BABY DOLL NAMES

Over this past weekend Jillian named one of her babies.  This is the first time she has ever called one of her dolls anything but baby.  The first one to be named was baby Lila (after one of our friends little girls :)).  She has two dolls that are essentially the same so when we got the second one out she named it as well.  The 2nd baby doll to be named is baby Hannah.  I believe she named her after my cousin's baby, but who really knows.

(12-5-11) Baby Lila & baby Hannah

(12-5-11) Here is my attempt at a video to get her talking about her baby names.  Here I was saying how she didn't tend to get them confused, but in this video she is briefly referring to baby Lila as Hannah, but she was also wanting to sit in my lap to look at the picture I had just taken of her baby dolls.  She thought that was very cool :).

OCTOBER 2011

So I'm not very good at staying on top of my blogging.. But here are some of the fun things we did in October.  We made a couple of trips to Appleworks.  Jillian loved riding the ponies and the little train they had there.  She also loved the petting zoo with all the animals.  The first time we went there we went with Aunt Susie, Uncle GP, and GP's two nieces.  The second time we went to Apple works we went with Sarah, Amy, Adam, Candi, Chase, Alyssia, and Eva.

 Amy, Jillian, Chase, & Eva @ Appleworks

Jillian @ Appleworks - she loved ridding the little train 

Jillian @ Appleworks petting zoo

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Also in October is the Pumpkin carving party.  This year to go along with Jillian's costume of a pig I carved a pig pumpkin.  I think it turned out really well. 

Annual pumpkin carving party - Jillian with my pig pumpkin

FUN STUFF IN SEPT 2011

PURSES

Jillian carrying around mommy's purse.  She will tell you it is heavy!

She is helping mommy shop for a new purse. The old one got ruined so we had to go shopping.  She liked these two :).

PARK

 (09-15-11) Playing at the park.  It was very windy!

(09-15-11) Swinging at the park. She only wanted to swing for a few seconds then she had other things to do.



(09-15-11) Jillian can make this chair spin pretty fast herself if you get her started.  She loves to spin, so I like this chair at the park so I don't also have to sping in circles all the time.

(09-5-11) Jillaian got to ride a pony at the family palooza in Jeffersonville.

AUGUST STUFF 2011

8-23-11 - JILLIAN STORY FROM HER MEEMAW
Jillian loves to push buttons, including ones she isn't allowed to of course.  She was attempting to push a button on her meemaw's uverse box and was told NO a few times before she walked away.  She then went and got her baby doll and held it's hand up to push the button.  As she was doing this she corrected her baby and told her NO.  Too funny!!

8-22-11 LUNCH
Jillian was sitting at lunch with us and just randomly counted from 1 to 4.  When asked to repeat this she acted shy and refused.  Then later she said 3..4..5  I wasn't aware she could count.  She will sometimes say "2" after you say "1" or "3" after you say 2.. but not consistenly.  Maybe counting the ladybugs in her book seemingly hundreds of times has paid off.

Newest Jillian response.  She says "OH YES" or "OH YEAH"  both of which I think are pretty funny.  Not really sure where she got this from.  One would think maybe she saw the KOOL AID guy break through a wall or something, but we hardly watch commercials on tv (we are spoiled by DVR).

8-20-11 BOLT'E BABY SHOWER/PARTY

Jillian had lots of fun playing with "Nolie" (Enola) at the party.  They were having fun standing on the fireplace step and banging on the gril thingy since it made noise.  Jillian was bossing Enola around alittle bit because she wanted her to come sit down next to her.  Later in the evening Enola grabbed Jillian by the hand and took her for a walk across the dinning room.  It is fun to see these two enteract more as they get older :).

FUN WITH CORN

(07-31-11) Jillian helping fill freezer boxes with corn from gma & gpa's garden.  She really did pretty good at getting corn in the box.  She had to have a bite every now and then ;).

(07-29-11) Jillian eating corn on the cob for the first time.  I think she likes it.  Watch how big she opens her mouth up for a bite :).

Baby doll

(07-27-11) Jilly feeding her baby doll a bottle

She loves to play with her baby.  She will give you a blanket and "help" you wrap the baby up in it.  Shortly following she will manage to get her unwrapped then bring you the blanket again to wrap her up again.  I have caught her rocking her baby, also bouncy her and saying "shh, shh shh."  Too cute, such a little mommy.  Oh and lets not forget the all important stroller.  She pushes her baby around in this quite a bit as well.

MESS!

(07-17-11) Jillian eating spaghetti o's

Jillian loves to look at pictures on our cell phones.  When this one comes up in the rotation she always says "mess!, mess!"  She doesn't seem to like messes and it is pretty funny.  Along with this she doesn't like her hands to be dirty.  It can be the tiniest spec and she isn't happy till you get it off.  She will tolerate stuff on her hands while eating, but she usually requests we wipe them off a couple of times while she is eating.  Silly girl!

Not liking messes is just about her hands.  The magnets on the fridge got knocked off to the floor while playing.  When she came back to them later she declared "mess!"  I did get her to help me clean it up.  That is a good skill to learn :).

FUN AT THE FAIR

 (07-13-11) Jillian hanging out at the Pork Producers stand.

