"I'm a pink puppy!" ~Lilly

Panting-

Tonight sealed the deal for me, I'm a dog lover!
Are you believing those eyelashes! She'll be wearing mascara as soon as she can figure out how to do it herself I think. She loved it!
Hood on.
L to R: Tandi (kitty), Marley (princess), Parker (pirate), Boden (boxer), Lilly (the pink puppy), and Piper (sprite)
Grandma and Grandpa Merrill posing with pink puppy.

Fall Ensemble

THANK YOU NANA AND PAPA!
Lilly got dressed an hour and half before church today and flitted around the house in her new dress and shoes.
Brown raw silk, smocked bodice with pink embroidery, pink pearls, and pink piping! Love it! Maybe it's my southern roots talking, but there's just something special about a little girl in a smocked dress.

32 weeks along...

I think I am carrying this baby a little different than Lilly. She seems to be completely contained in only the space in front of my hips. I think I carried Lilly in my back a little more.
Standing in Megan's room- this is kind of a preview... you can see part of the wall.... I can't wait to blog the room when it's all done!

Eraser Soup

I haven't been blogging so much because (a) nate has had the camera in his truck and (b) not much has been going on. Mostly Nate's birthday (no picture documentation), weight gain, and the uncomfortable nights that make for a sleepy, can't wait til it's time to go to bed again kind of day. Strange as it sounds, the best sleep I get these days seems to be when Lilly does take a nap and I nap with her. I am relishing this time I have with her right now before the holidays and baby Megan. Monday marks the end of week #32. I'll post a belly pic later.
It's so funny to watch Lil get excited over these little erasers. She holds them, counts them, looks at them, cooks with them, and it suddenly seems as if I should be buying all her toys at the dollar store.
Cooking up some 'erazors soup' for lunch.

"Quote of the Day"

What a busy morning Miss Lilly had. Before I even came out of my room, she had emptied the toy closet and played with everything. She was ready to move onto play doh (at 9:00 in the morning). She kept herself busy for a good 45 minutes at the kitchen counter with my cookie cutters and a baking sheet- arranging her cookies just so on the pan. As I was walking in toward the kitchen to check up on her, I saw her-- standing in her chair, hands on her hips, proudly looking at her play doh creations, and then, extending her arms out toward her loyal subjects (Baby Bear, Giraffe, Kendall, and Happy Bear who were sitting on the counter keeping her company) in an excited, giggly kind of way, she said,

"It's all so magical!"