Last year we went to Habenero's and they sang Daniley a Birthday Song. She loved it so much we decided to make it a tradition. The whole time we ate she kept saying, "When are they gonna bring me a song?"

It's amazing how much she's grown in just a year. She's grown from big baby to big girl. We've made a lot of memories this year. Thank you God for blessing us in so many ways! If you want to compare the clip to last years, look on my side bar and go back to August 2010. You'll find the clip by clicking that link.

Hodge Podge... We've been busy. Here's the proof. ;-)
Katie's birthday. Katie, we had a SUPER FUN time! Thanks so much for having us over!
Rachel, realizing the bow actually has a clip on it. LOL.


Have you been in my makeup? No? Well how did your arm turn white from the shoulder to the hand??? :-O
Alabama Adventure with Sarah Katherine and Mia. You gals are AWESOME! SK surprised me when she rode the wild rides. :-)

Here's a little clip of The Little Darlin'. Hopefully it will make you smile!

Here we are at the end of Bible School at Parents' Night. First Daniley totally caught me off guard. I think the preacher was on the stage saying a few words when all of a sudden she shouted out "THANK YOU GOD!" loud enough that the WHOLE church heard her, very clearly, and punched her fists up in the air, apparently just like they had practiced. The preacher just stopped, then everyone clapped, and I nearly fell off the pew laughing and crying all at the same time. You just never know what you're gonna get with her. Then her little class went up on stage to do their song.
If that wasn't enough for you, I can post the next minute where she lays down and makes snow angels on the stage. This is why I love being Daniley's mom. Cause she's AWESOME!!!!!!! :-)

I'll briefly say...Happy Birthday Katie; SK and Mia, we had a blast hanging out at AL Adventure with you; Little Darlin' you are the cutest thing that's ever lived....blog readers, I'll get caught up soon. Until then, I know the family is anxious to see the dance pictures, so we're breaking in line. :-)

I picked her up from Mom's, and mom dressed her in hopes of no meltdowns (we don't do so well with tight clothes!). It wasn't too bad. This is her "I'm not so sure about this" look.We made it to the studio, and here we are outside, before going in and seeing all the other little ballerinas running around.
Now we've made it inside. The excitement is growing!
Lacing up....
So tired of waiting (it's been all of 10 minutes)
We made it in....
I watched outside on the screens as she danced and twirled. She did pretty well...and no one cried....and it wasn't her who peed in her pants...so it was a GREAT day. I was so excited about dance class Thursday I could barely focus on my work. Here we are all finished up.


I love this kid more than I ever knew was possible. Even though sometimes I think I might strangle her. LOL.

Sisters. That's who we are. After the baby tea we had a little scenario that left us all three rolling in the floor. I'd write it here...but you just wouldn't understand. ;-)

WE MADE IT!!!!!!!!!!
Daniley can write her name all by herself. You don't even have to tell her the letters. She writes them in order (First the D, then the A....) but they don't always "appear" in order, because if she runs out of room on the chalkboard she just puts the next letter wherever it will fit. LOL.
Might I add (to mom's who may be interested!), MMs are GREAT learning tools. First she used them to learn her colors (when she got the color right, she ate the MM). Then she used them to count. Group. Patterns. And....if you use them as bribes they can even help teach them to use the potty, and even write. I'm not admitting to any bribes, I just sayin'..........

Wow! It's been an eventful weekend. Saturday after yard sales I came home and was going about my business when Dan's cell phone rang. He had been cutting grass and was laying down resting. I saw him stand up and get a sense of urgency about him. I saw his eyes well up and initially my mind went to one of our parents, and perhaps they were calling him to sheild me. Then he hung up and told me, GPaw had a heart attack. We didn't know anything at that point. Was he going to be the same GPaw we used to know? Was there going to be a GPaw at all? Dan went to the hospital while I stayed home with the girls. It wasn't too long until he called me and told me he was ok. I went with that, until he called me back and said GPaw was shocked five times while they were putting a stint or two in. He had 100% blockage in one of his main arteries.
So, what went right? GPaw's decision to go to the hospital at the onset of chest pain and sweating ultimately saved his life. After breakfast he told Honey "I've never felt like this before" so off they rushed. If they had waited any longer, we'd be at the funeral home right now. It's crossed all our minds....Honey and GPaw are new to Alabaster. If they had been in the Grove, would they have made it in time? Would the ambulance they would have called responded fast enough? Could this be an unforcasted blessing of being forced to move? To these questions we may never have answers.
Gpaw's prognosis is good. It's just been reported he has little to no damage to his heart. His arteries are pumping blood like they haven't in years. Every time you lose a loved one you always say "If I could just_________ one more time." Well I'm getting my one more time. We all are. I'm not ready to give up ANY of my parents. Praise God for a happy ending!!!!!!!!

