Oregon Vaughns

Here is a great picture of Shauna and Winter (5 days old):

News on our front?

Shauna was due on April 1st… It is now April 10th and Lily’s cousin has still not arrived.  I am becoming a very impatient Aunt (which Shauna could tell you by my constant phone calls and texts)…  Oh well.  It won’t be long… Any day now… (I feel like I have been saying that for 3 weeks).

Lily turned a year and a half on Thursday.  Her latest obsession is with tractors and trucks (also, two of her new words).  She loves tractors.

I desperately need to take some videos of her to put up on the blog to share with you… I will try.

Not too much else is new.  I am busy teaching a math course (Math 65) at the Benton Center this term, and Andy is busy with his Consulting Business and his new software company.

I think I posted these pictures on facebook, but forgot to put them on our blog.  Isabella took them about a month ago:

Lily likes to close herself between the Screen Door and the Front Door.  There is obviously little-to-no space in between those two things.  She cannot close the door, but she tries!

On Saturday, Andy, Lily and I took a quick trip to the beach.  It was cold (but not rainy).  That did not keep us from playing in the sand!

After a cold/damp time at the beach, we headed to Mo’s for lunch.  I was actually very disappointed by the food — seemed to have gone down hill.

We had a great family day all-in-all.

Lily loves to wear Daddy’s “eyes” as well as his watch:

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: