Christmas 2011 with Lily/tutu

Daddy is away at work and he sent Lily a special gift...one that is worn every day unless it is being washed!

Christmas 2011 with Lily/Stocking

Lily opens her Christmas Stocking at Tabi's house

More Christmas 2011 with Lily

This video is a favorite. Enjoy!

Christmas with Lily

Lily started Montessori School in September 2011 and this is part of her end of year Christmas farewell.

Dec 1st 2011

Just starting to get back to the blog and really want to keep up with it. Really fun to look back at older posts.
Well I am on my way to Barbados for another charter during the winter season here in the Caribbean and heading back to Florida and hopefully home late January.
Lil is a nut right now and driving Wendy crazy with her defiant attitude. However she is getting great reports from school on her behavior and attitude towards others so the hard work is paying off just not at home! She just got a new easel as you can see and loves it.

Easter Egg Hunting

Lil had a little Easter Egg hunt at her friend Caba's house yesterday and seemed to really enjoy herself. She is starting to put more and more words together, seems to absolutely love band-aids and the other night got out of bed called down to Mommy and let her know that she needed a band-aid, which was put on (usually tops of hands) and she was right off to sleep.
Yesterday for the first time she also said into the skype "daddy home" meaning she wanted me to come home. I did not like hearing that at all but knew it was coming. She is really patient with me being gone so hopefully that keeps up.

Nana's House for Easter

We all met at Nana's for an early Easter this past Saturday on Dad's drive down from NY to Miami. Friday afternoon Mom and Lilton's rolled in and dad was not far behind. Wasn't long and Dad and Lil were playing with the football out the back. As usual Rob and Wendy's time together took a backseat but we promised each other to make up for it when I get home. Blaire, Brad and Chandler and Adam showed up shortly after and we all ate dinner that Nanna had set up for us. We all sat around and caught up till Nanna came home. Had a tough night sleep thanks to Dad and Lil having colds as usual, somehow Wendy took care of it all as usual.
Saturday rolled around EARLY thanks to Lil and we all headed downstairs to great Nana. We put together the new Tricycle that Lil got from Nana and headed outside to roll around (video included).
Everyone showed up just as we had to go (Dad to Miami and Mom home) and it was tough to say hi and bye with all the family and good food around but it was a good thing we did. Girls got stuck on Bridge, and Dad, well he had to literally run under a bridge from a tornado.

Braided Pony Tail

Well it finally happened, Wendy braided Lily's hair for the first time tonight and what a sight! She looked like such a grown up little girl I just could not believe it. It seems like this pat month has been a real time of growth for her physically, mentally and emotionally. Next Friday we will all finally get to see each other again along with all the other family members for an early Christmas.
Some of her favorite sayings:
Oh NOOOO!
Oh Baby! (this is said to everyone)
Favorite things are her animals, Dolls (BIG, Tiny and Elmo) and of course loving books and music. Also seems particularly interested in Bobby Farmer for some reason.

September 2010

The month of talking. Lily must have fifty words in her vocabulary and there are new ones added daily. She even has a couple sentences like "it's a bug" which is a favorite while watching fruit flies. A couple other favorites are fluff, Momma, Milk, More, Come on (when leading you by the hand somewhere), outside, bus, truck and of course, show,show,show... when she wants to watch her new show that Wendy introduced her to and she loves. Baby Einstein videos with farm animals and she goes crazy for them.
Lily also started her first days of school this month with Ivy. She is loving it and becoming very comfortable.

August 2010

Wendy and lily came down to visit Dad in Florida. Mom got to do some much needed shopping at a decent mall and hang out with Dulcie and Solomon for a couple days while Dad was at work. Lily had here first Ice Cream cone...I think it was mint chocolate chip. She did great on the trip sleeping well in her pack and play for the first time since getting her real bed. She has even more words and is sighing lots and is learning how to jump.

July 2010

Dad is off to work on the Mi Sueno down in Florida. Lily has quite a few words these days and is walking fast as ever.

June 2010

Busy this month with the Farmer wedding, Mom, Brad and the kids all coming down and heading to NY for some work the end of the month to give Georgina a vacation. Wendy and Lily along with Jessie were in a car accident on the bypass totaling the 4 runner. Luckily no one was seriously injured. Lily was just looking around with her mouth wide open. They were on their way to the beach rehearsal. Got to spend so time with the Williams' and Yvonne at the beach.
Lily is saying a few words and really signing a lot too.
Lily also started going to Jamie Parker's with her best friend Eleni.

