An Earthquake and Hurricane Irene

Within a week, Lily experienced her first earthquake and hurricane.  The earthquake happened when she was at school on Tuesday, August 23rd.  Just some lightly shaking ground, everyone was fine and it was kind of cool to experience.  Four days later the east coast experienced a crazy hurricane, named Irene.  We were in the path of this girl so we stocked up on non-perishables, bought a generator (finally!) and hunkered in for the weekend.  We lost power for about 24 hours but Daddy worked his generator magic and brought Mickey and Elmo back to life on TV.  PHEW!  Lily really liked the hurricane, all of her outside toys came inside to play and she got 200% of Mom and Dad's attention. Lucky for us, Irene just blew down a few branches and we're going to get a head start on our fall leaf collection. 

Reading Elmo with Dad

SO EXCITED THE SLIDE IS INSIDE!!!! (she went down it about 700 times!)



701st time down...

 

I knew those Trader Joe's bags would come in handy.  Time to color!

Post Irene sandbox inspection

All is well in the sandbox...phew.

"Yes Mom, I AM SO BIG.  Now please for the love of God, stop asking me this question."  I think we're taking a break from the "How big is Lily" game.  :-)

We're headed to 'da Burgh tomorrow for a long weekend with the whole Bozic clan.  Lots of pictures to come!!

Just Beachy

Last weekend we packed up the car and headed to Manasquan with Grammy Louise, Aunt Briana, Uncle Brett and Uncle Tony.  We had beautiful weather and an even better time. Lily loved the beach, the sand and playground equipment. 

Lily has grown up immensely in the last few days.  She talks to us and answers our questions.  (We can't exactly make out what she is saying, but she's trying!) 

Bag lady.

Sooo big!

Pig tails!

Lily loves her Daddy

Swinging at the beach

Playing peek-a-boo with Grammy

There she is!

We visited the doggie beach park so Guster could play.  Lily loved seeing all of the dogs!

The water was chili!

Then we had ice cream! Lily loved every bit!

Uncle Brett played with Lily in the sand.

She giggled and loved it!!!

Swinging with Aunt Briana on the beach!

Hanging out with the guys before dinner.

Up close and personal Bozic family portrait. 

Busy lady

Lily has been one busy lady the past few days.  Our weekend was packed full of fun stuff.  Outside fun, a carnival, the zoo, incorporated a new hair accessory into the mix, dancing  and a surprise! 

Friday afternoon, Grammy Louise came over for dinner with Uncle Brett.  Lily had a ball playing in the pool, "watering" Guster (Grammy's dog) and Mom's flowers and playing on the driveway. 

Filling up the pool!  Such a big help!

Smile!

Wee!! Fun in the red car!

Watering Guster!

Saturday, Lily went to her first carnival at SAP!  (Thanks, Pops for letting us crash the party!)  She was too young to ride any of the rides but the Pirates and Mermaids theme was very fun and Lily got some new bead to replace her tattered leis from Kansas City.  She had fun dressing up as a princess and seeing Ba, Pops, Kait and Jack.  We also ran into so many of Lily's school friends and their parents at the carnival too.  So fun!!

Pops and his little lady.

Uncle Brett got Lily addicted to funnel cake.

Mermaid beads!!

Loving the crown.

Daddy, Princess Lily, Mommy.

Kait, Pops, Daddy and Princess Lily.

Carnival fun!

Finally, on Sunday, we woke up early and went to the zoo!  We saw turtles, giraffes and spent a lot of time in the petting zoo.  Lily LOVED feeding the ducks.  She kept saying, "Ack, ack, ack!" She wasn't so sure about the goats or cows up close but the "acks" were fun!

Turtles!

Another new development....First ponytail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Such a beautiful girl. 

We call this one, "The Daddy Horse".  She pulled Daddy around the house with her beads...hysterically laughing the whole time!

Daddy's little girl

Daddy singing while Lily danced.

She had to try playing!

Surprise, Aunt Briana and Uncle Tony got engaged!!! Congratulations!!! We are so excited!!!  Now, more importantly, when will Lily FINALLY get a cousin!? :) 

Grandma and Grandpap Visit!

We were lucky enough to spend a long weekend with Grandma and Grandpap Bozic last weekend. We all had a great time, especially Lily! We spent a lot of time outside enjoying the weather and playing with Lily.

Lily has a new tooth, bringing her total up to 12. Let's hope we get a few weeks off before the next set!!

Pool time!

She found a shoe....trying to figure out who it belongs to....

It's Grandpaps'!!!

Wagon ride with Grandma.

More pool time.  She loves, loves, loves the water!

Beep, beep!

Rockin' on the horse.

Out and about in Media.  She spotted Mickey!!!

Pit stop on a comfy looking step.

 

Goofy girl in the restaurant.  She made us all laugh and made a lot of friends!

We visited the Tot Lot after dinner since Lily was good at dinner.  She was showing off to G&G Bozic. :)

So happy.



Miss Independent, walking back from the Tot Lot.



More goofing around.



Silly face time with Grandpap.

Time for books with Dad.

Bedtime.  Blowing kisses to us all!!