Oregon Vaughns

Lily has an ear infection and pneumonia… However, she is on the mend.  We took her in to the urgent care yesterday to diagnose all of this, as well as get the proper meds.  The big problem that we have been having is her gag reflex and her throwing up.  She has been throwing up everything upon contact (food, liquids, meds).  We now have her on all chewable medications, which is way better for her than liquid.

Today she is finally beginning to act more like herself: demanding pizza.

She has seen tons of movies while being sick and Mary Poppins is the new favorite (while she lies on “little bed” – the inflatable bed in our room).

When she is sick or tired, she has been saying “Oh Mama” or “Oh Dada”  Kind of a cute new quote

After seeing this picture on my phone:

Lily attempted to recreate it below:

(for real, she saw the picture and wanted me to take another just like it)

The song featured below is one of Lily’s new favorites.  She calls it “Amazing.”

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“Mama, look! Lily cleaned clothes. Lily put all clothes in buckets. Mama so happy and Lily so happy too!”

Just a little update about life in Bend:

• The semester ended today at my high school — half the year gone??  Geez, it goes quickly.
• Lily’s language is unstoppable.  She can say anything.
• However, there are occasions where Lily says something that Andy or I can not interpret.  So, after I try to interpret it, incorrectly a few times, Lily will exclaim emphatically “Mommy no understand.“
• Lily has also started saying “I’ll show you, Momma.” when she wants to show me whatever it is….
• When Andy picks me up from school, I have a bad habit of dumping all of the details of my day on him during the ride home.  Lily sits in the back seat (saying what Andy is thinking….) and says “Stop talking please.”
• Lily still loves “I’m Yours” by Jason Mraz and can sing the whole song.
• “Tell story, please.”  I am told this even when I am in the middle of telling a story.  Also, I cannot get very far through a story without her adding her own details and turning the story in the direction she wants it to go.  Stories are usually Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Three Little Pigs (BIG BAD WOLF) and Lily, Elmo and the Funny Guys.
• “Funny Guys” are what we call the little yellow guys from the movie Despicable Me — one of Lily’s new favorites.  We have seen this movie too much.  When Lily says Despicable Me it sounds more like “Speak-a-warmie”
• Lily loves playing with her babies and taking care of them.
• Andy and I have been trying new restaurants here in Bend.  Maybe soon we can sit down a blog a little review about what we have tried!  (We had a nice dinner out while celebrating our 4 year anniversary, too).
• 60 degrees and sunny today! Can’t beat that.
• “Momma, sit with Lily on the stairs and talk about kitties.”
• Andy asked Lily today if she was OK (something happened) and Lily replied “No, Lily happy!”
• Well, 6:50pm right now and Lily has not napped.  I am going to put her to bed for the night.

Lily got up at 10am this morning and did not nap.  I saw this as my opportunity to get her in bed early.  And yes, she was asleep before 8pm.  I am an all-star.

I took her to Target tonight to run some errands.  She cracked some funny joke about “Tunnel Shoes” instead of “Tennis Shoes.”  That cracked her up

At Target, I found $1 sweatshirts and $1 sweatpants (for Lily) — couldn’t resist!  $1?!?!  How could I not?  So, while we were driving home, Lily kept saying “see new skirt, see new skirt.”  I kept reminding her that she did not get a new skirt, she got new pants and a new shirt.  “See Lily’s new skirt!  See Lily’s new skirt!”  She insisted.  “Lily, you did not get a new skirt this time.”  Oh, but she didn’t stop.  “New skirt with flower on it, Mommy.”  I had no idea what she was talking about.  Oh well.

Then, I opened the door to get her out, and sure enough, there was her new skirt from Hawaii that some family friends had bought for her (Thanks Barnes Family)!  I had completely forgotten.

So, without further ado:

A couple of days ago, I asked Lily what her name was and she replied “Lily Andrew Vaughn.”

Lily slept about 16 hours last night: to bed at 5pm, wake-up for milk at 7pm then back to bed, wake-up at 1am for milk then back to bed, wake up at 6am for….. milk…. then back to bed… awake at 9:15am.  She has a milk habit, to say the least.

I just measured Lily tonight and she is just a hair under 38 inches.  Tall girl!

Also, she had her first “professional” haircut yesterday… she did great.  Even if I showed you pictures, you wouldn’t see the difference.  It was just a “trim” to clean up all of the ends.  I had to hold her hand the whole time.

Here is a picture of us taken a few weeks ago:

Andy was in the process of putting Lily down to bed and walked into our room about 15 minutes ago (while I was working on the computer).  He informed me that she was demanding eggs and toast.  Eggs and toast at 9:30pm??  Done.  Well, the eggs part at least.  I think she just ate 2 eggs.

This is why I weighed her in today (at the gym) at 42 pounds.  Wow!

What else is up?

Snowed here today (off and on).  Enjoying the last handful of days left of Winter Break…  Andy and I hope to get in our first ski/snowboard day this weekend!  Hope it works out.

What’s new with Lily?

• She knows she can get away with lots by adding a “please” to the end.
• She is obsessed with stories:  “Tell a story, please.”  and “Mama, story please.”  She loves stories about a big ship (from Barney) or she also loves the 3 Little Pigs (she calls it “Big Bad Wolf”)
• She has just started her “What’s this?” phase.  “What’s this, Mama?”
• If she doesn’t know what something is called, she sometimes gets embarrassed and doesn’t want to directly ask… so, she says “Mama say it…”  That way, I will say what it is and then she will be informed.  Sneaky girl.
• She is hungry all of the time.
• We are still very much enjoying swimming at the gym

There must be some more things to add, but I guess I will leave it at that for now.  Andy is still trying to put her to bed and I think I will go in a relieve him and give it a shot myself.

I have two weeks off for Christmas and we are spending the first week in Corvallis (Shauna, Colin and Winter are visiting Corvallis too).  Then, we will have a week off in Bend.

Lily is getting the idea of Christmas down:  Santa, presents, “Merry Christmas”, “Christmas Trees”, cookies, family, ice cream every day, Barney, snow, lights, the works.