Oregon Vaughns

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:

One of her favorite places to be…

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:

Yesterday, Andy and I celebrated our 3 year wedding anniversary (January 21).  We both scheduled the whole day off and decided to go to Portland for the day as a family.  We were either going to go to the Portland Zoo or to OMSI (Andy & Lily had never been to either place).  The weather was surprisingly nice and sunny, so we opted for the zoo.

We had a fantastic time.  There were hardly any people there and the weather was great for a January in Portland.

Here are some pictures.  I don’t remember all of the names of the animals (other than the obvious ones).  Andy took all the pictures and hopefully he will blog and leave more insightful comments later.  I just want to share the photos!

Lily was in and out of the stroller.  She would walk some and then ride some.  She much prefers to walk on her own:

Mandrills, I think?

The best view of the Asian Elephant that we got:

I can’t remember what these were called, but Andy was fascinated by them.  They have 4 “tusks” — two that poke out normally and two that curve back toward the face (like a face-mask??):

Fun to watch:

Lily thought these were big dogs and was saying “Woof Woof”:

She explored a little on her own:

Fun day for everyone:

We concluded our trip with a stop at Whole Foods.  Lily had fallen asleep in the car and managed to stay asleep the whole time in the store while in Andy’s arms.  Andy may have found his new favorite cheese at Whole Foods – he will have to tell you more about that.

Lily had her 15 month check-up on January 8.  I am just a little late with my postings!  I don’t remember all of her stats exactly (I will have to find the paper to document it).  Her doctor said she was 99-percentile in all three categories: height, weight and head circumference.

I do remember that her weight was 30.8 pounds.  Her height was something like 33 inches or so.

Here she is in the waiting room: