Where's Lilly?

Have I mentioned how much fun Lilly and I have together these days? Despite the fact that almost daily she asks, "Lilly, school? Lilly, school?"she is not in any sort of school yet and I, for one, am SO glad. We have all sorts of conversations as we run errands and complete the mundane tasks that must be done around the house that she amazingly never seems to tire of.
For the last few weeks Lilly has been slowly understanding the concept of hiding. When I come to get her in the morning or from a nap as soon as I walk through the door she shouts, "Boo!" And, each morning as I put on makeup and do the other things girls do in the morning she stuffs herself into my closet and says, "Where's Lilly?"

Aren't those little red shoes and purse sticking out just SO precious!?!?

To which I have to respond worriedly, "Oh no, where's Lilly gone?!?!" "Boo!" she says excitedly as if it were the first time she'd done this. And then she repeats the whole process. I LOVE it. I mean, after awhile it does get old- but how long will she actually do this? Soon, as I've learned, she'll be on to other things. So I think I'll appreciate our silly games for now....thanks Lilly.

Our baby blowed up the microwave!

That's what my two older girls told at least 5 people yesterday on the way to Chelsea to buy a new microwave that Lilly did indeed "blow up". They got looks of sheer horror with their news, and while it wasn't quite as dramatic as they made it sound the microwave is indeed dead. Here's the evidence.....

I was cleaning the plates after dinner while Josh and the big girls sat at the table discussing the day (although I'm positive the scene was not actually as calm as I just described- my kids yell....constantly and about everything, regardless of what they're saying be it nice, mean or in between I can pretty much guarantee....they're yelling- whew, now I feel better that I've gotten that out!). Lilly was ambling about as usual, doing goodness know's what- when all the sudden I smell smoke. I whirl around to find smoke billowing out of our laundry room. I'm not sure what happened after that other than that Josh appeared out of nowhere (did you jump over the table, babe?!?!) grabs the microwave and flings the thing outside. The entire house smelled like burned plastic- and still does I think. Yuck.
So, now we have a new microwave. And little miss Lilly has strict instructions to never go near it....or at least put battery laden toys in it. We hope.

We're back!

Well, we made it back from the good ol' US of A yesterday and I have to say it was a pretty seamless trip! Amazingly Annie fell asleep for the first time EVER on an international flight- there may have been a little medicinal help (nothing too much though!)- but either way she and her mama felt MUCH better yesterday than we have in years past. I don't have anything ready for the blogosphere quite yet but thought I'd post this link from my mom's....