Daelin cooks.

I still have many of my children's toys from when they were little. I love to get them out for whichever current generation of children happen to be at my house to play with them. The kids are always occupied because I have toys that no one else has.
Here is Daelin playing in the kitchen with some of the little dishes that I bought for Keri when she was a toddler. They are the Tupperware pieces in children's sizes. I would say that they are very seventies in their colors, but those colors have come back around, now. The other set of little dishes is a Sesame Street set from the 80's, I think.
He got the saucepan out of my cupboard, but I am getting him his own set as soon as I can get to Toys R Us. The little plastic stove was a freebie I picked up in a parking lot, where it had been discarded next to a clothing bin. It's not fancy, but the kids seem to love it.
The wooden "counter top" is the nest box I built for the Cockatiels, before I changed my mind about giving them one. He is happy as a clam with it, though, and can put canned food inside it. He uses his little push truck (a toddler walking toy) as a grocery cart. I am sure I have the kids's shopping cart up in the attic. I will bring it down when we get the playroom finished.
He is cooking "peas",but they are actually a handful of my cranberries. I tell him they are cranberries, but to him they are peas. He loves peas. He likes to cook and stir them and then he puts one (just one) in a cup and brings it to me to taste. We taste and say, "yucky!". He tasted one of the cranberries one day so he knows they are sour. After we taste and say "yucky" we taste and I say, "YUMMY!". He looks at me strange, but then he copies me. I love toddlers! So much fun!







Oh...and I found a couple of pretend baby food containers in the box. He promptly took the label off this one and then proceeded to lift his shirt and use it like deodorant!
hahaha

Trampoline, The Next Generation.

OMGoodness. Will I ever get back to blogging. Think I'm going to check out the August thing that Tui is doing. In the meantime here are the pics of David and Daelin on the trampoline. I love these pics.


Daelin is just so happy in this pic. He loves his Daddy.



Getting ready to jump.



Looks like he is doing the Tarzan call.



Jumping with Daddy.



Looks like a little elf. So cute!



Running in circles around Daddy.

What do these two subjects have in common?

Nothing. The first one is Mr. Cute, himself, Daelin. The rest of the pictures are of my little fallen vine maple. That's all I've got today. Been very busy!

Daelin's first time in a playground swing.

Almost forgot to post this.

Look how big Daelin is getting. You can see his hair growing!


Whatcha doin' grandma?



Mommy and Daddy love me, but I just noticed something down there.



Grinning at his mom.



Posing with Dad.



David and Nikki.



Towhead in the making.

Daelin's getting big. (Relatively speaking)

He's still small, but he's getting so big!

Bumper ties.

How about a mundane, this-is-what-I-did-today style blog?

The baby had an appointment today and I wanted to go to talk to his doctor about a few episodes we have seen lately that were a little scary. Emily, the baby's other grandma didn't have a chance to see any of these episodes, but David was present for all of them and I was present for one of them and they were a little scary. I've been taking care of babies since I was eleven years old and I have never seen anything like this. I've never had a baby in my care that has had a seizure or convulsion, and I'm not sure that what Daelin did was actually either of them, but it was a little freaky none-the-less.

David had called me yesterday to ask if I would pick up a crib for them if Emily bought it because there is no way it would fit in her car. I was glad to oblige, so last night when I got off from work he called and wanted to know if I wanted to come over for a bit and pick up the receipt. Emily was still there when I got there and we all started talking and we got into one of those kinds of conversations that kind of went on forever. It was all quite interesting, really, and I'm not going to go into that here, but before we knew it, it was around 3am in the morning. So I drug myself home and got into bed and went to sleep around 4. I heard Jeren get up and figured I would just get up early and be tired today, but then I decided to snuggle back down and didn't get up until 11. Argghhh!
Are you bored yet?
Whatever. I got up and did some stuff around the house but decided I would get the crib after the appointment instead of before. Tuesday, Jodi, an acquaintance from Craigslist had emailed me about a "Winnie the Pooh" lamp she found in her closet. She had recently given me four "Winnie the Pooh" lithographs for the baby and thought that they might like to have the lamp, too. I figured I would go get that and then head to the doctor's appointment and on the way I could stop and get some McDonald's coffee. It's cheaper at the 72nd street McDonald's than the one by my house and it was right on the way. Jodi wasn't home when I stopped by, so I left and headed to the pediatrician's office. We had to wait about two minutes before being called in to the room. Very nice!

Here is Daelin waiting in the car seat.
Ok, grandma, but you only get one eye open.


The doctor's appointment went really well. The nurse checked him out

and asked questions and it was barely two minutes between her leaving and the Doctor coming into the room.
We were in the "Farm Room". This was a bench in the room:


They're not quite done decorating it yet. They just repainted everything.
I like this place and I really like the pediatrician. He is very down-to-earth and family friendly. We all expressed our concerns about Daelin's little episodes and he patiently allowed all of us a turn to talk. Emily didn't have much to say because she hadn't actually seen what happened and it's hard to describe here, so I won't try, but he did give them the number to schedule an EEG to be check his brain activity and make sure things are firing correctly. If that turns out ok there are several non-threatening reasons to explain just what is happening and he gave options to start trying now that might avert future episodes.

Nikki dressing Daelin after the check-up.



"Hi Grandma. You can have both eyes open for this one."


We all felt better after the visit so we decided to go to Las Palomas, something we've been trying to do together for months, now. However, it's just not in the cards.
Today's reason:
Closed for remodeling. It's also getting a name change, so I'm hoping the food will still be the same. I love their spinach enchiladas. So yummy!
David and I headed off to get the crib and see about his check and Nikki and Emily and the baby headed off to get her prescription. We decided we would just all do fast food so they went to Frugal's and David and I tried the place that used to be A & W. He had a "Blessing Burger" and I had a mushroom burger. The food was pretty good and the fries were those coated kind, which I really like.
Are you bored yet?
We headed back to the apartment and I pushed David up the stairs while he end-over-ended the crib up the stairs. (it was very heavy) Mainly I was making sure the weight of the crib didn't push him over backwards, but Nikki found it very amusing. haha.
We visited awhile and then Emily left to go home and David and Nikki set about building a crib while Daelin and I napped together on the couch. I didn't really need a nap, but when a nice little snuggly baby falls asleep on your chest, it's like a sleeping pill.
I was a little annoyed because I wanted to get pictures of them building the crib, but oh well. I have this one of David putting together the hamper.


And the finished product, minus the hamper and trundle drawer.

Are you bored yet?
Ok...well, that is about it anyway. I spent all day with David, Nikki and Daelin doing almost nothing and I'm not going to feel guilty about it. It was actually quite relaxing and enjoyable and they even let me tie the bumper pads on the crib because David couldn't master making a bow out of the ties. It wasn't easy, even for me.

Daelin is two weeks old.

Hi Grandma!


Haven't I seen you somewhere before?


Holding grandma's finger.


Falling asleep.


And he's out!

What happened today.

Emily and I became grandmothers. This is the first time for her. I would have to think to tell you what number it is for me and I'm too tired.
We are just glad that baby Daelin finally decided to come on out.