Meditation...hmmmmmmmmmm

This girl cracks me up! The other night, amidst the reigning chaos, Delaney climbed up on the counter to show me what The Hulk would do when he was getting angry (she must have seen the anger boiling since the kids were running around and KNOW that's not ok). This so cracked me up, I had to run and grab my camera to capture this!

Take my picture mom!

Laney's new mantra is "Take my picture mom" every time she sees the camera. These are pretty goofy, but here is a sampling of what she likes to see once I've snapped the pic!

The princess, over-the-shoulder-shrug...

The close up...

The horsey face...
The surprised look...
The toothy grin...
Our little princess turns 3 on the 27th, so check back in a few weeks for pics of the royal ball!

Why the blog is called darling

I just had to post this picture of Delaney on here. It is so stinking cute! Her bangs are so long, I have been curling them to keep them out of her eyes. Hopefully she'll get to have them cut by Aunt Courtnee soon! She was posing for this picture at our Christmas party with the extended Jacobs family. She got bonked in the nose the previous Sunday, so has a little cut there. Poor baby!

Swimming & Potty Training

Laney absolutely loves to swim! She was in the pool for almost 2 hours straight on Friday night. However, she drank a lot of pool water, so we were rushing her to the bathroom every few minutes. She is just newly potty trained, so she still waits until the extreme last second before telling us that she needs to go. You can see evidence of her potty dance at the end of this video. What a funny fish!

Dress Up!

My brother, Evan, called me a few weeks ago about a garage sale in his neighborhood with a bunch of princess stuff. I drove down and found a bunch of Disney princess dress up gowns. The lady was so cool and asked what I wanted them for. When I explained that my 2 year old was obsessed with the princesses, she gave me the entire lot (dresses & accessories + a bag) for $10. Delaney wears her dresses all day everyday (except when we leave the house) and has actually been pretty good about keeping them in the dress up box when she takes them off. Now we have Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Jasmine, & Ariel. I know we have Snow White in another box somewhere, but I maybe I hid it so well I can't find it on purpose???

The downside to all of this is that her hair is constantly tangled because it gets messed up with all the different dresses and tiaras going on and off her little head. Laney also has no qualms about mixing Ariel's wedding veil with Cinderella's ball gown. Why look like just one princess, when you can pretend to be 3 at once! Here are some pictures of Cinderella (formerly known as Delaney Lynn).

Delaney's First Web Video

I just remembered that I can actually record video on my digital camera. This evening, we were just hanging out on the deck and I decided to do some mini-interviews with the kids. Delaney had a pretty dirty face as she had been playing outside for a while and she had just taken her pigtails out. I don't let her go out in public like this, but I guess it's ok to post her on the world wide web looking like this....

Up to Date on Beauty & Fashion

I always keep "smut" magazines in the car for the occasions when I go donate blood or am waiting on to pick up a child from one activity or another. Apparently, the other day as we were driving somewhere, Delaney found one and began flipping through it. I looked back and just started cracking up! It looked so funny to me that my 2 year old was flipping through a beauty & fashion magazine as if she totally knew how to read and what was going on! That girl always has me cracking up!