Aquarium Trip with Eenie
With all of the cold weather recently, we needed an outing somewhere warm. Today me, Lilly, and Eenie made a trip to the NC aquarium at PKS. It was a short trip as Lilly does not have much patience, but we got to see everything and Lilly got to do some walking and splashing in the ray tank! I think that is her most favorite part....she loves splashing, and this time she even touched one of the cow nosed rays. We got to see the rays, the alligator (stuffed of course), the living shipwreck with a large grouper, the rays, and a stop at the crab photo op area. If my mom (Eenie) had not come along, we would have no photo documentation...thanks Eenie! Hope we get some warm weather soon, but all in all a great day!

Video's of Lilly

Happy Valentine's Day!

Nice day to swing at the park!

Look at me....you can see my teeth!!

I'm using my big girl cup....so good!!

Big smile....Love my walker!!

Lilly Fix...

So I found time to add the software for my camera on to my Mom's mac....and shazam.....photos on the blog. Lilly is becoming more and more of a person each day, showing her little (or big) personality....she knows what she wants and will let you know if you are doing something she does not like. She has her favorite toys and books and wants these items all the time. She is babbling (and screaming) most of the time. She will say Mama, Dada, Nanana, and Baba. I can't wait until I actually know what she is saying. The above photos are from the past few weeks....she adds so much to each day and I hope everyone gets to see her soon!!

In other news my bro leave for his mission in the cold waters of Alaska....he will be gone for about 10 days and I can't wait to see his photos when he returns!! The little garden that I started last week (indoors) with tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant; have some sprigs from the tomato seeds....later on in the week we should see some peppers and eggplants. I can't wait until our whole backyard is one big garden!! We are also planning our third trip of the month to Raleigh to visit one of my dear friends who will be in town from CA!! I can't wait to see my girls!!

Here's my explanation...

So over the past two weeks, we have made two trips to Raleigh for various occasions, we had two computers die, and therefore no internet access for me. We have been very busy, and Lilly is getting smarter and smarter each day. Just this evening I started teaching her "so big" ...you know you say "how big is Lilly?" and she puts her hands above her head to show you how big she is. She is starting to copy. Also this evening, I found two more teeth on their way in. I can't wait to see how she does with uppers and lowers. 

On the computer front....my gateway computer of 6 years (my folks got it for me when I started grad school in 2003) bit the dust. I knew it was getting old, but I did not know that it was really going to die. It was a very said day...made even worse when I realized that I had not backed up any of the photos or music on my hard drive. Luckily, I found a local shop that could take my hard drive and put it in some type of case so that I could still retrieve files off of it. Now the second part of the story takes my Mom's apple computer that had crashed when my little bro was using it in FL while in dive training. So during one of our trips to Raleigh, we made an appointment with and Apple Genius to get the computer fixed. To make that story short, after 1.5 hours, her computer needed a new hard drive. So $300 later, my Mom is letting me borrow her newly working apple. 

Now I just need to learn to up load photos and such to this apple machine, and things might return to normal?! But with a 10 month old, I don't think there is a definition of normal!!