Summer Fun

Lovin' that camera! Two weekends ago, Grandma Amanda came to visit us! We took her to Grumpy's and ate BBQ.

And goldfish crackers!

On the road: when Delia is not pointing out horses and cows,

she wears her shades and just chills out.

Sunday we played in our neighbors pool. They don't move in for a few more weeks, but they have already given Delia her own floatie and a bathing suit! When she first got in the water, it was a little cold at first and she shook her head and said "No. Bye Bye."

In a floatie this summer...

...and last summer!

This weekend, our neighbors Tom and Barb invited us to the Scooba BBQ Club Friday evening. Scooba is where Tom's family is from and is about an hour away. Since Delia goes to bed at 7:00pm, and we didn't get there until after 7:00, we had to wake her up when we got there. She did great and squealed when she saw the bigger kids running around playing ball.

Grady went early to help cook. Three whole hogs were cooked, pulled, and passed around. Tom offered Delia her very own rib to gnaw on, but she wasn't interested.

There were 3 long rows of picnic tables with lights that came on when it got dark. It was pretty cool and definitely one of the most small-town country things I've ever done.

Jennifer and Wesley stayed with us Friday night and Saturday morning we went to our church's Preschool Water Fun Day - just for babies! Keep an eye on Silas - the little boy on the left jumping in the pool to be with Delia.

Delia went down her first slip and slide with help from Daddy.

She even went down on her belly!

"Wheeeee!"

She really liked the spray and play water mat. I don't know if that's what it's called, but that's what I'm calling it. I just bought one at WalMart for $15 and it is awesome! You just hook a hose up to it and it's like a little fountain in the ground.

This is the bathing suit that our neighbors gave Delia. One of the moms told Delia she looked "luscious" in it!

Silas: "Oh Delia, let me escort you over to the water fountains. Ignore my mom yelling about crack. I don't know what her problem is."

"This is great!"

Sneaky Silas runs over and lays one on Delia!!

Wesley finally tries some of the water fun.

"I love these water toys!!"

End of the day: Delia is pretty fried, while Wesley is refreshed from his nap.
"Hey Delia, why do you only have 1 pigtail?"

"I don't know, Wesley, why are you still dragging those pink beads around?"

2 babies this summer...

2 sweet babies last summer! Here Delia is 6 months, Wesley is 7 months.

Fun with Sprouts

I remember seeing little girls with their hair in tiny stumpy pigtails and saying out loud "I can't wait to have a little girl so I can put her hair in sprouts!" Well, the day has finally come!! I think the sprouts are much more becoming than her natural mullet.



These days, Delia is saying:
hey = hey
bah bah = bye bye
no = no
peess = please
jiss = juice
nye nye = night night
bow = hair bow
caca = oops I pooped the bed

Video update

Here are a few videos from the past week


Delia and Daddy playing hide and seek.




Maybe she wants to be a tattoo artist?




She is definitely starting to test those boundaries.




She has also learned to bark orders at the dogs. It sometimes sounds like "get down" or "go away," but it is hard to tell.

Memorial Day Weekend

What a fun weekend we had! Delia's Nana and Grandaddy came from Charlotte, and her Uncle Gerald and Aunt Sarah came from Little Rock.

Sunday morning we all went to Restaurant Tyler for brunch. It is by far my favorite restaurant in Starkville and the chef was recently featured in Southern Living. He makes the best grits on the planet. We had fancy waffles and omelets. Delia ate everything we put in front of her!

Strollin' downtown...

in the sweet new dress that Nana brought her!

Sunday night we cooked grilled pizzas. What? Who does that? I found the recipe here, on AllRecipes.com, complete with an instructional video. Here is Mama patting out the dough that we made from scratch!

Toppings ready to go out to the grill, including fresh oregano and basil from our little garden. Chicken, steak, veggies, feta... mmm. Good short cut: most of our toppings were cooked the night before for fajitas.

Grady brushed the grill with oil, then cooked the dough right on the rack.
When they get nice grill marks on them, you turn the crusts cooked side up and add your toppings.

"Who's making my pizza? Can I have peas on my pizza?"

Then it's back to the grill to cook the bottom of the crust and melt the cheese.

YUM-MY!

"Grilled pizza is GOOD!"

Happy pizza-covered baby

Delia and Nana playing "Get that finger out of your mouth!"

Another Fun Weekend with Delia

Despite the flooding that we have had over the past week, Delia and I did get out for a little bit this weekend. Today I made the mistake of opening up her new car while she was awake. I did not realize that there was some assembly required: washers, axles, bolts - yuck!

Me: "Look Delia! It has a horn!"
Delia: "Seriously, this is the worst car ever." (beep beep)

"Yay! That's more like it!"

This afternoon we met up with Carmen and Amelia at a pond near campus where there are a lot of ducks (and turtles and fish) that love white bread. Delia thought they were hilarious.

A duck says "Quack!"

"Delia, don't tell my mom, but I'm about to snag some of this bread."

"Hmm. Not as good as it looks."