Fun in Denver!

Yesterday Lila and I flew to Denver to visit Avery and Jeff. A few nice people shifted on the plane to give us an empty seat for Lila. She sat in my lap mostly but we really needed the extra room. For the most part she enjoyed the flight. We went to Averys house and Lila had a blast reuniting with Zoe! Nap time and then we went to a park just a very short walk away and then to a fun place called Jumpstreet. A place with lots of trampolines and some inflatable playgrounds. Lila had way to much fun, she slide down a giant slide over and over and jumped and jumped and played and played. We made a pit stop at whole foods on the way home. Today we decided to check out the Denver Zoo. It was really nice . You really got to get close to the animals and we saw almost everything. Lila enjoyed the penguins the most, we got lucky and got to see the feeding. Lila peered over the low wall and watched for a long time. We saw elephants and lots of monkeys, bears, birds, and a couple of gorillas. As well as a tiny baby orangutan.
When we got home Lila crashed and so did mommy. We slept for almost three hours. Then off to check out another park around the block. Jeff had just as much fun as Lila (I won't post the picture to prove it though. We got back and Lila tool Zoe on a walk. Then Avery served up one of Lila's favorite for dinner. Can you tell what is was from the pictures? As you can see we needed bath. Lila requested Avery read her book before bed. We had a great day with crazy aunt Avery and crazy Jeff too! Colorado is beautiful and we love spending time with Avery!

17 months!

I can't believe Lila is 17 months old. That is so close to 18 months, which means a year and a half!
She is a toddler all around. She plays by herself. She has a brilliant imagination, playing in her kitchen, with her bears and babies.
I have always thought Lila could understand a lot more then people how babies credit for. I feel like everyday she has new breakthroughs with her speech and communication, and the world period. She talked about "sharing" her shovels with her friends at the park.
She wants something and she can usually, with words communicate what that is. A cracker? To color? To paint? To go outside "side"? He has the cutest little "yes". She says "get you one" after I confirm what she wants.
She is our little parrot repeating back everything we say. Three four words. Sentences strung together. Her vocabulary grows every day! As Gigi predicted on day 2. "She is born to talk, this girl has something to say!" that she does!

One foot two foot

Lila dressed herself today! She wanted to wear the frog pants, put on her hat and then added the gloves after we got back from the grocery store. She thought it was pretty funny.
She counts as she puts on underwear, pants, shoes etc... "one foot, two foot"

Head shoulders knees and toes

Lila has lots of favorite songs but now she has a few dances too.
Lila hokey pokies. She put her left leg in and she shakes it all about. She turns herself around that's what it's all about.
Lila loves the "rosies" which is her
Name for ring around the rosie. She turns in circles or we turn together and she "falls" down by squatting.
As seen in the pictures head shoulders knees and toes is fun. Eyes and ears and mouth and nose...
Wheels on the bus! Lila "moves on back" she "wa wa wa"s. her favorite is the people on the bus because they jump and down and Lila loves to jump! She beeps like the horn and swishes like the wipers. And goes round and round like the wheels too.
Lila has one song she sings and has motions to. Twinkle twinkle little star. I don't want to ever forget hearing her tiny voice suddenly singing. "twinkle twinkle up ah-bove." So sweet. She twinkles her hands and motions across the sky. To hear her playing and singing is so beautiful and amazing and I am so lucky to witness these moments.

First ponytail

Lila had a few firsts on Tuesday.
Her first swim class. It went well. Lila is on the older end for this first class (6-18 months) but she enjoyed most of the activities and protested the ones she did not.
Her first ponytail. Yes I am a hair dresser and she just had her first ponytail! She has never been a fan of anything on her head. Lately she has been wearing a clip or bobby pin to hold back her fringe. She doesnt like the clip (buy does want to sometimes put it in) the booby pin works because she forgets about it until she remembers then out it goes. I had some soft holders in my kit and decided we would try the little fountain pony! At first she wasn't sure about it. Until I took her to the mirror and showed her the little ponytail. She loved it! And says "ponytail ponytail!" pretty cute!!!

Deep Eddy

On Sunday, our pool was closed due to the pump being broken. So we headed over to Deep Eddy and had a wonderful afternoon. It was a nice change of pace and Lila had taken a 3 hour map (and I slept for 1 1/2 of those hours) so we were both feeling refreshed.
The pool was crowded so Lila enjoyed all the babies to talk to and toys to share. We bounced in the deep end together and Lila hung on a bar. She was very proud (half her body was in the water) she would manage to hold on for 5-10 seconds and even swing her legs a bit! Summer please stay for a long while longer. These days are so fun!
I love this beautiful wall at deep eddy and thought Lila looked Pete t standing in front of it.

Picture day

To be nostalgic I wanted to have birthday pictures taken. I have a few amazing photographer friends but we went to the mall. Kind of a right of passage. It was a wild 20 minutes taking those pictures, the photographer was a little loud and kind of crazy. She seemed sweet but Lila was more in awe of the crazy sound she was making... haha
It was a memory and we had fun. Lila was walking so she enjoyed the mall. And trying to run out while we were waiting for the prints. She made a baby friend. He wandered in and she kept saying "hi".
We gave the prints as party favors too!