Happy Birthday to my little Koala Bear!!!!

Happy Birthday Lillian!!! I know everyone says this,

Here she is eating her birthday cake! She had just as much fun playing with the frosting as she did eating the cake!

but I can't believe how fast this year has gone by or how big my little baby has become!

It's fun to watch but I am also grieving the loss of having her as an itty bitty baby. Lucky for me, she still loves to cuddle (thus why we call her the koala bear).

Here are her 1 year check-up stats:

Height: 28 inches (25th percentile)

Weight: 18 pounds 14 oz. (10th percentile)

Head circumference: 46 cm (75th percentile) She has the Elliss brain, what else can I say?

Teeth count: 8

Shoe size: just barely growing into size 3

What can she do?

+ cruise around furniture

+ stand by herself for about 15-30 seconds

+ play peekabo

+ imitate us talking on the phone

+ throw tantrums. Oh yes, they are starting already. Especially in the middle of the night and her milk is not warmed up to her liking

+ say "mama" and "dada" (knowing they mean mama and dada)

+sign "please". She can do this, it is now just a matter of getting her to do it!

+ Eat just about anything we eat, a little mashed up (although we don't give her everything we eat!)

Her favorite foods include: Bananas! strawberries, plums, veggie pasta, soy beans, anything chocolate, grapes, ice cream & cake and spaghetti.

We had this huge party and dinner just for Lily's birthday! Just kidding- Lily's birthday happened to fall on her Granny's wedding day. So it was a double celebration. Instead of a wedding cake they had a birthday cake! Here is Lily and myself at the Calgary temple on her birthday.

Here she is playing peek-abo in the visitor center at the Calgary temple. In the background is Rick's super nice sister-in-law, Gwen. She helped watch the kiddos while we were in the sealing. A full post is to come about our amazing trip to Calgary.....soon.

Here are some pictures from when she was a newborn. I can't believe how much she transformed in just 1 year! I still remember holding her for the first time and being amazed that I could love someone so much. I don't love her more than Jordan, it's just a different kind of love.

Here she is on her blessing day. She looks like a little doll!

80's work out day!

Come work-out with the newest revolutionary work-out Instructor in her latest routine called: BABY PHAT!

Fun for all ages!
Start out with some easy warm ups!

Too easy for you? Let's pick up the pace!

Exercising releases endorphins, endorphins make people happy!


Start out with some Pilates:

add lots and lots of Crunches!

Muscle Toning is a MUST if you want to show your face at the kiddi pool this season!

Feel the BURN!

Balance Improvement for both the young and the old

You know you're doing it right when you start to cry! Had too much?

Let's do some yoga for a cool down!

Great job! Come back and see us again for Baby PHAT 2 coming October 2010!

Eh?

I am currently a CTR (6&7 year olds) primary teacher in my church and I LOVE it. I thought I was going to miss relief society, but honestly, I don't. I learn so much preparing the lessons and giving them, I love sharing time and singing time more than the kidos. But the best part of all....the CHILDREN! They are so unbelievably cute and say the funniest things. Here are some from just yesterday

#1 In sharing time the primary president was playing Hang man (without the hanging man) with the word "miracle" to introduce the topic of the day. She was giving all the children a chance to guess a letter.

One sunbeam asked if the letter 9 was in the word! The primary president just smiled, pretended to think as she looked at the empty spaces on the board and said no.

#2 In my class we were talking about "Letting your Light so shine" and the manual had a riddle to introduce candles here it is:

I am made of wax
Inside me is a wick
My purpose is to give light
A match can make me burn
Who am I?

Both the children in my class answered; JESUS!!!! :) Last time I checked Jesus is not, nor ever was made of wax:) It must just be the answer to most of the questions I ask in class

#3 has been censored until further notice

#4 Lily. Of course I have to include her in here. I asked her "What should we eat today?" and she responded: DADA!!! (it's still her only word and there is even question to the fact that she really knows what it means)