Maryland and Lily achievements

I feel like we've been on the go non-stop the past few weeks! This past weekend we went to Maryland with my parents for my cousin's baby shower. We were able to leave Friday since Matt didn't have to work. Friday was crazy - had lunch at my favorite place up there: Lintini's. Then we started to head to the hotel. My dad had requested adjoining rooms so we could put Lily to bed and then be able to stay up next door. Well.... they were doing major renovations to the hotel and told my dad they didn't have any adjoining rooms. If you know my dad, he can get what he wants a lot of times. :) Well - he did. Somehow he ended up seeing the owner of all the marriott resorts there in Frederick and got like everybody working on this for us. They gave us one room for the afternoon so we could go ahead and put Lily to sleep for her nap. While that was happening, they rushed to get two of the newly renovated rooms completed for us that were adjoining. So by 5PM they had the new rooms done. They made us homemade cookies, offered to get us pizza, and kept asking us all the time if everything was okay. The new rooms were VERY nice - almost like suites and had not one, but TWO flat screen tv's. The owner also gave my dad the rooms for free for the weekend and all of his marriot rewards points back. Crazy! We got the royal treatment.

Lily stayed with Matt and grandpa at the hotel while my mom and I went to the shower that morning. I won the "match the celebrity with their baby name" game. I know my celebrities! :) That afternoon/evening we just hung out at my Aunt Darlene and Uncle Tom's house. Lily loved Uncle Tom. She kept crawling over to him for him to pick her up - it was really cute. My cousin's little girl Rachael loved Lily. She was so sweet with her! I don't really have many pics from the weekend cause my mom took most of them with her camera.

Then Sunday we headed for home but took a stop in Leesburg where there's a big outlet mall. :) Grandma bought Lily a bunch of new clothes for the fall/winter from Carter's!! Yeah!! Lily is going to be styling. While we were at the outlets, Matt was feeding Lily her lunch in the food court while I was shopping some. Lily took a dump in her diaper so Matt had to change it since he couldn't find me. So that was the first time he had to take Lily into a men's public bathroom to change her. :) He tries to avoid that at all costs!

Finally a cute story about Lily... The other night Lily had been playing with this stuffed toy tiger. Matt started playing peekaboo around the corner with her. So of course Lily starts to take off to go and get him but then turns around, grabs the tiger, and then continues to proceed towards Matt. It was SO cute how she wanted to take the tiger with her! Lily is trying hard to crawl up on all 4's. She takes like one crawl forward on her knees but then decides that it's just easier to do the army crawl and goes back down. Here's a cute pic of her playing dress up in our closet the other day:

This coming weekend will be yet another busy one. We're headed to NC to visit my sister's family. I'm so excited to see Cecilia and Owen cause I haven't seen them since they were born! And, of course, Ava too! :) Here's some cute pics of the twins - they're growing so fast.

Cecilia sending her Aunt Amanda hugs:

"MOM, Owen's touching me!!!!"