Week of Firsts

So a week ago saturday Lilley decided (out of the blue) it was time to crawl. She has shown absolutely ZERO interest in crawling and has made no attempt to try to move, scoot, roll, army crawl, etc... and then, last saturday, we were sitting on the couch while she sat on the floor and played and all of a sudden she went forward to her knees and then scoot, scoot... on the knees forward. She only went a couple paces, but she loved it. Now, a week later, she is crawling everywhere!! We can't keep her still. She's ventured from the carpet on to the tile (which is pretty much our entire place except the bedrooms) and loves it. She spends the time she's on the floor crawling after Buddy and his toys as he runs away from her and then brings his toys to her, and then runs away, and then brings the toys back. It's actually quite comical. They truly are best friends. I'm so grateful he's so well mannered too, she steals his toys (much to my dismay, im constantly taking them away and moving them and then the dog gets them and brings them to her) and then he carefully and gently removes them from her grasp. Awesome playmates for each other HAHAHAHHA.
The video is like 10 minutes long, so here are a couple pics as she firsrt took off...




Then, a week later, for our anniversary, we headed to the beach. She has been to the beach twice (last summer) but wasn't old enough to enjoy it or really know what was going on, so with the beautiful summer like weather we had over the weekend we decided it was as good a time as any to introduce her to the beach and the ocean. SHe LOVED it. LOVED the sand... took her a little while to venture off the towel and on to it, but once she did she was our little beach bum. Its good that she is because Frank and I love the beach and spend most of our free time there in the late spring and summer months.













and then we topped off the day with a nice dinner, but sadly only got a picture of Lilley on the stroll there.



For our actual anniversary, I received a BEAUTIFUL bouquet and we had a nice dinner and then headed out for a date to the movies and some nice husband and wife time without baby LILLEY. I think we're weird because we really like to take her with us everywhere, especially since she's so good and pretty much just goes with it, but last night, we just decided we needed to go out on a date sans baby. :)
This picture came out blurry, lame i know, but it's the only one we got of us on our special day.