Friday, October 31, 2008

Happy Halloween!




Oufit #1: An Obama Cheerleader: Personally knitted by Grandma! Very impressive.

Outfit #2: A lovely Ladybug.

Lily had a great evening of Halloween fun. First of all she walked in the Halloween Parade from Macomb Park, Lily's local hangout. Here is a link to the whole day:
http://picasaweb.google.com/stacey.bowers/Halloween2008#

Family photo includes "Backwards Dada," "Mouskateer Mama" and "Obama Supporter Lily."

Dada was great fun to dress up and although we were one of very few parents that dressed up, it was tons of fun. The hilarious part about Mike's costume was that every time he turned away from Lily she would start to whine and get scared. Then he would turn around and she would look at me and think...umm, what is happening here? Oh well, probably scarring her for life.
The parade had so many kids. I heard so many parents saying.."hey, has anyone see my kid?"
The below picture has one of Lily's favorite buddies from the park--Alexander, and his parents. Alexander was an astronaut! Alexander stopped by later and played with Lily. They are really getting along pretty well as Lily gave him a hug. So cute.


And the best knitter this side of the Mason Dixon line...Barbara "Grandma/Naa-naa" Halpern!
This is Lily's neighbor Marie who just adores Lily. Good neighborhood folks around here!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!!

Monday, October 27, 2008

Seriously, she looks adorable in this hat...

Lily reading.



This is Lily's favorite book "My Very First Mother Goose" which is filled with all the oldie but goody rhymes. These pictures crack me up because she really concentrates like an adult.

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Lily at the Gym


Lily has been going to the "Giraffe" class at Jonah's Treehouse. Its a movement class for 45 minutes that is just something nice to do inside once a week, especially as the days get cooler. Barbara has been taking her for about a month now but this was the first time Mommy and Daddy got to see her in action. The above picture is Lily having a blast on the parachute. Her teacher Alice is also above and does a great job including all the kids, knows their name, etc. I guess this is probably more or less what daycare is like. Its just nice for her to get some excercise and interact with other kids. When we first got there, she took a small toy and walked over to one of the younger kids and gave it to him. I was first shocked as the sharing bit just isn't Lily's bag. Oh well, I guess its that age but this was a step in the right direction. Of course, she then went to another kid to give her a toy and pegged it at her. Baby steps I guess.

Here are a few videos of her activities.....

Monday, October 6, 2008

Pumpkin Patch!


We met the Edelstein's this weekend to go to a Pumpkin Patch festival and had tons of fun. In general, we climbed into Halloween themed mouths and took some pictures, had a hayride, played on the cool slides, tried hard to get the three kids to cooperate for a picture and climbed on all the fun toys. Here are all the pictures shown here: http://picasaweb.google.com/stacey.bowers/PumpkinPatchOctober#

And here are a few of my favorites....
Mouth 1..


Mouth 2...(sort of)Mouth 3! Kitty!

A few of the cutest, prettiest and coolest girls on the planet!

Family photo op!
Delicious pumpkin!

She is so proud of her new pumpkin. I love this picture. ( :

And a great "Slide"show....(heh heh, get it, get it?!)

Friday, October 3, 2008

Lily dances!



I apologize for the quality of the picture and also the background music. It was something we downloaded on a whim. Never again. OK, I will work on a better video but this will satiate those looking for a video lately.