Happy Birthday Delanie!

Here is a clip of Delanie blowing out her candles at her birthday party!

Happy Birthday Delanie!

For me, the most stressful part of the birthday party is the presents! So, we took them home from the party and had Delanie open them after her nap. As you can see, pants are optional on your birthday. Are are a few pictures of the present opening, but it was hard to get any pictures because in her excitement, she kept turning her back to me!







Thank you Lukas and Ryan for the garden set! I am very excited to have my own!

Thank you Nana, Papa and Patrick for the Care Bears! They were a big hit with me - I am sure they will be sleeping with me tonight!

Thank you Caleb for all my great gifts - I was especially interested in the bath crayons!

Thank you Reid and Wrenn for this neat sprinkler - we'll have to invite you over to play with it this summer!

Happy Birthday Delanie!

Happy Birthday, Delanie!

New Swingset

Here are a few pics of the new swingset, her big birthday gift:

ALMOST 2!

Delanie is only a few days away from her second birthday! And, two years old is certainly a mix of the GOOD, the BAD, and the UGLY.

Some examples:

The GOOD:
"Tag You're It!" (Which sounds more like tag-ur-ie)
"Uno, dos, tres, quatro..." (up to 10)
"Bailey is like Huckle Cat" (A shout-out to Busytown)
"I love you Mommy" (after bedtime yesterday)
"Delanie talks to statues" (after hearing the Jimmy Buffett song on this blog only twice)

THE BAD:
"No ponytails. Mommy no play with you hair."
"No potty!"
"Mommy milkmilkmilkmilkmilkmilkmilk dinnnnnner!" (at 4:30 pm every afternoon)
"Deanna, here." (yes she actually said this today, and my jaw dropped wide open!)

THE UGLY:
"NO, I don't want to." (repeat and run)

And, another caveat of being two is the refusal to do anything on cue, including smile for the camera.

But, the beauty of being two is no sense of time or temperature! Here we are, near dusk on cold pavement, as Delanie whispers, "Mommy, I see woodpecker up there. I see owl up there. I hear birds singing!" We watched the birds (mostly sparrows) in the trees for nearly 20 minutes.

We also have a bird's nest on our porch. The other day, I tried explaining to Delanie that the birds would gather leaves and grass to make the nest, then they would lay eggs and the eggs would hatch and become baby birds. Lo and behold, several days later when I offered her eggs for breakfast, she scrunched up her nose and said, "no eggs, eggs on top of leaves and grass in nest."

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Thank you Mamo for the green shamrock bow! Unfortunately, we are in a "No ponytails!!" stage, so in order to get her to agree to the ponytail, I had to first put one in my hair. And, even then, the ponytail only lasted through breakfast.

Thank you Grandma and Grandpa for the shamrock dress! It was a hit at school today! I'm not sure it'll ever be white again, but it was fun to wear!

Here is Delanie showing the camera a picture of a girl going potty, it was the only way I could get her to smile for the camera!