Almost a year with Lily ...

... and still her name is missing from our blog title! I need to look into changing it, but it might mean I have to start a new blog. I'll see what I can find out.

I can't believe Lily will be a year old in less than two weeks. Where has time (and my tiny baby) gone?? Life with her is such a joy and we couldn't imagine not having her with us. I look forward to seeing her happy little face every morning! She has 4 teeth now, with two more trying to break through. She eats and sleeps well. She crawls like the wind, but is not walking unassisstedly yet. I guess she figures she is safer on all fours, especially with big brother pushing her over all the time. I do wish she would start walking, though. She is full of energy and wants to explore wherever we go. Needless to say, I am not crazy about her being on dirty floors all the time, putting whatever she finds in her mouth. Lily says "Mama", occasionally"Papa", and she loves to say and wave Hello and Good Bye. She goes crazy waving whenever I take her out the front door or open the window, be there an audience or not.


Her first birthday we will spend in Rostock with my parents and grandmother. We are leaving in a week, and will not be back until May 18. We have a wedding to go to in Hanover on May 17. After Lily's birthday Neil will go back to work for a week and then join us in Rostock again. We are hoping that the air up north will do Finn's lungs good. Right now he is sick again, and although it has been worse his lungs are not good either. So we are back to inhaling and other treatments.


Finn is quite the character these days. He pretend-plays a lot now. Most days he is not Finn, but a "mama cow". I guess gender is not a topic yet. Sometimes it's quite funny. A typical conversation from the other night:


Neil: "Come here, Finn!"
Finn: "But I'm a mama cow!"
Neil: "Okay, come here, mama cow and take this medication. It will help you make nice milk."
Finn: "But there is still quite a bit of milk left in my udder."


Ha ha :-). Other times it's not so funny, like when he can't say he is sorry to Lily because cows can't talk. Or when he bites my leg because he is a crocodile. He sure has his moments. But most days he is a lot of fun to be around and we think he is the greatest little boy on earth! Here he is a jaguar sleeping in a tree:

And here he is just a little boy running from my friend's dog :-)