Lily's first really bad word....sadness of innocence lost

I knew it would happen sooner or later...but honestly I was really hoping for later....especially since when I was growing up no one around me used bad language or I was oblivious. In fact I didn't know any bad words until my babysitter's son taught them to me in 4th or 5th grade.  Anyway Lily came home the other day sharing that she learned a bad word.  Now frequently she has shared learning bad words, but the words are along the lines of stupid.   But this one took the cake!

So apparently Ethan (a boy in her class)  was doing -ick word families.  Well you can imagine when he added a d- to his word family, what he taught the rest of the kindergarteners in Ms. Shaffer's class!  On seperate occassions both daddy and  I asked Lily if she knew what it meant and how she knew it was  bad word. To daddy she said no and I explained to her that it was a not polite name for a boy's private part or that sometimes it could be a person's first name. Apparently somewhere along the way she had some understanding of it being a boys private part, because then she went onto to show me her further understanding of the word using hand motions.....one hand with an okay sign....the other hand using the pointer finger to go through the okay sign....GREAT....just great!  Oh well....I guess this is JUST the beginning!

Spring Fun

Spring has been super fun and super busy! The last week of March we got peeps! Lily has really enjoyed them, even though she is a little rough on them! Here favorite is fuzzy, who is the "runt" of the brood!

A Big birthday bash!

All partied out!

Today we threw Lily a super big 6th birthday bash! I think she really enjoyed it! About 22 friends came and shared the occasion with her! It was great. My friend Val Monroe came and did face painting! That was a huge hit! My friend Joey Decker came and did a parachute! So fun! We also had two arts and crafts tables with coloring and watercolor painting!

Best Big Sister Ever

One of my favorite things about being a mom to Lily and Ashton is to watch them play together and laugh!

Lily is the most amazing big sister! She is constantly looking out for Ashton and willing to help out as needed! Ashton loves to play in Austin's water dish, but Lily frequently saves the day! Ashton loves to walk, and Lily enjoys walking him. One of their favorites is playing in the tent. Their laughter warms my heart! I hope they always have that special sibling bond!

Becoming Worldly

I guess we knew it was coming....our daughter has officially become wordly. I guess school does that to a kid! I am not suggesting that it's all bad, but you can definitely tell Lily is growing up! The other evening she put on a show/concert for us. She doned a brimed hat and a microphone and shook her thing. Of course not having t.v. in our home, I know she hasn't seen it on t.v., but school...that's a whole another ballgame. She even knows all about the Baltimore Ravens even though we don't even follow or watch football. Last weekend we were at the bagel store and they had purple bagels for the Sunday football game. I asked her why they had purple bagels...of course she knew it was for the Ravens! "So they could play on the baseball field" she said! Then there was the cover girl again....she was in Walmart with daddy earlier this week and saw cover girl products. She said, "look daddy it's cover girl". Oh growing up....but I must say....I personally have really loved age 5...she has been so much fun!

Lily is a funny one!

Recently Lily has been cracking us up constantly. Yesterday we were talking about her world traveler experience at age 5, seeing that she has been to Denmark, Norway and Guatemala. She added that she had also been to Walt Disney World.

Over the break, Lily has been enjoying alot of computer time. One of the sites she frequently uses is Nick Jr. They normally have 1 adverstisement per day that they seem to play every 5 minutes. Today I came upstairs and she asked me if I knew what "covergirl" was. I played innocent and had her it explain it to me. She said first mommy, you put the stuff on your eyelashes, then the stuff on you lips......and then your are beautiful. I guess she saw one too many commericials!

aiming wand

Last night Lily made her version of a gun....she called it her aiming wand!