Trying to master skills

Here lately Lily has been working with eating utensils and using some of those fine motor skills. Lily has been eating table foods on her own since she was about 10mos old and mainly because she didn't like us to spoon it for her. It's safe to say the stubborn independence comes from her Mama. The learning process was very messy but the hand shoveling technique has been master for quite a while. The fork and spoon is interesting to watch but she is getting the hang of it more and more each day. And after sounding like a broke record, Lily now puts her arms out or up when I ask if she's "All done eating?"


Back to the fine motor skills.....Lily did some arts and crafts for her Aunt Katie's birthday - PAINTING. She didn't tell me how it tasted but the blue and purple were licked several times. Later that day the family came over for some pizza and cake to celebrate. Of course there were babies everywhere. Lily and Josie even shared a bath before their bedtime.



Her Daddy has been working crazy long hours - both days and nights, so she hasn't seen him much in the past week and a half. Today was his first whole day off that he was home and not sleeping. They spent the whole day together and when I mean "together" you can tell in the picture below what I mean.


OHHHH and I can't forget to mention Lily's most recent accomplishment. We ditched the "Nuk"/pacifier. We only had one day of tears and it has been a week without- I'LL TAKE IT! I went ahead and threw them in the trash so there was no going back.