December 21st - We arrive safe and sound back in Vancouver (the flight was a good one, although we almost missed it since there were 700 people in line for security at the Winnipeg airport - I am NOT exaggerrating). Auntie Jill picks us up from the airport. Once we get home, Jill decides she is hungry and need to eat a little baby. Lucky for her, there is a sleeping one in close proximity.
Christmas Eve - Auntie Jill snuggles the bug.
Christmas Day - While the rest of the family plays tennis and Mario Kart on the Wii, Lily surveys the rest of the apartment's decor...methinks she has some design ideas in that little noggin' of hers. Looking forward to hearing what she has to say when she learns to talk. She slept through the entire gift giving and opening process earlier in the day, hence the conspicuous lack of pictures from that event...we decided to let her sleep since she was still knackered from her cross country journey. We fully expect that next year she will be knee deep in wrapping paper, so there should be plenty of those pics in 2010.
Boxing Day dinner - Lily is too little to sit at the table with the big people for dinner, so daddy perches her on a chair so she can feel like she is one of the group. She thinks that spot is pretty cool.
December 27th - All three of us came down with colds once we arrived home. Lily is coughing and sputtering and has little snizzles (Nana's word for sniffles - isn't it the cutest word ever?). Nana comforts the little bug in her time of convalescence and she feels better :)
While she isn't quite sitting up on her own yet, she can definitely sit with the assistance of some pillows. Lily likes to hang out in the bedroom when mommy is folding laundry. Mommy is trying to convince her that it is fun. Lily does not look convinced.
"Look, mommy...daddy has come to help!"
"Just jokes, there's nobody there...I didn't think you'd actually believe me :)"
She's kicked off one sock and is struggling to get the other one off. We're fastening her into the swing these days so she doesn't wriggle out the bottom.
"Playing with Mr. Turtle and my red star has tuckered me out."
Tannis, Diana (holding Lily), Camille, Sarah and Leanne - Lily provides her views and opinions on the latest literary work we've read for book club. She also learns a very important lesson - that book club meetings involve 90% eating and drinking and 10% actually discussing books :)
More and more, Lily likes to be naked. Hmmmm......
Playing with mommy on the floor.
Lily likes watching her fishy friends in the tank daddy set up, so we've permanently parked the stroller in front of it 'cause it is exactly the right height for her viewing pleasure.
She talks to the fishes and sometimes sings to them.
She gets a little confused, though, when they don't talk back....
After awhile of them not talking to her, she gets quite agitated and just starts yelling at them, which is how we know it's time for her to go somewhere else...like her bouncy chair...where she talks to Mr. Turtle and Mr. Ducky, and gets equally frustrated with their lack of communication.
She knows mommy will always talk to her, though, so that makes her happy.
She has tried having a conversation with her crazy "Whoozit" toy, but that has also been unsuccessful.
She does, however, appreciate the fact that his nose squeaks.
"Fishes AND mommy...this is awesome!!
"Wheee!"
Lily likes to hang out with daddy on Saturday morning and watch cartoons.
She is not impressed with all of them...
...but she does enjoy Spongebob Squarepants.
She is also getting much more comfortable with having a camera in her face 24/7 :)
Lily perches on Grandma Berta's shoulder while mommy finds some clean socks for Lily, since she spit up much of her lunch on the ones she is currently wearing. This is also something she is very good at. She has excellent timing. It usually happens just as we are about to walk out the door to go somewhere.
So does Auntie Kusham and Uncle Jeremy (who is talking to Dylan while this photo is being taken. I'm not sure what about - cars, cameras, or the crazy cold weather would be my top three guesses).
