The past month....

This is what we've been doing this past month.....she broke her leg going down a slide ON MY LAP!!! That made me feel awesome. I thought that this video showed her walking but apparently I erased the wrong one so this is her standing in it.....



And that is why I haven't been posting at all!

Dinner with the Berrys

So here are a few short videos with our girls...

1 - Lily taking a few more steps...she's all over the house now.



2 - This one is a bit longer, but Lily makes some funny faces if you watch for about 1 minute... We call it the shake...we'll get a better one for the grandparents soon...

Enjoy....

Lily's 1st steps!

Here she is folks.....on her way....and really happy about it.

A sandy mess is always worth it.

We went to Hilton Head- which, as a sidenote, is one of the prettiest beaches I've ever seen. I mean, I've been there 3 or 4 times and always love it. The girls LOVED it. My parents loved it. The great-grandparents loved it. Phil and I had a blast. So worth the 1100 pounds of luggage we have to take EVERY time we leave the house. At least, it was too cold for bathing suits.

1st sight of the beach!

Lily's 1st taste (literally) of the vast ocean & beach.

This is so funny to me. She almost got him.

I think she likes it.

Buddies.

Pretty.

She was so brave until she realized they were alive....

This face.

The following is our first of many documentaries- we hope- of Lily's antics. She is a ham and barley one year old.

Family, please vote....does she get it from her mom or dad?


I want to kiss that yogurt-drenched mouth. Check out that boog....



That's just a fabulous food-covered smile.

oh. my. goodness.

My favorite face of all- it's a staple around here.
Piper's face will be coming soon.....

I can finally look at these and smile.

We have had A LOT of snow and cold and ice and darkness this winter. As I write this, it is bright and sunny outside- not quite warm enough to spend a ton of time out there, but at least I see the hope of spring. Piper and I had this awesome conversation about death (I know....weird) and we spent time looking at the brown trees and grass and talking about life coming from death.

And then....she stumped we with, "But those trees are green still" (in reference to the pine trees). So then, I had to teach her how to say "coniferous" and any spiritual analogy I was going to make was gone.

But now I can look at all of these pictures of snow and think how fun it was and will be when they can put their own jackets and mittens on.




This is not on Lily's Top 10 list of things to do again.

Seriously?

Sign us up for the next boxcar race.....