I DO NOT KNOW WHAT I'D DO WITHOUT MAWMAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(please note LeLe and Honey are the bomb too...whoop whoop!!!)

Here are some excerpts from an email I got today from Brooke. Enjoy!

...she [Daniley] walked in the door and handed me her switch and said, "Brookie, here's my switch, let's try not to use it." LOL!!! Danson and I both died laughing. Then while I was cooking supper she had to bake a cake. So I let her sit in the floor with a bowl of water and a whisk. She added salt, pepper, flour, and sugar to it. I looked down and she was licking the whisk! I asked her if it tasted good and she said, "It tastes like a cake." We ended the night with a bubble bath...We took her back to Mawmaw's butt naked [because they didn't have any clean clothes] and you should have seen the look on Mawmaw's face when she came barreling through the door with only shoes on. She told Danson on the way there to put her dress on so nobody would see her boobs. He said you're too little to have boobs.... [We'll just stop the email here. Her reply was outragous.]

When we got back to Mawmaw's she asked if she could watch Sleeping Beauty and Mawmaw told her, "Not right now because you have company." Daniley walked over to me and said, Brookie I think it's time for you and Unc to go home.

[LOL]

It seemed I wasn't that far behind blogging, but when I looked through my photos I realized I really was. We've been trying to do a recreational activity every day after work, and of course that just multiplies on the weekends. It's a non-stop fun house around here. You can interpret that however you wish. :-)

On the way to Alabama Adventure with the Morris family. That's Daniley asleep in the back. Would you like to see a close up of that? LOL.
Will add a slide show later. Come back for more!

We went to Mrs. Ruby's to swim and Dan still had the wagon hooked up from taking the lawn mower and cutting the right of way on the driveway. (He is HOT when he cuts grass. I love a man taking care of business!) So anyway, since it was hooked up we just threw Daniley in it and went on our way.
Little Darlin' took her first real swim. She liked it...a lot! She was so relaxed, she just laid there relaxing for the longest time.

Here we are swimming last Sunday afternoon with Jill and her gang. The girls have a lot of fun together. They are so sweet. The gave Daniley two little mermaid dolls that she hasn't put down since. One came named Blueberry. The other one got named Bakery. :-)Little Darlin' was there too. I don't go too many places without her. :-)

We picked up the I and L. We've made it to the E (not shown). When we get the Y, we'll have DANILEY. I'm trying to reach this goal before her third birthday at the end of the month. She's really a smart girl. We're already looking at colleges. Bahahaha. That's a joke, people. But we are looking at private vs. public school. It's just two more years. :-(

Daniley uses this camera ALL THE TIME when I'm not looking. The stories she tells with her camera are pretty funny, because Dan and I usually don't know she's capturing our every move. Can't you just see him here about to snatch that thing up and say "GIMME THAT CAMERA!!!!!!!!!!"

I would wear my panties EXACTLY like this if I didn't have to hear what Dan would say about it. If I was just a tad more gutsy I'd put the one on here where she pulled them up her crack. But I don't believe exposing my kid's buttcheeks on the internet is really all that smart.

Saturday night date night is usually accompanied by, or controlled by, our kids ....here we are at Pizza Hut. Daniley got her a little kiss.
Followed by the Merry Go Round at the Galleria. I saw her lick that pole. Good thing I'm not a germ-a-phobe. Hahaha.

Just found these on my camera card. I see exactly the story that was going through Dan's head when he took these pictures.
See deer.
See cat and dog not bothered by deer.

See dog looking at pretty deer.
See cat chilling by deer.
See why deer eats garden.

What have we been doing lately? SWIMMING. A lot. At Alabama Adventure, at Ruby's, at the Alabaster Rec Club, and points in between. Here is a video where I got a wild hair and decided to see what happened when we took Daniley's "floaty" swimsuit off and threw her in. Yes, I know, we're skinny dipping in Ruby's pool while they were out of town. I didn't do it on purpose, but I wanted to see if she could swim and the floaties are built into her other swimsuit, so when we lost that, we had nothing. The only way you will ever learn to swim, as I've told Crystal R. Burkle Lovelady many times, is to get your feet off the bottom. So, we gave it a shot. I was shocked how well she did, since she's only been ALIVE for two summers. Dan stood on the sloped part of the pool, so one step too many, and it's sink or swim. Do I think she would drown if she fell in the pool? Absolutely. Do I think that could change by summers' end? Absolutely!!

Life....as seen from the backseat.

Daniley LOVES taking pictures with my camera. And she's fairly accurate capturing her target. So the other day, I gave it to her to hush her up a little on the ride home after work and Mawmaw's Daily Adventures. When I got home, the story she told through the lens made me smile, so I wanted to share it with you.