handing it to her. Later, when she understood more of what was going on, she wanted nothing to do with the candy people were giving out. Instead she signed the word for drink. We had forgotten her sippy cup and she was thirsty.
