Sunday, January 18, 2009

Milestone after Milestone

Ben and I have been working with our "little flower" trying to get her to roll over. One day we realized that during all this time the only thing we had accomplished was discovering a new way to tick her of. (Now we can add that to an already endless list right next to wiping her nose.) So of course we gave up and left her on the floor next to her mountain of toys why we continued on with our mountain of chores. After a few minutes of cleaning there I stood scrubbing dishes when Nathan comes flying around the corner jumping up and down yelling "MOM YOU HAVE TO COME AND SEE THIS". "What is it Nathanial?" "YOU HAVE TO COME AND SEE!" he says again. So I dry my hands and reluctantly follow him to the living room. Once there I see that Lilli is no longer where we left her playing on the floor she instead is a good three feet across the room. With much excitement in my voice I ask "did she roll all the way over there?" "HER DID MOM HER DID!" he says, again why jumping up and down. At this point I'm both ecstatic she finally rolled over and disappointed that I missed it. So I ask Nathan to tell me how she did it. I wanted a detailed description. So I sat there anxiously waiting to vicariously relive the moment through the words of my 4 year old son. He pondered...................................................... After several seconds (that seemed like hours) his face lit up to reveal that he had finally found the perfect words to describe this amazing moment. He again began to jump up and down as he shouted "HER JUST ROLLED OVER, LIKE A BOWLING BALL!" UH........not exactly the narrative I was hoping for. I will admit though, that is a pretty good analogy for a 4 year old. However something tells me the image in my head and what he actually seen are quite different! Never the less Lilli has rolled over since then and is now pulling herself to a sitting position. This makes putting her to bed when she doesn't want to go really fun! I should also mention that Lilli now has her first tooth it is on the bottom left side. If I had to guess I would say the bottom right is not that far behind!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Though I'm not there for all her milestones. I love that I'm privledged enough to watch your Little Lilli bloom and grow. I can't wait to see what she does next.