Poor Lila

Lila was up ALL night last night so I took her to Urgent Care as soon as it opened this morning and found out that she has her first ear infection. Poor thing! She seems to be feeling much better after just one does of Tylenol and one dose of antibiotics, so let's hope for a good nap today!

Pee Pee on the Potty

I want to start off by saying I am NOT potty training. I think I started way too early with Ian and as a result it took a ridiculously long time and I could have saved us a lot of frustration by waiting. However, Lila has been obsessed with watching me go potty for a few months now (there is no such thing as privacy when you are a mom) and last week started asking to sit on the potty herself. This week I bought her a potty seat that fits on the toilet and she has been asking nightly to sit on her "own poppy". Until tonight she had just been sitting there hanging out for 10 minutes or so, but tonight she actually went! She was rewarded with a Hersheys hug so we'll see if we get a repeat performance tomorrow.

Then and Now

I have my camera back! And I'm feeling a little nostalgic today so I decided to do a then and now post. I got Lila dressed today in her Valentine's Day outfit from last year so I decided to take a picture. And this afternoon I worked on scanning in some pictures of Ian's elementary school years because he needs them for a school Memory Book project.

Lila on Valentine's Day 2008

And in the same outfit today, only she is refusing to smile this year.

Ian's Kindergarten school picture.

And his 5th grade school picture.

Personal Best!

This post is a little late, but Ian had a swim meet last Friday where he got a personal best in the freestyle! Way to go Ian! Mom and Dad drove up for the meet and Katie, Tim and Tony drove out from the city so he had quite the cheering section to witness it!

While we together we also celebrated Katie's birthday a little early with some cake and then a fun night out.

Swim Team

Ian's official Swim Team picture

Winter Carnival

Ian's school winter carnival was today, so we all went and had a lot of fun. As a fifth grader, Ian was eligible to be the target in the wet head game. It was like a dunk tank, only water poured on his head when the target was hit, instead of dunking him in a tank. Ian got soaked, but had fun.

After his turn in the game, Ian wanted to walk around with his friends, NOT his parents, so Chris and I took Lila around to do a few games. She played duck pond, fished for a prize, did the cake walk, and had a balloon flower made. The balloon flower lasted about 3 minutes before she started popping it, but it didn't seem to bother her.

As a side note, I dropped our camera this week (apparently I will never outgrow my klutzy phase) and it is in the process of being repaired, so there are no pictures from the carnival. Let's hope the kids are extra funny for the next week and a half so I have stories to post instead of pictures.

Mini Me

It's official. Lila is a mini me. Not only does she look like me, but she is interested in the same things too.
1. She LOVES shoes. She picks out her shoes every morning and also randomly throughout the day she will ask to put on her shoes or to change her shoes. Her favorite right now is her "snow boots".
2. She likes to watch me put on make-up and uses her own set of make-up brushes so she can imitate me.
3. She is a neat freak and cleans up spills. Sometimes I don't even know she has spilled something until I see her wiping it up with a towel.
4. She likes to go shopping. Yesterday, we went to the mall and as I was pushing her through the mall she started yelling "Yay! Shopping!" loud enough that people were looking at us.
And today, the icing on the cake... no, I'm not proud...
5. We went through a drive-up today to get a Diet Coke and I hear Lila in the back seat saying "diet coke". I tried to play it off and said "yes, you have a coat". She said, "no mama" and then repeated, very clearly, "Diet Coke". Probably a sign that I need to kick the habit?

And, just for fun, some pictures of Lila in her new knit dress from sweetbirdie (www.sweetbirdie.com).

This is when I told her to say "Yay! Shopping!".