A Time of Firsts

The picture is from this morning and is Lillian at her first dental appointment. She did refuse to open her mouth part way through, but the lure of the balloon won out and she did great.

She is in a big period of growth. We are in the pool now and she is swimming like a fish--doggie paddle, backstroking, and floating!!

We were all outside last evening cleaning up the yard, etc. I mentioned to her that Daddy had a lot of bird poop on his truck. Lo and behold, I came back form filling the feeders and she had gotten the bucket and sponge out of the garage, filled the bucket with a little water from the hose and was cleaning the bird mess from the side of Paco's truck. She amazes me. She could not reach part of it with the spnge, so put the bucket and sponge away and went and got the hose and used that to finish the job. Way to Go!!

She has had a couple of winning phrases over the past couple of days:

when I told her what we needed to do today, she said: "I am just not in the mood for that"

when asked where she was going to sit down for dinner, she said: "oh, don't worry about me"

We have been busy lately. We took a trip to the Ft. Wayne Zoo on Sunday and had a great time. Lillian is very concerned about Dumadi, the baby orangutan whose mother died shortly after his birth. We "adopted" hime form the gift store on our way out and Lillian is raising him.