April and May

I preparation for Lily's third and last surgery, we have had to keep Lily isolated so she doesn't get sick. She was supposed to have her surgery in March, but when we went up to Edmonton the surgeon didn't like the sound of her cough and wouldn't proceed and delayed the surgery until April, then her date in April was bumped due to an emergency surgery for a new born baby. Needless to say, we had to make sure she didn't get sick so her surgery wouldn't get bumped again. So we had to keep lily entertained in the house as going to the park could be full of germs. Once the weather was nice enough, we were able to take Lily for walks. We enjoyed taking her down to the river in her wagon so she could through rocks which she loved.

Of course we brought Hannah too, so here is her glamour shot, with milk mouth and all

The other thing we do to entertain Lily, is let her do her nails. She loves to be like her mom and be a princess with beautiful nails. Leah decided to let Lily try and paint her own nails. This took a lot of concentration but it ended with beautiful results.

Lily also loves to play with her dolls. Here she is changing the baby "Emma's" diaper and burping it. She loves to do what Mommy does with Hannah.

Lily also likes to play doctor. We bought her this doctor set so we could practise with her what the doctors do when she goes so that she will realize that the check ups don't hurt and she won't put up such a fuss. Here, she is practising on Hannah, and it looks like she needs some more practise as I am pretty sure that is not where Hannah's heart is.

Lily has a wonderful imagination as well. She lately has a necklace full of pixy dust which she remembers to put on when she takes off her clothes and changes into her pyjamas. If she does forget it, she has to go to her room, find the last shirt she was wearing at the time and pull it off that shirt and put it on. The great thing about imaginary necklaces of pixy dust, is that if she does by chance forget to put it on then she changes clothes and we have already left to go somewhere, it can magically and conveniently be pulled out of Daddy's pocket at any moment because I luckily remembered it when Lily hasn't. 

She also loves to play with her stuffed animals and dolls and her food. She loves to feed them, and set the table to have them all eat together.  One day she decided that her little table in her room was not large enough to hold them all, so she needed a bigger table. At least the treadmill is getting used for something.

Leah has been good at coming up with things to do with Lily to keep her entertained, by building with blocks, baking and crafts.  

I also have to pose this next picture of Lily. One day as we were dancing around the kitchen, I noticed that Lily kept lifting up her skirt. It perplexed me for a while, and then I noticed the next day or so while watching Cinderella, that when she dances with the prince she holds her dress with one hand. So I had to get a picture of Lily doing it while she was dancing with me. She is such a princess.

For Mother's Day, all Leah wanted was some nice photos with her and her daughters. So we went out and took some pictures on Saturday. We haven't picked out Leah's favourites, but here are some nice ones:

I had to get a few too:

So Lily's Surgery was to happen on Monday, just after Mother's Day. So in Edmonton at the Ronald McDonald House, we woke up, gave Lily her special bath, gave her the only breakfast we were allowed to, (Popsicles and Apple Juice) the breakfast of champions...

...only to get a phone call a few minutes after that her surgery had been bumped again until Wednesday.  Lily didn't mind as this gave her some more time to play at the house. lily loves it here at the RMHouse.  There are so many toys and doll houses etc to play with.

This is the play house, you can see how excited she is to go inside.

We have also had some great help with my Mom and Leah's Mom coming to help out as we go through this surgery. Thanks Mom's we appreciate you!

I have to add the fact that we went to the Olive Garden last night for dinner. It was nice, but what everyone thought was funny was that I forgot to change into my shoes from the Ronald McDonald house and noticed when we got there I was still wearing my old man slippers. So Leah wanted me to shuffle like an old man with my old man slippers.

This next picture is at the restaurant, I post is because you can see how good Lily is getting at drawing. Look at the activity sheet she was drawing on at the table, you can see her picture she drew of Mickey Mouse. It has eyes, a mouth, and a smile, and two ears on the top. She is really good at colouring and developing her talents.