She hasn't bat an eye at Reed's arrival or his coming home and never leaving (although having her Ya Ya and her Nana here for weeks might have helped!). It's very sweet that she seems to be taking this transition to family of 4 in such stride. Like I suspected she is sort of indifferent to interacting with him at this stage, but gets more excited when he wakes up and calls to me "Wake! Wake! Reed wake!" if his eyes are open. She also doesn't seem to care about him nursing so often. Though she has started with some "Mommy hold you." or "Daddy hold you." the jealousy of the nursing/holding is minimal. This might have something to do with us not telling her she is drinking milk. Lillian has a serious LOVE for milk (like if you ask her if she wants some, she does this whimper until she's actually drinking it)
Lillian spends a large portion of her day narrating what she is doing, repeating things we say and pointing out and identifying things she sees (yelling "plane!" or "flag!" as we drive down the road). I'm not even going to attempt to guess at what her vocabulary stands at these days, but she is learning words daily and putting them into 3+ word combos. Her "manners" words are really taking off with "please" and "thank you" and "welcome" coming out every hour... although sometimes she says "thank you welcome" together, etc.
Another cute phrase that she's latched onto to is "Wow. I like it." which sometimes becomes "Oooh I like it too." I think she got this from her Nana who says "I like it." but the inflection that Lillian puts into this phrase is what really cracks us up. She is obsessed with the 'Thank you mailman" since he's recently delivered gifts mailed to us for Reed, orders from Amazon, and a couple of flower arrangements (also for Reed). She's so obsessed, he's one of the people she lists as coming to her birthday.... although one day when we actually saw him she was so shy she wouldn't even say hello!
Her 2-year molar came in the week that Reed came home from the hospital. She likes to wear . "Pretend Play" has really taken off with the fake food and baby dolls and she tries to whistle, but typically just makes this singing sort of noise with her voice rather than pursing her lips.
She's a ham. She's a cutie. She's still the only girl.... :)