 (07-14-11) Jillian & Meemaw checking out the calf.  She really liked looking at the animals.

(07-14-11) Jillian & Papaw checking out the piggies.  She was surrounded by piggies and kept trying to point them all out.

Jillian did well riding in her stroller at the fair.  There isn't a whole lot of food at the fair that she will eat just yet.  She ate applesauce and french fries.  She of course loved the treats she got a few bites of funnel cake and of course some ice cream.

Wednesday was my dad's day to run the Pork stand at the fair.  I did go out with Jillian and we helped a little bit.  I handed out drinks for a while at lunch while holding Jillian.  At dinner I filled ice in cups while holding Jillian.  She did pretty well with this.  After I had been standing there with her for a while filling drinks she said "all done".  Shortly after this my replacement came in and Jillian and I got to leave the stand. 

PU Friends

 (07-09-11) Jillian holding Mia.  She loved this and kept wanting to hold the poor dog.  Mia was good, but did get tired of it and wanted nothing more to do with this little person holding her.

(07-09-11) Amy & Jillian about to slide.  Probably the best picture we have gotten of the 2 of them in a long while.  They are too wiggly otherwise!

 (07-10-11) Jillian & Amy

 (07-10-11) Jillian & Amy - Amy was bringing Jillian all of the animals from her Lego sets.

 (07-10-11) Jillian playing the piano.  Both girls were playing but Amy was sure to escape before I could get a picture!

(07-10-11) Jillian talking on my phone.  She loves to walk around saying "hello" but if there is really someone on the other end she doesn't seem to want to have anything to do with it. 

Our weekend of visiting started with Andrea meeting us for lunch in Columbus.  From there we headed down to Sarah & Craig's new house in Clarksville.  After learning that Andrea is expecting her first child in Jan 2012 we went to babies r us to help her select items for her registry. 

Jillian and Amy did well playing together.  Jillian is very possessive of her baby doll and her stroller.  She didn't want Amy to touch those items.  She also really loves Amy's mini recliner chair and didn't seem to want Amy to use it either.  It is hard learning how to share!  We did take the girls to a park which they both really enjoyed. 

We came back Sunday afternoon and Jillian and I took Andrea to the Motherhood maternity outlet where she got some cute clothes she is going to need pretty shortly.  From there we headed out to the County Fair for some yummy food. 

The next morning (Monday morning) when Jillian woke up she was asking form "Mamy".  (That is how she says Amy).  It was pretty cute.

(7-2011) Jillian playing with her baby.

4TH OF JULY

(07-02-11) JILLIAN

For the 4th of July weekend we went to a party at my cousins house.  The little kiddos loved running around on the trampoline.  It was nice for the mommies to because it was a netted area and so we could safely just sit and watch them play for the most part. 

When it came time for the fireworks... well Jillian hated them!  She was terrified of the loud noise they made.  We spent that time safely inside the house.

SLEEPING!!

SLEEPING



(04-30-11) Jillian snoozing in the car



In the last week Jillian has been making great strides in the sleeping department.  She has finally started consistantly sleeping for 5 hours without waking.  She used to do only 4 most of the time.  Also she is learning how to get herself back to sleep.  For those who don't know we did try the fuss it out method when she was younger, but she would get so upset she would vomit.  Therefore for the longest time she made mommy and daddy very nervous to let her cry to long without getting her. Something about finding her asleep in a pile of vomit...  She is no longer doing this in fact last night we heard her stir around 3 am and only fussed a tiny bit.  I"m guessing she found herself one of the many pacifiers that lined her crib.  We didn't hear from her again until nearly 7 this morning.  It has been nice getting consecutive hours of sleep!

 BUSY WEEKEND

This weekend was busy with playing and visiting.  Friday night we went to Brian and Anna's to celebrate mother's day with them. Jillian had fun playing with her big cousin Benjamin :).  On Saturday morning we hit up some garage sales, followed by lunch with Rick's parents.  We went on a walk around the neighborhood and even took Jillian to the little park at Grace Lutheran Church. Saturday evening Rick went out with the boys for a Bachlor party, a little while later Jess went out to a comedy club with the girls for the bachlorette party. Jillian went to hang out with her meemaw. She ended up staying the night there.  This is the first time Jillian has ever stayed over night anywhere.  She did OK.. but did wake up pretty frequently.  She knew it was different.   Boy where mommy and daddy glad to see her the next morning, but not too early since we slept in after being up till 2am!

(05-15-11) Jillian in her new "car"

 

The car was the best garage sale find of the day.  I found a few clothes and some cute rain boots.  I did also manage to snag a booster seat.  She has really liked playing in Amy's car so she knew jsut what to do with this one.

SHOPPING BUDDIES

 (04-20-11) Jillian & Chase - ready to help their mommies shop :)

(04-20-11) Chase & Jillian - hey whatcha doing back/up there?!

This double stoller cart at Kohl's is quite challenging to move around the store in. It would help if the wheels would turn properly.  2nd problem is the length of this cart.  There are places that I had to back it out of cause I couldn't turn the corners. 

