Team Lilly Great Strides T-Shirt 2011

If you want one of these awesome t-shirts to wear as part of Team Lilly on May 21st, please email me at hlankster@insightbb.com with your size by Friday, May 13th - I need to know before lunch.  The cost is $7 for S-M-L-XL and $8 for XXL-XXXL.  You can just pay the day of the walk.  You can of course wear your t-shirts from last year or whatever you want - we would just love to have you there to support us!  The walk is a little over a week away and we still have not reached our goal, so if you are planning on donating, please do so - every little bit helps!  If you can't donate but want to walk - please join us at Applebee's Park in Lexington Saturday the 21st!  The tailgate starts at 9 (I will have ham biscuits, fruit, and monkey bread with juice and water) and the walk will start shortly thereafter!  Hope to see you there!

Lilly Update

We went to see Dr. Kanga today for Lilly's weigh in.  Her weight gain was modest - Lilly now weighs a total of 20 pounds and 2 ounces.  Not fabulous, but she continues to be stable and in the 3rd percentile.  In the spirit of adjusting my expectations, as long as she is not dipping below the 3rd percentile, I feel okay about it (knock on wood).  Dr. Kanga and Diane, her dietician, didn't seem too terribly upset and didn't change anything about her diet.  So we are going to plow ahead as usual and hope that she continues to pack on the pounds.  I just don't think she is going to be much of a brute - a tiny pixie is probably more her style.  Even though she is tiny, she packs quite a punch when she is furious about getting weighed - talk about a fight!

My 20 pound pixie :)

Who Really Wants To Be A Princess?

I will give you one guess as to who pushes the princess stuff around this house.  That's right - me.  Because I love princesses.  I totally think I was a princess in another life.  And this one too if you ask my husband.  So I was definitely into this fabulous idea for celebrating the Royal Wedding.  A friend of a friend hosted a "Royal Wedding Party" starting at 5:00 a.m. to watch Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding.  I was SO in for this.  I got up at 5 so I could work out and get dressed (I didn't get into the shower until I could see "THE DRESS") and then whisked myself across town to the party.  The party was complete with everyone in their pajamas AND WEDDING DRESSES as well as a table set up to make your own crown (see mine below).  The food included scones (of course), mimosas, fruit, etc. - no tea though - may have missed it ;)  I needed coffee anyway to get me through the day!  We watched the wedding and then a large group of the women ran outside (in the VERY cold weather) in their pajamas and crowns to wave at the rush hour crowd driving by on Richmond Road.  Seriously - it was so fun!  Now I just have to wait until William and Kate have children that grow up and marry to replicate this party!

Me in my crown...

Doing the royal wave with Eli and Cheryl

Playing Dress Up

Meet Shrek (a.k.a Olivia)...

and Princess Fiona (a.k.a. Lilly)!

I think I last saw hair like this on the woman in front of me at the check-out line in Wal-Mart!

Boo!

Moo!

Do I want to be a fairy? 

Or a witch?

Or a pink poodle?  Decisions, decisions!

My Birthday Princess :)

You can talk them into doing the funniest things when they are this age!

Such as making their beds - she thinks this is the greatest "game" ever!  I told her it was something that all 4 year olds had to do - as well as eat the same dinner as everyone else, a.k.a. no more chicken nuggets every night!

Such a sweet birthday girl :)

Happy 4th Birthday Olivia!

The Birthday Girl :)

Blowing out her candle on her birthday cupcake!

A new fishing game!

A Spiderman mask - "what I always wanted!"

Practicing fishing before this summer...

Lilly wants to be Spiderman too!

Liv's actual birthday was low-key this year - because I caved and we are throwing her a "My Little Pony" party at the Little Gym next Saturday.  We decided we didn't want to ignore her actual birthday, but we didn't want to have two huge parties.  So after Daddy finished a round of golf that morning, I took Olivia to see "Rio," a new movie she has been begging me to go see.  After she pounded half a small popcorn, half a medium Sprite, and an ENTIRE package of MOVIE SIZE Reeses Pieces (I am counting down the moments until she spews at this point), we come home so we can sing her "Happy Birthday" and she can blow out her candle on her birthday cupcake (because, honestly, she hasn't had enough sugar yet, you know?)  She then was able to open presents from Jeremy, Lilly and I, which was quite an assortment.  Based on what she told Ashley she wanted for her birthday (pictures were posted on Ashley's blog since they took a picture of every item while shopping at Target), we gave Liv a Fishing game, a Spiderman mask, and a Strawberry Shortcake remote controlled car and doll.  Like I said - quite an assortment.  She loved them all though - it was "everything I wanted," according to Liv.  Since she was already high on sugar, I let her eat the cupcake for dinner (take that Mom - who said I can't loosen up!).  Well, honestly I only allowed her to eat the cupcake after I made her attempt to eat a Ham and Cheese Lunchable for dinner - it was worth a try, right?  I am happy to report that she actually kept all the junk down and didn't even complain of a bellyache!  She must have a stomach of steel!

More pictures to come of the "My Little Pony" birthday party this weekend - a perfect theme for Derby Day!

Some Funny Pics of My Girls

Lilly loves her shades and her "P" - for paci!

Mommy, do you have anything I can fix?  I have my toolbelt!