Lily update.

My little Lily Bean will be 1 year old soon! The time just flies by with the second kid.  Let's see... where to begin?  For starters she is very adventurous. She loves to explore every corner of this house, and I hate it.  I can't get anything done quickly when she is awake because she is always getting into trouble. Ella was not like this.  Although Ella never let me leave her side because she would cry until I would come and sit beside her.  Lily will entertain herself but not with the toys that she has been given. Her favorite activity is throwing laundry, clean or dirty, out of the basket, and chewing on every piece of furniture we own. By the way... She has 6 teeth and getting two more that I can see.   She is still a very happy baby.  She loves playing peek-a-boo, she likes to be chased, and then squeals when her sister squeals and laughs.  There is never a quiet moment in this house anymore.   Lily has found her voice and likes to use it.  And flat out refuses to use sign language.  I have been doing sign language with Lily since she was 5 months and she does not seem interested in communicating with her hands. She shakes her had "no" pushes my hand away or grabs at what she wants or grunts/screams when she is not getting her way. 

In addition to being adventurous she is standing by herself and sometime with out pulling up on any furniture.  She is also walking some with her pusher toy but prefers to crawl.  She crawls like a speed demon. With this increased activity she feel and hit her nose on the TV console last week and got a good bloody nose from it. Scared the crap out of me to say the least but the MD said she was fine.

She is still a Mamas girl.  Which I love.  It's so easy for me to get a smile or a laugh out of her. She still does not like to be held by strangers or even familiar people like friends.  I hope some of this will change once we get the chance to have a date night though. 

Soon I will take her into her one year check up and get all her stats but she is still a small baby.  As I was waiting to pick Ella up from school today I was talking to some other mothers who also had babies. The babies all looked the same size as Lily but you could tell they were not developmentally as far along as Lily. Come to find out they were only 3-4 months old. It will be interesting to see what percentage she is at her next visit.  Lets hope she moved up from the 5th%!  Next update on Lily will be the big 1 YEAR!!!!