Changes

I was talking with my friend the other night, babbling really. We're both moving on to new chapters in our life. I just kept talking about turning pages or anything I could to keep off my mind off the fact that she's moving 1200 miles away and I won't see her or her boys for a while. Selfishly, that sucks balls. Being a good friend, I know she's doing what she needs to do and for that I salute her bravery.

 It takes unbelievable bravery to change everything you know and are used to, to make that hard decision and know that you're doing the right thing.

Thankfully for us, technology makes it incredibly easy to keep in touch across the many miles that will separate us.  Anyways, so I stop blubbering like a damn idiot sitting here by myself, I will move on to other things.

I changed the name of the blog and I'm really digging it. I'm hoping it will motivate me to update this more often.

[Lily] So every few months I obsess over whether Lily is hitting her milestones. I can tell myself all the time that kids will develop at their own rate and yet I still obsess.

 

So right now I'm obsessing about her speech. She really only says two things "All Done" (which is cool that she puts two words together) and "Hi" (She's really good at this!). Everything that I've read says she should be saying AT LEAST 10 words by 18 months, which means she still has a few months and a million things could change but it's something that I want to work with her on more closely.

 

She does sign a few more things. She's signing "please" and we're working on "Thank You". I say these words every time I sign them so she's getting the English as well as the sign language. I want to continue to learn more and teach her more at the same time as we're learning English because it's never a bad skill to have. I've said it enough times, why I can't accept it I don't know, "She'll get there when she gets there and not a moment sooner."

 

She really is so smart though, she's just not verbalizing everything. She can understand basic commands very well. We were over at my friends and her son was coloring in his highchair and he dropped some of his colored pencils. I said "Lily, can you please give that colored pencil back to Spencer?" She definitely had a moment of struggle with this, as what she really wanted to do was put it in her mouth and go play. She hesitatingly reached up and Spencer reached out, and she quickly changed her mind. I repeated myself, hoping that she'd do it again. SHE DID! She actually gave it to him this time. Go LILY!

 

 

 

It's amazing how much she changes all the time. Her bright blue eyes are one thing that hasn't changed, and for that I'm glad. She's such a gorgeous girl, she takes my breath away.

xoxo Shannon xoxo