Funny conversations involving Daniley never cease to amaze me.  Here is one that got a little extra laugh.
Mom:  "Daniley, I got that stain out of your shirt."
Daniley:  With excitement, "DID YOU USE OXY-CLEAN STAIN FIGHTER?"
Mom:  Rolling on the floor laughing. 

So we got out the slide again.  We used this when Daniley was little.  We inherited from my Uncle Michael.  It is at least 30 years old.  Daniley played on it like she had never seen it before (although she clearly remembered it because when I mentioned "the slide" she asked her Daddy to go get the "slide with the green sides and squares and circles on the sides."  That was way more than I remembered.  LOL.  Anyway, Lil' Darlin' climbed right up that thing and she loved it.  Here she is on her first trip down.  Then after bath time they went right back to playing.  Fun times!  Love my kids TO DEATH.  It was such a lovely weekend!!

One of the beauties of having girls is all the fun things we do in the kitchen together.  Daniley loves to help me cook.  I can promise you she doesn't get that from me, but I suspect from my grandmother Nina, also known as MawMaw.  Rolling out homemade biscuits is part of our Sunday morning ritual, but here she is trying to help me with dinner.  I hope she washed those potatoes good, because I did not go behind her.  :-)

Thursday night, Lil' Darlin' stayed up waaaay late, like 10:30.  She was just in the bed restless, climbing on us, pulling pranks, and laughing.  She FINALLY got to sleep....and my reward came the next morning.  She slept until 10:15am!!  (VERY unusual.  We're all early birds.)  That was great, because I had all the upstairs computer work completed by the time of her awakening.  We had a BIG day planned so I had been awaiting her.  I thought, how can I quickly give her a bath?  MOST efficiently?  Well since this is something we do every day, you'd think I would have asked myself this question before.  But I hadn't.  (Shows how we can be more innovative if we stop and THINK.)  Here's what I came up with.



Yes yes, it was fast and easy, and she liked it, and so did I.  I didn't have to get on my knees (one of which still isn't comfortable  to sit on due to surgery back in March).  Anyway, after this we were on our way out to town.  I had a to-do list a mile long, so we were out running errands for....NINE HOURS.  Yes, me and a 1 year old out for NINE HOURS.  I don't ever remember being so tired and exhausted.  I had to take Tylenol when I got home.  Here's one reason I needed Tylenol:  I was carrying her while she was asleep in Costco, and I had to pick up a 40 lb. bag of dogfood and put it in the buggy while keeping her comfortably balanced on my shoulder.  I'm not talking about putting the dog food on the bottom of the buggy either.  (no room there!)  I had to lift is all the way in.  It's amazing what you can do when you have to.  Got everything on the list completed though, happy and proud to say!! 

And when I saw this picture, the look on Dan's face just cracked me right up!  She is giving him a pillow so he'll be comfortable....right before she body-slams herself right onto his midsection.  LOL more.

This weekend we went to a swimming party hosted by Lisa and Chris and their sweet daughters.  It was VERY fun and I'd love to have a pool in my backyard so I could have my own swim parties.  Here are some pictures!  Thank you for inviting us ya'll.  We had a really fun time!!

This past Saturday was Liberty Day.  It was H.O.T. but also very fun.  I found some patriotic fabric at a yard sale a while back (several yards, different patterns, all for $2!!) so Mom took it and had Daniley and herself a clown suit made.  Well Daniley's clown suit was about 3 sizes too small (??) so it got handed to Lil' Darlin' and Mom had about 3 days to have another one made.  They were all clowns in the parade, and if I must say so myself, they were very CUTE clowns.  After that, Brooke invited us to the fireworks.  We had a REALLY good time.  The kids ran around all night long.  It was hot and sticky, yes, and they had grocery store feet, yes, but it was awesome.  The band was good, the music was rockin', it was just an all-around great weekend. (Please pardon the pictures running backwards.  I don't know how to stop that without renaming all my photos.  (hardly worth it).)

 This is a little pet coon.  Here she is climbing at the Barber Shop, getting into everything.  I, for one, need a haircut every once in a while too, so while I was shackled she was on the loose!  I tell you what, if this wasn't my mother doing the job, I'd get me a grandmother on duty to go have my haircut!