Meredith has a serious love of all things stuffed. You will always see her with her very best friend, Pinky (and maybe even two or three of them depending upon the day) and often Pinky is accompanied by any one of many other favorites at the moment - these include Grover (a gift from Uncle Mike to Jillian, that was adopted by Meredith until Jillian could truly appreciate his greatness), Matt-a-hat (or you might know him as Cat in the Hat - it isn't that Meredith can't say that, she will tell us "I have a cat, his name is Matt-a-hat"), then there are hundreds of puppies, a few dolls, a penguin from Sea World (or Quinguin), her turtle (that she got at the Halloween carnival and named Jesus), and probably just about anything else you could find in the zoo or on a farm. They are all happiest when in bed with her, of course. I, from time-to-time, move a few into the playroom so that there will be a little room for Meredith to sleep to. It is always so cute to go in and check on her after she falls asleep - she sometimes lines them up so they all have their head on a pillow, but the other night, she had just surrounded her with all of her friends, including my bear that Neal gave me for Christmas when we first started dating. She was really excited to get to sleep with Mommy's bear!
She also loves to just play with all of her friends. Here she made them a "carouself" out of her Minnie Mouse umbrella and twirled them around in circles. She tells each to take turns and puts them onto their own little section very carefully. Too cute.
Since that one was probably my favorite, you get it in B&W and color!
I love this one because it shows Jillian and her favorite pasttime of trying to get away with finding her thumb/finger instead of her paci!
I was not prepared to be a part of this shoot, so luckily Jillian is cute enough to make up for my lack of make-up.
Jillian decided she was done at this one - so the paci had to stay, and I love how cute it is with it in (even upside-down!)
In between the potty parties, the girls had lots and lots of fun (evident from all the toys in the background of this picture!), but my favorite time was when the girls were all dressed up in princess dresses complete with their tools that they were using to build us a house (aka hammering loudly on the door and squeling in delight!) Every princess needs a hammer and saw right?
Carson and Jillian did a little bonding too by linking arms while talking...
...and gazing into each other's eyes!
This week marks Jillian's 3 month birthday. It has been a very busy month being kicked off with me heading back to work. I hated to leave my little girl for the first time (even though she was going to stay with Gigi or Bubbie everyday and I am still working just part time) of course I was just as sad to be giving up my fun days with Meredith too. Jillian also started sleeping in her bed for the first time this month - we held her over in her bassinet that was by our bed a little longer than planned, but she did great (more importantly, so did I!) I think she loved how comfy her bed is, because soon after moving over, she started sleeping through the night. This little girl loves her paci so much and has even started to find her fist when her paci isn't right where she needs it. Much to her dismay, she hasn't figured out that she needs to untuck her thumb to really get the most out of this position, I am hoping to hold off on that, but we'll see! She has become more and more vocal these past few weeks with lots of fun shreiks (that Meredith loves to impersonate) and little coos (that Meredith will interpret for me to her liking) and, as I posted the other day, we get lots of fun laughs - kisses and raspberries are sure to bring out a chuckle. And she also loves to have you play with or kiss on her feet. On our trip, Gigi was kissing her toes and when she would stop, Jillian would stick them back up in the air every time, almost begging her to continue. It was too cute! She has also developed a love of twirling , patting, and pulling her hair (luckily she still has plenty to do that with!)
