Delani's 1st Birthday

On Saturday we had Delani's 1st birthday party/G-ma GG's 80th birthday party/Father's Day with my Mom's family. I made the mistake of making Delani eat BEFORE cake, geez, what was I thinking? So by the time it was 'cake time' she didn't really want to eat anymore. It took her a little while to get started but once she got a little taste she really got into it!

Aunt Karen made a cake just for Delani

What do you want me to do with this thing?

Mmmmmm...

Happy now that she got a taste of the cake

Sugar buzz

After cake we moved on to the presents. I think the big kids had more fun with the present opening than Delani did! We kept the boys (Brady & Marek) busy by throwing the wrapping paper/tissue paper in the fire. Ellery helped her baby sissy with the opening part and Delani just got to enjoy her presents!

Delani loves to carry around little people. She doesn't even really play with them- just carries them around. G-ma Ball got her these!


The party was at 12 so we were done by 3ish. Delani fell asleep on the way home so we ran a few errands and just let her sleep. When we got home, we packed our bags and headed over to the lake. We cooked out over there and I was surprised the kids actually held on until 10:30!

Delani hanging out with Dad and her birthday buddy, Uncle Ross. Ross said in the beginning of June that I was going to have this baby on 06/26/08 (due date was 06/20). I told him he was crazy and I better not go that late!! Sure enough, Delani decided to come on Ross' 30th birthday. Ross called the next day to see how everyone was doing and said that he "was still trying to recover from celebrating Delani's birthday." Haha!

Ellery: Mom, I gotta go potty!

Me: Just go in the lake Ellery

Ellery goes into the lake and pulls her bottoms down so she could go potty. There was only one problem- the strap from her life jacket! Silly girl!

Andy went golfing on Sunday, for Father's day. Ellery slept until noon!! Delani woke up around 8 and was up for an 1 1/2 and went back to sleep until noon. We really wore them out Saturday I guess. When Andy got home we set up our new trampoline. That is the new thing we have to do every night. I might just end up regretting buying this thing! Haha!

This Friday, I have the day off. We are planning on beachin' it! Audree & her girls, Annitra & her girls and possibly Aunt Bill and the kids will be there. It is supposed to be a nice day so we should have a good time. Thank you to everyone who helped us celebrate Delani's 1st year. I can't wait to see what is in store for us in the coming year!

Showboat Concert

We went to the concert at the Showboat last night. I forgot my camera (duh Mom) so I got a few pictures and videos from my phone. They are not very good quality pictures but they are still cute! Ellery & Mayson were dancing fools and Delani just wondered around picking up rocks and bringing them back to me shaking her head 'no'! I love this 'copycat' stage she is in right now. It is so much fun!

She is a climber!!

This is her new thing..."Ooooooo"

Delani has a shoe fetish, can you tell? You can't really tell what she is grabbing in this high quality video but she went and picked up some other little girls sandals!

Picking up rocks & bringing them to Mama is so much fun!

Next week, hopefully I will remember my camera so that I have better pictures!

Long Weekend

Or should I saw week? Last Thursday morning I noticed that Delani was feeling a bit on the warm side. I just brushed it off to teething. As we all are aware...she has had one heck of a time with her teeth and I am delighted to say her top left tooth has FINALLY made it through!!! It only took about 3 weeks! Back to what I was orginally saying...Delani felt warm and slept the entire day Thursday. Erin tried waking her up to eat and she wanted nothing to do with it so she went back to sleep. By the time we got home Thursday night her temp was 103.9. She was up screaming most of the night so I took her to the Dr in the morning. Of course, it was just viral so there was nothing they could do. She was down all day Friday too. By Saturday she started feeling a little better but still wasn't herself.

