Oregon Vaughns

Happy 17 Months to the best girl ever.  I cannot believe it has been 17 months already… However, I can also not believe that she is only 17 months old!!! She seems so much older some days.  Wow.  I am in shock.

So, all about Lily… Here comes some info:

• Words include:  Cheese, shoes, Mama, Dada, Bob-bob (grandpa), Nana, “Stacey”, home, help, cat, hat, apple, “thank you”, “get you”, LaLa (Isabella), NO, broom, up, down, blue, balloon, bottle or baba…  I am sure there are some more.  Oh, not to forget “Poop”.
• She loves to sing songs: “Wheels on the Bus” and “Shake Your Sillies Out”
• She loves to go on walks to the park.
• Cheese is probably her favorite food.
• She likes to go for hikes in her Kelty Back-pack carrier (Andy carried her all the way up Bald Hill the other day on our hike!!)
• She gives good kisses now and makes sound effects while she does
• She still sleeps really well through the night (sometimes I just wish she would sleep in a little longer).

I cannot think of what else to put.  Of course there are thousands of things that Andy and I obsess about every day.  She loves being around people — friends and family.  She brings joy to all.

What has happened since my last post?  Lily and Andy each spent about 4-5 days with what we think was the Norwalk Virus (vomiting and such).  Somehow, it went right past me and I never got it.

Lily is now making up for the days of no appetite by eating everything in sight.  Today, for breakfast, she ate: 3 bananas, 2 loaves of bread, 3 dozen eggs, a gallon of milk, and a handful of goldfish crackers…. It was something like that.  She has a huge appetite for cheese, avocados, crackers, you name it.

On her first day of being healthy, she burped over my computer… Thinking she was going to throw up on it, I freaked out a little and reacted very quickly.  Realizing there was no throw up coming, we both had a good laugh.  The problem?  She now thinks that pretending to throw up is very funny.  It is pretty cute, but Andy gets mad when I encourage it

Lily and I enjoy going to story time at the public library.  Sometimes Auntie Shauna joins us and sometimes we see my friend Abby and her kids.  Lily definitely needs more socializing time with kids her own age.

There is probably much more to write about.  I will post an update just about Lily’s new doings later tonight… Not that I think everyone is entirely interested in the fact that her favorite word is “poop” and she is obsessed with string cheese, but I think that it is just fun to document so that we can all look back later (especially Lily).

I will leave you with some photos:

Taken a few days before Chinese New Year… I gave Lily a “Pocky” to eat (a small chocolate covered stick):

Taken today at story time.  This is the face Lily will make if you ask her to make “funny eyes”:

Lily with Abby’s daughter, Bella, at story time:

Lily can fit 5 rolls of toilet paper and a tangerine into one toilet.  Beat that.

One of her favorite places to be…

I’ve been working a lot. One week in December, I logged 96 hours on my new startup project, and another 5 consulting. It hasn’t slowed much, but lately it’s been around 65hrs a week, much of this on business development.

Needless to say, I got sick. With Lily putting her hands in every box, drawer, or other type of container she can find, my immune system wasn’t able to handle it.

In the search to regain health, I’ve decided to try something new and see how it works: work begins at noon and ends at 8:00 pm. I work until late evenings most nights, anyway. So, this won’t be much of a difference. It does however, allow me to spend my mornings going for a bike ride or spending time with the girls.

We’ll see how it works.

If you do – or if you were to – work for yourself at home, what hours do you prefer?

“I have way too many hair-clips in my pocket to be a man.”

A day in the park by our house… Pictures taken with a camera phone, so aren’t perfect.  Enjoy!

Did I share these pictures before?  This is what I saw one morning last Spring while I was at Timberhill Athletic Club going for my morning workout (oh how I miss those).  I cannot remember if I already posted these or not.. They were taken using my cell phone camera:

Stacey:  “Would you like to share a pear?”

Andy:  “Sure.  You could use the blood sugar and I could use the companionship.”