The mommies had a fun time shopping, the kiddos well sorta ;).  Jillian likes to walk all around the store and neither wants to sit in the stroller for too long.  But overall they are very helpful shoppers :).

COME WITH ME

(04-16-11) Jillian carrying around her baby doll. She does this a lot :) This is the proper way to carry a baby right ;)..?

(04-17-11) What'cha doing? Let me have the phone!

Jillian has starting coming up to me and reaching out for my hand so she can lead me places.  It is pretty cute.  She doesn't seem to have a destination in mind.  I think she finds it fun that she can make mommy get up and follow her.  If I am sitting and she wants me to go with her she will grab my hand and tug on it with all her might to get me up.  This so reminds me of what I would do to my daddios all the time when I was younger.

JILLY MONSTER

(4-12-11) Jillian yogurt face

(04-9-11) Chase messing with Jillian's bow

Jillian is learning to feed herself with spoons and even a fork.  She isn't very good at getting the food onto the spoon or fork, but if you put it on for her she can get it to her mouth. It might be a tad messy, which I should point out she seems to like!

Her favorite word is doggie and saying woof, woof.  Hers is more like a little uff, uff or something, but it is very cute.  She also loves to say Kitty, but we are having trouble getting her to say meow.  Probably cause our dogs bark (esp Sarge) and the cat is normally quiet.

Nicknames: Jillian has a few cute nicknames.  She will probably dislike most of these when she gets older, but for now she doesn't care. Jilly, Jilly Monster, Beetle Bug... probably others we call her but that is all the comes to mind right now.

Sunny Days!

(03-17-11) Jillian

(03-17-11) Crawling through a tunnel.

(3-17-11) Swinging with her buddy Chase :)

We have started to have a few nice days and have been taking advantage and been playing outside. There is a little playground within walking distance to our house so we have gone there a few times to play. When we got back from the playground this day I took Jillian out of the stroller and she walked back over and wanted back in. She loves to be outside!

(3-17-11) Video of the kiddos swinging. I love how Chase is kicking his little legs!

1 Year old already!?!

Happy 1st Birthday to our Princess Jillian!

Wearing her special bib

Playing with her cake, since she really wasn't interested in eating any of it. I got her to taste the icing and a bit of cake but she didn't want anything to do with it.

Here she is reaching for me to get her out of her high chair. She didn't understand why I wouldn't just pick her up right away. Had to tackle those hands with a few paper towels.

Messing with the fridge magnets. One of her favorite things to do. She also really enjoys the fridge door to be open so she can explore what is in there.

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Jillian had a wonderful 1st Birthday party full of lots of family and friends! She was a very lucky girl and got many gifts. She says thank you to everyone for her presents. She already likes clothes and as her auntie Tracie says we are so in "trouble".

For her first birthday her mommy and daddy got her a very cool school bus/slide toy. She is into climbing on anything she can so now she has something that is made for that. She has figured out quickly how to climb in and has even managed to go down the slide on her own a few times. She already wants to climb up the slide instead of walking around to the steps. She is able to make it up to the top by climbing up the slide assuming she has no socks on.

The slide

Jillian climbing up. Excuse the whinning.. she just wanted my phone!

11 Months Old

Jillian is finally starting to get teeth! She has one so far that has broken through the surface and boy is it sharp! When you look in her mouth (on the rare occasion she will let you..) you can see there are more teeth working on coming in.

Her favorite thing to do right now is to be walked around. She can crawl but would by far prefer for you to hold her hands and walk around. She is able to stand for a few seconds at a time. Usually she can stand longer if she doesn't realise she is doing it.

(12-15-10 Jilly playing with Sarge)

Her next favorite thing to do is pick on the animals. Tito (our big white dog) just gets up and walks away. Sarge is really good with her and tolerates her messing with him for quite some time but he too tires of her and gets up and walks away. The funniest thing to us is when the dogs get up and walk away from her and she cries. Sounds mean but you would have to see it. Then there is our cat. She loves Kramer! Can't say the cat shares the same affection. He typically runs from her. Can't say that I blame him.

(1-17-11 "washing dishes")

Jillian likes to help mommy wash dishes. This is only because she is allowed to play in my dishwater and splash it around. She does randomly drop items back in the dishwater that I have just washed. Guess she is trying to tell me I didn't wash them very well ;). Last night she tried to escape out of the sink and crawl onto the counter.. That isn't going to work so well...

SMART LITTLE COOKIE

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(12-10-10 Jillian being a little stinker getting in the water dish)

She loves to get into the dogs water dish. As I mentioned before we try to have it blocked off by a chair or two. She recently discovered she could pull the chair away on the tile to get to the water dish. Little stinker!

She doesn't like to let mommy shower.. so I let her stand on the outside of the tub where she can see me. Our shower has a sliding door on it and she figured out she can push it all the way open.. Mommy was not amused. I would tell her no and she just smiles and/or laughs at me. Daddy did finally come in and rescue me. It was hard to keep the shower door closed because even if I close it all the way she still knows how to slide it open. Also a little hard to shower when you are holding the door closed. Don't know about you but I found it rather hard to wash my hair with one hand.
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(1-17-11 Jillian splashing in the sink)