2 1/2 already?

Today Lily turns 2 1/2 year old. This is so hard to believe. Time really does fly and it's hard to even envision that my little baby will be 3 in 6 months. I got this idea to write about Lily's accomplishments and things she can do at 2 1/2 from Allikaye's mom at "Raising Allikaye."

So here goes, a long list all about Lily. I hope that I can save this so she can look back one day and read how proud we are of her.

She is so full of life. She loves to play, run, jump, and dance. Such an active little girl. We are always chasing her.

There isn't much that she is scare of well except for lizards, frogs, and snakes, but her mommy made her that way. She will try anything once and definitely isn't scared of heights. Watch this video of her jumping on this huge trampoline thing in our local mall.

If there is a mudhole or water outside, she is in it. She loves to be outside and begs us every day when we get home to stay outside. Just look at this picture of her a couple of days ago. She dressed herself in one of her dance leotards and decided she wanted to go run through the water holes from the rain. (Excuse the poor quality, some pics/videos were taken with my phone.)

However she has been scared of thunder lately and she puts your hands on her ears and runs inside to get away from the “rain.” We have to work on this!

She is such a girly girl and yet not such a girly girl at the same time. She loves to play dress up in her girly dresses with the high heel shoes and make-up, but then she loves to run around in nothing but her diaper and with her hair falling all in her face covered in dirt and building castles in the driveway.

She is a great mommy to all of her baby dolls. Taking such good care of them. I love to watch her play with her babies. She has recently developed a love for Barbies. She is so incredibly smart! She remember sthings that we only tell her once. She knows her ABC’s and can recognize some numbers, letters, shapes, and most colors, even though she sometimes claims that most things are “pink.” Her vocabulary and sentences are amazing. She speaks so clearly and I cannot think of a common word that she cannot say or don’t use. Some of my favorite sayings and things that she has said include:

“I can’t want that”

“I not need a nap”

“Not by my chin-chin-chin”

“I have a problem”

“I had an accident”

“I ready for bed”

“Cheese-cackers” – (loves Cheese in a Can and Chicken in a Biscuit crackers)

“Move people. I need my burger.” (in the drive-thru at McDonalds when people are in front of us.”

"Mommy, I like your crown" - referring to my headband in my hair

“Mommy, I need a snack”The list could go on and on.. She make us laugh so often with things tsay that I cannot keep up with everything.

She loves nursery rhymes and songs. She can sing everything like“Happy and Know Its (If You're Happy and You know it),” “Happy Birthday,” “Itsy-Bitsy Spider,” “Mary had a Little Lamb,” “Row, Row your Boat,” "B-I-N-G-O," and on and on...

She is also so very bossy, but we wouldn’t have her any other way except sometimes her bossiness gets her in trouble.

She love, love, loves to dance especially with her daddy. She keeps mommy laughing all of the time with her constant new dance moves. Check out this video of them dancing over the past weekend. They are both a mess!

She still isn't potty-trained. We are working on this, too, but well, mission not successful yet! Getting there eventually!

She loves food. Some of her favorite foods are anything with pasta, noodles, brown gravy, loaf bread, bacon, ketchup, “puffies” “ritos (Doritos)," "ponies( My Little Pony Fruit Snacks)" and Happy Meals, but who could forget Tacos! I know, I know really healthy..but it could be worse..

She is definitely not perfect and sometimes misbehaves, but she still believes she really is a princess and we plan on keeping it that way as long as we can.