Swimmy swim

A couple posts back I mentioned that Lily now LOOOOOVES swimming. Well, look! Here's proof!

Super-nanny Norma took Lily swimming at this community pool near her mom's house (which, in the small world department, happens to be right next door to a house dada lived in for the first month he was in San Diego...weird!). It's a really nice setup for Lily because they have this whole wading pool just for little ones, where Lily can stand quite nicely.

Lily is quite fearless in the water...perhaps too much so! She would jump straight in if we let her. So swim lessons are going to be a requirement, we think.

Here's a little video. Please note how Lily "swims" on a noodle (0:23) deliberately sticks her face in the water (0:39), piggy squeals in protest (1:19) if you try to take her out before she's ready, then decides to climb out anyways (1:30):

And, of course, the apres swim bunny swaddle...

By the way, dada bought the two-piece suit featured here for Lily but I think mama is rejecting its further use. I think she's worried Lily is too cute in a bikini and the boys at the pool may whistle at her. (At least it's forever commemorated in blog history!)

Thank you, nice lady that Dada works with!

Hi, everybody! Lily here. I'm taking over the blog for a moment to say thank you to someone who is very nice to me. Dada works with a very nice lady named Linda who has a girl who's a bit older than me. She gave mama and dada good advice even before I was born about pregnancy stuff, like vela...velamen... vela Mentos? Some kind of candy, I think. Anyways, she gives us baby stuff from time to time, like the bouncy in this post that was my favorite for a long time (and helped me sleep!). But just recently, she gave us a bunch of clothes! I think they're mostly from her relatives in England, but whoever got them has good taste. Fashion show!!

This is the first thing I wore. Jammer jams! I like this a lot because most of my jammies have long sleeves and footies, which is a) kinda warm for this time of year, and b) kinda slippy on the tile, and while I'm an expert walker (I can even walk in my sleepsack!!), slippy feet nonetheless present incremental risk of go-boom. So I like these a bunch!

The next thing we tried was this surf butterfly ensemble. Hm. Do they surf in England? Maybe Aunty Linda got this one here. Anyways, I like this one for its casual chic, plus it's one of my only tee shirts that has buttons at the neck (discreetly tucked on the back side) so my head doesn't get squooshed when I put it on. Since my head circumference is the only part of me that isn't below 10th percentile, I really appreciate this!

Last night, I slept in another of the jammies. Now, to the untrained eye you may think it looks like the first jammer jams, but if you look carefully you'll see that this one has ruffles on the sleeves, which makes it extra girly. Also, it's a bit roomier, which would be good for hiding figure flaws if I had any.

There's lots of other neat stuff too, but a lot of it is for slightly cooler weather so I have to wait a bit to try them all. But I just wanted to tell the nice lady that I love them!! Thank you!!

-xoxo Lily

Cowlick

I wonder if some mama spit might help this thing lay flat...

But why just outgrow the bunny, when you can BE the bunny?

Lily, being the bunny:


These pictures were taken two days ago. We discovered over the weekend that Lily now LOVES the pool, so mama took her in again while dada was on a teleconference, and afterwards, bundled her up in her bunny bathrobe. She then proceeded to wear it for the next several hours. So cute!

Is it me, or is this bunny getting smaller?

June 3, 2007 ............October 28, 2007......... June 15, 2008

Meet the Mojicettes

Soon-to-be-famous pre-teen pop piano trio the Mojicettes made their performance debut last weekend in Cerritos, CA on Father's Day.

Madison, the eldest of the group provides the calm, centered leadership, while "Rebel Yell" Mallory shows that she has too much rock-n-roll for just one pigtail.

Lily, it would seem, has chosen to specialize in emotive ballads.

Expect the girls to begin their nationwide tour at some point in the future, after at least one of them has learned some piano...

Personal questions

This weekend, we asked Lily some questions about her love life.

Andy, of course, is the boy with whom she shared her first kiss. Sigh...so young! Well, at least we know the family.