18 months!

Oh my! I can't believe it has been a year and a half since miss Lilia Marie made her debut. I just love her spunky personality. She is very social and loves a good party. She likes to perform and show off her violin which she got for Christmas. She has been obsessed with them due to the fact that I teach Suzuki violin lessons to 9 children during the week. Her 18 month stats were roughly as follows: 22lbs, 30 in. head 75th percentile. Basically she is petite...has a killer belly and thighs and tons of brains.

Some of her favorite things to do are brush her teeth, wear my wedding ring, say "ah" or "no", check the mail, and go to the park.

Some of her favorite words are: this, ummm, wherizit, uh oh, Momma, Ball, I-know (I don't know) - generally done with her hands turned upward in dismay, uff-m (muffin), beebee (baby...or babyeinstein), cackee (cracker). There's probably more but those are the ones that come to mind. She still signs for certain words....I'm intrigued to see when she'll make the switch to all verbal, but I can tell that she definitely likes to use her body as much as possible to express herself.

One thing I especially love about Lilia is that she likes to be funny. I'll be eating lunch by her and she'll just look at me out of nowhere and make a crazy face (like the ones shown below). When I laugh she just beams with delight. She tries this trick on friendly neighbors in the apartment building but if you don't know what's going on she just looks like she likes to contort her face in awkward ways.

Oh yes! Mommy's special rings! She's showing them off because she knows it won't last long.
There is miss Lilia wearing a bow on her head. Take a long look because it doesn't last long.

This is her face as she is about to "tickle" me. She used to tickle nicely....now she just shoves her hand into my throat which is not so nice. At the museum with Nana Petty and Nana Kathy (Marty's sister). They were in town and we got to spend some time with them. Lilia loved every minute. This new scrunchy smile makes me laugh.


This is kind of a funny picture but it just captured such a classic look of Lilias...I think she looks like a mini Brad in this picture.
Funny face game. It's never too early to start training them. As you can see she's a natural.
This is the only picture I got with that sign seeing as she wouldn't hold it, well she would hold it but that meant squeezing it into a ball between her legs. Not very informative for the viewer.