Tuesday, December 31, 2013

12/31

Lorelai composed her own version of Jingle Bells today while dancing around the room with one sock on. Amazingly, Mama slept thru the whole event-- getting ready for a New Year's party.
Lorelai is spending the night at Pop pop and Gigi's house tonight for the end of 2013. She was excited and tried to get Mama and Daddy to hurry hurry hurry over to their house as soon as Mama mistakenly told her where we were going in a few hours.

Monday, December 30, 2013

12/30

Snuggles after an evening at our friend's Sunshine's house. Lorelai loves to hop under a blanket and snuggle at night.

Sunday, December 29, 2013

12/29

Pop pop employed the assistance of Lorelai tonight to make the family Poppy Seed Chicken for Sunday dinner. Lorelai helped crush the topping and mix it all on top. She surely is a budding chef.... she certainly has a love of food!

Saturday, December 28, 2013

12/28

Lorelai is a very good mama to her babies. She makes sure they are nice and warm and get plenty of breakfast. Playing with babies is basically how we have been spending our time recently. Babies have alot of needs.

Friday, December 27, 2013

12/27

Daddy fell asleep on the couch tonight after dinner. Lorelai felt compelled to climb onto him to give out hugs and kisses while Daddy was going night-night. She whispered "Nigh-night, Daddy. I love you!" too.

Thursday, December 26, 2013

12/26

This morning, Lorelai got to finish opening her Christmas presents. There were so many to open yesterday but Mama and Daddy didn't have the heart to wake her up any earlier than 8am (considering she usually gets up around 10am and loves her sleep). Right in the middle of baby dolls, wooden food, and Hello Kitty, Lorelai opened up some coloring books and just had to stop for a quick art session before continuing on.
Lorelai loves to color and draw with her crayons.

Wednesday, December 25, 2013

12/25

Merry Christmas!
Lorelai was woken up at 8am, opened presents at home then off to Gigi and Pop-pop's for more presents and breakfast. We got to see Grandpop Boop, Pop-pop and Eva, Spike and Erin at breakfast then on to Nana and Pop-pop's for cousins, presents, and dinner. It was a wonderful time seeing all of our family and very exhausting. Lorelai loved every minute of it.

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

12/24

It's Christmas Eve and we are back at Nemours DuPont Children's Hospital to have the doctor check out Blueberry's incision. Great news-- she is doing great and well on her way to healing up. The pathology came back clean-- awesome!
At night, we went to see Sunshine at a Christmas Eve party. The little girls had a good time playing and eating everything in sight. Lorelai cut a rug for the guests, rocking out to as many uptempo Christmas songs as she possibly could.

Monday, December 23, 2013

12/23


Tonight after dinner, Daddy gave Lorelai a Happy Cake for dessert. Lorelai was so excited she actually hugged the cupcake.

Sunday, December 22, 2013

12/22

High five, Pat Gal. He proposed to future Aunt Lauren this week!

Saturday, December 21, 2013

12/21

Lorelai and Daddy went to the Way's Christmas party tonight. Everyone was super impressed with how adorable and advanced Lorelai is.
At the party, the Flyers game was on. When the Flyers were scored on, Lorelai shouted out "BUM!" without any prompting from her Daddy which made the guest giggle at her cleverness.

Friday, December 20, 2013

12/20

We spent Mama's day off baking at Nana's house today! We made cookie press cookies just like Nana's mama used to at Christmas time. Lorelai declared herself very helpful and wanted to eat each and every cookie.
After baking, we made gingerbread houses with Aunt Mo and Chris. Lorelai knew what parts of Cinderella's castle were edible... Mama and Daddy didn't know Lorelai was aware of differently shaped candies. She tried her best to peel the candy that she could reach from the house whenever Mama wasn't paying attention.
Lorelai has quite the sweet tooth.



Thursday, December 19, 2013

12/19

Lorelai spent the day playing with her cousin Dylan during his week of half days and riding on her batmobile, a get-well present from Nana and Pop pop for being such a brave little girl.
Pure. Bliss.

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

12/18

Mama has a flash drive that Lorelai thinks is a cell phone. Every so often, she will pick it up and start talking very seriously and chat with the voice on the other side of the line.

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

12/17

Second day after surgery and Lorelai still refuses to rest or elevate anything. Mama and Daddy have tried and tried but it is no use. She isn't any pain so we are monitoring her for limping a swelling for now and hoping for the best. Truly, Mama is more upset that Lorelai is.

