Saturday!

(disclaimer: I had this all typed and ready to post, then I lost it. Everything after the word vacuumed. The video. The pictures. The words. The thoughts. The jokes. The humor. This may not be as good the second time around, not that you would know the difference since you can't ready the first one. I'm not going to proof read this either, I just don't care! AND, yes - it saves all the time...but it does not good if you can't retrieve what was saved. Well done blogspot, well done.)

Today was a very good day. It was productive, fun, filled with laughter and smiles...friends and family.

It started at 7:45am - Evan had already left for Bible study and to do some errands for me. Liliana was awake and so I went into her room and gave her a paci to hold her over so I could go to the bathroom. When I walked back into her room, I found her on her stomach holding herself up with both arms and smiling at me with her paci in her mouth - the kicker, the paci was in backwards! It was SO funny, and SO cute. I tried to get a picture, I almost had the camera ready to go when she smiled even bigger (if that was possible) and it fell out. Darn. I got her all changed, dressed and ready for the day, I even took some pictures because - well, she's just so cute!

I put her in the exersaucer while I started laundry. It is now only 8am. So, I fed Liliana and watched some tv while I ate breakfast. I then straightened things up a bit and vacuumed the living room, Liliana's room, and our room. By now it's about 9:30am and Liliana is ready for her nap, so down she went.

So took a good nap! Usually she sleeps for about 45 minutes to an hour in the morning - not today. She didn't even move positions and when she woke up, there was a large drool spot where she was. Most often you can see every place she laid in her crib while she napped from the drool! It's so cute how they go from being a few months old and sleeping in one spot and never moving, to being just a few months older and sleeping like a little person. Either she'll roll on her side or her stomach, today she had her hand above and sort of under her head, it was so cute.

While she was asleep, I continued on with the laundry - cleaned up the kitchen, and paid some bills. It wasn't until 11:30am that she woke up, a 2 hour morning nap. Way to go Liliana! By now Evan was home and it was time for me to shower and get ready to go see my good friends Chad and Sherry and their new home. Off I went.

I left there around 4pm and stopped at Walmart on the way home to get a few items that I had not gotten when I went grocery shopping last night. When I got home Evan had just finished giving Liliana her bottle and she was asleep in Daddy's arms. She was lookin' so cute. Then I went to make dinner: fish sticks, frozen veggie, and stuffing. While it was cooking, I went into the living room to talk with Evan, but he was also asleep. I, of course, could not pass up the opprotunity to take the picture.

The funny part - Liliana was the one snoring...I guess that can't be too hard to believe because she was all scrunched up like an old man!

After dinner I gave Liliana this new fangled teething toy. On a regular basis she likes to put her bib or a burp cloth in her mouth and just let it hang there - so I figured she would like this toy. We put a piece of cantaloupe in there and she went to town. I could hear her sucking the juice from it!

Of course as soon as we were done with this, it was time for a much needed bath - so into the duck she went! She really likes bath time, and with the Easter bunny having just come - she has toys to play with now too. And Auntie Carol got her bubbles, so I decided to blow some her way. She didn't notice them at first, but then one floated right by her and she got all excited, almost startled and tried to get it. So she was trying to get them all. It was cute and she enjoyed them.

Then it was just a bit early for me to feed and put her to bed, so we played on the floor and she rolled all over the place! Then Evan was holding her and I was jumping towards her and saying "boo" and tickling her and she thought this was hilarious. She was just laughing and laughing and laughing. Finally I told Evan to sit in the chair and I would see if I could catch it on camera - sure enough I could. You'll see she still found it funny, but it wasn't quite as funny as the first few times! Then towards the end she was quite done with us and ready for her bottle.

I fed her and put her to bed and in the first blog I said I was going to have a glass of wine and read my book - now, I think I'm just going to have a glass of wine and watch tv - mindless work.

Until next time...

Liliana - 7 months

(I started this at 8:31pm, it's now an hour later. Pathetic)