Miss Lilly In Fine Form

2019

Miss Lilly is in the terrible threes where she investigates everything, including my drawer of post-it notes, and my stack of little boxes.  She emptied those boxes and reloaded with her own toys!

Oh, and she's discovered if she drops her little bottom deep into the toilet bowl, its wet and cold down there, and...she gets stuck!!!

She gets stuck because she can't figure out how to manuever her muscles to extricate herself.  What a corker!

2021

HEAD STAND

At church yesterday I had Miss Lilly sitting in the pew next to me.  She'd been politely playing with a sticker book, then reading two peek-a-boo books I'd purchased Saturday, so I was content that she was entertained.  I turned my attention to the preacher.  

Then something about her energy, heat, clothing brushing against me, changed.  I kid you not, I turned my head to look at her and her legs were up in the air, her skirt had fallen to her waist -- she was doing a headstand in the pew!!!!!!  

Oh my lands, that girl!  The things kids will do!

I'd assume the cushioned seats, with the high backs, made it easy and comfy for executing a headstand, right?  Sheesh!  "Get yourself up right, right now!"

ZOOLANDIA

Zoolandia is a child's board game much like the adult game Sorry.  Players take turns rolling the special die to move their pawns around the board and home to their zoo hut.

On the die are images of the different animals and a hut.  The board spaces each feature an animal like a zebra or an elephant, and a hut, or a palm tree.

I was going to teach Miss Lilly how to play.  She was very excited, "I want to win!"

I asked, "What if GrammyPam wins, will you cry?"

Innocent and truthful, "Yaaaaah."

NOT MY BIRTHDAY

We entered a pretend bake shop, and even though her mom and I were busy cleaning, Miss Lilly decided to present me with a toy cake made of velcro candles and velcro wedges.   I even got serenaded -- the full birthday song!  She had all the correct words and was in tune, too.  

What a doll! 

No, it's not my birthday.  To enable me to keep busy cleaning and so she could entertain herself, I taught her how to use dolls from the nursery to create her own set of customers.  She gave them names Milly, Tilly, Jilly, and Silly, then laughed and laughed, and told me as she was giggling, "Hear that, they rhyme!"

NUNCHUCKS

Babysitting while Mom and Dad went on a birthday date, I found Miss Lilly and Master Jacob to be in fine form -- hungry and rowdy.  Usually I put change, pennies, dimes, and nickles, on the steps before Miss Lilly arrives.  Then she can sort them and plop them into the 2 minion banks and the pig banks.  

Well, this time she dropped all the coins into one of John's tube socks, climbed on top of the Cozy Coup, looking like a crazed wild animal she swung that sock like nunchucks!!!!!