Lily & Leo

Happy birthday to my sweetest little princess Lily!  Lily weighs 29lbs (6%), and is 39.5 inches long (63%).  Lily had a finger prick blood test to test her iron levels and her levels are normal!  This is an improvement from last year since she was low last year.  All that fish is paying off!  Lily also got 3 shots on my arm and that was really tough and painful for her and she cried her little eyes out, poor baby girl.  Other than that, she is doing really well and is a healthy little girl!  She is definitely on the smaller side but at least she’s healthy!  Lily has a very cute eccentric sense of style, it’s a mixture of comfort, colorful, and cute style.  It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t match, if she likes it and makes her feel good, then go for it baby girl!  You be you and I strongly encourage her to explore her of style to promote her sense of self and confidence.  Lily loves to snack, to name a few, she likes potato chips, cheesy popcorn (Pirate’s Booty), strawberry Special K Crisp Bars, cookies, butter popcorn, all things candy, strawberries fresh and freeze dried, carrots, apples, cuties, brussel sprouts, and lots of cheese!  Lily likes going out and doing things like playing at the park, running around and spinning in circles, making silly noises and being silly, and her imagination is really growing and she likes to play imaginary situations all the time with her toys.  Her vocabulary and speech and is so big and eloquent, she doesn’t seem like a 4 year old at all, maybe a 5-6 year old!  You can see how she phrases her sentences that she puts a lot of thought into her communication, it’s just so impressive to see.  I’m so constantly proud of her!!

For her birthday celebration, I had the joint party with Leo for Lily.  She also had a celebration at her school where the class sang a nice around the world song for her as she walked around and showed her classmates pictures from each year of her life.  We brought yogurt, animal crackers, and mini blueberry muffins for her classmates to enjoy for a special birthday snacks and her teachers provided strawberries for everyone too.  Lily really enjoyed passing out all the snacks to her friends and I was so impressed with how good the kids are there and how much Lily wanted to help and pass out the snacks.  Lily’s been excited for her birthday for months now and I’m so glad that this day finally came so I can celebrate and spoil her (more than usual) and make her so super happy!  It’s a fun age for birthdays since she’s so aware of what it is now, and all her friends have birthday celebrations, so it’s just such a happy time.  I’m glad she looks forward to her birthday, I will make sure I always do whatever I can to make this day special for her, and to show her how this day changed my life forever in the best, most wonderful way possible.  For more pictures from Lily and Leo’s birthday celebrations, click HERE!  Special thanks to Mieng for taking the beautiful photos of Lily and Leo for their birthdays!!

I feel super blessed and lucky to have Lily as my baby girl! She is super sweet, smart, silly, funny, sassy, kind, compassionate, and everything I wanted in a daughter and more!! She is constantly impress and amazes me with everything she does and I can’t wait to see what else she’s going to teach me in life and what other adventures we will have together! My heart is so full when I look into her bright eyes and sweet smile.  She is such a sweet, caring, and compassionate big sister to baby Leo as well.  Seeing her interact with him, all on her own too, is so touching to me.  Even when she see other babies, she just says “awww that baby is so cute!” and she will be so warm and caring to them.  Lily is so good at sharing too and is always looking out for me and making sure I am careful walking down the stairs and tells me to hold her hand so I don’t fall!  She is just the sweetest and I’m so proud and humbled to call her mine! I love you more than you’ll ever know my precious Lily pad!! Happy 4th birthday my sweetest angel!!

Check out some of Lily’s adventures this past year!