Grills (Toothy Grins) & Ghouls

I went to a "Ghouls Night Out" party. This is a picture of the werewolf cupcakes I brought. Yes. I'm a geek.

Someone's Pants are on Fire

Lilly lied to me for the first time today. Part of me was amused because it really is a milestone. She is advancing. The other part of me was sorta shocked because I watched her do what she lied about and the evidence was literally all over her.

At least she is not sneaky enough to cover her tracks. Which means I've still got her number, so to speak.

She is hard to be mad at though.

Canky Tinky

As Lilly's third Halloween is comin' 'round, we have all made a family effort to get her excited about her costume. You see, she has a history of refusal and major tears. For awhile we thought that we were going to have a three-peater because she would absolutely not try on this adorable, hand sewn Tinkerbell costume. But, success has been achieved! Sure, we had to resort to bribery, but desperate times...

I just hope that see will put it on for the Big Show (Halloween night).

Fix for the Photo Junkies

It has been awhile so I thought that I would post a couple photos to keep the photo junkies at bay. This was on the way to her Tata's 60th birthday party. She talked me into some lip gloss. She is not girly in the sense that she is prissy, but she definitely enjoys indulging in girly things. Lip gloss, halter dresses and pretty barrettes.
I thought this was funny. The book cover is blurred. It is Lincoln on Leadership. You can never start too early. Just kidding. She grabbed the book herself, snuggled up and was feeling very grownup reading one of Mommy's books.

What Does a Door Say?

For a long time we have been going over animal sounds with Lilly. We would say, "What does a cow say?" and she would enthusiastically reply, "Moooooo, mooooo, mooooo!" We made a habit of going down the list including fish, pumas and even kangaroos which say, "boingy, boingy, boingy!"

A couple of nights ago, for the first time, she initiated this conversation with me, but she took it to a new level of hilarity. It went like this:

Lilly: Mommy, what's a kitty say?

Me: Meeeoooow

Lilly: How 'bout a fishy?

Me: Blooooop, bloooop, bloooop (imitating how Lilly does it)

Lilly: How 'bout a door?
Me: What does a door say?

Lilly: (after a few seconds of contemplation) Open, open, open.

Me: (Laughing hysterically with Rene) Oh, of course. What else?

Lilly: How 'bout the light?

Me: What does it say?

Lilly: Turn off, turn off, turn off.

Me: What does the pillow say?

Lilly: Snuggle, snuggle, snuggle.

We could not stop laughing!!!

Beach Babe

She's so stinkin' cute.
This is at Huntington Beach with Manuel, Yoli, Bri and Christin.

Ho, Ho, Ho! Greeeeen Giant!

Today I heard Lilly say, "Mommy, look at my lips." I turned around to see that she had used a green, nonwashable marker to turn her lips and much of the surrounding area to a lovely shade of green. She looked like she had been making out with the Green Giant, or his little buddy Sprout at least. So we scrubbed. And scrubbed. She's still green.
She not worried about it. But the marker's fate was to be tossed into the trashcan, never to be seen again.