Our Forever Princess!

My boss' son always picks with me about Lily and says, "what will she do when she finds out she's not a real princess?"

We always laugh about this question because Lily is treated like a Princess and probably does think she is a Princess. She loves to dress up like one, and the funniest thing is she calls headbands - "Crowns."

I saw these books in our local Christian bookstore and I got to thinking about this one day, and you know what, Lily will never find out she's not a Princess because she is a REAL princess. She is the daughter of the greatest King of all.

Isn't that the greatest gift ever? I can't wait to buy Lily some of these books and teach Lily more about being a child of Christ.



Speaking of our Princess, this is how her daddy dressed her after her bath for supper the other night. "A true Princess must wear her crown at all times"



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Show Us Your Birthday Parties - Lily's 1st Birthday - Princess Style

Kelly at Kelly's Korner is having a special spotlight on children's birthday parties today on her blog. I absolutely love planning Lily's parties each year. I am already starting to plan her 3rd party and I was so excited to get to blog about her parties.

Her first party was a big one. It was great and went perfect. I always knew I wanted to have her a Princess party because she was our little princess.

We ordered her party supplies from Birthday Express and picked up coordination decoration at several party supply stores in our area. This was Lily's invitation. (You can click it to see larger.

I made these myself and thought they turned out cute!

I borrowed a huge tent from the company I work for and we went wild with lots of balloons and decorations.



Here is the cake and some of the desserts that I served. I loved, loved, loved her cakes. I had found a picture online and a local lady made them. They were wonderful!

The birthday girl and her cake. I found a dress with a 1 on it that match perfectly.

Centerpieces on each table


One of the food tables, the gift table, and the favor table. (I did crowns for the girls and swords for the boys. I also made personalized Hershey square wrappers for bite sized candies.)
It was very windy so the tablesclothes did not want to behave.

Balloons in the center of the tent


Lily's High Chair


Extra decorations on our deck

There was so many details that I am leaving out, but this is a taste of the great party that was Lily's 1st Birthday. We had over 50 guests and it was a wonderful day!

Watch next for Lily's 2nd Birthday to be added soon.

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.