We use the word “good” with Daniel a lot about things he has done or food he is eating.  He’s been practicing saying “good” a lot and says it pretty clearly in this video with Mimi and Poppy.

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Mimi and Poppy gave Daniel his Easter gifts today.  His favorite were these stacking cups.

They also gave him this little trumpet.

He loved the tissue paper.  He likes to tear off little pieces of paper and tear them as small as he can.

Their musical Easter card to Daniel. 

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Stacking cup play.

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Tissue fun.

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Little squeaky ball.

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Daniel visited Mimi today.  Mimi and Poppy had a couple of new toys for Daniel.  One was a colorful wooden caterpiller and the other was a wire maze toy.  Daniel was really taken with it.  He loves moving beads over wires. 

Here is Daniel playing with the wire maze.  He has his arm around a panda that Mimi’s sister Lynda gave her years ago.  Daniel loves to play with this panda on his Mimi visits.

Mimi brought out a doll.  First Daniel gave her a kiss.

Mimi showed Daniel how the doll could drink from her bottle.  Mimi got a big giggle when Daniel decided to drink her bottle instead.

None of us tired old folks felt up to cooking, so we went out to eat for Thanksgiving lunch. Here is Mimi with Daniel and Bunny before we left the house.

Here is a rare picture of Mama and Daniel. Don’t you just love his two bottom teeth?

You can see Uncle Tom sitting in the background here.  Look at Daniel’s blue eyes.

Mimi gave Daniel his bottle while the rest of us started chowing. 

This is Daniel’s first time to use the high chair proctector his cousin Karen gave him.  He has on his Thanksgiving bib from Uncle Larry and Aunt Brenda and his sharp Ralph Lauren coverall from Aunt Christina.

Pappy trying to get Daniel to talk to him.  Mammy, Papa and Mama are sitting across the table.

Isn’t this just the cutest little ham biscuit!

Poppy’s just a wee bit proud of the boy.

We didn’t have great luck with six month pictures. The photographer lady was being boisterous with Daniel to make him smile which just made him afraid of her. We got a few good pictures before he was terrified.

This is Mimi and Poppy getting him ready.

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Daniel loves his Mimi.  He loves to give kisses and gives great ones.

Poppy and Mimi watched Daniel this afternoon while Mama took a nap. Papa caught this video of Daniel getting big laughs out of bottle cleaning.

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Daniel knows that Mimi gives him great naps, so when he sees Mimi, he often asks her to give him a nap.  Mimi came over today and gave Daniel a nap while Mama did a few things.  Sorry for the blur, but this is a rocking action shot in the dark kitchen with Dogwood playing on the CD player.

Daniel spends a few hours with Poppy and Mimi on Saturdays so that Mama and Papa can do a little shopping.  Mimi took these pictures of Poppy and Daniel outside.  Daniel’s serious expression is due to his pretty intense teething pain.

Reflux update:

We discovered that Zantac and Zegerid interfere with each other, so we had to go cold turkey off the Zantac.  This leaves Daniel unprotected from the acid until the Zegerid starts working.  Thursday morning his acid was really strong, probably a side effect of coming off Zantac after being on it for several weeks.  Poppy and Mimi needed a distraction, so used an old fashioned sink bath, which Daniel enjoyed dispite his acid woes.