Daddy's little girl

There is nothing I can say to make this picture more precious. I love them both so much.

The Tazmanian Devil

As you can see our house has turned into a whirlwind of toys. She loves them all. She has a few favorites but for the most part they all get their fair share of attention. I get lots of comments on how much she smiles! She does smile alot except for this afternoon. Kevin and I took her for her follow up hearing screen. This time she was to be awake and "ready to play". Those instructions didn't sound too difficult. I scheduled out apointment 1 hour after she ususally gets up from her nap. Except she didn't really nap this morning. Of all mornings. I have never had any problems putting her down for her morning nap till this morning. To add insult to injury, somehow we made it to her appointment without a pacifier. This child has 12 pacifiers! Not one in her diaper bag! So she melted down and we came home. Oh well, roll with the punches. We rescheduled for a couple weeks.

It is official, Laney is crawling!

We are so proud of her. She has only been out of her body cast for 8 weeks. She is crawling forward. (our stipulation of stating that she could crawl was that she was crawling forward not backward). We have been working with her every day and she is so eager to get around that she has finally accomplished crawling. She actully can stand too but she does require some help. She can stand up, most of the time, on her own but she needs help getting down. We thought it would be summer before we saw this kind of progress. (In May she will be a full gestational year) But here we are, scrambling to get a rail up on our staircase so that we can get a baby gate up in front of the stairs. Thats what we get for thinking we had more time. She has been able to get herself into some precarious spots as you can see.

Time to come home

It was a great trip to Grandma's house. We got to see lots of friends and family we haven't seen in a while. We wanted to take her to our last night of Kevin's conference but she decided not to sleep that afternoon so she was out at about 6:00. It was a nice and much needed night out for Mom and Dad. Plus we won a fabulous prize basket with lots of goodies inside. Back to the grind!

The worst mom ever...

So Kevin has a conference this week in Pocatello. So Laney and I decided to trail along and take full advantage of a couple days at Grandma's house. We drove to Pocatello and on our 3rd day decided to go see Grandpa Heaney. Well Grandpa Heaney is building/remodeling a house. We love the floor. She is able to scoot all over the place. She was scooting around in circles to get where she wanted to go. (She is not quite crawling yet, still mostly backwards and in circles.) In the kitchen she happened upon this cool blue cord. "Well that isn't so bad" "looks like a fairly harmless toy".

Except that it is hooked to a nail gun at the other end. What do you do when kids want to play with everything they are not supposed to?

Chomp, Chomp...

Grandma's are on the ball. Laney has received some early birthday presents in the mail over the last few days and of course they go straight out of the box and straight into the mouth. I don't think that Stan did as much damage chewing on things when he was a puppy. I have teeth marks on my window sill. Thanks Grandma's for giving us something good to chew on.
Our date last night led to a slow morning this morning so lots to do before Laney's birthday tomorrow!

What kids really want?...

This child just received about 20 new toys for her birthday. I will just let the picture speak for itself. Every parent in the world has probably had the same experience. Gotta love a child entertained by the simple things in life.