(click on the collage to see it bigger)At the end of each year I make a sort of year book for my family with all the major events in our lives. This year I want to do a year in review of the little moments that didn't make it on this blog or in my year book. You all know about the major events like a new house and baby, but here are the smaller events that you never saw.
January - Lilly, Jim, and I spent a late afternoon/evening sledding down the insane hill next to our house. Lilly ate the snow and I took rides on the sled by myself.
February - Lilly dressed herself and usually involved lots of accessories and dress up clothes. I found out I was pregnant at the end of the month.
March - Jim and Lilly invented a rock game with a bag of rocks that my Aunt Sheryl from Idaho gave her. They played for hours, I don't remember anything about the game other than being really impressed that they invented it.
April - In the thick of morning sickness Lilly was mostly left to entertain herself, which she did very well. She really played with all of her toys and dolls. One day I was throwing up in the bathroom and she came in, looked at me on the floor and said "Mom, I want some cheese balls." Then went back to lining up her dolls in a row.
May - When we visited with Johnny in April we realized that Lilly and Johnny were almost the same size (despite the two year age difference). Lilly confiscated these PJs from Johnny (size 18 months) and wore them every night until she couldn't squeeze into them anymore (we saved them for Jackson). Johnny in turn wore Lilly's bathing suit every day until Jessamyn hid it from him (although that was later in the summer).
June - This picture was supposed to be our "look we bought a house" photo, but everyone was exhausted and grumpy and this was what we got.
July - When we went to the beach Lilly and Jim played for hours in the sand while I hid under the umbrella reading.
August - In this picture Lilly had just finished dressing herself for our big outing to the neighboring town for shopping. Nothing matches and it's priceless.
September - Jim's apple pie did get top billing on my blog, but I never mentioned that it took me a solid 3 days to clean up from the totally homemade apple pie. We have yet to take on that adventure again since the massive clean up. I need to buy one of those plastic pie making sheets that you can just wash off.
October - I spent most of my time in the hospital with Jackson alone, just the two of us. He slept 4 hours at a time and I fretted like any new mother did only to regret it later when he woke up every 2 hours!
November - After almost 4 years in her convertible crib Lilly got a twin mattress. This was a picture of her sitting on her new bed for the first time ever, she was thrilled and I was a little sad that she really was a baby no more.
December - I was able to get a few pictures of Lilly and Jack wearing hats that I made. These hats took hours of work and they only wore them for 2 minutes, they both hated them. At least they look happy in them for the picture.
One of my new ways to stay sane is to visit my local yarn shop for about an hour a week. Jim is really great and takes the kids. I completed my first knitting project ever. It's a hat for me, but I thought Lilly was a cuter model. Knitting is seriously hard, but I like the way it looks for some projects. My next project is a sweater for Jackson. I am going to make it in the 1-2 year size so I have plenty of time to be frustrated, give up, restart the project, and possibly finish it without too much pressure.
