All in the last week or so I feel like Delaney has become an ENTIRELY different baby. She is mobile. Her life has changed and so has ours. She can now get to anything she wants to play with (read: we don't have to bring her toys and pick them up when she drops or throws them) and can pretty much entertain herself by movin' and shakin'. She's experimenting with crawling on different surfaces such as carpet, wood floor and tile (and how to maneuver each of these). She's also starting to pull up and attempt the (two) stairs from our family room into our kitchen. Delaney is VERY brave and quite resilient; she doesn't cry when she falls. It's just so much fun to watch her discover new things...we're all getting such a kick out of Laney these days! So. Much. Fun. This age is.
Not so sure about the cold wood floors
Trying to get her knees and legs off of the cold floor. Or as we call this pose: Downward Dog.
Crawling
Some mornings Delaney gets up when I get up and she plays while I get ready. This particular morning she discovered herself in the mirror (and mommy's shoes!).
We packed everyone up and headed to Ft. Wayne on Friday night to meet my dad and step-mom for a weekend visit. Here is Anna with Delaney.
And dad with Izzy
Saturday morning Mike and I went on a 12 mile run and then Anna and I ventured off to the annual Vera Bradley outlet sale. I have been wanting to go for years and the timing has never worked out (the Mini Marathon is ALWAYS the first weekend in May; however, this year the 500 Festival has shortened the entire month of festivities by a week...allowing me to hit up the sale!). I had been warned of the mayhem that would ensue at this sale: long lines to get in, running shoppers looking for their pattern, fighting over items, long lines to check out, etc. Both Anna and myself had to remain calm and keep our anxieties in check; we would survive the sale and make it out with some good deals. And, boy, did we conquer! We walked right into the sale - no line. We shopped the entire sale - twice - in one hour. We got into line (which wrapped around the Coliseum almost twice) and the line was moving. Quickly. As we got to what we thought was the end, we were sadly mistaken and shocked; we were walking into the basement to where the real line started. And there were hundreds and hundreds of shoppers in front of us. We waited in line for a total of 1.5 hours. Insane in the membrane. Anyway, we both got FUN stuff and will definitely be going back again! It's quite the experience! (I just read online that there were 65,000 shoppers in attendance - a record for their sale. Phew!)
This was when we were waiting in the line upstairs and quickly moving. We were thrilled!
And this was the line just entering the basement. Anna kept on saying we were being herded like cattle. Indeed we were...right to the checkout lane!
Izzy getting kisses from Jazzy
Grandpa Bob & Grandma Laura returned from 10 days in Florida on Saturday
Izzy always loves playing the piano at Bobo's house. This time we learned that Laney also loves playing it - with her feet! We just hold her over it and her legs start kickin' away!
Grandma Laura always has fun crafts...these were new Crayola crayon/markers for windows. We couldn't drag Izzy away!
Delaney walking with Grandpa. I swear she is going to be walking on her own very soon! Quite the opposite of her big sis!
And just one more of Bug playing the piano...it just never got old how funny it was!
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