Sunny 9 for 2006 June 24

When Jenni had her baby we got to have Caden come over for 2 whole days. Lily just loved playing with "Cay-en" so much that she talks about him non-stop. We have a picture on the fridge of their family and Lily always has to see and point to "Cay-en". They really did play well together. Lily didn't even get jealous when Caden played with her toys. I think it might have something to do with Caden being a boy and maybe she has a crush on him because she has a meltdown when her girlfriend Maddie plays with her toys.

The greatest gift that Caden gave to Lily though was about a month ago when Jenni, Erin, and I met at Pei Wei for lunch. Caden has his portable DVD player on and since Caden was watching Elmo it instantly became Lily's favorite show. (Another reason why I think it is a crush because she adores everything Caden does.) Even though Lily had no idea what this Elmo puppet was about and she had only see like 5 minutes of the show, she would randomly just say "Elmo". We would be driving in the car 2 weeks after seeing it and she still remembered it and would say "Elmo". Then we got cable a couple of weeks ago for the summer since Aaron was out of school and I am pretty much homebound from this pregnancy and the heat. We were flipping through channels one morning and there he was. Lily knew instantly that it was Elmo and she began squealing for joy, "ELMO!” Aaron even said one morning he opened her door and the first thing she said was...you guessed it, Elmo.

Now, I'm still not sure if this is a cute thing or not. I am not the type of person that wants to deal with kids' TV withdrawals, and that is why before this Lily has never watched TV really. An occasional Baby Einstein video when I am in the shower once a week, but alas! In my moment of pregnancy weakness, aghhh what the heck.