Monday, December 16, 2013

12/16

Lorelai had her operation at Nemours DuPont Hospital today at 6:30am. Doctor removed what he called a "vascular malformation" on the back of her left leg, below the knee. The operation took about an hour-- she was a champ. I was sad to see her all loopy and disoriented. Afterwards, all she wanted was to sit on my lap in the recovery room.
When we got back home, we were told to cuddle the little one and elevate her foot when possible. Lorelai was having none of that-- she was trying to run all over after one episode of My Little Ponies and one board book. You can't keep a Lorelai still for very long!

Sunday, December 15, 2013

12/15

Daddy and Lorelai were getting ready to go to Nana's house tonight. Unfortunately, Daddy did not have his car seat and Mama was at work so they were unable to go. Lorelai refused to believe it and would not take off her jacket and shoes. She was convinced that they were still going somewhere.

Saturday, December 14, 2013

12/14

Lorelai got to play with Beth, Aiden, and Tigh tonight at the Caramanico Christmas party! Lorelai had a good time and fists full of soft pretzels. She insisted on wearing her sparkly dress over a Christmas dress because our girl is a party girl.
Naturally.

Friday, December 13, 2013

12/13

Night was the children's Christmas party at Mama's office. We went up and found so many friends to play with! Lorelai enjoyed pizza and milk, cookies and chips. There was Christmas music playing in the lobby and Lorelai would only leave the dancing for more milk or to follow Sonja on adventures.

And Santa was there!! Lorelai waved to Santa from a few few away and yelled out "Hi Santa!" but wanted nothing to do with him when he made a motion to hold her.

Thursday, December 12, 2013

12/12

Today, Lorelai went in for a Pre-Op check up. She had a good time-- Look! Computers for her age, little seats to push around, ponies on the Christmas tree, and the nurse was blowing bubbles!

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

12/10

Aunt Mo asked that we take a family picture for her Pollyanna Christmas Surprise. Lorelai wanted her Elf, Jingle Bell, to be in the picture too. There she is, peaking out over Mama and Lorelai's shoulders.

Monday, December 9, 2013

12/9

Did you know that a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle mask can be used as a sling to twirl around the room with a ball?

Sunday, December 8, 2013

12/8

It snowed!
This was Lorelai's first adventure with snow. She kept calling it bubbles, which is too adorable. One can only assume that she is associating bubble bath foam with the fluffy and cold white stuff outside.
Lorelai tenatively touched the powder and tried to shake it off of her hand. Daddy made a ball for her which she took and promptly squished. "Pop!" Then she demanded a second one.
Point of note: she refused to wear her mittens. Mama and Daddy both tried several times. By the time we were done outside, her hands were ice and she was crying. It only took 10 minutes and we were ready to head in and take a nap. Lorelai has never been so cold.

Saturday, December 7, 2013

12/7

Daddy put up our Christmas tree this afternoon so we could decorate it together. When Lorelai came downstairs after her nap, she was very excited to see the tree with tinsel garland and lights. She spent some time blowing at the tinsel and giggling at the lights and then it was down to business-- Lorelai intended to handle every ornament ball that we had in our house. "I helpful!" she exclaims. Yes, yes she is.
And wonderful news... she didn't break any this year (yet)!

Friday, December 6, 2013

12/6


Today is the first time Lorelai identified herself as "Lorelai" in pictures of herself. She was looking at her family photo book with Daddy who asked "Who's that?" Lorelai said "Baby!" So Daddy asked "What's the baby's name?" "Lorelai!" she exclaimed!
Too precious.

Thursday, December 5, 2013

12/5

Lorelai loves to dance. Did you know that? This morning, she demanded some dance music and Daddy selected a few themes from Battlestar Galactica. This led them to watching episodes together. A day well spend in our books.

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

12/4

Lorelai went to DuPont Children's Hospital to see a specialist about the Baker's Cyst on the back of her left leg. The doctor has set a date for surgery. Aside from that news, Lorelai had a grand time-- the whole place was designed for people her size! There were fun chairs to play with and spin in... and Lorelai learned how to use lever doors!!

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

12/3

Today we went to take a family photo. Lorelai was too cute, directing everyone to stand here or there, bossing the photographer into using a stool or present box. Our little Miss Bossypants.

Monday, December 2, 2013

12/2

Lorelai insisted that the baby needed to wear her Batman cape today. Soon after, Baby needed to hear a Batman story, which Lorelai was more than happy to read aloud to her. Baby is a really big fan of Batman.

Sunday, December 1, 2013

12/1

Today, we celebrated cousin Jacob's first birthday! In celebration, Uncle Pat Gal sent Jacob a ride-on toy that ended up a big hit with the older kids as well. Though the back half was still in cardboard, Lorelai (then later Lucas and Chris) sat on the car and tried to propel it forward. Lorelai can be quite determined.