New Rain Boots

This weekend, we bought Lily a pair of rain boots. Lately, she has enjoyed splashing in puddles and doing that in sneakers is very messy.

French Braids

Lily's teacher Miss Kim managed to french braid her hair today. Apparently there was a lot of jealously in the class because no one else has enough hair to braid and the other girls had to settle for pigtails. :) Here are some shots of the hairdo:

Circus

Today we went to the Cole Bros Circus. It was a great "first circus" for Lily. She loved the tigers, dogs, camels, horses, and of course the ELEPHANTS. Surprisingly, she also liked the clowns a lot. They did one bit where they got into a taxi (a Geo) and as they drove away the car "broke" in two and the front drove away without the back. She kept asking to see that again. :)

"These elephants are really great! Can we just stand here and look a them for a while?"

Sitting on Daddy's lap at the circus.

"Thanks for the giant balloon Grammy!!"

Bubbles

Recently, Lily got a bubble machine. She thinks it is really neat. Enjoy!

Chicago

This weekend, Sarah and Lily joined me in Chicago (I was already there for a conference during the week) and we visited with Uncle Phil, Aunt Lois and cousins Alayne, Dave, Sam, and Mikey. We went to the Kohl Children's Museum and to the Field Museum and ate deep dish pizza. Lily had a great time visiting, playing, and watching "the boys".

"Picking" corn at the Field Museum

Playing drums at the music exhibit

"Elephants!"

"This is a fun house cousin Alayne!"

"The Boys!"

"Love you Aunt Lois and Uncle Phil"

Pedaling Her New Tricycle

As you know, Grandma and Grandpa got Lily a new tricycle. She is starting to get the hang of pedaling it!

"First, I have to sweep up all the leaves in my way."

"Next, I put my feel on the pedals."

"I'm ready to pedal now!"

Cherry Blossoms

Today we went downtown with our friends Eli, Benjamin, Beth, and Howie to the Natural History Museum. We went to the dinosaur exhibit, the oceans exhibit, and the butterfly exhibit. The butterfly exhibit is a self contained area where live butterflies fly around. Lily was afraid of them and we had to carry her through the exhibit. Of course, as soon as she asked to leave and we did, she wanted to go through again. Too bad you can only entered with timed tickets. We'll go again soon.

"Daddy, are you sure these butterflies won't hurt me?"

After lunch, we went down to the tidal basin to see the Cherry Blossoms. Unfortunately, Lily was so tired from zooming around the museum she fell asleep, with her sunglasses on, when we left the museum and didn't wake up until we got back to the car.

Konked out. Everyone thought she was so cute sleeping in her sunglasses.

After we got back to the car and Lily woke up, we decided to go to Cabin John park on the way home. We ended up playing there for two and a half hours!

"I LOVE this park!"