LI'l Bee

Lily is due home from her grandparents house today. I'm eager to see the little minx, even though I know after about an hour, I'll be ready to send her back. Haha. Bad mommy, I know.

I'm very grateful that my boyfriend's parents are willing to take her for a weekend a month, sometimes more if we need it. Its nice to know we have time to get things done. See, Lily is still very attached to me. VERY attached. I recently had a friend over this weekend, Abby (with Noah and Micah), and watching Noah and how good he was at entertaining himself made me realize how clingy that Lily is. Its not necessarily a bad thing, but a pain in the butt when you are trying to get things done.

Noah will take his mom's iphone and play games on it. He'll run around like a heathen, completely ignoring us. Lily....well, Lily needs mommy or daddy. Pretty constantly. She's getting better at it when it comes to watching Dora, but that's about it. She rarely plays on her own, she needs us to play with her. When she's eating, most mealtimes end with pleas for hugs and washing her hands. She doesn't like to go to bed on her own. We generally only get little 5 minute snatches throughout the day of Lily not needing us for something. Luckily, we both love playing with her.

We're hopefully moving this weekend, and getting a dog not long after that. I'm looking forward to having the dog. I think a dog is vastly different from a cat, and Lily will hopefully fall in love with it and be able to spend more time with it and leaving us to get things done.

We're looking at getting a boxer pup. It seems to be one of the best breeds for children. We're going to do everything possible to make sure Lily and the dog develop a strong bond. We already know we're going to end up taking the dog out on like six walks a day. At my boyfriend's house, she LOVES taking their dog on a walk.

I think a dog will be a welcome part of the family very easily. Not to mention I just plain out like dogs better. I love Posey, but I don't like him very much half the time! Haha.

I am so, so blessed that Lily has found that magic number with her medicine. That she's doing so much better. I love that I can 'race' her for a half block or so. That, even though it drives me nuts at times, she's always wanting to go to the playground. That she wants to be outside and playing. (Yay for a fenced in backyard where mommy can sit on the porch occasionally and let Lily run around safely in the grass!) She already has a tricycle. We're looking to get her a little slide because she adores the slides at the playgrounds. She'll have a big room to herself that we can set up to be the ultimate indoor play area. Not to mention the three season room on the back where she can play even when its raining.

My daughter is the light of my life, and I'm so glad things seem to be going in a direction where I can truly give her a good life. =)