11 months old

Dear Lily,

Oh my goodness girl you are 11 months old today and the light of my life.  We have so much fun together during the day while its just you and me and the rest of the world is at work, I feel a little bad for your Daddy sometimes.  He’s missing so much, but I tell him about it and he sees it for himself when he’s home.  So instead I just enjoy it, you, us.

  • You do the traditional crawl now. I haven’t seen a flop in a couple of weeks. You are so fast. It’s funny.
  • You get into a sitting position so easily it’s like you’ve always been doing it.
  • Of course you are standing up on everything
  • You love to play with everyday objects more then anything in the world. I could offer you my lip balm or a rattle and you will take the lip balm every time.
  • You wave all the time, it may not be at the “right time” but it makes your Daddy and I so happy that you will do it again and again.
  • You still love veggies, especially squash. Almost every night you feed yourself some soft veggie and you love it. I haven’t pureed anything in a couple of weeks now.
  • You pet the cats nicely I’d say about 75% of the time. The other 25% is usually very excited taps on them and they don’t love it but for the most part they put up with it and you.
  • I swear that your face has changed in the last week or so. Your Daddy doesn’t seem to feel the same way but I’m sure of it.
  • We finally had to take the bassinet out of your pack and play. Because we still swaddle you (I keep trying to wean you but your stubborn) I felt ok about having the bassinet until the other day when I walked in and found you standing up holding on to the sides. I nearly had a heart attack and you were “seriously are you surprised? I stand all the time”

Love,
Mama

11 months old

11 months old

11 months old

11 months old

*****I started this before Lil turned 11 months old on 11/22/09 she just keeps me so busy that I didn’t get it finished til today.

Thanksgiving 2009

This was Lily first Thanksgiving and it was so nice and low key. We don’t live near any family and most of our friends had family things to do so it was just Waldo, Lily, our friend Jack and myself. Because there were so few of us and it saved money we decided to make chicken parmesan instead of turkey. When we were planning our menu we had decided that my chicken parm is so rich and cheesy that it didn’t need sides, while I was making dinner though Waldo decided it needed something. He made a boxed noodle dish, I didn’t need the noodles the chicken parm was enough for me.

I made a coconut cream pie because it’s Waldo’s favorite. I use a tweaked recipe I got off of AllRecipes.com and Waldo loves it.  I’m not a huge fan of coconut flakes so I take his word for it. I made the same pie last year but it never set up so I let the custard boil a little longer this year and that made all the difference in the world.

I also made some Chocolate Cover Snow Peaks.  Mine didn’t get perfectly dried out but we all thought they were great and I liked that it was nice to have something different from our traditional desserts.  Oh and in an effort to keep things real my snow peaks didn’t turn out anywhere as nicely formed as Tyler Florence’s.  I’ve really got to work on my pipping skills.  While I was googling other meringue recipes I got some inspiration for Lily’s first birthday party.  I’m thinking meringue snowmen with chocolate piped eyes and meringue buttons with a chocolate 1 on them.

I was so busy cooking and having fun that I didn’t take any pictures.  I have plenty of leftovers but now I’m to tired take pictures of food.

We did take a few pictures of Lily before Jack got here and I started cooking.

Thanksgiving 2009

Lily on Daddy's lap

Lily playing in her toy box

I am so thankful for my loving husband and our beautiful healthy daughter. I’ve very thankful to Waldo for working so hard so that I’m able to stay home with Lil, money may be tight but it is so worth it. I’m thankful for so much more too but I’ve got a kitchen to clean.

I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving.

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