Sunny 9 for 2006 September 26

Today at the grocery store Lily really wanted tomatoes while I was in the produce section. Since I want to encourage her healthy eating choices, I decided to just let her eat the tomato right then and there before paying for it. She then proceeded to eat the entire thing, brown spot from the vine and all. She subsequently asked for another and another. Girl likes tomatoes. She ate three whole roma tomatoes while we strolled through the isles. It kept her happy and occupied and pretty much covered her lunch. They say not to go grocery shopping while hungry but in this case it was great.

I have been known to open the fruit snacks box too or a package of M&M's or some strawberries to pacify Lily as well. Obviously, I can't wash the fruit but I suppose it is good for her immune system, right? Does water really wash all germs off the skin of a fruit or vegetable anyway, I wonder? The confusing part about tomatoes is it doesn’t come in a box like fruit snacks or strawberries. So when we got to the check out stand I just told him to weigh them and then take out another three to weigh since she ate them already.

Some of Lily's favorite past times lately have been watching “Dora”. For some reason she loves Dora now. It is interesting to see where her interests take her, but why are little girls so attracted to Dora? I don't know how many times I have commented to Aaron that I don't understand why they made her hair so blocky and ugly.

Lily also loves to color in her new coloring book and with her new jumbo crayons. It has been really helpful for her in learning her colors. I think her favorite color is orange for a couple reasons. When she was little, every time she saw her orange jacket she would demand that I put it on her. She points out random things that are orange. It was the first color she really recognized and knows. She even went as far as wanting to carry around the orange crayon while she was playing and while we color she frequently picks that one up. She has this outfit now that has orange lilies on the skirt and an orange shirt. Every time she sees it, she wants to put on the "cute". We have had fights over putting on this outfit on after she spots it in the dirty clothes basket.

Aaron and I went out to buy Lily's Halloween costume this weekend. There was the chicken costume at Children's Place that I wanted to get but also wanted to get Aaron's ok, so I waited to buy it. It was sold out at the store, so we bought the lion one instead. They only had 6-12 month for the biggest size so we tried it on her to see if it would fit. It did, barely. Snug, but I think it is cuter that way so the costume doesn't swallow her up. We put her up to the mirror and told her to say "roar". It was too cute. She loved it and of course was upset when we took it off her to pay for it. I am going to try another location and see if they have the chicken costume though.