this video is of aunt amy pushing lila on the swing. you can hear lila giggling when amy tickles her. its so cute! this was shot using our digital camera so its not the best quality...

westmoreland park

Today we went to the park with uncle Micah and aunt Amy. We played on the play structure and had a picnic. It was tons of fun!

Thanks for playing with us guys!

**click on the pictures for best quality**

These are two of my favorite pictures of Lila and her Daddy. They were sitting on the couch reading the newspaper. SO CUTE!!

vroooom!

This is Uncle Kevin's new motorcycle. Auntie Tracy and him came over for dinner Tuesday night and they let Lila sit on it. She didn't know what to do exactly but it made a really cute picture!

oregon zoo

These are some pictures of our recent zoo trip. We bought a year pass so we will be going a lot! Lila loves to look at all the animals.

standing up all by herself

No walking yet but...

Lila loves to play with her daddy

She is helping her mommy in the kitchen
look mom-no hands!

some new pictures

She is playing inside her new toy box














Lila is reading to her monkey











She is being a little monkey!

model material

Lila got some really cute fall and winter clothes from my friend Kalli in California and I just couldn't wait till it was cold to put them on! She was hamming it up for the camera, like usual :) I put her up in front of the big mirror and she saw herself...although I am not sure if she realized it was her and not some other baby. I wanted to share with you the cute pictures that I got. Whats pictured is a super cute sweatshirt from Gap.
Thank you Auntie Kalli!!

Oaks Park fun!

Today we went to Oaks Park for the preschool play day. We went with some friends who also had kids and they all had a really fun time. Lila even got to ride one or two rides! She loved it. Thank you Claudia for bringing your camera and taking pictures of us!!!
This is us starting out...
This is when the ride started...
Surprisingly Lila did great :)
I promise she was smiling the whole time!!
Lila got to ride the giraffe on the merry-go-round!
I think next time I will pick one of the animals that go up and down!

Lila has been standing all by herself!! She just gets up and wobbles a bit and then stands there without holding on to anything. She even bends her knees and dances a bit while she is doing it!! I am so proud of her. Although it scares me to think that she will be walking really soon I am excited for her to hit that milestone. I am working on getting video and pictures of her standing and will post them as soon as I have some good ones.

Another exciting thing has happened too by the way...
She is drinking cows milk now. She started out sipping on soy because she didn't like whole milk but I started mixing the two together and now its just whole milk. With all the soy vs cows milk debates that I saw on the internet and with talking to her pediatrician we decided that organic whole milk would be the best option for Lila.
Go Lila!!

lila's luau

August 2nd was a great day. Lila had her Birthday Luau and lots of family and friends came to celebrate. Thank you to EVERYONE who was there!! The sun didnt come out till the party was over...sorry guys. But it was a wonderful party. Lila did great being passed around like a hot potato and she loved the cupcake that I made her! She ate the whole thing and didnt even get her bib messy. She opened most of her presents and had the time of her life doing it. We all had a lot of fun :)