Little miss musical and Mimi and madison

Eventhough we missed the window of opportunity to have Lilja become an amazing musician..( before the age of three.. remember) she can still make some beautiful music..

My friend Molly is a first time Grandma' Mimi". We met her and Madison for our second playdate. Madison is already 10 months and is moving up a storm. She followed lilja every where and copied what ever she did, even putting leaves in her mouth !

showing madison which leaves were perfect to put in your mouth.. not!!

Mimi and Madison

This playpark had musical instruments for the kids to play with.. very cool!

Those curls... you can see the clouds coming in behind Lilja, but I can see from Lilja's curly hair that rain is coming.

Loving music, she was humming something while she was playing the instruments.

Peekaboo!!

Momma, I am going to hide behind this tree and you have to find me... Peekaboo!!

I can put her hair into a ponytail now, easy and oh so cute.. Yes, Jasmin,  letting her hair grow..she is looking more and more like you with this longer hair.. so cute!!..

walking the doggies

We have had a pretty busy week, from Tumbling Tots to doing lots of arrands to walking the doggies. I had my new phone with me and took these photos while Lilja was having fun in the water. The pants were supposed to stay dry, but....

Her face is getting so much slimmer now, what a pretty girl she is.



we started the walk with the intention to stay dry, but Lilja had another idea. Believe me if I wanted her to stay dry she would.. but we were not going anywhere after this walk and she just LOVES the water..so....



"Lilja are your pants wet?"  Big smile..Momma they are soaked! I would love for you to hear her talk on our walk.. she will just follow me ....slowly.. with lots of talk about EVERTHING.. she really does not stop talking... 

and she found a way to go fishing.. it was a wonderful walk. 

Music class

My dad send me a article about how music increase brain development and that children should be exposed before the age of three.., Well, Lilja and I RAN to a music class yesterday.. just so we have some exposure before her birhtday ;)

Funny, Lilja was pretty quiet during this class, could be her molars coming in or the LOUD pounding of all the children on the instruments.. I was done by the end of the class and Lilja took a nice nap.. Not sure if I can do this class again, but Dad what about gymnastics???   

"Picking Berries for their lovies

These pictures are made by Mellisa when Lilja stayed with her on Monday.. They went pretending to go "berry picking" in her back yard. These two girls are truely becoming best friends.. so cute to see their relationship grow. Maddie and Lilja both seem so excited to see eachother..

Love the stool Maddie brought over.. smart cookie!

so serious for such a silly girl!

For Grandma Johnson

Grandma Johnson gave these pretty pajama's probably about two years ago and they never fit.. tada!!! it's never to late to wear fancy jammies..  

Lilja's new big girl bed!!

Misc from the week!! for Oma!!

Lilja's best frien Maddie turned two last weekend.. It was a rock and roll party and we could come dressed up like a rock star.. i think Lilja hit the nail on the head!! Who do you think she is?? madonna??

The socks were her idea too. She has some style sense.

I had to take this picture as she just looks so big instead of the picture when she was waiting for Daddy two years ago.. remember?

The Southern Ute Indian tribe fair was here this weekend and the parade was even better than last year. This is the only parade that they can throw candy for the kids. Well, this year Lilja DOES know what candy is..

Waiting for the candy to be throw .. caroline and JT joined us too.

These guys were Apache.. Lilja was a little scared of them, but they were very impressive.

With daddy on the float. We were thinking of having her with him this time but decided to wait a year.. She thought it was pretty cool, even for that short of a time.

This little tree is a tree I planted with a friend and boss of mine, Gaye Weiss in honor of "old" elizabeth. We spead her ashes and her dog's ashes around this little tree.. She was a lady who was a client of ours at the Family center. We had become her advocates, while she became very sick and I always feel she chose me to be the person who was with her when she died. That experience and meeting Elizabeth  has had a profound effect on my life, and I had not been here for so long. today was the day.

I also burried my first dog Dominica here across from the tree. Behind Waxy ( Shawndells dog) you can see a rock and that was her burial spot. Funny story is that my boss (Gaye) gave me a little stuffed animal that looked like Dominica (a doberman) when she died, and Lilja has been carrying this stuffed animal around for the last 6 months. It was lost for the last week. We had to pick-up a truck in this area, so we did not even mean to stop, and I did not think i could find it, but we did.. But guess what.. Shawndell made a joke about me finding the stuffed toy after we went back home and... I DID.. I have goose bumps!! just strange sometimes how things work out or happen...

superbaby!!!

Lilja had a great nap today so she really was not tired.. or was she??

happy Birthday tante Brigitte!!

videos and then we are done!!