My baby girl is two

I know it has been said before.  I know that it is a cliche.  But time flies!  Yes, I will even say, time files when you are having fun, and we are having so much fun with Princess Lily Bean.  I called her that once when she was about a week old, and that has been her nick-name ever since. It is usually Lily Bean, sometime we will even just call her Bean.  Asher uses it the most.  He calls Lily, "My Bean."

Lily loves Asher.  Asher loves Lily.  I think it is because they are together all morning long.  Asher is so good at taking care of her, helping her out when she needs it.  I love the way she says his name, "Aaaa-shou"  nice and loud.  She also calls Jackson "Aaaashou".  But when pushed she says "Jackin".  Of course we get Mamma, Mommy and DADDY! I capitalize because she never says Daddy without a whole lot of enthusiasm. 

She puts "Oh" in front of words.  My favorite is "Oh, Doggie!" (are you getting that everything is said with excitment?)  In fact I don't think she can say "doggie" without the "oh."  The other day she busted out "oh. dino!"  That was super cute.  We also have, "Oh baby!"

I remember with my boys writing list of words that they said, but here the thing.  Lily says too many to write.  She talks! The boys; not so much.  I have favorite things she says, but if I wrote down all of her words it would be just a little silly. 

Right now my favorite words are; cockit (chocolate) Sicu (scooter), pretty dress (she insist on wearing a pretty dress, and she calls all tutus a "pretty"  horsey, pony, shoe, cowboy (that is what she calls a hat.)

She also has her own sense of fashion, below are two examples of her fabulous fashion sense:

The sunglasses are a major theme along with some kind of hair accesory.

Lily loves:

Rocks (she collects them and I find them all over the house.  There were 6 under her crib the last time I looked.)

stickes ( she carries them in her mouth like a dog.)

bikes;  this is her balance bike, she love to ride around the neighborhood

scooters (sicu)

fourwheelers

trains (CHOO_CHOO!)

cars

Airplanes (ah-pane)

(wait... it sound like I am describing one of the boys.  Hold on. There has to be a girl in there somewhere?)

Baby dolls

princesses

My little ponies

Dumbo (she calls it Dummie)

Olivia (the book with the pig.  She makes me read it over and over and over and over...)

dancing

music. (she is always practicing with me.  I get nothing done, but it is worth it)

shoes (she MUST wear shoes.)

pretty dress

Okay, I think I made her sound a little more like a little girl.

California; Huntington Beach

We arrived to California early the first day.  We were exhausted and hungry, so we ate, got an early check in to our hotel, took a nap, swam in the pool and then decided to go to the beach.  We got there just before sunset.  It wasn't exactly warm, but my kids just don't care and ran right in.  The boys started body surfing, and the girls jumped the waves.  They love it!

After the swim we walked the pier and ate really great burgers at Ruby's diner at the end of the pier.  It was a great first day.

That night as we were driving back to the hotel, we told the kids that the next day was Disneyland, and we would take the girls to their Princess Breakfast, to which Lily replied, "I don't believe you!"  We had been talking about this for so long, and built it up, and she just couldn't take the waiting any longer.  She was pretty relieved when we went to Disneyland the next day. 

Photo Booth at the Fancy Adult Dinner Party

My beauties!

I know there are a million of these, but I could not cut any out.  I love my girls!  These pictures were taken at the cabin as part of Greta's two year old pictures.  The flower crowns weren't a big hit with Greta, but I still think these pictures are lovely!