Lily Randomness

I'm probably biased but I have the most awesome niece ever. She is hilarious. We often wonder what we did to entertain ourselves before she was born. Because now a days we spend our free time watching her and laughing at her ridiculousness. As fun as it was when she was a baby, she's even more fun now that she can talk. We could probably have an entire episode of "Kids Say the Darndest Things" just starring Lily. And the funniest thing about her is that she cracks herself up! My mom was saying yesterday that when she picked her up from the sitter on Monday, she sat in the back of "Lightning McQueen" (that's what she calls my mom's red jetta) talking about how silly/funny she was.

Ask her what she wants to be for Halloween and she'll say something off the wall like a scary chicken, but then say, "no, how about a ghost." My mom spent Monday evening playing EMT with her new fire engine. She yanked Mr. Potato Head's arms off and proceeded to exclaim that he was hurt and needed to go to the hospital. After her toy fire engine got him to the hospital, she put his arms back on (backwards) and said he was all better. When my mom pointed out that his arms were on backwards she just stated that it was okay, he just needed a band-aid.

Her newest obsession is Halloween. We took her to the Halloween store that recently opened for the season and she loved it. She ran around from item to item exclaiming how "scary" everything was and giggling nervously. Really, it's how she says the word "scary".  It's not just scary, it's scaaaawy. And recently everything scary needs blood. We have no idea where this came from. But she was helping put Halloween window clings up at my mom's house and kept saying she needed "bloooood". And again, it's how she says blood. You'd have to hear it. But now the pumpkins on the window need blood, the ghosts need blood, and everything else you can think of needs blood. She's crazy.

We recently introduced her to the joys of play-doh. We've had a can of it forever, but had forgotten about it until a few weeks ago. Of course playing play-doh with her consists of us molding dinosaurs or balloons or whatever her little brain comes up with while she watches, but it's still fun. This week we dug out the cookie cutters and she just told us what shapes to make the dough into. But then she didn't want to destroy any of "her" creations, so it took some coaxing after we ran out of dough to mess things up to make new things.

I told you she was awesome. Even her shirt knows it.

Fish Face

The decided to make a "turd" for the doggie

Pointing out the doggie's turd. They're not right...