Funny Farm

Delight gets more adventurous each day. She's always chasing the dogs, bonking her head, crawling after me and cry "mama" after she bonked her head...The world seems to be her obstacle course. She likes to crawl over summer, over her rocking horse, or whatever is standing in her way.

She pulled this box off the couch and crawled in it. She sat in there and played for a while and was very proud of herself.

This is how she transports her toys when she's crawling. She carries them in her mouth. Pretty creative, isn't she?



My little puppy. I caught her playing in the dog kennel.

Here's our little water baby. She LOVES her bath still. The tub is finally finished (yay!!), but the bathroom still has a little ways to go. At least the baby can splash now!



Playing with cousin Savannah

We got 27 baby chicks in the mail Sunday. 13 of them are meat birds and will be butchered in a couple months. This little guy is a top hatter (crested). He's pretty cute, looks like he has a cotton ball on his head :)

It was the weekend of farm animals. We get this guy at the sale barn on Saturday. Delight's first trip to the sale barn. Don't know what I was thinking, I didn't take any pictures! She loved though and squealed and yelled at all the animals. This guy is a Charlet (sp?) bull (gonna get him cut soon). He's pretty cute, but will be in our freezer next year. I'm hoping I don't get too attached to him.

Delight is now 10 months old and busy, busy, busy! She must explore every inch of the house, chase the dogs, pick all the tiny crumbs off the floor, and test boundaries as much as possible. You think all this would wear her out, but she's like the energizer bunny and never stops! She's certainly wearing me out! We finally baby proofed some of the drawers and cabinets. I can't get used to the latches and am always yanking them open too fast.
The warm weather has been great. Delight loves spending time in her swing and has recently started crying when I go to get her out. She also likes to "help" me put clothes on the line. She really just stands up at the basket and tries to take all my clean clothes and throw them on the ground.
The yard and garden is keeping Sam and I busy. Sam's been working on the bathroom and he's getting really close to being done with the tub, so Delight won't have to take sink baths any more!


Here's Delight driving the car down the lane. She's a multi-tasker. She can drive and eat the steering wheel at the same time.

Girls gotta talk!

She'll love these pictures when she's a teenager....

Having a great time in her kiddie pool.

Her first boat trip. We did a little fishing with Mark and Carol. She was not a fan of the life vest. We took it off when we stopped.

Here she is playing in her cabinet in the kitchen. She knows how to make a mess. I just can't wait till she knows how to clean it up!

Jumping with cousin Amia!

Mommy's little helper shucking some corn.

Here's a few pictures from Delight's 9 month photo shoot. Once again, I waited till she was almost too old to call them 9 month pictures, but oh well.

She's had enough

This picture fits Delight's personality to a T. She loves to yell and be funny and to get you to laugh. She's loud. She'll just yell out of the blue and starts to laugh when I jump. She's very out going. Wants to talk to everyone in town and is just plain goofy. She doesn't seem to be scared of anything either. She chases the vacuum around and tries to grab it.

And did I mention she's loud?

One cute little chick.

Arizona trip

Delight and I spent a week in Arizona visiting my best friend Stacy, her husband Davin, and their new little boy (3 months old) Colin. We had a great time. It was a little challenging trying to do much with two different nap schedules to go by, but it was very nice to spend time with a mommy friend that understood the importance of the naps :) We got to go out to Lake Powell. It's a huge, beautiful lake that's very close to their house that Davin works at. Arizona was more beautiful that I expected. I'm very happy we went and glad to get to meet Colin! The 3 hour time change was difficult and we're starting to get back on schedule now. Both the plane rides went well and even though I didn't buy a ticket for her, I was able to take Delight's carseat on both times which was wonderful. Southwest is awesome! She started crawling a lot while we were out there and pulling herself up on anything. Sam was excited to see her be so mobile when we got home.


Delight's first plane ride



Hanging out in Stacy's yard with the kidos



Checking out the view at the dam over look

Beach at Lake Powell





Davin, Stacy and Colin

Isn't he a cutie?!






Lone Rock beach in Utah (they're very close to the border)

What a happy guy!

Playing with the sand

Goofy Delight

Headed home on the plane

Crawling

Sam is in Florida this week for a class for work. Delight and I are headed to Arizona later this week to see my friend Stacy, her husband Davin, and their new little boy, Colin. I'm super excited!
I'm also pretty nervous about flying with miss can't sit still by myself. She pretty much will only sit still if she's eating. I plan to bring a lot of snacks....and Benadryl.
She's be dabbling with the idea of crawling a lot for a little over a week. I told Sam before he left that probably 2 days before we leave that she will start crawling. I leave on Wednesday, she started crawling today. Not that it's a bad thing, I want her to crawl and all. I can just imagine that with her new talent just discovered she will want to practice it a lot.....especially on our 4 hour flight.
I'm finding out that I can't leave the room for very long at all before she gets into something. I'm also finding out how many specks of things there are on my floor and that Delight must discover what each speck taste like. I pulled a washer out of her mouth today...who knows where that came from. I witnessed her track down an ant, but was able to intervene in time before she ate him.
If you think of us, please pray for us. I'll be flying on Wednesday and next Tuesday. I don't expect it to be all smooth sailing..or, um..flying, but I just don't want it to be a really bad experience. I'm trying not to stress too much. Like Emily says, it's only temporary :)
I'm sure I'll have some good pictures to post when I get back.
Watch out Stacy. A tornado is coming to your house!

Wild Things

Spring is getting busy! We're about to plant our garden and we also got some clothes line poles from Sam's cousin that I'm excited to get put up. We'll be getting 25 baby chicks next month. Sam is going to Florida for some training next week and a few days after that I'll be going to Arizona to visit my best friend Stacy, her husband and their little boy. I'm super excited!!! A little worried about the long day of travel, but I'm sure it will be fine.
Well this post got a little out of order, so the wild things I want to show you are at the bottom. I'll start with my favorite wild thing first.




Naps have been a little difficult lately since Delight has figured out how to stand up in her crib. The second I lay her down, she sits up. I just have to let her do it and eventually she'll lay down on her own, or I'll rock her to sleep.

If you look closely, you can see her cute little bottom teeth.

She's a horse lover can't you tell? She especially loves green plastic horses :)

Farmer Delight

Hanging out with her cousins Hope and Zoie and Sonel (we just pretend he's her cousin)

Went mushroom hunting and looky what we found! A big rat snake! It was the biggest snake I've seen in Indiana. Sam told he to leave it alone, but.....

This is my little mourning dove friend. Our friends Brad and Emily found her. I didn't have high hopes for her. I hadn't took a bird in since I was a kid and I always killed them, but thanks to some helpful information on the world wide web, I've had her about a week and she's doing great. We named her Joy. Get it? Joy the Mourning Dove...Aren't we funny.

I just couldn't help myself! He wanted me to pick him up, I could tell. He was actually quite calm and nice, but Sam I couldn't keep him :( My uncle Steve (in red) came down from Wisconsin and was helping me identify some wild herbs in our woods. My dad came too and he found a huge elephant ear mushroom.