10/31

Happy Halloween! Lorelai dressed up as Tinkerbell with little pom-poms on her shoes made by Mama. When Trick-or-Treating at Uncle Spike's house, we learned that Lorelai favors York Peppermint Patty candy packaging amongst a variety of others. She spent a good 20 minutes rooting thru Spike's candy bowl to sort out the Yorks and none others.
Not surprisingly, Lorelai's favorite part of Halloween was seeing kids. When she heard a group come by, she would shriek out "kids" and make a run for the door.

10/30

Lorelai sat her baby down today so she could read her a book. Lorelai read out loud about "Cookie" and "Elmo" along with a lot of enthusiastic gibberish. The baby was very interested in the story so Lorelai told the story a few times to her.

10/29

This morning, Lorelai came downstairs to new toys for her baby. Lorelai had a good time all day giving the baby a bath, feeding the baby in the highchair, rocking her in the crib, and taking her for a walk in the new stroller. Lorelai is a very good, very serious Mama. She takes good care of her baby.

10/28

Lorelai has her own fashion sense. Sometimes she goes looking for a piece of clothing and insists on wearing it immediately. Lorelai found a pajama shirt, first tried to put it over her head as you would a shirt and when that didn't work, tried to put the sleeves on like pant legs. She was getting that shirt on no matter what.

10/27

At Pop-pop and Gigi's house, Lorelai loves to play hide-and-seek in the sheer curtains in the family room. She gets in behind the curtians and giggles quite loudly until someone comes looking for her. She find great joy in being able to see us while we "can't find her."

10/26

Lorelai loves Ghostbusters, just like her Daddy.

10/25

We had pizza at Nana's house tonight! Lorelai loves pizza, just like her Mama. When she sees a picture of or a commercial for pizza, she loves to exclaim "PIZZA!" and not vigorously.

10/24

Daddy and Lorelai showed Mama all of Lorelai's body parts today when Mama got home from work. They showed Lorelai's eyes, nose, hair, ears, teeth, belly, tongue, chin, cheeks, toes, fingers, hands, feet, boo-boo spot (knee)... and when Daddy asked her where her "tickle spot" was, Lorelai wiggled her fingers under her neck and said "ticky ticky. Neck!"

Later on in the evening, Lorelai started acting sick-- lethargic, fever of 100.5, and she threw up a little bit. We gave her a few Popsicles, a bland dinner, a little Tylenol for the fever, and lots of cuddles.
Baby's first illness.

10/23

Lorelai's baby was thirsty. Sometimes it is the most common household items that really hold our little angel's attention!

10/22

Lorelai wanted her baby to be dressed the same as her today. She took her Hello Kitty Halloween shirt out of the laundry and demanded that Daddy help her dress baby Princess Aurora. Lorelai focused her time on playing Mama for the baby-- checking her belly button, looking to see if she needed a potty change, brushing her hair, teaching her about the computer.
It was very important that baby get dressed again in the shirt as soon as it fell off. What a good Mama!

10/21

Mama and Daddy took Lorelai to the Zoo today to see the animals. The weather was beautiful and Lorelai agreed to wear her pink bird costume!
Now that she is a big girl, Lorelai notices most of the animals throughout the park-- birds (penguins, 'mingos, and every other one is basically a duck), giraffes, zebras, horses, sheep, monkeys, and kitties (of course).

10/20

Happy baptism, cousin Jacob!
Lorelai wore her fancy party dress she got from Aunt Sarah before she was born and loved to dance around in it. She had a great time playing with the kids and the toys at Aunt Col's house

10/19

We went to the Count's Spectacular Countdown to Halloween at Sesame Place today. We took Lucas and met up with Uncle Jamie, Dylan, and Nicky to run around the park riding on rides, taking pictures with characters, and trick-or-treating.
It was a great time, though Lorelai is still not excited to meet or be near the monsters. We sat down to watch a show while we were there and she held tight to her Daddy, trying to duck and hide from the singing and dancing Sesame people up on stage (far away).
Her favorite part was the Rubber Duckie Dance Party. Lorelai loves to dance.

10/18

Another day of learning! First thing in the morning, Lorelai collected all of her Guys and played pretend with them-- Superman even flew around the room with a sound effect/song! Later on, Lorelai learned how to blow a whistle to make noise while playing with Daddy. AND when picking up Dylan at school, Lorelai discovered that she really enjoyed running thru leaves and making a crunching noise.

Lorelai is very proud of her new discoveries.

10/17

What a day! While playing, Lorelai picked up her Wonder Woman, held her in front of Batman and made Wonder Woman say "Hi Batman!". Later on, Daddy came to find that Lorelai had taken the two pineapple juice cans that she has been playing with yesterday in Lorelai's toy box. Some time yesterday, Lorelai decided the cans were toys and put them away with her favorite toys.

