What's Going on With the Roush's?

Getting so Big!

Last week Lilly's friend Case came to play and they had such a good time.
They both enjoyed walking all around the house.

Aunt Devan and Josh came to visit and eat dinner.

Mom, Dad and Lilly outside at a work event for Rusty. It was a pretty evening.

Lilly and Piper hanging out in their PJ's. We are so happy Piper lives closer to us.
We get to see her more often and it is a lot of fun.

My sweet Lilly! She is a bundle of Joy to her Mommy!

Well it has been awhile since I posted. To be honest, I haven't really been in the blogging spirit. Maybe I'll get with it, who knows.

Lilly is growing so much and it is a pleasure to be her Mommy. She is talking a lot and trying to repeat words I say. She can say Ball, Baby, Bible, Book......a lot of B words. She loves Milk and says MILLLL to let me know she needs some. I have to limit her on it, because she would drink it all day if I let her.

She loves to walk all around the house, but she must carry something for it to be enjoyable. Babies are a favorite to carry around. I think Lilly is between taking one and two naps a day. I love the two nap schedule and really don't want it to change, but I am sure in the near future she will be going down to one nap.

I recently taught her how to roll on the ground with my help. She will put her hands down and I will flip her over. She claps for herself when she is done. She has not bitten me in a while, but she started to bite her babies. Sometimes I think she is mad at them. Can a child at 13 months already have an imagination? She sure seems too have one.

We are getting much more involved in the community and at Church. Rusty is enjoying his job and working outside since the weather has been pretty nice. We were supposed to get a really bad snow storm, but it did not hit us like it did NW Oklahoma. I can't believe how much snow there was in my home town. Here are a couple of pictures of Lilly! Enjoy.

One Year Photo's

My friend Betsy took Lilly's One Year Photo's in February and they are too cute! Thanks, Betsy! You can check some of them out on her blog at Gregory Photography.

Happy Valentine's

Rusty and I on our V-Day date! We ate at a Brazilian Restaurant and went to the movies. Lots of fun. Isn't my Valentine HANDSOME!

My Sweet Little Lillian is getting so big! She is walking and falling a lot. Here are a couple of pictures of her in her V-Day outfit. We have been wearing it a lot this month.

Loving on her Aunt Devan.

Having fun with Daddy! Lilly likes to be tickled and has the cutest laugh when you catch her and tickle her all over.

My Sweetheart Party

I had so much fun planning Lilly's First Birthday Party. The picture of her at the top was the picture on her invitation. We did a photo shoot in the living room one day. That is a little harder then it looks. Betsy.....you must be amazing to get all of those kids to sit for you! I love to make things so I made a birthday banner and a crown. I used mostly paper I already had and found a scrapbook store that let me use their die-cut for free! So the banner was so inexpensive. Also, I found a lot of the hearts I decorated with for a $1. My Mom and my friend Shelly let me borrow several glass items and it was finished!

Happy 1st Birthday!

Lilly, Happy 1st Birthday! I can not tell you how much I love you. You make Daddy and Mommy so proud. We have enjoyed getting to see you grow this year and are loving every new change. My favorite thing that we do together is play in the living room. You love for me to chase after you and hide behind the living room wall for you to come and find me. I love waking you up in the morning and putting you to bed at night. You cuttle with me each time with you thumb in your mouth. I love it when you hide behind my back and try to sneak around so I can see you. We thank God that he gave us such a sweet little girl to watch and take care of.

I love you!
Mom

Family

Lilly at Benjamin's Birthday Party. We all had a fun time wishing him happy birthday. He is a Christmas Eve Baby.

The Roush Gang with Granny in the Christmas outfits she gave the grandchildren.
Aren't they a cute group!

Nana and Granddad on Christmas Day. The Baby in this photo is from Aunt Peggy and Lilly loves to carry it all around the house. It's so cute to see her "loving" or I should say biting and dragging her babies.

Santa came to visit in Arapaho! We are lucky he had time to stop and take a picture.

Roush kids waiting patiently for their Christmas stockings.



Grams and Gramps in Woodward. We had to have Christmas Dinner without Aunt Devan this year, but we waited to open our presents until she got feeling better. We had fun eating with the Aaron's and Grandma and Grandpa.

Grandma Eagon with Lilly. This is the outfit she got Lilly for Christmas. It was fun to dress her up in it during the holidays.

We traveled to Plainview, TX to see Grandma Bennett. We had a great time visiting with all our cousins. Grandma just turned 90 and is taking care of herself and still driving. Isn't that wonderful!

Grandma Bennett with the two youngest great grandchildren on her lap!

Holiday Fun

We had a fun Christmas. Lilly really liked playing with her toys and the wrapping they came in. We traveled to Plainview, TX, Woodward and Arapaho. She was a wonderful Traveler. It already seems like it was several months ago. We loved getting to spend time with family.

Lilly is growing up so fast. She is officially off the bottle and drinking milk. It is such a mess! I think drinking out of bottles is a little easier, but I wanted to get her to drink her sippy cup before she could scream for her bottle. I did not think it would ever happen because she was so attached to the bottle, but once I figured out I needed to warm her milk up she did not care about the bottle anymore. She has been sucking her thumb a lot more since she dropped the bottle. I think her bottle was a comfort to her. I guess we will have to work on the thumb sucking at another time.

The next big event is her Birthday. She is almost one and her Daddy is almost 28! They share a birthday, which is very special.