We're back!

After 3 weeks, we are back!  And Lily is as amazing as ever.  In the past three weeks, Lily has become an expert cleaner, talker and all around grown up. Brian and I have been feeling pretty nostalgic about our once helpless little Lily becoming (in our eyes), the world's most independent toddler. She loves to help Mom clean now, by following me around with a paper towel, wiping things down then going off on her own to clean her toys.  She doesn't like to be held any more (THE SADDEST THING EVER!!) and has to walk everywhere.

Last weekend, Grandma and Grandpap Bozic as well as Aunt Krissy and Simone came to visit.  We had a BLAST!  Lily loved having a "woof" to play with in the yard and loved the everlasting attention she got for 3 1/2 full days. 

Like Mother, like daughter...boy did Daddy luck out.  :)

Cleaning Elmo

Fridge matching game with Aunt Krissy.

Grandpap!

Sharing her ball with Grandma.

Breakfast kisses.

Beautiful Aunt Krissy and Lily hanging out on the princess mat.

Dancin' to the alphabet song! She had us in stitches!!!

Morning stories with Grandpap.

Playing in the sandbox, pointing at the "woof", Simone.

 It was a great surprise to have Uncle Brett over for dinner for dinner last week as well.  Lily had a blast playing on her slide with Uncle Brett. 

  Our little ham.  Cheese!!!

Video Time! 
To preface the following videos, you need to know that Lily now LOVES the cats.  And the cats dont seem to mind her!! Our cats, for those who don't know, love to lay and sleep in boxes.  Any kind of boxes so when the last order of diapers and wipes arrived, the cats and Lily had a great time. The video's are split up below and are only a few seconds apart. The videos were taped on 9/9/11.

Click on the links below and enjoy!

Lily and the Box
Lily and the Box Part Deux

Bozic Family Vacation 2011

Labor day 2011 was a wonderful weekend spent in Pittsburgh with the entire Bozic clan, significant others and extended family.  Look out there are a lot, I mean A LOT of pictures!  We had so much fun and did so much around Pittsburgh.  Such a beautiful city!

The vacation started out early Thursday morning when Lily woke up and discovered the biggest Mickey Mouse on the planet in Grandma's living room.  Instant love.

Giant Mickey!

"Mom, it's too early for pictures"

Piano with Auntie A

 We left the house and went to Primanti's before Lily's first Pirates game.  She loved the fries!

Fries!

Lily Loves her Aunt Krissy

The Philadelphia Bozic's

#1 Dad

The Pittsburgh Bozic's! (plus Lily!)

Cheese face!!

So much fun going up and down the stairs.

Aunt Krissy has great hair!

Lily made the jumbo tron!!!

Our angel

Silly Lily

How can you not smile?

 The next morning, bright and early we were up and headed next door to the neighbors pool.  It was so fun!!  Later that afternoon, Aunt Jaeny surprised us all with a phone call from California telling us she was coming in for the weekend! We were so very excited to see her!!

Lily and Grandpap

Little fish!

Aunt A & Lily

Reading Good night moon....in the middle of the day...

"Playing" volleyball with the Bozic's

And and afternoon swim with Dad.

Mommy and Lily.

This lawn mower was Uncle Jeff's when he was little!

Later that night, a dance party was held.....this was post "California Love", pre- "Jump, Jump"....oye vey.

 Saturday, we took a Pittsburgh Gateway (boat) tour of the city.  It was beauuuutiful!!

Grandpap, A and Lily with a view of the city.

Lily was especially interested in the ducks as we left the boat!

 From the boat, we took the Duquesne Incline up to a gorgeous view of the city.

The whole clan!!!!!

 Sunday was the family picnic.  Lily "helped" by prepping the pond.

She loved sticking her feet in and splashing.

"Cheese" face.  So silly!

Uncle Wilf.  He's missing his beard this time...

2nd Cousin Heidi and Lily eating popsicles!

Playing with Aunt Jaeny

The train room!!!

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!!