After looking through all of my posts of the past year, my keen deductive mind has noticed a theme! Can you guess what it is? I'll give you a hint... it has to do with being too busy and/or too lazy. Give up? We'll that's what exactly how I feel. I give up on trying to keep this blog up to date with the daily grind of Lily. I tried for a while, I really did. But life got in the way. You'd think that after doing daily data entry for my mom, providing childcare for a neighbor for 30 hours each week, subbing one day each week, oh yeah, and caring for a child of my own, I'd at least have an hour or so each week to update this window into to the Swackhamer family happenings. But alas, it has not been so easy! So instead of continually posting apology after apology and giving excuse after excuse as to why I haven't posted in months, I give up and am here to inform you of my new policy. As of today, I am no longer fretting over writing the perfect, slightly funny yet informative, discourse. It all boils down to this: I'm not promising anything. I may find time to write each month, I may not. It might be a lengthy entry telling you all about the latest milestone, it might just be a sentence or two with some pictures. Don't give up on me, I will update the blog from time to time, but I cannot guarantee that it'll be in any regular sort of time frame.
That being said, here's a brief description of what Lily is up to. As of the past few months, everything is all about Elmo! As soon as she wakes up, it's the first thing out of her mouth. It actually comes out sounding more like Eh-mama. If we go anywhere near a television (in our house or someone else's), she points and says that magic, but somewhat annoying word. If we are shopping and the store dares to have anything resembling the little red monster, she does crazy repeating Eh-mama over and over! What is it about this little character? EVERY toddler I know either is currently in love with Elmo, or has been in the recent past. I don't get it. But the 20 minutes of "Elmo's World" on Sesame Street everyday makes her so happy! In addition to Elmo, Lily is enjoying her new found world of running. She runs all over the place, and though due to excess speed, she falls more often than not, she continues none the less.
What else can I tell you? Right now she's working at gaining her independence and it's driving Greg and I nuts! Everything from diaper changes, to getting into p.j.'s, to eating dinner has become the battle of wills. I know that every child goes through this, and given that most kids are not killed by their parents during this stage, I have faith that we will make it through this, but Greg's not so sure. Her new search for individuality has not been helped by the incoming teeth that seem to put her in a grumpy mood half the day. We call her "Grumpy Pants" for a reason! She currently has twelve teeth and has two more trying to push their way through. While I will admit that we've had it pretty easy up till now, I understand why parents want to drug their kids during the teething years.
However, even with all the changes and new things, we are LOVING watching her grow. It seems that each day Greg and I agree that she's more fun today than last week! We give you our love. If Lily could see you, she'd send you a licked palm (a.k.a blowing you kisses)! I'm sure as soon as I publish this, many things will change, but this has been a short snippet into the exciting life of Lily, complete with a montage of random pictures ranging from our visit to Arkansas this past November, to sledding at Christmas, to her latest goofiness. So enjoy!
