Lily Today

I want to make a post with some of Lily's favorite things now that she's 3. I know this is more than a week after her birthday, but things have been pretty busy this last week and a half. This helps give me a written record too so whenever I get back to my scrapbooks, I can remember what's going on, so here we go:

Favorite Toys: Books, Princess Castle, Little People sets (especially the princess carriage), Toy Kitchen and all its accessories, Toy Lap Top, Cinderella dress, T-Ball Set. She is really starting to hit the princess stage full-speed now so just about anything princess-related, she loves.

Favorite Books: Rhyming books like Dr. Seuss and the Llama, Llama series. She also enjoys the Search and Find books (especially a princess one we have). She likes reading Mia's books to her as well which is really sweet.

Favorite Games: Playing outside (especially with her t-ball set and on her playground), spinning around (she thinks becoming dizzy is hilarious), singing (she loves "Away in a Manger" and making up her own songs to tunes she knows), throwing balls, playing chase. She is having lots of fun with arts and crafts type things too: coloring, stickers, play-dough, gluing (she loves her purple glue stick).

Favorite Shows: Charlie & Lola, Little Einsteins and the Cedermont Kids sing-a-long DVDs

Favorite Movies: Nim's Island and Dumbo

Favorite Foods: Pasta (especially alfredo sauce over penne or tortellini), carrots, bananas, strawberries, goldfish, steak, chicken, grilled cheese sandwiches, rice, Chex Mix and quesadillas. She is not a big veggie eater (other than carrots), but she is a very good meat and fruits eater. She loves to drink milk but she has recently discovered "red apple juice" (actually Strawberry Banana juice) and "pink apple juice" (Fruit Punch juice) which are both Motts for Tots drinks.

Clothes: She wears almost all 3T now though some of her summer 2T things still fit. She wears a 7.5 or 8 shoe. She loves the new pink tennis shoes and brown slip-ons with pink dots that Molly gave her as hand-me-downs recently. She wears her big girl panties most of the time now though she still sleeps at nap time and bed time in a diaper. She is hit or miss on going poopy in the potty, so sometimes we put a diaper on her so she can do that.

Sleeping: Lily goes to bed about 8:30 each night, and she usually stays in bed until about 7:00. She still takes one nap a day at 2:00; it's about an hour long though I think she is in a little growth spurt right now because she has been napping about 1.5 hours for several days now.

She has become a little negotiator recently too. She gets you on the hook of letting her have something and then she tries to switch it around on you. Here's a brief conversation for an example:
Lily: Mommy, I am thirsty.
Me: Okay, do you want some milk?
Lily: Yes. Go get my milk.
Me: How do you ask nicely when you want something?
Lily: Please go get my milk please.
Me: Thank you. Hold on and let me get it.
Lily: Ok. Mommy...I know! How about a special treat? How about I get red apple juice instead of milk? Please.
Me: No, it's almost nap time, so let's get milk. You can have the red apple juice after nap time.
Lily: But I want it!
Me: You can't have it right now because it's almost nap time. You can have milk though, okay?
Lily: Ok. I get milk now but I have red apple juice after nap time okay Mommy?
Me: Ok Lily. Here you go.

So that's Lily in a nutshell. She is so much fun to be around and play with. She has a great imagination that is fun to watch. I love hearing her sing songs (especially ones she has made up) to her stuffed animal friends. These posts on this blog really just hit the highlights of life with her. She is an awesome kid!