It has been 3 years since I gave birth to my first child, Lillian. I can hardly believe it has been that long. But none the less, here we are 3 yrs later. Lillian is such a delight and she warms my heart. I am truly blessed to have her. She is such a fun loving active little girl. She loves to so many things it is hard to remember them all. She can be such a typical little girl sometimes and other times she is in to all the things boys love to do. She reminds me so much of myself sometimes!! Lillian loves to watch movies and has quite a collection of favorites. All the princesses, of course, Nemo, Alice, Pinocchio, and Tinker Bell, to name a few. I must say that Tinker Bell, Ariel, Cinderella and Belle are her favorites. Lillian also loves books!! She can sit down and literally spend 30 minutes just looking and "reading" at her books. She has so many now, but loves them all!! We have also got her started on puzzles and she is loving putting them together. For her birthday she has gotten a few dolls (Tinker Bell and Rosetta, Belle, Cinderella and a Barbie and Ken doll). We needed the Ken doll so she could have a daddy doll. I was so keen on the idea of her using Barbie as the "daddy!!" LOL I know she has no idea and she is just pretending but now she actually has a daddy doll!! :) Anyway, she has lots of fun pretending with her dolls and she enjoys playing with them!!
Lillian also loves being outside. She loves playing in Grandpa Case's park (as it is sometimes referred to) and running around the backyard barefoot. She loves collecting rocks and getting dirty!! She enjoys swinging and going down the slide, playing ball and running around!! I swear at times she can be such a tom boy!!
We are still working on the potty training, I know we will get it eventually. I wish she would get it sooner than later. There are days that she does so well and others not so good. I had so hoped to have her trained by the time she was 3 but at least we are closer than we were.
Lastly, my little girl can be such a helper. She loves to help me bake and cook. She will push one of the chairs up to the kitchen counter and inform me that she wants to help. I usually will have her pour the ingredients in or stir. She loves it!! She also is getting to be a good helper with Preston. Not always, but sometimes. I love that she wants to help and love being able to teach her!
This year I wanted to take her to Disneyland to celebrate her birthday. I have a co-worker whose mom works there, so she was able to get myself, Lillian and my mom in for free. So nice!! I just can't rationalize buying tickets, season or otherwise. We don't go there very often so right now free is good!!!
The day turned out to be so hot and humid. We ended up staying till around 2pm them went home for a few hours and came back at 630pm. The weather was so much better then. Lillian had a wonderful time. She really enjoyed going on all the rides. We were able to go on Pinocchio, Snow White, the Carousel, It's a Small World and we went to Pixie Hollow to see Tinker Bell and Silvermist in the morning. We didn't really have a wait for the first rides, but for Pixie Hollow we had to wait about 30 minutes. Lillian actually did pretty well waiting, which surprised me. She loved seeing the fairies. Silvermist was the best because she stooped down to Lillian's level to talk to her. It really made Lillian more comfortable with her. I wish she would have smiled but I think she was still unsure. Tinker Bell she was a little less comfortable with because she wasn't as good with young kids as Silvermist was. But she was still so excited to see her and take pictures with her. She wanted to back and see them again, but I convinced her to go and see other stuff. On our way out we ran into some Characters. So of course we had to go take pictures with them. We saw Pluto, Donald (there was a professional camera man there so he used his camera to get a picture of the 2 of us), Goofy and Minnie.
In the evening, my mom and I came back with Lillian only. Daddy was home and we decided it would be easier plus we didn't need the stroller and we would only be gone a couple of hours. When we got there we decided to take the train around to Toontown and hoped to go on some of the rides we had missed in Fantasy Land but they were closing it down for the fireworks show. So we headed off to Tomorrowland and went on the Rockets and then on Autopia. She loved the Rockets and while we were standing in line waiting to get on them we met a little boy about her age that she had fun playing with. It made the time we had to wait in line go by faster.
We even got to watch some of the fireworks while were on the rockets.
Autopia was so much fun. It has been years since I have been in those cars. Lillian was tall enough to go on and drive herself. She loved it!! She didn't know what the heck she was doing but she could care less. She sat there just turning the wheel regardless of where the road was going. I had to keep helping her and everytime she would get mad at me and try and push my hand away. We got to drive a sparkly purple/blue car. Lillian was so excited because she loves purple. The line was relatively short, and she was pretty well entertained watching all these cars drive off. Lillian had a fantastic time at Disneyland and was so worn out that she fell asleep in the car on the way home. I wish I could say she will remember it always, but we will just have to wait till she is older. :)
Riding on the tram. It has been over a year since she had been on one and wasn't sure what to make of it.
Riding the Carousel for the first time and loving it.
Waiting inline to go into Pixie Hollow and see the fairies.
On the boat ride in "It's a small world after all" We were really hot and sweaty at this point.
Mr. P squirming around so you can't get a good face shot. Everything looked like an adventure to him.
I tried so many times to get a picture of him and these 2 were the best ones. He would not sit still!!
On "It's a small world after all"
Lillian and Pluto
Lillian and Goofy (my favorite)
Minnie and Lillian. We almost didn't get to see her. We were the next ones to get a picture with her and the guy came and told us she was going to go down the line and greet everyone and then head off. Thankfully we were next otherwise Lillian might have been a little upset. She was so excited to see her.
Autopia!! Driving her car.
She's a mean driving machine. LOL
Lillian and I waiting for our food. Sorry it's blurry but my camera was still getting fixed so it was taken with the blackberry camera and well you can't move when taking a picture. As you can see Lillian moved her arm. My little monkey is getting so big and she is so pretty and I swear sometimes she looks just like me!!
Mom decorating my birthday cake.....Mmmmm looking yummy. Lillian in the foreground trying to help herself to the goodies on the cake.
The finished product!!
A closer shot of the cake!! It reads, Happy Birthday Kristy, if you had a hard time reading it. Mom isn't as good at the writing as I am. But who cares, it looked and tasted great!! Thanks Mom!! The cookies and Ande's Mints are the gravestones and there was crumbled oreo's for the "dirt". There were ghosts and pumpkins too!!
