Yesterday . . . a first.

Delaney said her name yesterday!  Well, sort of.  It came out, "Da-nay-nay" But that's pretty close.  I know we chose a big name for a little girl but she'll grow into it!  We were visiting my mom who is still very sick with that nasty chest congestion stuff that's been plaguing so many people.  Despite feeling bad my Mom entertained and played with Delaney for several hours after she woke from her nap.  I took a cute video but Mom is so hoarse you can barely hear her.  She and Delaney were playing with a bird figurine in the window seat and Delaney repeated what the bird said and as the bird said "Hello Delaney", she said it right back!.
Our little one is making such big strides.  We're still having her evaluated to see if she may get help with language acquisition but her vocab has grown a lot since we've been home.  She can repeat many words but doesn't offer a lot of them spontaneously.  I can see in the past few days where she is growing more frustrated at us when she cannot get her point across and when we don't understand her.  She will point and verbalize until we figure it out, at least she's persistent.  She enjoys getting her chinese/english picture books and sitting on the couch with me as we repeat the words.
She is still sleeping through the night and has been in her crib since about a week after arriving home.  She's goes down easily for naps and bed once we sing songs and pray and turn on her light up/lullaby  butterfly.  She's such  a good girl and so affectionate.
On another note, she has really good rhythm so I am very happy and see some ballet in our future or maybe jazz, she's pretty spunky and likes to move.  Larry is equally as thrilled that she seems to have a passion for animals and gets so excited when she sees a deer on television.  She prances and points and squeals when she sees one.  The other day she grabbed Larry's Buck Master magazine and tried to show it to the deer on television.  She also imitates turkey and hoot owl noises in the car as well as some other predatory animals like coyote, really funny!  She even puts her hands to her mouth like she's really calling! I'll leave you with a picture . . .

Relaxing at home with "Pay-E" (Penny)