The cold and a cold

With the weather outside doing all kinds of wacky things, it was inevitable for sickness to overtake the house. I was ill a few weeks ago, and this week Lilah and Jason followed. On top of it, Lilah is starting to cut her seventh (can you believe it!) tooth so she was a bit out of sorts.
Apparently not too out of sorts to not find trouble for herself though! This week she learned that there are all kinds of fun things to be had in Daddy's end table, including the yarmulke you see her wearing above.

She is also carrying on my family tradition of a love for socks - mismatched ones that is.

Today we had the special treat of being able to "Alexandersit" when Santiago had to do a quick call for work. As always the two of them got along splendidly, with Lilah showing Alexander how to dance to her drum. That was until Lilah decided she was ready for a nap and everyone had to know that!

This weekend we will be working to get the house ready for the holidays (cleaning, etc) and then leaving Thursday for NJ to see Grandma (my mom) and Bubbe (Jason's mom) for some Hanukkah fun.

And to leaving you with more pics from our new camera ;)

Hockey, Cameras, Speaking and a Patio!

So first, for those I have been spamming with photos for the last two days, I don't think it is going to stop anytime soon! The Boigs (yes that's us, and me speaking in third person) have gotten a new camera and it's fast as anything shutter speed has caused us to take tons of photos each night....

...if you want to be spammed with photos just let me know, but know what you are in for.

As many of you know last Thursday we took Lilah to the Washington Capitals hockey game at the Verizon Center. With third row seats we were able to take in all the action including watching a stuffed hot dog dance across the ice. (dollar hot dog day!).

Lilah had a wonderful time and even watched some of the game. She held out the entire game (which ended just before her normal bedtime) and crashed on the metro on the way home. We will be going once more on Feb 1st!

As promised in the title of this entry, a quick note about our new patio. Well, the note is that we are getting one! And some work done on the garden as well. here is a photo of what it looks like today and Saturday we will have a whole new photos. Except many outdoor BBQs once the weather gets better.

And the rest of these are just photos to show off the new camera.

Hunter!

Sunday morning in PJs.

A close up from far away.

Getting ready for a bath.

And of course a video chatting away two nights ago at dinner. Her vocabulary consists of "Baby", "Daddy" and "Hunter" right now.

It's all about the pictures

Our fantastic photographer Erika is back with Lilah's 1 year photos. I got over 300 of them today and pulled about 40 to post but realized you might get tired of them after a while so..here are some to start and I will post more tomorrow!

So many pictures (and video) so little to say!

A wonderful Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving weekend was had in the Boig household the last few days. Seeing friends and family was fantastic times, and seeing Lilah turning into a "real toddler" was even more fantastic.

So sharing through photos....

On Saturday after swim class, Jason, Lilah and I headed up to my Aunt Missy's in Harrisburg, PA for Saturday Thanksgiving feast. Lilah had a wonderful time running around (really!) with her cousins and everyone was amazed at how she had grown since her birthday.

We had a great time ending with this turkey cake brought by my Aunt Seri. It even has a pop up timer.

After dinner I got to relax with Lilah and her cousin Reese. These pictures of me with two babies has got to stop :)!

Yesterday was a shopping fiesta as we headed out in search of great bargains. And we found one! A new dining room table with a bench and chairs. Click on this link to check it out.

As you can see Lilah is already very handy and has been doing a great job at being "Mommy's helper.". She is a super helper around the kitchen too.

Speaking of helping in the kitchen. Here is a video of Lilah's Thanksgiving morning help.

So somehow no one took a single photo of the Thanksgiving table, dinner or basically anything till after dessert.

So..dinner was good...dessert was great...Lilah ate LOTS of turkey.

After dessert we settled in for the "activities" of the evening. Which as you can see consisted of Elizabeth very patiently trying to get Lilah to make a hand turkey. What do don't see in this photo is that while we were all helping Alexander make his turkey, Lilah had taken that Scrapbooking Ink off the table (see if in the right corner of the photo) and had proceeded to cover herself, the floor and then very quickly a part of mommy's shirt leading to some quick clean up and PJ changing.

We also had brought out an old chair of Lilah for Alexander to hang out in for the evening. Well Lilah quickly remembered how much SHE loved that chair and the second Alexander gave it up for some grub she started to hold court in it!

Speaking of King Alexander!

Heading into this week, Lilah attends her first hockey game! Bubbe comes to visit and more music and swim classes.

Stay tuned!

We're not a Turkey yet!

The good news is we have been having lots of fun, seeing lots of family and enjoying some good times with Lilah the past two weeks. The bad news is each time I sit down to post I forget the photos!

