Sorry for the delinquency!

First, let me just apologize for the lack of videos! Our camera's rechargeable batteries have kicked the bucket and I the regular batteries don't seem to have enough juice for it so I've had a serious lack of battery power. But that is really no excuse I know, especially when Lillian has grandparents who want to see her and poor Amy, having to watch these videos over and over and over and over again with nothing new to see! So, I don't even know if these videos are even very cute/funny/noteworthy, but for the sake of something new, here they are!!!!


Lillian's favorite activity lately is digging in the greenhouse. She can do it for hours. Adding water to the activity makes it even better. She always comes out with a mud mustache which makes me wonder if she actually *likes* the taste of dirt. "Dirt" is a new fave vocab word of hers and it is one of the few words she speaks in German as well (Erde) (she understands many words in both languages but mostly says words in one or the other at this point). Aren't her tools cute?


Lillian chats on the cell phone in the car on the way to Auntie's.


Lillian has more fun with the cell phone in the car on a trip.

Videos for Aunt Michelle

Lillian knows who her god-brother is! (Is there such thing? If there is, it doesn't mean you can't marry them though I know...)


Lillian enjoys the singing card. Of course, when I was not taping she danced more, but there was no way I was going to get that on tape, but I think you can see her that she likes it! :)

Lillian's Words

Lillian says some words from our picture dictionary!
The camera shots are pretty bad, but I couldn't decide how to do it!


Lillian discovers a tractor (Trecker in German) in her book!



Book - probably the word Lillian says the most because she always wants to read them! I love my little bookworm!



This is how Lillian's says her name. It kind of sounds like Lily minus the Ls.

Body part identification

Well, I was showing off how well Lillian identifies her various body parts, but it sort of went South at some point... :) I guess she didn't want to look *too* good and make other babies jealous or something. :) By the way, I'm sorry--I forgot that you can't videotape in portrait (or at least I can't figure out how to rotate it here anyway). So, just cock your head to one side or something. {-:

And now in German...


When Matthias saw Lillian identifying her body parts in English, he was envious that she knew the English words, but it turns out she knows the German too! She missed the legs (Beine) again, but got all the others! Now you can learn some German too!

Singing in front of the fridge

Lillian sits in front of her little fridge phonics toy on the fridge and sings her own song. Sometimes she sings along with the toy, but today she does her own thing.


I can't really get it on film, but this is sort of what it's like when Lillian sings along with the fridge phonics. Usually she imitates the tune and sounds a bit more closely. :)