Lila Playing

Eric and I were in the kitchen when we heard Lila in the next room just cracking herself up. Lila has always loved the sound her pacifier makes when it clicks plastic against plastic, so she was thrilled when she found her pacifier was still attached to it's leash and made even BETTER sound effects.

10 Months...ish

Lila isn't quite walking yet but she's getting crazy fast. I can't hardly take a picture of her from a distance anymore. The second I look down, she's already there grabbing for the camera.
She has really been enjoying grownup food. Her favorite is probably hot dogs but I think she has more fun with spaghetti.
I was shocked the other day when I went to leave her at daycare. I waved goodbye and she waved back, well, sort of. She just kind of holds her hand up and moved her arm up and down.
The stairs now pose no obstacle at all for Lila. Eric and I are definitely getting a work out following her up and bringing her back down...and following her up......and bringing her back down.
We're still working on Lila's walking with her little walker, but she seems to only do it to humor us. She's very aware of the fastest way for her to get around and it doesn't take long for her to get bored and drop back down to hands and knees.

The Slinky

During Christmas Lila managed to dig up her cousin's slinky and just loved it. Needless to say, I thought she needed one of her own. Mostly she just likes the sound it makes but then she'll put one end in her mouth and start crawling away until she has a good 5 feet dragging along behind her. Who knows what the kid will think when she finds out what it can do on the stairs.

Lila's First Christmas

We had a great first Christmas with Lila. We drove over to Sturgis Christmas Eve to spend the night with my sister. We ended up getting snowed in for two days, but Lila had a great time with her cousin Jack and her Aunt and Uncle Morrison.

Sunday we dug ourselves out and spent the day with Eric's family, had a nice dinner and helped Lila open all her presents. One of her gifts was this walker, which she took off on right away. A bit more practice on this thing and she'll be walking in no time.



Lila also got lots of cute outfits and a new set of bows (which she actually doesn't seem to mind wearing). Who needs hair when you look this cute in a bow!

Fun With Food

Well, fun for Lila at least. Her new favorite thing to do when she eats is to get a mouth full of food and then blow. It backfires a little bit when the spoon is still in front of her mouth, but she doesn't seem to mind too much.

Lila and Jake

Lila still hasn't gotten over her fascination with Jake. She follows him everywhere.

Thanksgiving 2009

We had a busy Thanksgiving in Spearfish this year. Lila's GG had her 80th birthday party the Saturday after, so there were lots of cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents and great-grandparents vying for Lila's attention. I think it was a little overwhelming for her, but she had a good time.
Uncle Jami showing Lila how this whole crawling thing is done.


Cousin Jackson loved to hold Lila. He was snorting like a pig to make her laugh.

She had a little trouble getting up the step to the other room at her Grandparents, but finally managed to do it the last night we were there.



Lila loved her early Christmas present from Grandpa Vaplon. She's a little young for the tent, but the tube was a big hit!