So another catching up post is in order, knowing that I will miss something since it's been 15 days!


Heading backwards, this past weekend my Aunt Karen and Uncle Fred (and their dog Zoey) were in town visiting and Lilah took the opportunity to show off her running (yes running!) skills. She is all over the place these days and doesn't ever like to sit down, which makes it a bit hard to give her a bath!





As you can see from this video (if you turn your head sideways), she is starting to be able to think through her actions and is really learning to follow along.

The weekend before this past one, my mom was in town and we did the music class, swim class, routine as usual. I am proud to announce that Lilah will be moving up to a "big girl" music class next session as she is currently the oldest in her class and the instructors gave the OK for her to be in with the older kids. For swim class we are hoping to find something closer to home in the Winter, as driving 40 minutes both Friday and Saturday is starting to grate on Lilah's mommy and daddy!

And before that was Veterans' day. We spent the evening at Elizabeth and Santiago's house where Lilah showed off her flirting skills by playing "peekaboo" with Alexander. She seems very comfortable around him and it is really fun to watch them start to interact as he grows older.

You can check out the "Peekaboo" game as captured on camera.

With Thanksgiving approaching the house is in full "cooking" mode and should soon be full of holiday smells. Lilah has become huge "helper" in the kitchen already, where she is learning to put things in a bowl as I cut them. We just have to teach her not to squish tomatoes as she places them together!

Then after Thanksgiving we will be doing a post holiday dinner in PA (at Aunt Missy's), where Lilah will get to see all of her cousins again. Won't they be surprised that she can now chase them around.

I am sure I have missed about 100 amazing milestones that have happened in the past 15 days, but at least you all have some cute videos and photos to tide you over till the post-Thanksgiving photos!

Happy Turkey Day to all!

Time for a change (and lots more adventure).

Welcome back everyone! Since the rest of America is changing, I decided it was time for a blog color change as well. Testing the one out to see if I like it...

Since my last blog post skipped right over Halloween, I wanted to backtrack just to share a few photos with everyone. As you can see Lilah had a great time trying to figure out how to wear tights for the first time and then showing off her costume in music class. I also brought her into the office for (to be honest) the selfish reason of everyone telling me how cute she was!















After quite a crazy birthday (mine not hers!) we headed off to Deep Creek Maryland with Elizabeth and Santiago (famed parents of Lilah's man Alexander) for some rest and relaxation.


As you can see Hunter started the "rest" part of this as soon as we left the house.







Lilah was a wonderful traveler sleeping most of the way to Deep Creek, just waking up long enough to play in the grass at a rest stop!






Our house in Deep Creek was amazing and in case you were wondering this was the view from the living room. What a fantastic place to wake up each day...we all contemplated staying forever.

Lilah and Alexander got along wonderfully as usual and here is a quick photo of what I would look like if we ever had two kids (scary stuff!).

After a totally relaxing weekend we headed home for the election which you have all already seen and heard about (both our adventures as well as the country's). That you everyone who email or comments with awesome stories - you all rock! (Especially Maria whose vote in Florida made a huge difference after standing in line for hours with her son!).

Sometime during the week we shot this incredibly embarrassing video - but hey if you can't be embarrassed through a public blog when can you be! (and Lilah looks cute).

Then this past weekend us Boigs all piled in the car again to head up to NJ to visit Lilah's Bubbe (Jason's mom) where Lilah wowed all of us by her ability to knock down not just wooden blocks -- but towers and towers of Tupperware!

After a yummy dinner at Big Fish we headed out for a little stroll around the mall to work off those calories. (OK we really just walked to the car but it made for this cute photo anyway!).

On Sunday we took Lilah to a local farm where she got to visit with ducks and goats - I wish I knew what she was thinking! Then back in the car to our place which brings us to today.

Jason and I have off tomorrow, so I am sure many adventures will abound. So till the next post...keep warm!

Your regularly schedule blog has been interrupted...

Today's regularly schedule blog updated of last weekend's birthday fun has been interrupted....

What did you do today? At 5am? 6am? even 11am?

Do you know what Lilah was doing?? She was voting!

Woken up two hours before her normal time, she happily got in line outside smiling and amusing all of the tired but energetic folks in our little section of Montgomery County.

Waiting in line for only one hour (thankfully!) she Voted for Change using her patented "one finger" method.

And now she can go get free stuff! (Thanks Darryl)

So what's your excuse? Why haven't you voted? What are you doing that is more important? Do you see the smiling face above - don't you want some of that?!!

So get out and VOTE so that tomorrow you can hear all about Lilah's Halloween and her fun weekend with her husband-to-be at Deep Creek Lake.

....Now back to our regularly scheduled day.