We had an open house to go to Saturday night. While we were there, I got Ellery some snacky stuff while we were eating. She wanted nothing to do with it (which isn't unusual), she just wanted to sit on my lap, she would not go play with all the other kids. She finally went and played for a little while but then came back to me and wanted me to hold her. I thought, "You are way to big for me to hold!!". She finally told me that her throat hurt. I looked in her throat and she had little red dots all over. We came home right after that and I took her temp right away and it was 104!! Whoa!! I gave her some medicine and she went to sleep. In the morning, she was still HOT and the red bumps were now white. There were also more red bumps. Andy was golfing in the Honey Creek Inn-vitational (which I was not very happy with) so I packed up the girls and took off. I dropped Delani off at G-ma GG's and headed to G-ma Ball's work (urgent care) which is all the way out in Cutlerville. Thankfully, G-ma Ball got us right in (one of the 'perks' of working at an urgent care). Ellery indeed had strep. They gave me a prescription of Amoxicilan. I then went and picked up Delani because G-ma GG & Papa had a party to go to. With both kids in tow, neither one feeling well, I went to Meijer to get the script and get a 'few things' for Ellery since she was so miserable. By the time we got home at 3:30 she was pooped. I tried giving her some medicine which she decided it would be a great idea to spit it all back out at me! So she would not take her medicine, would not eat or drink anything. Oh yeah...I failed to mention that she had not gone the bathroom since 2AM. I kept trying to push fluids on her but she said that it hurt too bad. She slept the rest of the afternoon while Delani was a whining/clingy mess! Andy got home from golf around 7ish (I think). When he got home I handed Delani to him and went for a 'time out'. Later, he took Ellery to get some ice cream, which she did not eat. She threw up shortly after that. We attempted the medicine again but it got spit back at us and I was told that I was not liked. Thankfully, Ellery finally went pee at 8:30. She got sick again during the night. Monday she was still feeling like crud so she went to stay with G-ma Ball and Delani went to G-ma GG's again while I worked. Every attempt that G-ma made at medicine got spit back at her also. So I took it back to the pharmacy to get 'flavored'-talk about a waste of time. It didn't even taste any different. Ellery got some much needed rest on Monday and by Monday night was starting to feel better. So she must have gotten enough medicine to kick the bug! She got so much rest that she would not go to bed when it was bedtime and then was up at 3AM wanting a movie, snack & water. Tuesday the girls went to G-ma Cooper's. Ellery again, spit out her medicine for G-ma Cooper. Last night I mixed it with Kool-aid and she took almost an hour to finally drink it all. Oh but guess what...This morning she took her medicine with no fuss, no hesitation or anything for Aunt Bill. What a little stinker!!

This weekend we are having Delani's 1st birthday party at G-ma GG's. I can not believe that she is 1 already. It makes me so sad!!

Picture post

I have once again fallen behind in the blog world. So this is just going to be a quick post with lots of pictures! For Memorial Day weekend we went camping at Salmon Run. I was a bit nervous with Delani but she proved me wrong and did an awesome job (besides eating a TON of dirt)! We floated down the river on Sunday. It took a while but Delani eventually settled down. She doesn't like to sit still so she climbed all over for a while but then eventually passed out! Camping is hard work ya know! We took Papa and GG's motorhome so it wasn't all that bad. I kind of felt like a high roller for a couple days. Haha! Anyways, on to the fun part...pictures!

This baby deer was in our neighbors backyard- so cute!

Ellery & Dad watching the big kids in the pool. The water was freezing!

Do you see how dirty she is?? She had fallen earlier playing on this bike and scraped her forehead!

Bath time!

I insisted on Delani take a nap before we went down the river. Andy took her for a loooonnnnggg walk before she finally went to sleep. She slept like this for probably 45 minutes. I knew if I attempted to move her, she would take up and not go back to sleep!

Another pic of her sleeping! She fell asleep on my chest in the canoe. When we stopped I laid her on the bottom of one of the rafts. She slept there for close to a half hour!

Apparently something was funny!

Watching people jump off the rope swing!

Ellery getting rocks out of her shoes!

All clean!

Look at those cute little bunners!

Do you notice the beer in hand? I am going to have to watch out for this one, she is obsessed with beer! Must be from Daddy's side of the family, haha!

Who knows what they were doing here?!?

No Dad, she just had a bath!!

Sunday was such a nice day so we decided to hang out on the lake. It wasn't too hot but wasn't too cold!

Delani trying to get to the water before me!

Keep snacking girl, swim suit weather is just around the corner! :)

Ava & Ellery on Mallindine's new toy!

Building sand castles!

We can not wait for beach days! I hope it gets warm & stays warm pretty soon!