Merry Christmas!

It's Christmas Eve and our plans have slightly changed for the holiday. We are still going to my dad's today since he lives right here in town. I don't know how many others will make it though due to the weather. Tomorrow we were going to Mitchell as Bruce's sister was hosting Christmas, but too many of us were coming from many different directions. Now my mom and Denny are coming over to our house Christmas day. I am excited to see Delanie opening presents as this will be the first time she has really done it. Have to find the video camera and get it ready. Since they say there is going to be a lot of snow, we got a sled and plan on bundling Delanie up and letting her go down the hill in the backyard a couple times. We will see how that pans out. The neighborhood kids have already begun to come over and sled I guess that is what you get for living on the corner with a visible hill in your backyard. Well, we hope everyone stays warm and safe for the holidays. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

18 Months

Merry Christmas!

Well, it is about that time of year again. Bruce, myself, and Delanie are snowed in today. No school, no work. It is very cold outside. So I decided to bake cookies and have a pajama day with Delanie. She is 20 months old now and we are enjoying her every day. She loves her "pretties", necklaces that is. She runs all over and still doesn't sit down much. She is taking after Bruce with all of her energy and all of her sleep! She really loves books, Dora, and Barney. She recently learned how to unzip her jammies and I have found her in her diaper in the morning. She seems interested in the snow and hopefully there will be a lot of snow over Christmas break and not to terrible cold temperatures. We want to take her sledding in the back yard. We hope you enjoy your holidays with family near by!

October Already!

Well, it is already October and I haven't done the best keeping up on this since I re launched by blog! Delanie is talking like crazy. She likes to repeat everything she hears. She repeats her whole alphabet with grandma. She is learning her manners too. Although please comes out like peas. We have had some sickness at our house. I guess that is to be expected when I work in two elementary schools. I have been out all this week. I have been blessed with the flu and Delanie has a bad cold along with one ear bothering her. Monday we went and got her 18 month pictures taken despite the sickness. She did fairly well, but we had a hard time keeping her in front of the camera. We will have to think of something different for a family picture because Bruce couldn't make it.

It is about that time of the year that I rarely see Bruce. Hunting, hunting, and more hunting. As soon as I get to see Delanie's pics, I will post a few for you to see.

All those words!

Well, I thought I had better post an update, because I have a little smarty pants on my hands. Basically about 3 months ago Delanie really started to take off saying words. All of the sudden she is getting really close to repeated almost everything you say. I guess that means I need to be extra careful with the words I choose. Today she wanted more pears and I said use your words and she said more and did the sign language gesture for it. Then as I always do I say "more please". She started saying more please! Also I was talking to myself today and said I have to call the doctor and make her 18 month appointment for next month.
Next thing I know she is running around saying doctor!

Some of the other words she likes to say. Loves to say Dora, shoes, big toe, peek a boo, snake, fish, duck, turtle, sticky, and nose. When she says nose she tends to stick her finger up her nose so we are working on that one! I am just in shock at how quickly she is catching on to these words and how she knows the meanings of the words. Maybe it is normal for 16 months, but you know I am going to say that it is because she is smart!

We are back!

It has been a long time since we have blogged! A long story short is that I tried to change my layout and ended up losing all of my information. I was so discouraged I decided that we would no longer have a blog! After hours and hours of inservice in technology I have decided that we better get our blog back up and running. So stay tuned and our page will continue to grow as I find time in the evenings and on weekends to keep up my page! I am back to work for the school year, my secyond year for that matter and I am excited to have my first year out of the way. Take care of you!