Milestones!

First, it is hard to believe Lily is going to be 5 this weekend! How did time fly so quickly???? Of course, she is as cute as ever and continues to be our little firecracker!

Next, we met with Lily's teacher last weekend and she was telling us how super smart Lily is! I am so proud. Her teacher said she is already 3/4 of the way through kindergarten. Incredible! And she thinks that if she continues on this path she may have an opportunity to go to GT/magnet school in the future! Wow, these are the times, I wish her birth mom could see her!

Lily read me her first book this week! It was awesome! I was sooooo proud of her!!!! It's so exciting too! I can't wait for her to read to the new baby!

Lastly, it occurred to me that on the 25th of March...We had been home for 2.5 years and 1 day. We have been a forever family longer than we had been separated when she was in Guatemala!

Growth Update

Lily went to the doctor today for her once-a-year check-up. She is doing great! She is now officially 40 3/4 inches! I goofed though on her growth chart...I had her stuck for a long time now (I think since July 2010) at 42 inches. I guess that is what happens when the growth chart is not hung right or mommy measures wrong. I can't remember what percentile she was in before, but now she is in the 15-20th percentile. If I recall when she was younger it was more like the 5th and 10th percentile...so she is really growing!

Her weight is doing awesome too! She weighs 39.5 lbs and is in the 50th percentile! I had thought she already weighed 40 lbs so I had moved her out of her "baby" car seat, but I guess technically she still has a .5 to go! I told her she could go into the big girl's car seat when the new baby comes. No more 5-point harness...but a seat belt!

Our future scientist!

Lily has been very interested in anything scientific nowadays. She loves learning about animals and their patterns in nature. She spouts off random scientific facts like hibernation. She loves watching this PBS program online called Ruff, where they do all kinds of fun scientific experiments! I've lost track of all the cool things they teach her.

She also has become interested in doing addition. She loves adding numbers and challenging others to add two numbers together as well. She can almost count to 100 as well. She just gets stuck at 50, 60, 70, 80, and 90...otherwise she is good to go. Amazing! She is soooo super smart!