4 Generations, a Rattle and a New Baby

Lets see, Thanksgiving is over and Christmas will soon be here. It really is amazing how fast time flies. It seems like I was just finding out that I was pregnant, and now she is 3 months old.

Delphia's new favorite thing is her rattle. If you put it in her hand she will shake it, toss it, try and eat it and try to hold it with both hands. She will sit and stare at it intently looking at all the colors and the beads inside that shake.

She has also started to lift her head up when she is on her stomach. She gets frustrated really easy though and you have to turn her to her back pretty quick. She has had a little cold with a runny nose and cough. She hates having her nose wiped. She hates it when I suck her nose out, but if daddy does it she will smile and talk to him the whole time. How does he rate?

Over Thanksgiving I got my grandma and my mom to sit for a 4 generation picture. Ashley had one taken when she had Ruby and I meant to get one when grandma came in September, but failed to remember.

Another one of Delphia's favorite things is to read books. She will sit on your lap and just listen and look at the pictures! I am so excited about this because I love books and am hoping she will share my love for them. We go to the library and get 8-10 board books to read to her and she loves it! My mom didn't believe me at first but than she saw how she sits and just listens and was amazed.

Ashley just had her little baby Emma at 3:03 this afternoon. She was 19 1/2 inches long and 7lbs 2oz. Shane and I are going to see her tomorrow, but I can't wait for my mom to call me tonight and tell me all about her. It will be so much fun to have 3 new babies among my brothers and sisters in 5 months. Chloe was born in July, Delphia in August and Emma November! They will have so much fun together.

Just A Little Update!

New pictures for the week (I can't believe she was 12 weeks on Wednesday)! She will be 3 months on Thanksgiving. She is quite the talker and will just sit and talk and coo to you if you will sit and talk to her. We spend a lot of time each day just jabbering back and forth. Here are some pictures of her talking and cooing.

and here is her more serious side....

Yesterday we took family pictures over at the church property and they turned out really nice. My mom wanted a whole family picture for Christmas cards and for her house and so we took a big family photo and single family pictures. We got them ordered from Costco last night along with 50 christmas cards.

My mom was holding Delphia yesterday and they were looking in the mirror and my mom bounced her foot on the mirror and said,"Tap," and she would pull her back and push her forward and say,"Tap," again. Delphia was just cracking up and giggling! It was hilarious! I just love her little giggles and laughs.

Today is Relief Society the Enrichment person Sister Bradt came up to me afterwards and said she heard that I was an avid quilter and that people were interested in doing a monthly quilting class and she was wondering if I would do it. I was excited but I have never taught a class and am absolutely not an avid quilter. I have sewn a few things with my Grandma's help and done a few basic things by myself. They found a pattern at Deseret Book and want to do 2 blocks a month. They will come and I will show them how to put the blocks together and they will bring them the following month and be able to make a quilt at the end of the year. I am really excited because it will give a chance to get to know some ladies better, but really nervous because it is something I have never done before!

Tuesday is my baking day for Thanksgiving. I am making apple cake, pumpkin bars, a strawberry lemon jello and maybe some cookies. I also need to make bread on Tuesday. Shane and I just made a new dessert recipe called Orange Coconut Bars. They smell delish!

It is starting to really feel like the holidays. It needs to get colder but we are listening to Christmas music, burning the pine candle and doing a lot of baking. I think I get my love for baking especially during fall/winter from my mom. It just is something I love to do and is a signal of the coming holidays!

I was thinking today about how I have so much to be thankful for and what a wonderful life I have. My plan is to post everyday about something I am thankful for so here goes todays blessing. I am so grateful for modern medicine and I had never really thought too much about it until I was holding Delphia while she was asleep this afternoon and just watching her with awe and realized if it wasn't for modern medicine she might never have joined our family. It took 2 years of trying to have her and finally going on Clomid and then she was breech with her cord wrapped around her neck. It is so nice to have the technology to know these things beforehand and to have ultrasounds, c-sections and pain medications. I am so grateful to have our little girl here and she means so much to me. I enjoy every day with her. Sure we have our frustrating times, but when she is happy and smiling, asleep in my arms or just needing her mommy to comfort her I can't help but realize what a miracle she is and how much I love her.

7 Interesting Things About and an Update

Let's start with an update....but first new pictures (they are some of my favorite) These were taken on 11/3 at my mom's. We brought the hat as a joke, but had to take pictures because it was so cute on her. It was still pretty big on her but she didn't seem to mind wearing it.

She is still in her 0-3 month clothes and she will be 3 months on Thanksgiving. Some of her outfits are still too big so she hasn't worn them. I did get all her 3-6 month clothes washed and hung up last week and all her newborn stuff put into a box. It was kinda sad to see her growing out of things, my sister told me it was like the end of an era when she put Ruby's things away and I would have to agree.

Delphia had her 2 month appointment on Thursday and she weighed 10.2 lbs and was 22.2 inches long. She is in the 12th and 15th percentile for height and weight and the 46th for head size. The doctor said that's probably why she hasn't lifted her head when she is on her stomach. She loves to talk though and she is getting on more of a regular schedule. It is very nice! She loves books and will just sit and listen to them. She loves being sung to and playing little action games with her feet and hands. I like to take her feet and sing, "Jump, jump, kick," and move her legs. She loves it and will laugh and smile and do her cute little giggle!

We are looking forward to Thanksgiving. My family is coming down from Idaho and we are having a big get together! It should be fun! Family is the best part of Thanksgiving. Last year we had our own Thanksgiving since I was starting Clomid and not sure how I would react to it and just wanted to be at home. I am making a jello and dessert and am counting down the days!

