Dinner and playing with more Chicago relatives

Lily realized she could make a funny noise if she squeezed her hands together after she got some sweet potato puree in them. She thought it was really funny. Excuse her messy face, she really gets into her dinner, especially now that she can eat a lot of things on her own.



Everyone knows that Lily loves her blanket. This was a sarong that I started using as a nursing cover up while we were in Maui since it's more lightweight than a regular blanket and it was really hot in Maui. Ever since then she's been attached to it. After the trip I cut it up into 3 different blankets for her. She always sleeps with one of them. She likes to squeeze it in her hands, shove it in her face and chew on it. She'll often carry it around in her mouth like a puppy. This particular evening we had come home after work and daycare and she was a little tired. I gave her one of the blankets and she was laying on the floor with it. I thought the couch was a better place to lay so I put her up there and she was rolling around with the blanket. That is until she got distracted trying to get to something on the table.

On Valentine's Day we went over to cousin Harriet and Kay's house for a family barbecue. The Zagorin family and Lily great-great aunt and uncle Beverly and Jake were in town from Chicago. They had never met Lily and we actually had never met the two Zagorin boys, Alex and Zack (even though they were 5 and 3). Much of the afternoon was spent with Lily crawling around on the ground after the dogs and Zack crawling around after Lily. The kids were quite fond of each other--the dogs, not so much.
You can kind of see Krissy (the dog) behind Lily.

Zack must be explaining something to Lily. They raced across the floor.

Lily made this face un-prompted after she saw I had the camera.