Day at the park

Kelly Andrews — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 13:24:35 +0000

We took advantage of the beautiful weather yesterday and went for a family walk along the river. Delaney squealed the entire time (she LOVES going on walks), and Murphy had fun checking out all of the ducks..

Testing out her independence

Kelly Andrews — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 16:38:15 +0000

From day one, Delaney has been such a sweet, laid back little girl. As I’ve mentioned before on the blog, she’s okay with whatever we have her doing. As long as she gets the sleep and food she needs, she’s up for anything. The first ten months of parenting has been a breeze.

And then we entered the eleventh month. Once Delaney started crawling and realized that she had control what she was doing, she started testing her independence with every situation. We suddenly saw an attitude appear out of nowhere this past week – and it surprised us!

I’ve actually been concerned in the past that Delaney wouldn’t stand up for herself and would get walked over in life because she was so easy going. But it looks like she does have a fire inside of her after all. And she’s not ashamed to show it!

In fact, Matt said to me this morning, “Babe, it’s a shame that aliens kidnapped our sweet daughter and replaced her with Diana Ross. We now have a diva in the house.”

She was banging on my computer keyboard and started screaming with frustration when I moved her hands away. She was happily playing on the floor and started screaming with frustration when Matt picked her up for a kiss. She was trying to stand by pulling herself up on the couch and started screaming with frustration when she would fall. She was waiting for us to read her nightly bedtime books and started screaming with frustration when it took us too long to get started.

Just when we were getting too cocky as parents because our child was extremely well behaved, sweet, cuddly and chill, this attitude appeared out of nowhere.

At least her frustrated face is so darn cute. (And, of course, us snickering at her annoyed expression just made her scream with frustration even more.)

Cold winter night

Kelly Andrews — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:30:15 +0000

It’s 20 degrees outside, and it doesn’t seem much warmer than that in Delaney’s room. So she’s bunking with us tonight. What a sweet face to sleep next to all night!

Snuggling

Kelly Andrews — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:45:59 +0000

Sick mommy + sleepy baby = lots of cuddling time

Bouncy Delaney

Kelly Andrews — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:02:30 +0000

Delaney loves attention, and Murphy is a reliable audience. Here’s how the daily dance goes at our house:

Delaney rocks out in her bouncy seat. Then she pauses to make sure Murphy is still watching.

Then she squeals and thrashes about some more. Then she pauses to make sure Murphy is watching.

Then she bounces some more and flails her hands. Then she pauses to make sure Murphy is watching.

And the beat goes on…

D and Murphy

Kelly Andrews — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:50:34 +0000

This is the only time Murphy can relax these days – when Delaney is contained in the Pack ‘n Play. Now that she’s very mobile and very fast, she is constantly chasing him to pull his tail and grab his feet!

Good morning!

Kelly Andrews — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:16:08 +0000

I received this photo from the daycare this morning. Clearly the ladies were amused at our groggy girl who isn’t a morning person!

Look who is crawling!

Kelly Andrews — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:27:14 +0000

9-months old

Kelly Andrews — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:49:24 +0000

She had a very successful 9-month doctor visit today. It won’t come as much surprise that this girl is super long and super thin! She’s measuring in the 95% for height and 20% for weight. But her eating and sleeping are right on target, so she’s growing like she should be.

And we spotted two new teeth during the visit! She is getting in her “top lateral incisors” (meaning that the two front middle teeth are still to be seen). The doctor said that it’s actually rather rare to get those teeth in before the front middle ones, but the same thing happened to her own kids. So Delaney is in good company.

She was checked for anemia (she’s fine) and received her second flu shot. After just a few tears, she was back to babbling at the doctor and trying to lick her stethoscope in no time.

There were three newborn babies (all within five days old) at the doctor’s office today. Wow – it really showed just how much Delaney has grown in nine months. I’ve already forgotten just how tiny she used to be! Now she’s a busy bee who loves to rock out in her bouncy seat!

More fun with Holly and Will

Kelly Andrews — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:44:43 +0000

I cannot say just how much we lucked out finding Holly and Will. Holly takes such great care of Delaney while I work, and Will and Delaney always have a blast playing together. Because of them, Delaney has the best social life out of the three of us!

She had fun with them at the aquarium, where Will counted all of the fish for Delaney.

They also had a great time at the zoo with Holly’s mom (Delaney is making her new “face of the month” – her pucker face).