It's been a while...

It has been quite a while since I've posted anything and mostly because our household has been dealing with sickness and other such things, so I have been remiss. Anyhoo, here is the post. There were so many Christmas pics to choose from that I decided just not to post much at all. I will try to e-mail some pics out to the different families of the respective Christmas festivities. But, here is Delaney Christmas morning in her new kitty pajamas opening her first present. She got stickers. She shared them all with me.

We have done some outings despite the wet weather. Here she is very excited about going to the zoo. She and I went all by ourselves since Dan had come down with something. She had been cooped up in the house for a long time with her double ear infection and it was just a necessity to get her out for some fun, rain or not.

She had fun even with the wet weather.

She even got to try her first hot chocolate.

One day we also got out to Owens Beach. Here she was picking out the perfect rock.

Our little girl is getting so big. Where does the time go?

Delaney also caught a stomach bug this last month. We knew something was wrong when she fell asleep in her beanbag chair. She NEVER falls asleep in the living room. But it was cute.

And she got another boo-boo at daycare. She fell off the slide and smacked her cheek. It just looked a little scraped up at first and then it bruised pretty good after that. It wasn't the worst she's done, but it caused some soreness for a few days.

Our nice little girl is almost two and we are seeing it. Her development has taken such leaps and bounds lately and with the good, comes the bad. We are seeing the tantrums and most of the time, it is hard not to laugh. So what do we do? We take pictures. Here is one from last night. Two minutes later she was up laughing and giving us hugs again.

Happy New Year!

I would love to post a long eloquent post about the new year and resolutions and what the past year has been for us, but I am too tired from having a little one with a double ear infection who can't sleep all week. So, instead I will say that our New Year's was spent sleeping except for waking up for the sound of all the fireworks in the neighborhood. However, not to be left out, Delaney woke up and was up from 1 until 5 due to medicines, ear infection, digestion issues, etc. I will say that the last few days have probably been my most trying days as a parent so far with Delaney extremely crabby and fragile, but it has been good for teaching me lessons in patience and I have gotten a few extra hugs and kisses from her. Today, due to Dan catching her cold and the utter need for Delaney and I to get out of the house, she and I went to the zoo all by ourselves. We had a great, yet cold time. Delaney even got to try her first hot chocolate.

It is back to the routine starting tomorrow and while I am sad the holidays are over, I am ready to get back into the swing of things. Right now, I am just hoping for some sleep and wellness for all of us. Well, I hope the long eloquent post is still coming sometime, but I will make no guarantees. Christmas pictures are coming as well, but sometime when I can think clearly and not be running on caffeine along. So, we hope you all had a Happy New Year and wishing you all a wonderful 2010!

Since there are no big loads of Christmas pictures, here is a short little video of my wee one being a ham and cracking me up~