Funny First

It was cold the other night so we decided to put a long sleeve onsie on Lily for bed. She wasn't too sure about the long sleeve bit. She kept trying to pull the sleeves off. After a few minutes she gave up and decided it didn't bother her. :)

Cast

Lily's next cast change (hopefully off only) is on Sept. 30th. They are also going to look at the head of her femur so hopefully we will know more about the shape of it and what is going on. I really hope that I can come home that afternoon and put a picture of her knees on the blog. :)

Tummy Time

I love these pictures of tummy time with Lily. She doesn't really like tummy time so Ollie and I get down and play with her to help her enjoy it more.

Hurricane Ike

We got tons of rain from Hurricane Ike. Ollie and I had a lot of fun playing in the rain. We played and splashed in the puddles until we were soaking wet. I love playing with my buddy. :)

Oliver

Ollie says and does funny stuff all the time. Yesterday he accidentally knocked over my plant. Soil spilled everywhere! He looked down at the mess and said, "Wow, that's a big mess!" I just had to laugh.
One day last week he came up to me and said, "Feel my hands." (He had his hands in cupping shape right next to each other.) I had no idea what he was doing so I just felt his hands. Then he said, "Now, feel my feet." By this time I was really confussed but Spencer (who had seen him come out from under a blanket in the bedroom) guessed right that he was Jesus. He had just been resurrected, came out of the tomb, and had us feel his nail prints. He is always pretending to be Book of Mormon characters. He has a great imagination. He is always having me guess who he is.
I bought him some preschool workbooks and he loves to do preschool with me at home. When we are doing school he calls me teacher the whole time and he wants me to call him student. He is super smart! He catches on to things so fast. He just finished one of the books so we hung up a little certificate in his room and he is very proud of it.
He loves to take really full baths. He loves to play with Lily. He loves to help with whatever I am doing. He loves to read books. He says that his superpower is to rescue people. He is a very loving little boy. We are so very very very thankful to have him in our family. We love him!

Lily

Lily loves to eat. She wants to hold and touch everything she eats. We have a special hand towel that we use just to cover up her cast when she eats. She gets super dirty. :) She has been in the cast for 14 weeks now. We are anxiously waiting to hear when she will get it off (or changed). She said her first word, ball. She has learned how to wave and loves to say hello and goodbye to people. When I come into the room after being gone for a minute she will wave to me and give me the biggest smile ever. She hates patch time but is learning to keep the patch on. (Mostly because Mommy and Papa bought new patches that are huge so it hurts more to pull it off herself.) We still have to watch her closely during patch time. She has learned to point, and points me to things she wants to see. She loves her big brother, Ollie, and gets so super excited each time she sees him. He, in turn, is very nice to her and shares all his toys with her, even his favorite monkey. What a delight she is to our family!

Ollie's First Soccer Practice

Ollie had his first soccer practice last night. He was really excited to go because we've been talking about it. He had fun kicking the ball for the first 15 minutes and then spent the next 45 minutes wandering around. He wasn't really too interested. Lily, on the other hand, loved it! I was holding her and sitting on the sidelines. She kept saying "ba, ba, ba," over and over again. (That is the second time that she's done that when seeing a ball, so I think I would have to say that her first word is ball.) She kept clapping and was so excited! She wanted to go play. So, Ollie who gets to play would rather play on the toys and Lily who is not able to move much would love to play. :)