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Thursday, January 29, 2009

Saturday, January 24, 2009

photo tag - i'm it!

The rules are simple...
1. Go to the 4th folder in your computer where you store your pictures.
2. Pick the 4th picture in that folder.
3. Explain the picture.
4.Tag 4 people to do the same.

This photo above was taken this fall the week of November 10, 2008 in Louisville, KY at the Hard Rock Cafe. Nate, Lilia and I were having a nice family meal after being apart for a few weeks while Nate continued on the tour and Lilia and I stayed at home in Chicago. You can see here how happy these two were to be reunited.

Now I tag Lisa, La Rêveuse, Deuce, and LeNae Grandma

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Communication is key

(The photo is of Lilia signing her version of "more" after she devoured a PB & J sandwich and wanting more)
Kids amaze me. Even more amazing is how our little baby is becoming a little girl.

We’ve been trying to teach sign language since she was about 4 months old. The first sign she picked up was milk, followed closely by the sign for more. Since then she’s picked up several others like: drink, eat, sleep, up, down, drink, all done, book, please, open, and most recently yogurt. In addition to signs she’s been learning to speak words like Dada, Mom, Decker, Baypee (baby), Babow (Bosco), Hi, Bubbles, Buh Bye, cheese, lots of animal noises, Gi Doww (Get Down), peez (please) and I love you (her attempt at this is adorable but impossible to write) and many others I’m sure I’m forgetting. I know this isn’t rocket science. But as first time parents everything she does amazes us.

Earlier today she spoke the word tree. It came out as “tee” but she said it as she was pointing to the tree above our car. She was anxious to look at it and feel the leaves every time we’d go to the car, so I was tickled when she said tree after only just telling her what it was the day before. She picked up Baypee (baby) after a little girl in the Doctors office called Lilia a baby . She came home and later that day walked around saying it all day long. Thought you might enjoy this video:

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Friday, January 16, 2009

Fun in the Sun


At the beach in Naples, Florida. Lilia loved her first time in the sand.

Everyone loves Cheese

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Family = Fun

Lilia having fun with her cousins, Isaac and Lauryn at Christmas. This is her version of jumping