Happy Hanamus!!!

Is it Olive or Rudolph?

Is it Tyson or Santa Claus?

Delaney's "My First Chanukah" outfit sports a dreidel on the bootie.


We had an excellent Chanukah at Nana's house. Everyone said they had cut back this year--but I have never seen a bigger pile of presents in my life. Delaney got so many wonderful things. She got so excited she fell over into a gift bag and we were all laughing so hard we forgot to help her at first. It didn't bother her too much though because she tried to climb back into the gift bag a couple of minutes later.
In this lovely pic we have Nutty and Randy going for a classy pose while Stan decides for a different look.

Nana and Delaney hang out at Chanukah.




Grammy and Delaney with the "My First Dreidel" book that plays the dreidel song over and over. Delaney loves it.

Nana bought Delaney her first baby doll.

Delaney being multicultural with Santa hat and Chanukah bib.


Little Santa monkey



We had Christmas Eve at our house with Renee, Jack, Cheri, Dave, Davis, Morgan and Grammy. The tradition meal of fried chicken was had and enjoyed by all. Delaney played so hard with Davis as seen here by the amount of drool on her outfit.



Randy and Delaney in front of the tree on Christmas morning.

Sleepy me on Christmas morning. Poor Delaney had a cold so she and I spent the night on the couch. One of us slept good (Delaney) and one of us had someone's finger up their nose. It's okay. I love snuggling with her.

Nana bought Delaney her sweet little Christmas outfit.


Delaney got the sweetest little Sophie la Giraffe from Ann, Jessica, and Maxie. She loves it.

Delaney gets ready to chow down on Christmas.





Jack's parents, Big Jack and Dorothy, came over for the Christmas meal. Delaney just loved Dorothy.



We bought Delaney a personalized bookshelf for Christmas. Delaney loves to stand up at it and look at all of her books.

Sweet little doll baby in her Christmas dress.

The whole fam

Delaney a.k.a. Peanut Extraordinaire

This week has been an eventful one. I finally figured out Delaney's eating real food schedule which has been quite stressful for me. I never stressed out during pregnancy, delivery, or all of the baby stuff until this eating solid foods stuff. Delaney has been eating, but sometimes she is not interested, and I didn't know whether to give bottle or food first, etc....The whole thing got me stressed because I just can't understand when people don't eat. It makes no damn sense to me considering eating is my favorite pasttime. Anyway---we have done it. Delaney has a good eating schedule and is loving most foods presented, except those wicked peas.

Delaney is now up to 16 pounds 3 ounces. I actually weighed her when I was at the vet with Mia today. Whatever works!!

Delaney is now not only crawling, but pushing up on objects to stand up. She can pull herself up onto her knees by herself and then pull up to stand. She will definitely be an early walker. Delaney is all over the place and loves being able to stand up. It is so funny watching her do it because she is such a little peanut and can do so much.


Now that Delaney is mobile, she wants to chase after Tyson and Olive all of the time. They are usually quite fearful, but we can occasionally capture a moment like this.


Here is Delaney pushing herself to stand up at her new musical table. This is pre-putting the legs on. When we saw she could now stand up, the legs were placed on.

Delaney is shaking her bootie at her musical table.

The little sneakaroo races over to the stairs the second I am not looking. She made it up one by herself. Is that an innocent face??.......I don't think so. :)

Delaney is a Crawling Machine

Delaney and her daddy prepare for the ring

Christmas at Bubba and Nonnas

We went up to Bubba and Nonna's house on Saturday to have Christmas festivities with them. It was awesome!!!! Nonna a.k.a. Tinker made so much good food: pimiento cheese spread, Amish Friendship cake, macaroni salad, peppermint bark, cookies, etc.....And we had fabulous wings and chicken fingers and wonderful punch and it goes on and on! We brought Davis up there with us and all of us had so much fun. We played games like Guess the Christmas Carol and a fun card game called Slide. Davis also had us involved in a game where he was the ruler and it was basically stealing candy canes from each other. It was so festive and fun and we thank you Bubba and Nonna!!!

Delaney loves her new frog---Frogalicious. It plays lots of songs and lights up which is right up her alley.

Delaney climbs up the diaper tower from Bubba.

Delaney is totally fascinated by anything Davis does.

The cousins played together all day.

Davis shows off his new Gamecock football uniform. He is trying out for the quarterback position and already has his Heisman pose down. Davis actually has quite an arm. Spurrier needs to check him out.

Watch Out World. Delaney is crawling.

Yes everyone. My little pumpkin is now crawling. She LOVES it and gets so excited that she is now mobile.
This is my favorite little outfit of Delaney's. She looks like she is going to do the hippie dance at a show.

Delaney poses in her hip jacket from Nutty.

Bath time is always a blast.

The Roberts' girls new game Part Deux

The Roberts' girls new game---we both find it highly entertaining

This one is for you Auntie Jessica

Delaqney was more enthusiastic than the actual Gamecock football players during the Carolina/Clemson game

Delaney laughs at Daddy and the jumping fish

Getting Started on the Holidays

Delaney dresses up and poses to celebrate Thanksgiving.

We got our Christmas cards out and these three pictures didn't make the cut but are pretty darn cute anyway.






Because of the computer glitch---I am playing catchup from last weekend. Here is Randy and Delaney wearing matching outfits to watch the ridiculous Carolina/Clemson game.

We went to visit Bubba and Nonna on the Sunday after Thanksgiving. Delaney loves her some Bubba.

Delaney definitely hammed it up at Bubba and Nonna's house. She loved being there and showed them her new tricks.

The Roberts family went to Sweet Seasons in Forest Acres this week. We had free food (a.k.a. a chicken nugget) and listened to great steel drum music. They lit the big Christmas tree and everyone was very festive. Delaney got to meet Santa. She was fascinated by him. I could tell she really wanted to pull on that big fluffy beard.

Sad Day in Ho Ho Land

I am very sad about something. Our laptop where I had ALL of Delaney's pictures stored, got water damage and we lost our hard drive. This means that ALL of the pictures are now gone. Thank goodness I had printed the ones from May-September, but I have lost October and November and a lot of the videos that I didn't put on You Tube or other sources. This means that the only pictures and videos I have from that time are on this blog. Thank goodness for this blog!!!!!!!
I asked Randy and Santa to try and restore the hard drive for my Chanukah/Christmas present, but it looks like it's not going to happen.
At least I have my memories. I am just sick about not having the video of Delaney's first bath though. It was a wonderful moment.
Sigh.