Lita's Photos- Part 3

These photos were taken downtown in front of one of our favorite places to eat.

Lita's Photos- Part 2

This is our favorite family photo! We were headed downtown for Lita to take some more pictures, when she pulled us over because she noticed the full moon with the perfect setting for some more pictures.

Jambalaya, a.k.a. Jo-Jo, had to get in this picture.

This was one of first shots of the 3 of us.

Here is Lily's silly face!

Lita's Photos- Part 1

Our friend and awesome photographer, Lita, came over a few weeks ago to take lots of pictures of Lily. There are so many I want to share- so I am just going to load 5 every couple of days this week. I hope you enjoy them! I think Lita is amazing!!!

She always starts out taking Lily's picture while she is playing so Lily gets used to everything.

We love the photo above. It shows the complete Lily with her fun attitude!

Of course, I love this one, too! I can't get enough family photos.

I will show you some of the 3 of us on Monday! I will download more after school.

Spirit Week

Last week was Spirit Week at school, so we decided to let Lily dress up, too. Friday was Twin Day- so my girls in my room, along with Lily, wore purple to all look alike.

Wednesday was Team Day. Nana bought Lily this UT cheerleader's outfit. So, she was dressed up in her UT outfit while I wore my Miami Hurricanes outfit.

Tuesday was Hero Day, so Lily and I dressed up in Kentucky clothes to represent my Mom's memory. My Mom was from Kentucky, and she was a huge Kentucky fan. If you ask Lily where Nana Claire is- she says that she is Heaven with Cajun. It is so sweet.

It was fun to have Spirit Week with Lily! We didn't take pictures on Monday, but it was Pajama Day. She really enjoyed getting to wear her PJs all day long!

A preview...

Our wonderful friends, Lita and Todd, came over last night with their son, Colin. Lily adores Colin! Lita is an amazing photographer. It was time for her to do another photo shoot with Lily. (The two pictures on the left hand side of the blog of the 3 of us and the one with the daisy were both taken by Lita, too!) She got some beautiful pictures, and I cannot wait until she is all finished so I can show them off. But, she did send me one picture of Colin and Lily that I just had to show. By the way, I love the panda clothes from Gymboree. I am sure we all have them for our girls. They are just too cute!

O Christmas Tree!

Yes, we did! We put on all of our ornaments tonight, and Lily got to hang her own stocking on one of her favorite Disney characters- Marie.

Here, our little photo-poser is showing off her Mulan ornament.

She had the best time pulling out the ornaments to decorate "Lily's tree".

She also loved the bubble lights. We had to show her that if you take them out of the socket- they will not work anymore--- because she wanted to carry them around with her!

She had to stop to read a book.... just like our Lily...

But, very quickly, she began to decorate the tree again.

After we finished, she wanted to pose for more pictures of her with her tree.

We let her have complete control of all of the ornaments she could put up. So, the bottom of the tree is a bit full!

Here are a couple of examples of her parts...

They really don't do it justice. But, for her first time decorating- she did an excellent job!

I wanna go Atlanta and go shopping again, Mama!

Since we returned late on Sunday, that is all we have heard- "I wanna go shopping... Mama, I wanna go Atlanta... Baba, I wanna go eat breakfast at the hotel." Needless to say, we had a wonderful trip. Before we left, we took a few more pictures last week of Lily dancing (above).

She also still enjoys showing off her gymnastics. She loves doing splits for everyone! She even did one in Atlanta at the breakfast buffet at the Marriott for her friend, Erica, who always waits on us. She also showed Erica her ballerina skills.

A little more dancing going on- she loves to have her picture made. I hope this new found love for the camera will really show up for our Christmas photos. :0)

She also wanted to slide for me while I took her picture. After she poses, she runs over to see what she looks like. So, I actually have to take every picture.

Her favorite things to do now in her playroom are: playing with legos, playing with her train set, playing with her kitchen, doing puzzles that are made for 3-6 year olds, playing with her dollhouse, and playing with her baby dolls (feeding them, putting them to bed, taking them shopping, and especially putting them in time out!).

We are putting our Christmas Tree up completely this weekend. We already actually have it up because we bought a new one, and we had to check it out to make sure it was okay- so we just left it up. Lily is ecstatic about putting the ornaments on. This is our normal thing to put the tree up instead of celebrate Halloween. So, we should have lots of pictures after the weekend. We did let Lily go ahead and set up her Little People Nativity Set. It is so cute how all of the animals and shepherds are right up beside baby Jesus staring right at him. She made sure they were close "cause they were so excited to see Him". We love Christmas and celebrating Jesus's birthday! ONLY 60 more days til Christmas!