Here We Grow....Again!!

Most of you probably already know by now (via FB, of course...) that we're excitedly expecting a little brother or sister for Miss Lilli!! We are thrilled to be preparing to welcome baby #2 to the Rigby family this August!!

We will be sure to post updates to the blog as our new baby grows, so check back with us often!

Happy 1st Birthday, Lillian!!

This past Friday (October 22) we celebrated our beautiful girl's very 1st birthday! We enjoyed a nice quiet day at home on Friday and then had a party on Saturday at Tim's Pumpkin Patch in Skaneateles. The weather was gorgeous (55 and sunny...considering it's snowed this early in years past, we were very grateful for the weather we had)! The party was lots of fun and Lilli received many girly gifts as well as a few very special gifts, including a quilt from Grammy and Poppy Rigby (which was comprised of quilt blocks from my grandmother's unfinished trunk of quilts) and a beautifully framed photo of Lilli's feet at birth from her Auntie Moo, Uncle Terry, Emma & Tyler. It was such a wonderful weekend of celebration and it's hard for us to believe that a year has gone by already!!

P.S. Aunt Ca and Auntie Nee (and your families, of course) - We missed you all very much and wish you could have been here to celebrate with us! Hopefully we will get to visit with you soon!! We love you!!

Photo Shoot - Year One

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Lilli's 3/4 Birthday

Today Lilli turns 3/4 of a year old! It's hard to believe that I'm already planning her first birthday party, knowing that it's just around the corner. Our baby is getting so big!

8 Months

WOW! 8 months!

Month 7 was full of milestones. I feel like I say that every month, but this past month seemed the biggest by far. Lilli cut her two bottom teeth in one week, mastered her army crawl and quickly went into a full crawl, mastered pulling herself up and walking along the edges of the furniture, and is still making great strides at standing on her own. She's also learned to clap by herself (of which she is most proud), mastered her pincer grip, is feeding herself snacks, and has even climbed stairs (yes, we quickly remedied that with more gates). We're so proud of our big girl and how quickly she is learning things! She is such a little sponge! I'm sure that month 8 will be just as amazing and that in her 9 month post I'll be saying..."Month 8 was full of milestones" yet again!!

Ocean City, MD

Over the long holiday weekend, Lilli and I took a girls trip to Ocean City, MD. A few of my girlfriends and one other baby went along for the trip as well. We rented a beautiful condo right on the Boardwalk in Downtown Ocean City. The location was perfect and very family friendly! Lilli loved every minute of the trip, right down to the sand and splashing around in the pool! She was such a good girl! My girlfriends and I decided to take a nanny along so we could also go out and play, which was such a great idea!

Also while we were gone, Lilli had her first tooth cut through, which was very exciting. She is now also budding her second bottom tooth! Ryan stayed behind and was able to get a lot of the house projects finished or nearly finished, so it was nice to come home to some much needed changes. We're happy to be back home with Daddy and enjoyed our first trip to the beach!

7 Months

It's hard to believe that Lilli's first year has officially tipped past the halfway point! I don't care to talk about it a lot, because it means that our girl is getting so big and that makes me very sad...but it's been such an amazing ride so far and we're very proud of all the things she's accomplished in her short 7 months!! She sits up like a pro, babbles "dada", "mama", "baba" and "lala" in long and amusing strings, is intrigued by her Daddy's silly face (and copies by making her own, as you can see) and, oh yeah, did I mention she's CRAWLING?!?! She's officially mastered the army crawl and while she does get up on all fours and wiggles herself around, we've found that she's not really a fan of crawling while she's on all fours. She also managed to stand on her own for a solid 20 seconds just prior to her 7 month birthday, so I'm afraid we may have an early walker on our hands. Every day Lilli wakes up with a new trick up her sleeve and we are enjoying every moment of it! And I suppose now that we're on the downhill slide to the 1st birthday, I better start planning!