Fall Festival

Last night was the Fall Festival at Lila's daycare.  The Fall Festival is a big event, and I spent the morning making these cute cupcakes for the cake walk.  These cupcakes were nothing special, but as you all know, presentation is everything, and they were some of the first treats to get chosen.  Pretty cute, huh?

...Speaking of pretty cute, what do you think about my chicken?

Here we are doing the cake walk...Lila just wanted to hear the music and dance

and here she is with her first cake walk goodies ever...some brownie bites.  Mommy did not want a whole cake around here.  She could not wait to tear into the bag, so I put them in my purse, and this morning I looked over and she was sitting in her little chair having a brownie bite..sneaky little thing.

Another big hit of the night was the lollipops.  Here is Lila and her friend Charli (Cha Cha) enjoying one.  One of the moms remarked that their child didn't know what to do with a lollipop; not my child!  I never taught her what to do, and I have never really given her candy, but she seems to know what to do with it.  I am pretty sure she got that from me.

Pumpkin pics

We went to Red Barn today to pick out some pumpkins.  There are some pumpkins in the lobby area at the daycare, and Lila likes to stop and touch them and pick one out and say "Dat Lalila's mumpkin".  So, today when I said "We are going to go pick out some pumpkins", she knew exactly what I was talking about, and when we got there she knew just what to do.  There was an area with small pumpkins, and she just walked right up to it, and got herself a pumpkin and loaded it right on the cart.  She actually got two small pumpkins.

These are a couple of my favorite pictures.

Here is Lila and her Dad "working"... monkey see, monkey do!

A few pictures from last week

Lila picked a pocket full of peppers from her pepper plant, and she was pretty proud!

We have not gotten very far with the potty training.  But in the past week or two, Lila has really gotten into Elmo.  We have an Elmo book, and she watches Sesame Street occasionally, but all of a sudden she wants Elmo everything.  So, I bought an Elmo "potty" DVD...I put it in one day, and she went and got her potty and sat in the living room and watched it.

This is just a sneak peak of the Halloween costume...more to come

Fall Leaves

Lila is becoming quite a good little craft partner...Just what I always wanted!  Today, I cut leaves out of felt and then she decorated them with stick on rhinestones in fall colors (I found at Michael's for $1/package).

Then I hung them on the kitchen windows with pretty orange ribbon.

The pictures don't really show all the colors, but they are really pretty.  My little partner was pleased with the results.

The other night, Shawn and Lila were being very quiet, so I went to find them.  Shawn was practicing fixing her hair...HOW CUTE!  This is his first attempt at a pony tail.  Not too bad.

Visit with The Noskas

Last week, we went to visit the Noskas, and Lila had her first meeting with Baby Ainsley.  She wasn't as excited about the baby as I thought she would be, but she loved all the baby equipment and playing with Anneliese.  However, once she got to hold the baby, she didn't really want to let her go. 

Nana Jr.

I am constantly amazed by what these little people are capable of.  Lila is not the best "talker" yet, and lately, it seems like I spend a lot of time trying to figure out what she is telling me, and what she is thinking.  I know that she is extremely observant, but sometimes she surprises me with just how observant...

Last weekend we were at my parents house.  My Mom always takes her dog out on a leash.  Last time we were there, Lila had to have a leash on her stuffed dog.  This time she had to actually take my Mom's dog out, and patiently walk her around the yard, just like Nana does.  Not a big deal, right?  Then my brother hollers at me, "Come look at her", so I go to the door.  Lila has the dog leash in one hand and is bending over to carefully examine the grass, and poke around in it, and then grabs a handful.  This may not sound like a big ah-ha moment to you.  But, that is exactly what my Mom does when she is outside with the dog...she looks for and picks weeds!  It is funny what these little people notice.

Notice the "weeds" in her right hand.

*Disclaimer...Lila does actually wear pants, sometimes. She is going through a stage where she doesn't really want to have her diaper changed, but doesn't want to sit on the potty either. It almost takes two people to get a diaper on the kid, so sometimes the pants don't make it back on. Any advice on starting potty training would be greatly appreciated. She tells me when she needs to go (sometimes) and then we run, run, run, to the potty and then she acts like she is afraid of it.  Does this mean she is just not ready yet?*