if you're Lilly, include:
We really started noticing this in Greece over the summer; how Lilly would walk around and then want to sit down somewhere suitable. She'd sit on the lowest step of the stairs, she'd try sitting on some of her toys, all the furniture was too tall for her. At the airport in Athens, it was her urge to sit that caused the big accident: she sat down on a low railing, tipped back and hit the back of her head on the edge of a window frame, causing a deep cut, an ambulance ride, and lots of agony and crying; she still has a scab and a small bump (and this happened end of August!). She's been searching for things to sit or or in at the house too: she'll crawl up into her little "kitchen counter" that we got for her in the Used a bit Shoppe, she'll drag her potty into the living room and sit on it, she'll sit on the low shelves at the ends of our coffee table. Again she'll sit on her toys.
So finally, last week, I got a couple of outdoors plastic children chairs, $1 each; she loves them! She'll sit on them, haul them around, climb on them, place her baby dolls and stuffed animals in them ...
(Lilly also loves computers; grandma Julie brought her an old keyboard to play with; a big success.)
Seeing how Lilly pushes her chair around as if it were a stroller, and she's also done the same to her kitchen counter and the basket she has for her toys, it became clear she also would love to have a stroller. When we visited some friends in town earlier this fall that had a baby doll stroller for their child, Lilly just loved pushing it around. Yesterday grandma Julie got Lilly a stroller and a little doll (so now Lilly has three little babies to take care of! Her maternal instinct is blossoming... She'll feed her babies, bathe them, stroll them, you name it. Bamse also gets to ride in the stroller, as do some of her other stuffed animals).
(As you can see, she also loves carrying mama's purse; she has a purse of her own, but the real thing is so much more fun... In her purse she carries a set of plastic keys, a plastic cell phone, and now also a real cell phone (with no service but lots of bling), courtesy grandma Julie.)
I wonder if Lilly will develop some sort of shoe fetish: since she started walking, she's been loving shoes. I think because to her they represent the opportunity to walk and explore, preferably outside. In Greece this summer, we got her a cheap pair of light pink sandals. Then some nice dark pink suede ones when we got back to the US. She's also got a pair of white winter boots now, and a set of pink "My little pony" slipper-shoe-boots that she got from mormor and morfar in Norway. She even has a set of pink UGG booties that she got as a gift. On her big shopping spree for Lilly, grandma Julie added on to Lilly's shoe collection with a pair of black converse. Our cool little babe.
(Lilly's shoes on the shoe mat we all used to share, by the kitchen door entrance, next to her kitchen counter. Missing are a pair of green slippers she already outgrew/wore out.)
Lilly's gotten so into books this fall, perhaps because we go to the library so often, or she's just reached that point. Here she is with the big book she got from Marte. She also loves her new Halloween book that she got from granddaddy and grandma Cheryl: it makes a scary laugh at the end, which Lilly loves to mimic.
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