Tomorrow I have a physical therapy appointment for my foot since that is what the podiatrist suggested, along with a follow-up appointment with him in 1 month. Should be interesting....then we have to work on the hand problem after the foot is fixed!

Okay, Ashley tagged me so, here goes nothing.....

7 Interesting Things About Me.....

1) I am terrified of fire. I have never lit a match. I blow out candles when I leave a room for very long. The dryer gets turned off when we leave the house. Not sure where this fear came from....

2) I play 20 questions with Shane every night when we climb into bed. Is the stove off, is the oven off, are the lights off, is the door locked, is Delphia okay, is the car in the garage, is the alarm set? Okay, maybe not 20 questions but by the time I ask about each one 3 times it's pretty close! He is wonderful because he will get out of bed to re-check for me so I can sleep.

3) I hate speaking in front of big groups. I would prefer to play the piano in sacrament any day, before speaking. I try to get over it but can never forget in our old ward when they asked Shane and I to give the prayers in Sacrament and we said we would. They started sacrament and I told Shane I couldn't do it....they had to find someone else.....oddly enough we have never been asked to speak in our wards.

4) I love to eat flour plain by the spoonful, or better yet to suck it through a straw.

5) I am the Queen of unfinished projects. I always think I have a ton of time and will get things done. Right now I have a quilt to sew, a quilt to bind, 3 little cross stitches, one big cross stitch, a swedish weave, 3 tole painting projects, fun folders, 2 sticheries, a punchneedle, 2 afghans and christmas stockings. Whew, I have to look at it and tell Shane that he doesn't have to worry about me being bored!

6) I usually am reading 2-3 books at a time. I get bored with one so I read a few at a time.

7) I tell people I don't like foods I have never tasted. Somehow I just know I won't like it so I won't even taste it.

I am tagging my mom!

Just Ducky

Just Ducky...

I just love this little dress of Delphia's. It got mixed up in her closet with some bigger sizes and so she wore it for the first time today. Her Aunt Amanda bought it for her and I just love the duck pockets!

Shane even got a couple of cute smiles out of her.

Shane and Delphia are taking their Sunday nap and I need to go scrapbook. I want to get a page or two done today because this next week is going to be busy! Tomorrow, Tuesday and Wednesday I am going to Salt Lake, Thursday Delphia has her 2 month appointment, I have an appointment with the podiatrist on Tuesday, Shane works late on Tuesday, we need to go grocery shopping on Thursday and my mom and I are going to the BlueGoose Boutique on Thursday. Whew!

I am searching for some apple recipes since my parents sent quite a few home with me yesterday since they got a case for 25 cents a pound. I'm in a baking mood, so I thought I would try something new!

A Late Boo!

Yesterday was a fun Halloween. I spent the day at my moms visiting with her and my sister and Ruby. I made sugar cookies in the morning (I really shouldn't have made them!) They are one of the things that I can't resist eating and eating and eating. It was fun though. We had little bats, pumpkin and ghost cookies. Delphia wore her Halloween outfit that my mother-in-law bought her. Shane thought it was cheesy, but I thought it was cute. I really didn't think dressing up a 2-month old was going to be an easy thing. Here are some pictures of Delphia:

Shane took the pictures while I was making the cookies. It was a good thing he took them early or we wouldn't have gotten pictures at all. She was sitting in her chair cooing during dinner and just being smiley (which is unusual for her since she had the hiccups). She started crying her fake cry and I would talk to her and she'd smile. Shane was on his way home from work since they gave him the option to leave early. I finally picked her up when she wasn't just whimpering and realized that she was poopy and she was leaking through her outfit. I went down to change her and unsnapped her outfit and she has poop halfway up her stomach, up her sides, basically everywhere! My first thought was,"Where is her dad?" He got home shortly after and helped me clean her up. However, the outfit and onesie were a total loss!

The Finishing Touch

I finally have a minute to sit and finish my post from earlier today, so where should I begin......

Let me start with my finishing touches for the day. Delphia would only nap in her bouncy chair this afternoon so I sat down to scrapbook and got a good start on a page. She was happy after she woke up so I put the finishing touches on the page, and here it is:

The next finishing touch has been in the works for 7 years. How to make the perfect finishing touch for a lemon cake. Shane loves 7-minute frosting and I can't make it like his grandma. I saw Paula Deen make it awhile back and looked up her recipe and Shane and I made a lemon cake tonight and he told me it was just like his Grandma's. Look at the finished product:

Here's the recipe:

1 1/2 cups sugar
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar or 1 tablespoon white corn syrup
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup water
2 egg whites
1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

Place sugar, cream of tartar or corn syrup, salt, water, and egg whites in the top of a double boiler. Beat with a handheld electric mixer for 1 minute. Place pan over boiling water, being sure that boiling water does not touch the bottom of the top pan. (If this happens, it could cause your frosting to become grainy). Beat constantly on high speed with electric mixer for 7 minutes. Beat in vanilla.

It was really easy, except Shane said it was frying his hand off from the steam coming out of our makeshift double boiler.

The final finishing touch for the night is that Delphia is in bed and sleeping soundly! She went to bed at 8:45 and was exhausted. Parts of the day have been rough and parts have been really good. I guess it's all about the little successes (like 8:45 bedtimes)!

We took these pictures at my mom's the other day and they make me smile. Ruby is so cute with Delphia and loves to hold her. She likes to tell me if Delphia needs me, she shares her cold (blanket) with her, hands her the binkie and just is so sweet with her! Her favorite phrase is, "She sad?" always with a questioning voice. I love it when I get to see her and her mom.