Happy Birthday, Lily!

Lily is 3! Here are pictures from her birthday week:

Birthday morning! Lily insisted that she was NOT 3 (not yet!) until she woke up from her nap. Apparently then, she was officially 3!

Blurry 3 waffles.

 Lily and I took the morning off to go visit Lily's dentist, "Dr. Olan" (Dr. Nolan). She didn't cry, and even got some extra prizes since it was her birthday!

 We got back to school early, so I got to spend some time in Lily's classroom watching her work. I even got to stay for circle time!

 That night, we went to the local trampoline place. Lily has been waiting and waiting to be 3 so she could jump!

On Sunday, we had two birthday parties! Cooper and Kenley came over to help set up for Lily's Rapunzel party for friends.

 First gift: Toddler Rapunzel!

 We set up all the Rapunzel details!

 Lily's tower cupcakes were delicious!

 

 After a nap, we headed to Lily's family pizza party! We FINALLY got to eat the princess cake that Lily picked out and had to wait allllll week for!

 Gift highlights: new sparkly Aurora and a carriage for her precious Magic Clip Dolls! Those Magic Clip princesses are still her major obsession. We added 2 Auroras and Snow White to the collection for her birthday!

 A new track for her trains from Grandma and Grandpa, and Papa even found her a lighthouse!

 Today we went to see Dr. K! He said she looks great! She is now 35 inches tall (12%ile) and 27 pounds, 6 ounces (16%ile). Her percentile in weight has finally passed height! Still itty bitty.

Lily is talking and singing up a storm! Recently she has started singing her own made-up songs in a very LOUD voice (family trait, on her father's side...haha!) to add to her repertoire. She still likes the UW Alma Mater, Slippery Fish, and skinnamarinkydinkydink. She has entire books memorized and will "read" to herself, or make up her own words to a book. Her favorite books right now are Llama Llama Time to Share, How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight, and I Will Try. She is very confident and wants to do things herself! Thanks to the introduction of the Magic Clip Princess dolls to our life, she has begun to play independently, and even wants some alone time to play in her room. She loves to design with playdough. Emotions are big for our 3 year old. She yells things that she hears at school when she is mad. "Mommy, you are not listening! You are not following the rules! I'm tired of this! Worry about Lily!" She would be happiest if we let her watch You Tube (Magic Clip princess videos) and princess movies (currently rotating between The Princess and the Frog and Beauty and the Beast) to her heart's content. She's started to tell funny stories: (about the string on my shirt) "It will go down your tummy and out your toes!!" or "Mommy, I'm a boy. I can be a boy, or a girl, or a gingerbread boy. OR a princess! Mommy, I'm a princess!!" It's safe to say we are never bored! We love our Lily!

Catching Up - 13 months

Oh man, we are way behind on our blog! Things have been crazy for the Brehm-King-Friesen family for the last month. We have a lot of catching up to do!

The last month has been a whirlwind of baby activity. She now signs milk and light (and spots them everywhere), and has started to say words! She says "hi" and "Mum Mum" and sometimes other things that sound like words like "uh oh" and "gentle!" Mostly she is babbling like crazy, which is totally adorable.

She is walking like crazy, and starting to pick up the pace! It seems like she'll be running any day now! She still waving goodbye a ton, and also blew her first kisses!! She like loading toys into containers and carrying them around, especially in buckets. She still loves her dance parties!

Major photo catch up time: Back to Valentines' Day...

Lily got a high fever and decided to cut out of school for an early vacation (and mama missed her class' Valentine party...). We also decided to skip a friend's 1st bday to make sure we didn't share.

We had a busy mid-winter break! We headed to a friend's cabin in Wenatchee to try out Lily's new sled (thanks, Youngs!). She loved it!

 

 We met our baby friends for a "party" at the Seattle Children's Museum!

We found out Lily is going to have another BOY cousin!

And then we popped by the locks to check on the fish.

 We met up with Kristina for a chilly walk through the arboretum!

We took Lily to her 1 year well-child visit. She is now 28.94 inches (38%ile) and only 18.15lbs (7%ile). Dr. K was a little worried about her weight drop and told us to start fattening her up! She also got 4 shots, which 10-14 days later resulted in this crazy rash all over her body! It turned out to be a reaction to her MMR vaccine. She wasn't uncomfortable at all (maybe a little itchy around her crazy swollen eyes), but it sure was scary (and another sick day for us)!

 We volunteered Lily to model a "cake smash" photo session with a local photographer, and she did not like it one bit! She wanted nothing to do with that cake, and screamed any time we got her close to it! Apparently cakes are scary...

 Luckily, she got this one cute shot...only because Lily did not have to let go of Daddy to get it.

  Bath time is Daddy's role, and he gives great baby manicures, too!

 Enjoying a sunny day in Snohomish!

Whew! Busy, busy baby. I'll try to post some videos in our next post. :)