While Mama was at work, Lorelai declared "potty!" so Daddy sat her on the toliet for a little bit. Nothing happened but we are steps in the right direction for potty training!

10/16

Daddy dozed off tonight and Lorelai felt the need to crawl up upon him to cuddle. Someone is a Daddy's girl.

10/15

Lorelai pulled out one of her books tonight and was perusing the pages. Mama started singing the song "The More We Get Together" (which is the topic of the book) for Lorelai. When we got to the center of the song, Mama paused. Lorelai immediately chimed in with "CAUUUSSEEEE" right on time-- perfect and brilliant. Perfect. And. Brilliant.

The more we get together, together, together
The more we get together the happier we'll be
Cause your friends are my friends
And my friends are your friends
The more we get together the happier we'll be

10/14

Apparently, one should eat pumpkin cookies against the wall with one's friends.
We went to Sonja's tonight for games and wanted to hug her fiercely. Sonja wasn't in the mood to be hugged and started crying... which only caused Lorelai to hug more vigorously to make her feel better. We had a cycle on our hands. After that blew over, the Super Friends had a great time together.

10/13

Lorelai spent most of the day trying to acquire tissues from Daddy. Lorelai is very serious about making sure her nose is clean but as an independent girl, she needs to be the one to do the wiping.

10/12

Lorelai's first ice cream cone! And she made it herself!!
We went out to dinner with Grandpop Boop tonight. Gigi took Lorelai to the dessert bar and made an ice cream in a cup, then noticed that there were cones and picked up a dry one to sample. Lorelai ate some of her ice cream cup and some of her cone... then considered her options. She dipped her dry cone into the cream, hard, and came back up with a cone full of ice cream. Brilliant!
She loved the ice cream and the cone, just like her Mama.

10/11

Lorelai's favorite part of the bedtime route has quickly become brushing her teeth. We started it a few weeks ago and sometimes even during the day she exclaims "teeth!" and tries to make a beeline for the bathroom to brush them. It isn't so much an interest in cleanliness as much as wanting to suck the tutti fruiti fluoride-free paste off from the bristles. Now, she also moves the brush around in there while she is sucking on the brush so we are slowly getting there!

10/10

Daddy has a head cold. Daddy blows his nose alot when he has a head cold. Lorelai loves to imitate her Daddy and also wants to blow her nose alot today. Daddy intentionally dried out a wipe to make a tissue that would last longer. Lorelai realized that and tried to put the wipe back into the case. She is one smart cookie.

10/9

Lorelai is a fashionista. Tonight, she collected 4 bags (3 of which were Hello Kitty and all of which were pink) to use, all the while singing to herself. Our little girl has style.

10/8

Mama had the day off today so we went to the park. Lorelai went from slide to swing then slide to swing again. When on the slides, she didn't seem to agree with going up stairs to start the slide again. Every time she'd come down, Lorelai would try to climb back up the slippery slope to go again-- not the easiest task. But that is okay because it turns out that she is a great swing enthusiast and preferred to play on them primarily today.

10/7

It's Monday night so we are off to the Englebach's to play games! Lorelai alternates between calling out "Dice" and "Ice" all evening while the adults roll saving throws in D&D. Her need for ice is seemingly never ending.

10/6

Book! Book! Book!
Lorelai loves to play with electronic books and tries to borrow every one that she sees. Aunt Mo has some very fun books on her Nook that Lorelai loves to play. One of them is even a recording of her cousin Chris reading a Monster's Inc. book! That is definitely a favorite.

10/5

Slumber party at Nana's house! Mama and Daddy are going to uncle Andrew and aunt Allison's wedding today and Lorelai is spending the evening with Nana, Pop-pop, Chris, and aunt Momo. Lorelai demands to see the babies, kids, and family that Nana keeps in the glass on her desk every time she visits. Certainly, this happened several times during her visit but Nana always is more than happy to move all of her books, keyboards, and papers to satisfy Lorelai's need to point out the people she loves.

10/4

Lorelai loves to take care of her baby. Baby gets her hair brushed, her diaper checked... Sometimes Lorelai will read books to the baby and bounce on the zebra with her. Baby is always showered with hugs and kisses. Lorelai is a wonderful Mama.

10/3

Daddy gave Lorelai a great surprise today. When Lorelai came down this morning, the living room was filled with balloons! Lorelai loves balloons. She loves throwing them, running thru them, and watching them in videos. Thank you, Daddy!

10/2

Tonight was the Flyer's Season Opener. Lorelai had a chance to wear her little Flyer's cheerleading uniform before it was too small too! It's 12 months so it is a little short but Lorelai looks adorable in it.
Look at her concentration on the game. A true fan-- she recognizes the Flyer's symbol as "Hockey!"
Yes, princess. There is only one team out there that you need to know. And you already know them.

10/1

Just a lazy day with Daddy, hanging out on the floor.