March 2010

So big changes this month. The boat I was working on went up for sale and was "mothballed" letting most of the crew go with a nice severance.
Taking time off to hang out with the family and get some things done around the house.

Snow Flakes

I took Lily out in her first snow today, she was quite facinated by it. She has always enjoyed being outside, there is always a smile on her face as soon as we step out the door. Today she saw something new and fun though there wasn't enough snow to make a snowman.

Lily learning to walk Feb 2010

Tammy and I are having a lot of fun as Lily learns to walk, its very cute and entertaining.

Lily's Walking!!!!!

After trying for some time and only taking a couple of cautious steps here and there Lily finally found her footing today and started really walking around to get from one spot to another with lots of confidence and pride!
Maybe it was the visit from her friend Sadie who traveled out with Jeanine while Willy was in Dallas getting snowed on that gave her the boost she needed.
It all happened this afternoon with Mommy and lasted into the evening showing off for Dad on the Skype.
What a real milestone! She is growing up so fast right now and showing us who she is and want's to be.
Congratulations to you Lilzers!!!!!!!

Lilys first birthday Feb 6th 2010

At home with Lily on her first birthday. Very special day though Rob was not with us. We enjoyed an early birthday celebration in Florida with Rob, we had cake which Lily helped to make. Back at home it was a quiet day though we had many phone calls from family and friends to wish Lily well and we had a nice skype with dad to mark the day.

Merry Christmas and Happy New year!!

The girls flew into Norfolk late Christmas eve without too much trouble and we all headed straight home to get them into their own beds for the first time in 5 weeks. It was great to see both of them and so sweet to see Wendy walking Lily down the terminal on her own little feet!

Waking up Christmas morning could not have been better with all of us there together and watching Lilzers play with her new walking toy and blocks. As per Christmas tradition the past couple of years Chip and Tammy came over for some champagne and frittatas and good times.

Unfortunately our trip to Richmond for the family Christmas did not happen for us because the gilrs both ran into some pretty good jet-lag. We did head up the following day and had a great time with mom and got to see Brad briefly at work.

Our last couple days at home were really nice and very chill, just hanging out and enjoying each others company. The boat come back into town on the 30th so I had to head back to work missing Blaise and John's bday party and missing all the fun activities and bday party for Tammy and their week in the cottage. Wendy and Lily did make it over a couple of times and New Years Eve.

Wendy had her first half day off in just about a year the other day, taking her to Nick and Dawn's place for the afternoon. They very generously offered to have Lily over and play with Eleni and did very well even taking a nap over there. It must have been heaven for Wendy.

In just a couple of weeks the girls are heading down here to Florida for a nice stay hopefully extending all the way to Lily's 1st birthday.

Nov. 5th Papa is coming home!

First thing tomorrow morning Dad is flying home to see the family. I can't wait to give them both a big hug, give Wendy a big break and take her on a date or two! Can't wait to stare endlessly at Lily and listen to every word she has to say. Also can't wait to wrestle with Bindi and get a few good scratches and bites.

First night is in Richmond and the next morning we hit the photo studio with Brad and the boys, should be lots of fun.

It has been tough being away this long but hopefully we will be able to make some changes that will lead to much more time together. This job has been great and really came at a great time, especially when I hear about what others are going through. It has helped us to gain bakc some of the ground we lost during the slow summer of 08 and the terrible freelance yacht season the winter following.

Maybe when times get better we can make some significant changes to make it easier for us all.

The future..... what does it hold?

Ocotber 25th 2009

Getting towards the end of October here and can't wait to get home again on Nov. 6th. Heading straight to Richmond for some family time and photos of all the grandkids together.
Palm Beach has been nice with great weather and a very nice crew facility here. Even got a great surf in last weekend. This weekend just got chased out of the water by a fairly decent size shark while having a swim. Oh well. Heading to Ft. Lauderdale for the boat show this week so that will help speed up the time till I'm heading home!

Wendy is getting into a nice litle routine with the Lilzers although routine can also mean monotony for mom. Hopefully I can help break this up some when home.

Right after I leave the girls will be heading off to New Zealand!!!! Hopefully Lily will gain an accent if possible and saying things like, fush and chups.

Hopefully her sleeping will have gotten better by then with all of her teeth seemingly coming in at once, poor thing. She is quite the little trooper though.

Looks like she is ready for Holloween with a gift from Kay and Skip.