Around the House

Illness has taken over the Hooks' household. Ryan and Lily were both really sick last week; just as they started to get better, Mia caught it. She has had a horrible head cold since Tuesday morning. Her poor little eyes and nose are so red, and she's been running a very low fever. It's just a cold so there is no medicine for her...just wait it out. Lily had been doing fine for several days, so I thought she was better until yesterday afternoon I noticed she has started coughing again. Great, so Lily and Mia apparently have no problem sharing germs with one another (toys are another story). Here's hoping the whole family will get better soon.

Lily is still having lots of fun around the house even if she's not feeling 100%. Here are few quick stories...

1. She loves to play with balls. She is getting pretty good at throwing them too, unless of course she is being silly. When she is being silly, she likes to throw side-arm, and there's no telling where it will end up then. She likes to say she is playing baseball; this is probably because we have the Braves' games on most nights. However, she makes me laugh because she has one little ball that looks a lot like Pluto's "super duper bouncy ball" on Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. She calls it her "soupy doupy bouncy ball" which just cracks me up. Not only do I laugh hearing her say "soupy doupy," but the ball doesn't bounce at all; it's meant to stick to walls when you throw it! I don't think she has grasped the concept of souper duper bouncy yet.
2. We read Bible stories to her each night before bedtime. The other day (after having friends over earlier in the evening), she said "Jesus is coming to our house too. He come in his car." I told her Jesus is always welcome in our house. I didn't know how to explain that he probably wouldn't come in a car though. Also, Ryan read to her before her nap yesterday, and she told him she wanted to go to Moses' house. Hmmm, that's a little tricky too...
3. I don't know where she learned about magic tricks, but she has picked that up somehow. Each night now when I'm drying her hair, she gets three lotion-type bottles that sit by our sink. She holds two of them and pushes them together against the third one so that when she raises her hands up, all three bottles are picked up. She is always so proud of herself for doing this and she'll say "Look Mommy, it's a magic trick!" She also told Ryan in the shower that she was going to do a trick...she took the two loofahs we have hanging up in there and switched their places. I guess she knows what creatures of habit we are, so this is a trick to put them back in different places!
4. We were eating dinner yesterday, and I said something was beautiful. She said "you beautiful Mommy" which absolutely melted my heart; I certainly don't feel it these days with this huge new scar. Then she looked up at our wedding picture that hangs on the fireplace and said "that a beautiful picture." So sweet.
5. We had an afternoon thunderstorm yesterday that woke Lily up from her nap. When she came out of her room, she was still yawning, so Ryan said she could come lay down on him for a little bit. One and a half hours later she was still knocked out on his stomach! It was precious to see, and I think Ryan loved it!