This weekend was wild. Daniley stressed me absolutely to my limits. I was crying by Saturday afternoon (due to events out of my control, with a little added stress from Daniley), and Sunday. We won't discuss Saturday, but on Sunday Daniley was whiney. I can't blame her too much because she has had a cold and hasn't been feeling well. But I was trying to cook and she was latching on to my leg. I put her on the counter and she fell off. Of course I was right there so I caught her. But I was thinking, "Good thing Momma is right here." Then I put her on my hip and continued to cook. She was grabbing at everything. When I walked over by the coffee pot she grabbed it while it was making tea (ie. HOT) and tried to pull out the whole pot. Luckily she didn't get burned, but by this time I was even more stressed and so I just burst out into tears. I'm working out some weekend child sharing so I (and the other couple) can get a little R&R. (My mom and grandma are off limits due to excellent childcare provided during the week! I love you both; You are so wonderful!!!)
Now that all this is written it sounds like a pity party. It's not! It's just my record of where we are right now...and to the people who always tell me how "together" I am....life sometimes just gets the best of me. It's motherhood; I love it; I wouldn't trade one minute of it for anything on this Earth!!!!

Happy Easter from Daniley and the rest of us!!

We don't have any pictures from this weekend because it was too busy to pick up a camera. We did not stop all weekend long. Daniley survived 12 hours of errands on Saturday with no nap and no stopping. She was even well-behaved. We got a new cousin, went to yard sales, attended a baby shower, shopped for an oven, went back and bought an oven, met with neighbors about a land deal, planted tomatoes, researched & serviced my new (used) serger, had lunch with acquaintances, and all the "other" things a general weekend brings. We were supposed to take my grandparents to Lloyd's and thank goodness they didn't want to go in the rain. I don't know how I would have fit it all in. It was a great weekend...on speed!

Quiz: Does Daniley look like anyone below? (Click the picture to enlarge it.)

Saturday night, after a brief argument with myself on how much I should spend on kids shoes, we went country line dancing. Daniley did real well, moving with the beat. We didn't get any great pictures of her. However, she did invent a new line dance. So complex the pros wouldn't even try it. It's called the "Hardwood Shimmey" and you just lay down on the dance floor and wiggle with the music.
You know you've had one too many--
When you're willing to do the Hardwood Shimmey.
That's going to be the lyrics of the country song she's gonna write when she learns to play the guitar.

Last weekend brought a nice trip to the park. She could swing for hours! In fact, now that I recall, she arrived here loving to swing. I remember hours she spent in her infant swing happy as a billy goat in a briarpatch. :-) It appears now that she also likes sliding down poles. Maybe she'll be a firelady...and not a dancer...lol.

This weekend was a good one. It is so amazing how that every weekend that goes by I realize how much MORE I love Daniley. We have so much fun together and I know she won't be little for long and so we just try to cherish every moment that we have together! She definitely is a Daddy's girl. Today her Daddy was outside working on the garden and when he came back in she ran over to him and latched onto his leg. For some reason, it made me cry. I think I was/am a little jealous that all Dadu has to do is show up. It's me that makes sure Daniley has food to eat, diapers to wear...I smile at her with every butt wipe. But it seems to be her Dadu that she loves the most (that's right Dan, I admitted it finally). This Saturday I got up before sunrise to rock her into the dawn. I noticed how her legs go way past the edge of the rocker now. She's twice as long as she was. And all so fast. Sunday morning is the morning we get to sleep the latest (up by 7, that's sleeping "in"). I love this morning, because there's no alarm clock and we usually wake up to Daniley's sweet voice and smile. She always crawls over to her Dadu, and this morning she crawled onto his back for a "ride." GIDDY UP. Yeh right. Last night PawPaw and Debba came over for a quick PattyCake
and of course PawPaw brought Bobby and he took Daniley for a wild ride....

One of Daniley's girlfriends needed a babysitter Friday night so we were happy to have Sarah Katherine over to play.

After the walk, the girls wanted to take a little ride. Turns out, they aren't very good drivers.

Hey Daniley....you lost our cargo....

These two girls can get into some serious trouble...but between the two of them, they can usually find their way out of any hopeless situation...all it takes is teamwork....


Could someone PLEASE tell us how to back up?????

"Daniley, You're the best." "No, you are." "No, you are." "No, you are!"

This weekend, we hit an amazing milestone. Daniley answered a question I asked. This is how it went down:
I was sitting in the living room watching the news. Daniley had gone into the bedroom and I couldn't see her for a minute. I wasn't really paying any attention to her, until I heard a crying squeal. As I bounced to my feet, she came out of the bedroom and had some kind of liquid all down her front. My mind immediately went to possibilities in the bedroom, and all I could quickly come up with that's wet were baby wipes. She was sopping wet, so I knew that didn't happen from baby wipes. Then I panicked because I didn't know what it was. I scanned her for blood or other signs of injury. She appeared just fine. So then I asked her, in a panicked voice, "Boogies, what did you do?" She replied, to my dismay, "Dink Dink," as she turned and pointed to the now-empty glass of water setting on my nightstand.
There was almost no water on the carpet and the glass was empty. That pretty much explained it. Apparently she didn't appreciate a glass of cold water poured across her chest and belly. LOL.
Now I know you blog readers are probably thinking "Whoopti-Doo, she answered your question." But this was a first for us and I was absolutely speachless. I have been asking Daniley questions for 18 months and this is the first time I ever got a verbal answer.
She says tons of words, some are understandable and some are not. She is addressing people by their name. Yesterday in church Brooke was in the choir and Daniley went up to the front (we were letting her dance in the aisles) and yelled BOOOOOKKK. This morning Dan was pouring orange juice and we heard "O-Chay." She calls the pets by name too. She calls out the foods she eats (beyey=berry, yogio=yogurt, cacka=cracker, on and on). This is SO FUN! I cannot get enough of that sweet girl!!!