Eight Months!

Here it is...your monthly Lily post! This one marks her 8-month birthday and she has had a big month. Lily continues to amaze, entertain and charm us every day.

She is learning lots of new things--it seems like she does something new every week. The funny thing is that with some things, she only does them for a week then she moves on to something new. Here are a few of her newest "tricks":

• Playing pat-a-cake: I had to go to Dallas for a week for work. My mom came up from NC to help Ethan take care of Lily Bean and she taught her to play pat-a-cake. Lily caught on really quickly and when I got home, she was patting up a storm.
• Waving bye-bye: When we were at the airport last weekend, heading to NC, everyone kept waving at our adorable Lily and she started waving back!
• Peek-a-boo: I usually cover my face and then say peek-a-boo when we're playing, but yesterday, I took a burp cloth and held it up in front of Lily's face. I then dropped it and said PEEK-A-BOO. She laughed then took the cloth out of my hand. She held it up on front of her face and dropped it. Each time, I'd say PEEK-A-BOO and she'd laugh. We did it over and over again.
• Feeding herself cheerios: I have started giving her 3-4 Cheerios on her high chair tray and she has really gotten the hang of feeding them to herself.

Lily also took swimming lessons, went on her first airplane ride, took many, many strolls and bounced her little heart out. She is a happy, happy girl!

And her stats? She weighs 19 lbs, 8 oz and is 28 1/4" long.

Up, Up and Away!

Lily went on her first airplane ride last weekend. We headed to North Carolina to visit my family. Since it was only a 40-minute flight, I decided it would be a good first flight for her (and me). She did great! She slept in my lap on the way down; in fact, she was asleep within 5 minutes of takeoff and slept through the landing.

On the way back, she slept about half the flight, then bounced and played on my lap for the last half of the flight. She was very squirmy and wanted to grab everything but managed to charm everyone around her with her cute smile.

I think we're ready for our long flight to Idaho next month!

Swimming Lessons

We enrolled Lily in Baby and Me swim classes in May. She loves the bathtub so we figured it wouldn't be a great leap for her to like the swimming pool too. And we were right. She loves the water! We bounced, splashed and kicked all over the rec center pool. She really is a good kicker!

Updated with video!