Lanie had a little bit of a fever last night and then woke up with it again this morning. She’s acting happy, so I hope this is just a passing thing and doesn’t turn into the cold that Dave has had the last few days. It amazes me how happy she is even when she isn’t feeling well. We are so lucky!
I finally posted our Christmas portraits in the gallery. I have been so busy with getting our house ready to sell that I haven’t sent out a single picture or any of our Christmas cards! They will all get sent soon I hope, now that the house is listed and things aren’t quite as hectic.
I also will try to get more of her other pictures posted. I had a problem with my laptop (it spontaneously caught on fire New Year’s Eve), and many of my photos are on that hard drive that we are still trying to see if the data can be recovered. Hopefully we will be able to save everything and get them posted soon. Until then I will try to post some of what has been taken since then.
-Kellie
The other day, my friend who is watching Alana for us while my parents are out of the country made the comment to me that Lanie is “freakishly smart.” I decided to take it as a compliment. Lanie does amaze me all the time with the things she knows. When she wants to, she can count at least up to 12, and she knows quite a bit of her ABCs. She can say several words in Spanish (her favorite numbers are ocho and cinco), and she amazes me with how many things she can identify by name. Yesterday as I was watching Boston Legal, one of the characters said “Massachusetts” and then so did Lanie, and I could understand her! Beign our first child, I am never sure of what she should be doing at what age, so I decided to look at a list of developmental milestones I found on a website. Lanie is way ahead of where it says a 22 month old should be, but I guess when you look at the families she comes from, it isn’t that surprising. Lanie has 4 very intelligent grandparents, and her parents are at least slightly above average, if I do say so myself. But what scares me is that I can see her passing all of us up!
It was so cute, I just had to write about it. This morning, I woke up and went in to get Lanie. She was awake in her crib, and I don’t know how long she had been awake, but she was in a very good mood, talking and laughing, and just having a good time. After I changed her, she went running toward our bedroom. After stopping to say a few things to Philo, she went to David’s side of the bed, and yelled out “WAKE UP, DADDY!” It was one of those things that you just wish you could have caught on video, because it was just so cute!
I can’t believe it has been so long since my last post. Things have been crazy around here trying to get the house ready to sell that there hasn’t been a spare moment to do much of anything else.
Alana is doing great, getting taller, growing more hair (finally), and greatly expanding her vocabulary. She still amazes me every day. She started going to a new babysitter last week while my parents are in Norway for a month. A friend of mine who I taught with is now staying at home with her 5 month old daughter, and agreed to watch Lanie for us. She only lives about 5 minutes away from my school so it is working out very well. Lanie really likes going to see Sarah and baby Sophie each day. Sarah tells me that Lanie is really good with Sophie and she seems to have adjusted really well to the change. She does often ask for her Mormor and Papa but we just keep reassuring her that they will be home soon.
Lanie is also dealing with all of the changes going on around our house. We have been busy packing things up to get this house ready to sell, and making frequent trips to the new house to check on the progress. They are about a month ahead of schedule (which everyone told me would never happen!) so we had to kick things into high gear. Our house is now on the market, so we just hope it sells quickly. Lanie seems to know that something is going on, but not sure what exactly. I just hope she likes the new house and gets used to the stairs fast!
I hope everyone is doing well!