“OK, I feel like I’ve paddled into some deeper waters here.”
“Well I have been sleeping better and I feel like I have more energy…oh you’re good.”
“We’re gonna need a bigger belt.”
Did they run these episodes out of order? Gloria looked more pregnant in “Schooled” than “Snip”, plus pretty sure she was in maternity clothes in “Schooled”.
ETA: No, obviously not, with Haley away at school. Still…
Usually Luke provides my favorite line but this time it was Jay: Re: Gloria’s pregnancy: “She’s Latina, you just have to look at her funny.”
So let me get this straight. Two years ago Lily was a baby. Last year she was a walking talking three-year-old. Now she’s in kindergarten? 
Well, some kindergarteners are still four, depending on the cut off dates, so it’s possible…
Is there any reason to believe that time passes in the show at the same pace as real life? How many decades has Bart Simpson been 10 years old?
And even if the kids seem to be aging at different rates, so what? The dhow might use the forms if documentary but it – unlike The Office – is not meant to actually be a documentary.
I don’t know - I liked Luke’s “Congratulations, you raised a parrot.”
I was thinking exactly the same thing. She looked very pregnant in the first ep.
Well yeah, I don’t really expect realism in a sit-com. I was just commenting on how Lily seems to be caught in a time warp with respect to all the other characters on the show. TV shows seem to do this with little kids quite a bit. (Remember Family Ties?) At this rate Lily will be classmates with Luke and Manny in another couple of years! 
For the most part I agree. However Julie Bowen was pregnant during the filming of the first episode, and I had no idea until I read it online afterwards. (Having seen it since, it’s kind of obvious - she’s always holding washing or sitting down or standing behind things - but I think they did a great job hiding it.)
Considering Manny, Luke, and Alex are all within a couple of months of each other, I think they have to play fast and lose with the ages. They age them up or down in order to get maximum comedy (Luke knowing about Tequila shots and beer at college is not something that coincides with the rest of his normal naivete, for instance.) But I think Luke and Manny got bumped into eighth grade rather quickly too.