Liliana Blog

Next month my little girl Liliana turns two. She is my big bundle of curly blond hair - and she knows it too. She is starting to make up little games of interaction and then demand that we play them over and over again with her. We kiss her and she giggles, waits a minute and says "nother one" and we kiss her again. Loud and demanding and she gets a big smoocher, whisper soft and she gets a whisper peck. She giggles on and on. Her abuelita tita hid a small toy down inside Liliana's jammies, and after she searched and searched, zipping and unzipping she finally grabbed it. "Found it" she squealed. When she was all zipped up and held the toy aloft - she proceeded to push it right back down her jammies and start all over again. Much to everyones delight. My mom also showed her what happened when you squeeze a file cannister - popping the lid accross the room. Liliana was so excited, running to find the lid, bringing it back over to her Tita, demanding to be gathered up on a lap, and squeezing again. On Friday Night we went to a zoo party. Kids were dancing on stage and Marialice and I sat on the bleachers accross the way. Over and over, Liliana ran from the stage to tell us she was dancing, and then when we told her "yes, you are..." she ran back and climbed back up on stage and wiggled around. I love the social interaction, I love the recognition that she is playing with her family, and I love her smile. The picture below was taken in October, throwing rocks in the creek, near Sale Creek TN.