and though she be but little, she is fierce

Well Lily has turned two and Lily at two is full of sass! If there is a conflict between my three children Lily is always the victor. She sets in place her determination and nothing can shake that. At a play date I found her trying to wrestle a baby stroller away from a five year old. I may or may not refer to her as Lilellzabub every once in a while. She also loves to burst into song and I often find her singing to herself, "happy happy haaaapppy!" while spinning in an artful dance. One of my favorite moments with Lily this year took place at her Aunt Julie's wedding. She spent the entire evening on the dance floor shaking her groove thing and even managed to keep up with a floor full of grownups doing the electric slide. Right now Lils does this cute thing where I start saying, "I love.." and then she yells "YOOOOU!" and gives me a big smacking kiss. On her birthday she received a princess dress with a matching Snow White doll and she danced and pranced and sang for hours! Lily is also going through a thorough mommy phase- if Grace or John dare to sit on my lap she lunges across the room to try to push them off while shrieking in her banshee dialect. But she does love her siblings and when the mood hits her she is the cuddliest cutest little monkey. Unfortunately her mommy obsession extends to Neil and if he trys to give me hug she is right on him pushing him away with all the strength in her cubby little arms. But Lily does have one fear. I discovered it today at church. I was walking with her in the hall today and we passed a little baby. She said, "hi Baby" and waved and then the baby started crawling after her. Lily started wailing! She had never seen something as fearful as a chubby little baby crawling after her. The baby was pretty fast and the only thing faster was Lily jumping into my arms!