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We made snowflakes and hung them in the living room windows. At night the light from the street projects the snowflakes onto the ceiling. It is really pretty.

Lilly made herself a bed on the bottom shelf of the bookshelf.

The crossing guard at Abby's school gave us a real New York style buggy. It has a seat in the back meant for the older sibling, but Abby is too big. It also has a cover to keep out the cold wind and rain. We have been using an umbrella stroller that I got at a yardsale for $5. It has been all over Manhattan and certainly done its job. The umbrella stroller folds up small to make it easy to take on the bus or subway and is light enoguh I can easily carry it up the steps that we run into on a regular basis. This is not a handicap friendly city! It will take some time to get used to "traveling" with the new one, but for just going on walks it is much nicer. Lilly likes to sit on the back seat like a big girl. She can also climb in and out of the front seat and enjoys playing in it at home.

Lilly's new cup. She is getting better at drinking out of a cup without spilling, but still needs help. We keep her sippy cups full of water and in the fridge. She will go to the fridge and ask "open" and "drink." Sometimes she goes down the line and takes a sip from each cup. Othertimes she recognizes the girls water bottles and says "Katie and "Abby" and takes them each their cups.

Lilly has a double dose of love for puzzles in her blood. Both Serena's grandma and Kevin's grandma love puzzles and worked them all the time during our childhoods. Abby introduced Lilly to the more difficult puzzles (not the single pieces in the hard frame). They worked this castle puzzle together and then when Lilly wanted more Abby shoed her how to put the dragon puzzle together. It is more like a logic problem or a game and does not have a specific correct way. The pieces all fit each other, so it was perfect for Lilly to play with. She will get something out and say "play" and take your hand. She invited Kevin to work a puzzle with her this way.

Someone recently asked Lilly if she had sisters. She has an amazing vocabulary, but that is a word we don't ever use. So she said "no." I explained that she didn't know that word but that she does have a Katie and an Abby. She clearly says their names.

Like the cups above, she will identify things that belong to each person i nthe family. When I am folding laundry she will point to a pice of clothing and say the persons name. Last night in the bathroom she did that with each towel hanging up, stating who it belonged to. When she got to hers she said "mine!"

She identifies people as "the Mommy" or "the Daddy" every where we go. I had been agreeing and saying "Yes, that is a Daddy" although I had no idea if they were a parent or not. She has done so well with gender identification that we have been trying to teach her the words boy and girl instead of mommy and daddy. It is so cute though to sit in the bus with her and she go down the row of seats, pointing to each person and say "That's the Daddy. That's the Mommy. etc." all the way down the row. She did the same thing at a church potluck for each person who sat at our table.