Bigfoot Lil' foot

This picture was actually taken two months ago, but I didn't post it on the blog, and someone saw it and said I HAD to put it on. Think Lily will ever catch up with daddy? (Let's hope not!)

Lily is five months old

Lily is five months old today! This picture of her, taken yesterday, may be my new all-time favorite:

Here's another one in her trainer chair -- she's learning to sit up!

Everything is A-OK!

This picture was actually taken a few weeks back...

...And these two were taken just yesterday. I call that last picture, everything is A-OK! And so it seems to be in Lily's world. She's happy, healthy, and growing (14 pounds, 13 ounces as of yesterday -- more than double her birth weight). Her motor skills are expanding. She smiles and even laughs aloud quite a lot (Mini really knows how to get her going), and is giving us lots of baby talk these days. She's very good natured and a daily joy.

Laughing Lily

Lily is 21 weeks old -- almost 5 months. She has been learning to laugh out loud. She's doing a lot more baby "talking" too -- she's discovered her vocal cords and is learning to use them. It's been a lot of fun to play with her. This picture is shot right in the midst of a big laugh...

Pretty in Papasan

Lily got a new "papasan" chair this week, courtesy one of our kind neighbors who gave it to us. She loves to sit in it. Very adorable.

Indian princess

Here's a picture of Lily in Indian raiment. She turned 4 months old on October 11.

Typical American girl

A funny thing happened at last weekend's camp with the South Asian congregation, that I thought I would post on the blog, and give some of you a laugh. First you have to have two pieces of background information:

First, as you may know Indian culture has different standards of modesty and propriety than US culture, and baring your legs, even wearing a dress where your knees on down are showing, is considered immodest, especially by the older generation.

Second, our precious daughter Lily hates to be covered up when she lies down to sleep. If we put a blanket or something over her, she always flails her legs like she is performing Riverdance, and kicks it right off.

OK, so, last week we were at the Indian church camp in Big Bear. We were above 7,000 feet elevation, and it was cold at night, and we wrapped Lily up in a blanket to keep her warm, but by morning, sure enough, she had kicked it off and her skin was COLD even inside of her sleeper bodysuit. No harm done, Lily was fine. That morning Mini was telling one of the older Indian “aunties” at the retreat about how Lily had kicked off her blanket, the reason being that Lily doesn’t like to have her legs covered up. Without a moment’s hesitation, and as far as we can tell in complete seriousness, this Indian auntie says, “Typical American girl!” Mini and I laughed and laughed at the suggestion of Lily's lack of modesty, at less than four months old (!), as if she were posing for an unsavory magazine or something. It was hilarious!