Strawberry Picking

This morning, we went with our friends Sara, Dave, and Sadie to pick strawberries at Butler's Orchard. We were not sure what to expect from Lily and were a little concerned about mud following rain the last few days. Lily had a great time picking and eating the berries. Turned out mud wasn't what we needed to worry about, it was strawberry juice!

"Here Lily, I'll show you how to pick the berries."

"Picking berries is fun!"

"See the berry I picked?"

"All done, I'm going to put them in the big box with Mommy and Daddy berries."

Blue Slide Park

While we were in Pittsburgh this past weekend, we took Lily to the "Blue Slide" Park. It is right down the street from my dad's house and has a giant blue slide that Lily loved going down first by herself (from about a 1/3 of the way down) and then on our laps.

Pittsburgh Children's Museum

We just got home from spending the weekend in Pittsburgh and we all had a great time (especially Lily). Among our activities, was a trip to the Pittsburgh Children's Museum. We were encouraged to go by our friends Erin, John, Caleb, and Emma, and we were not disappointed.

On the first floor, they have an area dedicated to Mr. Roger's Neighborhood (he was from Pittsburgh, if you didn't know that). Lily loved playing in King Friday and Queen Sara's castle and stopped running around just long enough in the trolley to pose for a picture with Sarah, Grammy, and Aunt Rachel.



On the second floor, they had a whole area dedicated to toddlers and younger children. Included in this area was a fish tank and tables with sand and birdseed to play with.

"Fishies!"

"Grammy, can you help me scoop the birdseed into the funnel?"

Also on this floor was a giant, wall-size, light bright. Lily loved picking up the colored pegs, putting them in the wall, and watching them light up.

Believe it or not, the museum has even more, including a water play area on the 3rd floor. We will have to go back to experience that!

Swimming Lessons

Lily began swim lessons a couple of weeks ago. She has been a little scared of the water, but is warming up to splashing, blowing bubbles (which often involves licking the water), and kicking her legs.


She is also taking the class with her friend Ryan, so that makes it even more fun!

Where is Grandpa's nose?

Lily is getting very good at identifying her body parts. She can point to her ears, tongue, teeth, head, tummy, toes... and blink her eyes. She can also point to other people's body parts when asked.

"Here is Grandpa's nose!"

"Here is Grandpa's ear!"

Mother's Day

Grandma and Grandpa came to visit for Mother's Day weekend. We had a wonderful visit!

"I love the park!"

"Watch me go down the tube."

"Is anyone going to come with me?"

The Kitchen Dance

For those of you who are not familiar with Lily's musical ability, she loves to dance (she is probably the best dancer in her class at daycare). Tonight, she was "cooking" in her kitchen and shaking her booty to the kitchen sounds. Enjoy!

Splashy splashy in the soup!

Party at Mary Kay's

On Friday before Lily got her new crocs in the mail, she came with me to a party at my coworkers house. Once she got comfortable, Lily roamed around the backyard, had some snacks, showed off her vocabulary to my coworkers, and admired (and picked) the azaleas. Thanks to Ilyssa for snapping this picture of Lily enjoying a chicken wing with her cell phone.

"I love chicken."

New Shoes (Crocs)!

Lily got new shoes today. She got purple Crocs! So far, she really likes them, especially sticking her fingers in the holes on top of the shoes.

"Ooh! My shoes have holes in the top and I can stick my fingers in them!"

"Thank you for the shoes Mommy and Daddy"