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Well, I have not blogged since returning from China. LiLi is blossoming more and more every day. She has learned to combat crawl and sometime to crawl on all fours, pull to a stand, cruise on furniture and is beginning to let go when standing and seeing how long she can stand without support. It is so much fun to watch her. She is also babbling up a storm and repeating sounds although no specific words as of yet.

I have been meaning to make this blog entry since April as a thank you to Aunt Brett for all the creations she has made for us. Actually, I have called her on numerous occassions with ideas and the response has been quick. LiLi needed some hair clips and then we had them in a couple of days. Of course, all she does now is let you put them in her hair and then she immediately pullls them out again(along with some hair) and smilingly hands it back to you. I do not have the attention span to keep putting them back into her hair so most of the time she is not wearing a clip. Many of Aunt Brett’s other creations, we use often and even daily like her quilt and her diaper bag or wear frequently like the onsies with the frog and the turtle and the shirt with the pear. Therefore, as a thank you to her Aunt, we took LiLi and all of her Aunt Brett’s creations and took some pictures of her with them. Aunt Brett’s website is the lime llama link.

Thank you Aunt Brett!!!!

The 21st century’s greatest mural painter, as far as we know, came for a visit over Easter weekend. Sara Lee had been chomping at the bit to come for a visit and this was the first weekend it worked for her schedule.

We love having Sara Lee come for a visit because she is just so much fun. The big news is that Sara Lee has started her business painting murals. www.saraleemurals.com She designed the website herself with some help from friends. So if you know anyone who wants a custom mural, of any size, send her an email. She’ll travel anywhere from her homebase in NYC – so don’t let distance be an issue.

Of course it was Easter Weekend and Passover. Our next door neighbors have a traditional egghunt every year and even though their boys ages are 23, 22, 18, and 16 they don’t let that stop them. Although the oldest is in Peru so it was the three “youngest” who battled it out this year. The egghunt has evolved into a full-contact scramble complete with hip-checks, stiff-arms and just plain shoving all for the coveted Pink Egg with the $5 bill inside

The start came a little earlier than usual because the squirrels seem to like plastic eggs stuffed with chocolate – 3 eggs were lost to the squirrels before the hunt began.

As you can tell this is no eggunt for the timid. Here Catherine stands back protecting Li Li from the crush of hunters, you can even see a little purple egg about to be plucked.

The boys were gracious though and gave Li Li her very own egg since she wasn’t ready to compete this year. She enjoyed playing with it with Sara Lee’s help. No chocolate for her this year though, she’ll have to wait to acquire that particular addiction.

Bath Update

For those who remember Li Li’s particular aversion to bathing she has recently begun to enjoy the experience. Here she beams her 100-watt smile stage left to her mother.

She’s a toy hoarder in the bath. She likes to have all of her toys within arms reach. That’s all for now. Hopefully we’ll be able to get more photos up shortly. -t