Playtime with Lilly

Lilly helping Brayden with his Christmas coutdown chain

Holding hands in the car.  So Sweet!!

Playing with magnets on the fridge

Lilly loves sitting in Brayden's car seat if it is out of the car for some reason.  She is totally drawn to it.

Having a snack while waiting to see the Dr at her 15 month checkup

Lilly loves this rocking chair :)

And this little chair at daycare

As well as this one downstairs...

Playing with Brother's hat

This is a favorite pastime of Lilly's.  If you leave the cabinet door unlocked, she immediately goes for it and will take EVERY SINGLE ITEM out and spread it across the entire downstairs.

Another favorite place to play...All of the extra bottles, jars, etc of stuff are lined up on the floor of the pantry.  Lilly enjoys taking everything out and lining it all up in the middle of the kitchen floor.

Loving on Grammy and Paw's new kitten, Kali, who seems to take Brayden and Lilly in stride.

Relaxing in the swing after a long day at daycare

We had LOTS of birthday parties in October.  It seems that most of Brayden's school friend's birthdays are in October so we went to Young's Gym several times.  Lilly decided that she wanted to get in on the trampoline action as well!

Football Season

I a WAY behind here, but we had a good NCSU Football season this year.  The kids and I made it to all but the last home game.  Brayden had been sick, it was rainy, and COLD, so I decided to stay home with my mom and watch the game from the comfort of my couch!

Brayden really enjoys going to the games now, especially when we let him run around in the empty parking spaces near us and play football.  Thankfully, we tailgate with some great people who are willing to play football to give Mommy and Daddy a break since we are also either cooking or chasing Lilly around most of the time!

Lilly did remarkably well during all of the games this year.  She would take little naps and we just shifted her from person to person during the games.  Hopefully, next year will be just as good for everyone!  

Football during tailgating

A nice little snack before returning to "the game"

Go Pack!!

For Nana's birthday (which was on a game day), we made the trek to their tailgate. 

Tasha and Nicole - 2 of our great tailgating helpers!

A flag the size of the entire football field for Military Appreciate day.  What a great site!!

Funnies

I started this post a while back and had to stop for some reason so I will go ahead and finish the post now. 

Brayden and Lilly have both been doing some funny things lately.

Tonight for example, I had Lilly in her crib while I was doing some stuff in her room.  She kept saying "Mama Mama" and pointing to the shelf with lots of miscellaneous stuff on it.  She was being VERY insistent about something so after offering her several items of the shelf only to have them thrown back at me, I picked her up and took her to the shelf.  Lilly leaned forward, reached into the basket we keep socks in and pulled out socks until she found the pair she wanted.  Then she proceeded to pull the socks apart and carry them around the rest of the evening.  If one was dropped, she would say "Uh Oh" and look around until she found it.  So cute!

Lilly is also very much into wearing her winter hat.  The other night, she kept trying to get the hat from the diaper bag.  Finally, I put it on her and she walked around with the hat on for the rest of the evening...perfectly content.  Her teacher said that she did the same thing today at school.  Most kids hate to have stuff on their heads, but both of mine have always liked wearing hats!

Brayden repeats the funniest things sometimes.   He often tells Lilly "I don't think so little girl" or "no no little girl" (which is what I say sometimes to Lilly).  He is also into asking what phrases mean.  I sometimes tell him "perhaps we will be able to do (fill in the blank)".  Brayden always asks "What does perhaps mean?"  There are lots of words like "perhaps" that he wants to know the meaning of.  It is so great!