Teething, immunisation aftermath, AND tummy bug. Poor Lilli. :(

Wearing Mummy's hat.

Taking Mummy's bisto from the pantry.

She loves getting up on that darn table!

And now lying on the coffee table.

My poor darling has had a rough week so far. She is her usual self for about 20% of the time and the rest she is miserable! Not only does she have another molar coming through, she also has the immunisation aftermath to deal with AND a tummy bug!

When she is her usual happy self she is sooo cute! Today we were playing on the floor and she started feeding me a 'bottle'. She was so cute, she would check that I was still sucking and that it was near my mouth and then she would watch the tv for a moment before checking me again! After that she started feeding me morsels of muffin just like I do to her. When I'm feeding her and a piece drops instead of giving her the dropped piece I give her a fresh one and usually pop the dropped bit into my mouth so when she was feeding me and some dropped she picked it up and ate it. Hahaha. Adorable. She's so on to it. :D

New things she is saying:

Hi.

Hey.

Down there.

Mine (refering to my boob).

Oh boy.

Man (as in 'oh man').

Taking some blocks down the hall.

We're heading outside to play - with stones! Outside shifting stones. Poor wee baby lying on her couch. 1st time she's ever done this. She's going downhill fast.

15 month immunisations. Ouch! :(

You will notice that in some of these photos and videos the coffee table is on it's side up against the couch! This is to stop our little climber from getting up on it as she has fallen off it before. Hehe. :D

I'm not really sure what she was trying to do here...

Running away when it's time to get dressed.

Ohhh, cosy and warm in her stroller. Then when she woke up it was time to go to the doctors.

I had to take Lilli for her 15 month immunisations today. Poor baby. It was so awful. She had to have one jab in each thigh and one in her arm! She was so brave. The first one obviously hurt and she didn't cry but then she knew what was coming on the second one and so she tensed up for it. It hurt heaps and she burst into tears afterwards. Then probably for the first time ever she didn't want me to take her clothes off because she guessed that another jab would be coming. My poor little darling. I felt everything with her I think. I popped her on the boob and she calmed down after a few minutes. She has been ok this afternoon as you will see by the photos and videos below, but she got a little bit grouchy tonight. I gave her some panadol and she was in bed by 8pm.

Lilli wearing her hair band. She wears it on her head like her sunnies. Just like Mummy. :)

Close up.

Looking at her lovely hairband (and herself) in the mirror.

Now she can reach up onto my dressing table! :)

Another tooth - 3rd molar & a playdate!! :)

Another molar came through today. It's on the top right hand side. My poor darling, she's getting them one after another. Again! But I guess it will get them over with reasonable quickly.

Where's Lilli? Hiding in the curtains at Nan nan & Pops'.

'Helping' Mummy do some baking.

Cute new hat. This is the only time she's worn it and only for a few seconds! :)

Sitting at her table. She got here all by herself.

How cute is that!!

Watching TV in bed with Mummy.

Jumping on Mummy and Daddy's bed.

On Monday Lilli and I went to Maia's house for a playdate. Her Mum Jo and I chatted & played with the girls. It was cool and Lilli and Maia had a great time. Mum and I had thought that Maia was a quiet timid gentle wee thing when we had seen her at Tots & Tunes but it turns out that she and Lilli are evenly matched and very similar in their personalities. It was so cute watching them together. They had a couple of moments when they both wanted the same toy and we were trying to teach them to share. :) A bit of pushing and shoving took place. :D Maia is an only child too at the moment and so Jo and I both think it will do them good to spend time together and learn to share their toys. Hahaha. Sooo cute.

On Friday we went to Tots & Tunes (dancing) again. Check out these videos...

Here she is using a shaker (maracca) then at the end she's heading off to take another one someone else! Haha. She does this every week! :) Little monkey.

In this next video the little blonde girl in the red vest near Lilli is her little friend Maia (playdate from Monday).

Picnic at our local beach. Lilli is 15 months old today.

I took the birthday girl to our local beach today for a picnic. She was so funny. Just as we finished eating some kids started flying their kites and she took off after them. We watched them and ran after them for a while then she ran up and down the beach yelling and yahooing and having a great old time. She started heading into the water but spotted a bird and decided to chase it for a while before deciding to head back into the water. At this point I had to put the camera away so that I had my hands free to keep her safe so stopped filming. A wave came in and I said look Lilli it's going to get us and she watched it come in and then she nearly fell over backwards (perception and all that). Then I turned her around and we ran up the beach with the water. We were both laughing and she absolutely loved it. We ended up splashing around in the waves for about an hour and getting our clothes soaking wet. I had to take all her clothes off and put her in a dry shirt for the ride home and I had to take my track pants off and drive home in my knickers!!! Lucky a cop didn't stop us!! Haha. It was a fantastic afternoon.

Trying to catch up with everyone in Rotorua

Ohhh, so sweet. :)

Lilli started climbing up on to the ottoman on Friday! Arggh she sat back and nearly fell off! I decided to move it against the couch to make it a bit safer. Have a look...

Well we tried to catch up with everyone in Rotorua and almost managed it. We didn't get to see Amanda or Ange which really sucked. We got down on Monday afternoon and called in to see everyone at work. Missed Aniwa because she had popped out and Karinya had gone home sick but saw practically everyone else. Monday night we hung out with Annie and Tony and the boys. Had a meeting on Tuesday morning and then Felicity came up to visit us.

Lilli decided that she would climb up onto Annie's coffee table using a toy car as a step!

As soon as Felicity left we had to go look after Kayla and Casey until Brett came home with Josh after rugby practice. Unfortunately Michelle had to go out so we didn't see her for long and I cooked the dinner that she had prepared for us all. I caught up with Michelle on Wednesday morning while Annie had some time with Lilli and then Susie came up to Tony & Annie's with little Delton for a visit on Wednesday morning and it was cute as always watching Delton and Lilli interacting. This time they were actually 'fighting' over a toy! Hahaha it's so cute watching them assert themselves. I actually came down to Rotorua to have meetings regarding my house down there and had organised to sort out a few things with my tenants including a new tenancy agreement but on Monday morning Amy (my tenant) had her baby. She wasn't due until June so she was up in the hospital with her baby in SCBU. I was intending to get back to Auckland on Wednesday but couldn't meet with Chris (Amy's husband) until Wednesday night so we had to stay until Thursday. I had intended to catch up with Ange on Thursday morning and head up to Auckland but Lilli slept later than usual in the morning and by the time I had gotten her dressed and given her breakfast it was getting late so I had to ask Ange if we could catch up next time because by the time I got over to her place I figured Lilli would have fallen asleep in the car (& she did). I will organise to stop in to her place on the way down next time as Lilli wakes up before Rotorua but is always asleep by the time I get over that side of town when we are heading back to Auckland.

Hmmm, I don't think your cousin would like to see you sitting on his Xbox Lilli! (I have taken her off about 50 times by this point!)

Ohh, some cables....

Yep that's nearly where I want it...

And I wrap it around me like this.