Clifford and George: Crazy Weekend

This weekend Andy had to be at work for a car wash fundraiser both Saturday and Sunday. Lilly loves her time on weekends with Daddy so this was not easy on her. Saturday she was ok because we had breakfast at the DiNunzio's and she loves to be with them. Then we went to the party store and she picked out her Halloween costume! It was a lot of fun. I intended on just looking to see what they had but you don't take a 2 year old to a costume store just to look so we left with the entire costume that she's been wearing ever since. You'll have to wait for the unveling...

Last night we lost power for about 4 hours (it went out at 9:00 p.m.). It complicated things since Lilly sleeps with a very loud fan and a nightlight. We have very very squeaky hardwood floors and the fan is the only way to keep her asleep while walking upstairs. It was also 90 degrees yesterday with high humidity so after an hour or so of no electricity Lilly awoke, hot and in the dark. She stood in her crib crying frantically wondering I'm sure why her room was so dark. I ran up with a candle and got her back to sleep. This continued a few times. I finally put a candle in her room but then couldn't go to bed myself knowing there was a candle in her room (even though it was a small Yankee candle in a jar). So I sat up waiting for the power to come back on. At 1:15 a.m. the power came on and I was able to take the candle out of her room and get to sleep myself. I was thankful it was not 6 a.m. as the man suggested when I called at 12:30 a.m.

This morning Andy had to go back to work for the final day of the car wash. Lilly did not make it easy for him as he was leaving. She started crying saying, "No work Daddy!" and walking around with a boo-boo lip and chin quivering. It was really sad. He felt horrible as he left. Once he shut the door she was really crying so I told her we could go surprise him. I made her breakfast (she requested eggs with cheese and a peach - love this age) and we both got ready and headed to Daddy's work. We talked the whole way about school tomorrow (God give me strength) and about surprising Daddy. She's so fun to chat with. When we were about 10 minutes away Andy texted me that he was heart broken so I was excited that we had decided to surprise him. Needless to say he was very happy to see us and we had a good time visiting. It was extremely hot out today (93 degrees and full humidity) so we headed in from the car wash and Andy let Lilly sing in the microphone on his stage. It was SO CUTE!! She doesn't have a shy bone in her body. Took that mic like she'd been doing it all her life. She sang, and sang, and walked the stage, and sang some more. She held it just right and sounded so cute! Some parents walked in to get things and she smiled and kept on singing. I tried to capture it on Andy's work camera but am not used to the camera and couldn't get great pictures but here she is in action...