Lilly / Papa?

My Aunt Pam sent me this photo of her and my dad when he was about Lilly's age. Although most people tell me Lilly looks like Peter, I always argue that she has my coloring. Now I can also say she looks a lot like my dad!

Miscellaneous May

May has flown by! It will be remembered as the month that I surprised Peter for his birthday (again!), the month Abbey finished potty training, and the month that Lilly took her first steps. Memorable indeed! The pictures above are of Abbey is her "Nina" outfit (nina = ballerina) for Peter's birthday.

These next photos are of Lilly playing at the park, now that she is not confined to being in the Baby Bjorn anymore! She cruises all over the place, and since she took her first steps yesterday, the next time we are at the park she'll probably be busy trying to keep up with the other kids!

Our beautiful flower, Lilly:

Abbey likes me to make her playdoh jewelry:

Tracy over for dinner a lot this month since Vince has been in Brazil for three weeks. One night I made "The Best Roast Chicken Ever"...Lemon Chicken recipe from Cooks Illustrated. It was quite yummy!

The girls in the tub together. Abbey actually asks for Lilly to come in, "Baby Lilly bath, Mommy?"

Lilly at the end of a morning walk:

Lilly 10 Months!

These pictures were taken at the Brewster's house the day we celebrated their son Connor's second birthday. Lilly loved sitting in his chair and his wagon!

Friday the 13th

I had my salon appointment this last Friday, and the girls there always want to see current photos of my beauties. I usually forget, but I remembered to take some photos that morning to show off.

"Smile big Abbey!"
Abbey is saying "Cheese" in this one:

I was playing peekaboo with Lilly in the next two:

Look at how big she is!!!

SURPRISE PETER!

For the second time in our 17 year relationship, I have succeded in throwing Peter a surprise birthday party. He never saw it coming! We celebrated with friends at a local German restaurant, Gasthaus, by eating plenty of German food and drinking German beer. Happy Birthday Peter!

Easter

The Gay household had a rough Easter. Both Lilly and Abbey were recovering from getting pink eye, and I was just about to be sick for the next week as well with sinusitis that resulted from getting pink eye. However, we had a great day with the girls, hunting for eggs and baskets, and, of course, cooking a wonderful meal.

GG and Great Grandma Elsa Visit!

GG and Great Grandma Elsa came to visit the end of March through this past Tuesday. The girls had such a great time with them! Lilly learned to clap thanks to Great Grandma (and also started getting back to her butt from her tummy during their visit- almost crawling multiple times) and Abbey made GG run in the house at every possible moment.

We made a trek to Zoo Atlanta. It was PACKED! We were only there for about 2 hours, but we managed to see everything...very quickly...Abbey ran out of steam towards the end and actually spent more time eating her frozen lemonade and pizza than looking at the animals. We'll definitely be back since we bought a season pass!

Abbey had a great time telling GG and Great Grandma what colors to use and where to color:

Great Grandma Elsa also got to get a visit in with Amy, her niece:

When the weather cleared up, it was warm enough to visit Mary Alice Beach on Lake Lanier. Both of the girls enjoyed being in the water, even though it was frigid. I'm glad to know that Lilly is as much of a water baby as her sister.

Thank you so much for visiting, we can't wait to see you both again in July!