Random Photos from July

Okay, I am back to updating past pictures onto the blog. This series will finish up July and then I will be onto August! Lily started to really enjoy her new home, room and pool. We love that we are only 2 miles off the water and can hit the beach whenever we want! Lily is a little bit of a picky eater, like her Mommy, but she started to try some new food this month. We setup our spare room downstairs as her playroom and she loves it! We pick a letter and number of the day off a huge foam mat we have hanging on the wall. She is really starting to get some hair and has finished cutting her 1st year molars. We met some new friends at the park, Alisia and her son LJ, that we hope to get to know better!

Thanksgiving Art Work

It was time to take down the Halloween fingerprint spiders and footprint ghosts and move on to the next holiday. We decided to get a jump on the Fall and Thanksgiving artwork and invited Alisia and LJ to come over and join in on the fun. We made turkey bread baskets, painted hand print turkeys and cutout hand print and shoe print turkeys! When they first arrived, Lily and LJ had some sharing issues over toys, but soon they were laughing, chasing each other around the room, and rolling around on the floor laughing out loud! They really seem to play better with each other every time they get together. They have become great friends! Thanks for coming over Alisia and LJ!

Then and Now

Lily has changed so much over the past year! Check out these two Halloween photos of her from 2008 (10 months old) and 2009 (22 months old) in the same outfit. At least she has some hair now!

Halloween Duck!

We started our Halloween Day carving our pumpkins. Lily sat in her highchair with her 3 stuffed pumpkins while we did all the hard work. I, of course, carved my pumpkin into a kitty cat (the animal of choice for Lily right now). She kisses any picture of a cat she sees, including clothes that have cats on them, and then screams, "Meow Meow, Kitty Kitty!"

We then went over to Julie's house, Alisia's Mother-in-Law, for a Halloween get together. We finally got to meet Alisia's husband, Blake, and the rest of their family and friends. We had a great time and they made us feel like part of the family! I am glad I have met such a great friend in our new town!

Lily the Duck had a great time playing with the other kids and then we all headed out for some trick-or-treating. We went to about 6 houses and were headed back to the party, but she was having so much fun we decided to continue. She probably went to about 15 houses, walked almost the entire way by herself, and would not let me help her carry her pumpkin. She actually had "a death grip" on her pumpkin and told me "No, Mama!" when I tried to relieve her of it!

We ended up back at the party for some great food (amazing caramel apples!), drink and conversation! Halloween 2009 was a great time in Oceanside with our family, new friends and the anticipation of next year's Halloween when we will be a family of 4!

Lily Goes to a All Hallows Eve Carnival

Across the street from our new subdivision is the First Presbyterian Church. One of my new friends here in Oceanside is Alisia and her Mother-in-Law Julie is the Director of the Preschool at the Church. She encouraged us to join in the fun at the All Hallows Eve Carnival last weekend. Lily was to be a Duck for Halloween, but the Carnival was between 4-6pm and it was still too light and too hot outside to wear the Duck costume. So, I dressed her up as a Fairy for the evening. We had fun watching Lily play games, eat Cotton Candy for the first time, play with her friend LJ (Alisia's son) and run around the playground! Thanks for the invite Julie and Alisia!

Hospital Tour: Mary Birch Hospital

We are at the Mary Birch Hospital on the tour before the arrival of
the baby! Marcy is a bit nervous now and excited too. The hospital
is wonderful and they deliver a baby every hour, that's about 8,600
each year.

Lily the Duck!

Lily's costume for Halloween this year!

Lily Art

Lily at the SD Science Center

Lily enjoyed learning about physics at the San Diego Science Center this weekend!
More to come...

Lily in Yosemite

Lily made her way to another national park this past week, Yosemite!
She hiked and made new friends. Here is a picture. See more pictures
and details about the trip at: http://www.witman.net/yosemite

Cutest kid EVER

Lily cried when the sunset today, afraid it was gone forever! Thank
goodness the moon came up!

Lily's Duck!

Lily showing us her duck!

Our very own Beach

Tommy had a great idea to build a beach in our backyard. This was a seriously big project! After digging a hole 10ft x 20ft x 16 inches deep and moving all that earth by hand, Tommy could barely move! Then he started building the wall that surrounds the sand. We added slate, trees, stepping stones, flowers, gravel, and sand. The whole process took a month, but we ended up with a amazing backyard beach! Great job Tommy, Lily loves her Beach!

Legoland

In late July our old neighbors, The Weaks, spent sometime with us at our new place. They decided to take their summer vacation in San Diego and spent three nights with us. One of the days we spent at Legoland, which is only about 5 miles from our new house. Lily seemed a little overwhelmed with the park and the giant lego sculptures, but always had a smile on her face. She got to enjoy a few rides, but unfortunately was too short for most. Don't worry Lily, by next year you can go on most of the rides! Tony, Jenn, Mason and Rylee had a great time and introduced Lily and I to our first apple french frys with cinnamon coolwhip dip! Wow, doesn't that just make you gain weight reading about it! Lily enjoyed the water park area the best, it was 90 degrees that day and the water felt great! Thanks Weaks for spending a few days with us!

Sandcastle Competition

In July we decided to get to know our new area better and went to South San Diego County to the US Open Sandcastle Competition. We saw about a dozen different entries, I picked the Simpsons Vacation as my favorite by far! I don't know if Lily understood exactly what she was looking at, but seemed to really have a great time. She loves walking on the beach and sticking her toes in the sand. We had to cut the day short due to some round ligament pains I was having. It turned out to be a long drive for a short time on the beach, but worth the chance to see a real sandcastle competition!