Lilly's vocabulary is expanding every day, it cracks us up. She is adding more and more two-three word phrases. Some are easier to understand than others. Hot chocolate is one of our favorites. It starts out like hot chocolate but ends with her basically hawking a loogie.
One of the books Lilly got for Christmas was Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes. Chrysanthemum is not an easy word to say, but Lilly gives it her best shot:
Chrysanthemum from Megan Robertson on Vimeo.
After we spent a little time outside on Saturday morning, raking snow off the roof of the garage and using food coloring and a spray bottle to decorate the snow, we went to the Northern Great Lakes Visitors' Center to go on a free sleigh ride. It was the annual Sleigh and Cutter Rally and from 11:15-1:00 they were giving sleigh rides. We got there right at 11:00 and joined the already growing line behind a handful of other families. Waiting around in line went really well with our 22-month-old child. For fifteen or twenty minutes, she watched the other kids in line, watched the sleigh do practice in the field, and in general just hung out. Unfortunately all this patient waiting was not rewarded with a sleigh ride. The snow was too deep and wet (because it was finally warm!) and the sleigh kept sinking in the snow. All we could do was go and see the horse and sleigh and then turn around to go home. We did walk around the field a bit and see a few other horses. Lilly enjoyed seeing the horses and asked for more.
We headed back toward the completely filled parking lot and were in the car ready to leave when my cousin Abby, her son Miles and her mom Marian walked by our car. So we chatted with them for a bit. We've had a handful of crazy run-ins like this with Abby and her family. It amazes me - had Lilly not been quite as interested in the horses or had we taken one more picture we would have missed them. Or if Abby and her family had taken a different path toward the sleigh rides and not walked past our van, we wouldn't have seen one another. Crazy.
On Sunday we tried to go sledding with Lilly. I went down the hill once to show her what it was like and then Lilly went down the hill with me. And that was it. She didn't like it - from what we got from her is it sounds like it was too fast (and it was a fast and bumpy ride). But she liked watching us go down the hill. So I went down a few more times, Nick went down and then we left. Not after going inside Nick's office (we were sledding on the hill behind his building) to check out the elk and the turkey hanging on the walls.
One of the books Lilly got for Christmas was Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes. Chrysanthemum is not an easy word to say, but Lilly gives it her best shot:
Chrysanthemum from Megan Robertson on Vimeo.
After we spent a little time outside on Saturday morning, raking snow off the roof of the garage and using food coloring and a spray bottle to decorate the snow, we went to the Northern Great Lakes Visitors' Center to go on a free sleigh ride. It was the annual Sleigh and Cutter Rally and from 11:15-1:00 they were giving sleigh rides. We got there right at 11:00 and joined the already growing line behind a handful of other families. Waiting around in line went really well with our 22-month-old child. For fifteen or twenty minutes, she watched the other kids in line, watched the sleigh do practice in the field, and in general just hung out. Unfortunately all this patient waiting was not rewarded with a sleigh ride. The snow was too deep and wet (because it was finally warm!) and the sleigh kept sinking in the snow. All we could do was go and see the horse and sleigh and then turn around to go home. We did walk around the field a bit and see a few other horses. Lilly enjoyed seeing the horses and asked for more.
We headed back toward the completely filled parking lot and were in the car ready to leave when my cousin Abby, her son Miles and her mom Marian walked by our car. So we chatted with them for a bit. We've had a handful of crazy run-ins like this with Abby and her family. It amazes me - had Lilly not been quite as interested in the horses or had we taken one more picture we would have missed them. Or if Abby and her family had taken a different path toward the sleigh rides and not walked past our van, we wouldn't have seen one another. Crazy.
On Sunday we tried to go sledding with Lilly. I went down the hill once to show her what it was like and then Lilly went down the hill with me. And that was it. She didn't like it - from what we got from her is it sounds like it was too fast (and it was a fast and bumpy ride). But she liked watching us go down the hill. So I went down a few more times, Nick went down and then we left. Not after going inside Nick's office (we were sledding on the hill behind his building) to check out the elk and the turkey hanging on the walls.
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