Easter!

Lilli was very happy with all the goodies the Easter Bunny left her! Even her Grandma Spears and Aunt Becky had some great baskets for her! In fact, she was so excited she didn't even sleep through the night and woke up at 2 am for a snack!!!!! Not fun, we've become very used to her 9 hours of sleep a night!!!!
We all got dressed up in our duds and had a nice morning at church and then took some pics.

We got lots of honks, cheers and waves taking this one! I guess a few years ago I should've planned ahead and bought more ears!!!! Lilli is wearing a bunny hat though, it's just harder to see!
The ladies wore our pearls yesterday.....it's never too early to teach her about jewelry and always looking our best!
Later Brent read the kiddos The Easter Story so they both realize it's not all about candy, toys and looking pretty awesome.The Easter Bunny even had a surprise for me! I took a short 30 min nap and woke up to see a basket in front of me that there were 24 eggs hidden around the house for me to find! I found all of them (some were VERY hard!) and ended up with $2, Reeses (my fave) and puzzle pieces for a note I had to assemble from Brent!! Too fun!We had a great time visiting with family over the weekend, and spent some time at Opryland Hotel visiting with some of our old college buddies (and some other friends) in town for L2L. Before we left we wanted to take some pics of Lilli's first visit to Opryland Hotel. I was doing some of her and Brent and we had a million people stop to ask to take our pic! Hilarious!!!! We took a few people up on their offers (but sometimes we do just like mom/Lil and dad/Lil pics too!!!) Here's our best stranger shot:
I think Lilli had a great first Easter! (And isn't Brent looking skinny!!! He's down 14-17 pounds (depending on who you ask) and I'm down 26-28, with 9-11 more to go (depending on when I weigh!)

Twas the Night Before Easter

And all the lambs and bunnies are lined up waiting for the arrival of the Easter Bunny. (Ironically all but 1 are samples from work....if it was the Easter Monkey instead of the Easter Bunny Lilli would seriously be in the money!)

Carrots have been left to lure the Bunny in....
But I think the Easter Pippin may have gotten to them before the Easter Bunny....

I guess we'll just have to wait and see what the Easter Bunny brings Lilli!

Cuteness, Cousin Edition

One of my favorite Lilli pictures, ever. (Of course there's only 11 weeks of them - but we already have over 20GB of pics of her, still avg about 50 pics a day and sometimes as many as 300-400 pics!).

That's Cousin Madison aka "Little Momma" FINALLY getting her hands on that baby all on her own, and Auntie Becky.

Poop on Pop

Today I decided to dress Lilli in "Daddy thinks I'm sweeter than Sugar" attire since she had a diaper explosion last night that put an untimely end to Easter outfit #1 and Brent's favorite pair of jeans. Naturally this happened about 5 minutes before we needed to leave. Maybe she'll make amends and be extra sweet to Brent while I'm gone tonight for Girls Night Out!!!

She's still doing great sleep-wise. Last night we put her to bed at 9 and she still slept until 7 am. Her daytime naps are getting shorter which means it's harder and harder for me to get anything done! She's generally fussiest when she needs a nap and just hasn't gotten it out. I've also realized that I'm past the point of really being phased by public meltdowns. She and I did some shopping this afternoon, and then walking with a friend. She had a mini-meltdown in the quiet store but I just did several 50 mph laps around the narrow aisles until she calmed down and I finished my shopping. The lady who checked me out complimented me on my ability to speed walk the aisles with my arms full of product and not miss a beat with the stroller! And I have to admit I really didn't think about it or even care how many people were staring at us. I guess I have arrived at mom-dom! She still screams bloody murder most everywhere we go in the car, but I've pretty much learned to tune that out too. I just tell her payback will come one day when she's a teenager and I embarrass her as much as possible! I think the good nights of sleep and all the smiles help with overlooking the awful moments!

Happy Easter!

Lilli & The Lillies

I think someone thinks her daddy brought her some flowers!

My guess is she's probably right!We've been talking about the Easter Bunny today so I went ahead and rolled out the first of her (several) Easter outfits!Here's hoping the Sunday forecasted temps quit dropping so I don't have to run out and buy a little white sweater last minute for her Easter dress! (Yest they said it was going to be 70 and now it's down to 65 degrees!!!)

School Days

Today after the usual Bible study/office visit Lilli and I go to we stopped by her dayschool to pick up her enrollment packet and drop off our deposit. I hope she learns to read and write soon because we have a whole book to fill out! She's got lots of cute little babies to play with, and I got to meet a little girl named Cleo who is right about her same age and size.

Here's a cuter pic....Big Brother is ALWAYS nearby!

And sometimes he just makes himself right at home when our playtime ends!

Where did Spring go?

Hello! We had a great weekend around here. Friday Lilli and I did some shopping, and I was going to treat her to the Southern Women's Show but there was NO parking around downtown!!! Every garage within 5 blocks was full, and I could have parked at work for free 5 blocks away but decided it wasn't worth all the "stuff" I'd have to tote on my own. So maybe next year! Saturday morning, even though it would've been a great morning for me to get out for a solo run, I took advantage of Daddy Daycare and went out and did some major retail therapy. I tore up a coworker's yard sale (they have two little girls) and scored a ton of summer stuff for Lilli, then tore up the last consignment sale of the season and got MORE clothes for Lilli and an Exersaucer for $7.50 (BRU has the EXACT same one for $90!), did some Easter dress shopping for me and Lilli, and then got everything I need for her Easter basket. No candy for her - since we'd end up eating up, but lots of cute little toys for her particular age that I think she will enjoy. Brent and Lilli did just fine and had a good morning hanging out together. We enjoyed the rest of the day together watching Brent work on a bookshelf for Lilli's room and then we walked down to the neighborhood ice cream shop and treated ourselves to the first cone of the season.

In spite of the ice cream, losing weight is still going well here. I lost 3 pounds two weeks ago, and 2 pounds last week. I'm back to my normal exercise routine for the most part. I run every morning while Lilli snoozes during her morning nap. Normally she gets up around 6:30-7 and is back asleep by 7:30 - 8 so I hop on the treadmill and run anywhere from 3-4.5 miles, depending on how zonked out she stays! I still have 11 pounds to go and hope to keep losing 2-3 pounds per week. I'm almost back up to my regular number of miles, last week I ran 17.5 and the goal for this week is to be back to my usual 20 miles/wk. From here I just have to work on gaining back my speed!

With the reemergence of winter I decided to take this opportunity to make sure she got to wear some of the winter things she still hasn't worn yet! So, even though we're staying in on this yucky day she's dressed to the 9's. She's getting harder and harder to photograph since she just loves to kick those feet - so in half my little point and shoot pics she's a bit of a blur - but I think it illustrates that she's a baby on the move!