Elmore Party of Three: Spring is coming!

I'm so excited. I just posted last time about how the cold needed scoot on out of here. I guess it heard me because it has been in the 70's during the day ever since, and you know what I say? Bring it on!! My little Lily is an outdoor girl, and she wants to go outside and play.

Not a lot has happened in the past few weeks. Josh has been on night shift so it has been pretty uneventful. We finally got to have a date night. We went to eat at Landry's and then saw 300. Both were good. Lily is still sticking her to her schedule of a before 8 bedtime. It was anywhere from 7:15 to 7:30, however, with day light savings it gets darker an hour later. Since it is still light at her bedtime we have pushed it to 8:00. I hate this because she is losing 30 to 45 minutes of sleep. Some might say "just get dark curtains" and to that I say, you haven't seen her window. She has a big double window and then a half moon window on top of it that would cost us several hundred dollars to darken, and I don't want to darken it because I love the natural light that it produces. Thus, we just moved her bed time a little bit. She seems okay with it so we are going forward. Also she has combined her two naps during the day into one big one which I am loving. Now on the weekends while Josh sleeps (remember he is on night shift) I get about a 3 hour spread of time that I can get stuff done or just chill depending on my mood. By the way.. just to clarify. We have her pack-n-play set up in the spare bedroom that has one normal size window with darkening curtains on them so she naps in there.

We have always had trouble with Lily eating solids. By solids I do not mean first and second foods. But third foods that have chunks of stuff in it or any table food. Well last night we had Mexican Chicken Casserole and she was eyeballing my chicken, so I shredded it smaller and gave her a piece fully expecting her to spit it out, she at it and then at a lot more! So we have a Chicken eater on our hands lol! Can't say I'm upset. Chicken is healthy, and if we can get her protein in that is always a plus. We thought she had a really bad gag reflex, and maybe she does, but since she is not gagging with the chicken I am thinking its more that she is being picky lol.

She has also started doing this funny thing where she crosses her legs when she sits. It is so adorable and lady like!

We have a busy few months coming up! Lily turns 1, Josh turns 26, we are gonna take Lily to the Zoo in Hot Springs, Josh and I are doing a 5k with his family, and lots of other stuff. I will try to get better about taking pictures of everything. Next week on Friday is Lily's 11 month update! Hard to believe. Until then here are some pics of her the past 2 weeks. As usual they are all of Lily!