Meeting Baby Devon

Madison Museum and Sun Prarie Corn Fest

Summer Recap - August

Fun around the house, at the Ella's Carousel, and the State Fair.

More Summer Recap - Lily's Birthday Party

Summer Recap.

It has been a busy summer. Here are some pictures, I'm going to post a lot and Kori may give more details :)

New Baby Boy: Devon William

Lily become a big cousin today. Aunt Tori had her baby! Devon William was born this evening at 5:49. I was amazed at Tori's ability to get the job done in such an efficient manor. She was eating PB & J's at our house at 12:30 and 5 short hrs later baby boy was here. She had to do it the old fashioned way and was a champ with a very quick delivery.

Baby is 6lb. 4 oz. 19" and was already nursing at 6:30!

The new family is doing great... I'll post pictures this week!

I am a Shark!

I had to post this one! Here is Lily enjoying her first trip to the Milwaukee Children's Museum.

I put a shark costume on her and she just kept on walking around like nothing new was going on. Too funny. Thank P&M for capturing the moment!

July 4th - more walking

She's now unstoppable!

Memorial Day Weekend: First Steps

4.12 Olbrich Gardens

Here are some great pictures that my friend Brett took when we visited Olbrich Gardens earlier this spring. Lily wasn't really sure what the grass was and didn't really like it! And you can see she is quite attached to her flower hat that my friend Katie knitted for her. She goes everywhere with it...

See you later April!!

Ok so March was fine, we will someday get all of the images off the various cameras and update the blog, but I wanted to say good riddance to April. This has been the toughest month by far. First we were greeted with Lily's first stomach virus right away on March 31st. That lasted on and off for about 5 days. She was ok by Easter, but then on the 9th we got a real fun one. Lily ran a fever for 7 days with a visit to the ER for a 105 on Sunday the 11th. Chest x-rays on Tuesday and blood work, RSV screening and urine sample on Friday. The poor girl had a kidney infection. So we got some major antibiotics. They worked wonders until the following Wednesday. Lily started throwing up breakfast or dinner. That lasted for about another 5 days! Seriously! What a pain! And we still can't figure out what that was all about. But she got to visit the doctor again. Scott and I were doubting our parenting and coping skills, we just couldn't believe that she could be sick over and over for a month! To top thing off the poor girl is cutting her top teeth!!

She has been such a trooper through it all. While all these things were going on she still managed to learn clapping, waving bay-bye, pulling up to standing, and crawling along the furniture! I think the other day I said, she may not eat or sleep, but she will walk!

We have one final hurdle to cross in May. Because she had a kidney infection they are going to check the rest of her urinary system with a VCUG. http://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/info.cfm?pg=voidcysto

Hopefully our luck will be changing an everything in there will be a-ok and we can move on to May.

See you later April!

Words!?

We think she is up to about 3-4 words now!!

Her first was, of course, Kitty or ditty as she says. She will stop eating her bottle look up and say ditty as they come into her room. I think Zaddie is her favorite since she is more elusive. Lily likes Frank, but he is always around trying to get pets!

Lily also says:

Baba for bottle, Dada and smacks Scott. We are not sure if she gets it all the time, but it is funny to watch her smack Scott. And bye-bye, she doesn't say it often but she had said it.

Florida

It's been more month since we SUCCESSFULLY made our journey to Florida for Papa's 90th birthday. Lily's first airplane ride, first time meeting Scott's family and we got another tooth too! Here are some of the highlights:

Here we are getting ready for the longer plane ride to Jacksonville

Hanging out with cousin Eric
And cousin Noah
Lily cut her second tooth while we were in florida. She was a little cranky that day, but it didn't stop her from looking super cute in her summer gear! We had to get out and take in the sunshine!




She did really well on the car trip to Orlando. Here she is napping
Lily thought the hotel bed was the coolest thing ever. It was her favorite place to practice rolling over skills.









Lily met her Grand Nana & Papa. We were in Florida to celebrate Papa's 90th birthday!

Lily loved her great grand parents and thought they were so much fun!



Scott, his mom JoAnn, Nana & Papa


grand nana & papa with the great grandkids


Papa at his 90th party
at the party with the great grandkids

JoAnn arranged for us to get our picture taken in Jacksonville.

Here we are on our way. I thought this was pretty cute.

Nana and the grandkids
The boys

Our last night in Florida hanging out with Noah.