Lil Pumpkin

We had a GREAT Halloween. Friday Delaney a.k.a. Lil Pumpkin visited both of our offices. She didn't quite know why she was in costume or what she was supposed to be doing, but after two or three 'treats' she warmed right up. We attended our friend Kori's wedding that night, which started out well...but didn't last long for the little one. After a major meltdown Joe decided Delaney needed to go home.

Saturday Kristen came over along with Kori and some of the wedding party to trick or treat in the neighborhood. Now Delaney was a real pro! She was marching up drive ways and almost in to people's houses.

We had a great time and have good photos. Take a look in the album. Enjoy.

Jessica

Some Delaney anecdotes

On Tuesday morning Delaney was coughing, so I picked her up and sat in the rocking chair with her, where she started talking in her sleep.
What did she say?
"Ice cream."
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This morning Delaney was in her chair drinking her milk. I was in the kitchen singing "Hoist the Colours" from Pirates of the Caribbean (sue me, I'm a geek).
Delaney pointed at me and said "No!"
I stopped singing.
She went back to drinking her milk.

Busy Summer

We had a fun and busy summer. So busy, in fact, that we didn't get around to blogging very much. New photos in the album. She's looking more and more like a little girl and less like a baby.

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Our Top Chef

We took these photos a few weeks back. Our friends Drew & Deepa Buss had the mini-chef gear and Delaney loved it. More photos in the album.

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left right left right

Delaney is a walking machine. This week she switched from "mostly crawling/some walking" to "mostly walking/some crawling". She's had a very obvious increase in confidence and ability, and it's been very entertaining to watch her move around the house, from backdoor to bedroom and back again. It's a far cry from a year ago when we could place her on her blanket and there she would stay.
She's also getting good at following directions; tell her to take these shirts to Daddy, and she does it. She was also handing me her clean clothes so I could fold them.

On Thursday we took Delaney to her first baseball game, the Lincoln Saltdogs at Haymarket Park. She had a good time crawling around on the berm, and had plenty of activity to watch.

New pics are in the album...

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Video Test

Testing the new camera with Delaney walking around a bit...make sure to hit the HD and fullscreen buttons.

She's on her way!

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Delaney put all the pieces together today and decided to go ahead and start walking.

16 months

Well, after a month of ear infection, cold & cough, stomach virus, and double ear infection, everything seems to be settling down, other than the fact that Delaney now seems to have a bottomless pit for a stomach. I assume she's just trying to catch up on the weight she lost, but Jiminy!

She's been increasing her vocabulary bit by bit...she now says "outside", "night night", "all done", "more", "daddy", "mommy", "mine" (it might be "milk", though), "more", "go go go", "hi", "hello", "bye", "no", "baby", "puppy", and I'm sure there's some other things I just don't understand.

Her teeth are still coming in and her hair is filling in nicely, and she's well maintaining her cuteness quotient.

There was something else I was supposed to mention also...what was it? Oh yeah, she walked by herself tonight.

Some notes

Delaney went to her first pancake feed this morning.  She took her time and examined the room and then had some tasty pancakes and bananas.

She has two teeth now, upper and lower, and she's working on a couple more.  If you say "teeth", she'll start playing with them with her tongue.  

She's also started standing on her own.  She'll lean on me and then let go for a little bit, over and over.  You can tell she's working out the process, and seems to really enjoy it when she can do things like this on her own.

This week she's had an ear infection so we've been dealing with that, but at least it's not an ear issue.

She loves her shoes and socks, and tries to put them on herself.

It's hard to believe she's almost 16 months old.

15 Months

Delaney's 15 months (plus a couple weeks)!

She's really growing and changing...she's getting better and better at cruising and crawling and eating and talking and throwing fits and all that baby kine stuff. She's not quite ready to walk by herself, but she has a grand old time pushing around an upside down laundry hamper.
The other day she was standing at the sliding glass door, shouting....not screaming, but shouting. I don't know if she saw something, or was telling a story, or what. That's our girl.

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Delaney All Better

Delaney's feeling all better now, and the doctor says you'd never know she had ever been sick.
Actually, I think she's a little more active/rambunctious since coming home from the hospital.

Here are some videos of her moving around the living room. Enjoy!

Delaney Update, pt 2

We're home!

Delaney's doing much better, so they let us loose today. She still has to take some antibiotics and do some albutarol treatments, but we're definitely out of the woods.

Now we have to catch up with everything around the house. Thanks to everyone who wished us well, or sent us flowers, or ordered pizza! It definitely meant a lot to us.

Delaney update

Last Wednesday Delaney was diagnosed with RSV. By Thursday she was diagnosed with pneumonia, so we admitted her to the hospital and have been there since. Jess and I have been spending nights at the hospital (in a room with no wireless access of course) and alternating coming home during the days to clean up.
She's doing much better now...if she keeps up the good eating and drinking and comes off the oxygen successfully, we may be able to go home tomorrow. She has a lot more energy now, and as a consequence, has almost as much cabin fever as we do.
I was really not looking forward to seeing Delaney wearing an oxygen canula again.

New, unrelated pictures are in the album.

Rockin'!

Delaney tries out her new rocking thingamajig...





She's doing pretty well...starting to regularly mimic noises we make (which, apparently, means I have to stop making monster noises). She can also touch her head, nose, and mouth on command (or at least, when she feels like it), so I'm sure Harvard will be calling in a day or two.