9-21-2009

After getting home from the beach Dani got to "drive" her new car which we got from a yard sale. The car actually drives but her little legs aren't long enough to reach the pedals so Daddy has to run behind her holding the pedal with a broom handle, but she doesn't mind.

Grammie's Timeshare

Sept 19-21, 2009

At the end of September Dani and I spent a few nights at Grammie's timeshare at the beach. The first day/night I didn't take many pictures, the camera didn't even come out until Dani was asleep...

The next day we started by reading and practicing some sign language.

For those who don't know...that's a two handed "I love you"

Then the three of us hit the beach! The top center picture is her waving goodbye to the waves :)


After that Grammie went to get PawPaw so Dani and I played in the room.



She had fun modeling the dress I made her for the cute little girl in the mirror.


She played on the extra bed in "our" room for a while, pointing at people out the window and making faces at the girl in that mirror.


After Grammie and PawPaw got back it was time for us all to go swimming!

The next day she showed off her cool shades and posed some more before we had to head home.



Before we say goodbye...here are a few of my favorites of Dani and Grammie.



The end :)

A big day!

September 6th, 2009
What a big day! I woke up to a naked Dani! When I first went in to see her she handed me her diaper, then she laid back down. I just couldn't resist the naked butt picture! (I'm sure she'll hate me for it someday)




I love this little sleepy face!





Then we went to Grandma Zonnie's and played in the pool...A LOT.




She had so much fun!!






I think she wants to be a ballerina because she kept using the hand rail to stand on her toes.





Always a princess.

Sorry the pictures in the next collage are so small but they are all from the same sequence of events. Dani would stand outside the pool and John would throw water at her, she loved it! Please click on the collage to get a better view of the individual pictures.

Most of you know that my kid is a goof ball so these next pictures should come as no surprise. She was doing this crazy little "airplane" run where she would put her arms out, tilt, and zoom around, then it kinda turned into dancing.

Here are some of my favorites of Dani and her Daddy (I love you both!)

That was a super fun day!!!

Splash park!

September 4, 2009

There's a splash park in Tavares that we finally visited. It's only $2 per person and you can come back any time during that day. And of course Danica loved it! I wasn't planning on getting wet so I wore regular clothes, but Dani had different ideas. It was an overcast day but still nice enough to play and have fun.

She especially liked the crocodiles that shoot water out their noses.

At one point she scraped her toe. First I had to kiss it then take a picture. (Notice how wrinkled her foot is!)

I think there was supposed to be another picture or collage here but I'm not sure. If I find it later I'll just throw it on a random post. Lots of soggy fun!

Mommy made a dress!

August 29, 2009

I saw this material and fell in love with it so I decided to try my hand at making a dress for Danica. I did the whole thing in one morning and she wore it that afternoon.

I know it's super simple but I'm very proud of this little dress! And Dani seems to like it too :)

Dani's big geocaching day

August 22nd, 2009

Some of you know that I love geocaching, some of you are probably wondering what that is. For those who don't know, geocaching is a global scavenger hunt "where you are the search engine". You go to the web page www.geocaching.com and look up the area you want to hunt in, from there you get the coordinates, enter them in your handheld GPS and start looking! Our family's team name is AScarlettRose, A for John's middle name, Scarlett for mine, and Rose for Dani's. There are geocaches everywhere from in the middle of town to the middle of no where and they come in all sizes. We've found 50 cal ammo canisters and "micros" the size of a pencil eraser. Some have goodies inside (if you take something, leave something) and some only have a log for you to sign showing that you found it. For our family it's usually a team effort, I'm good at getting us to exactly where it should be and John is good at actually finding it.

So in August we took a trip through the woods to see what we could find, and we did pretty good!


For the next group you may need to click and enlarge. The top left is peeking out between the palm fronds. Top right is a camo ammo can, dead center. Bottom left is in the crook at the bottom of the tree (35mm film canister). And the bottom right is John fishing it out of the end of the log.


There were a lot of these pretty little purple flowers in bloom all over the place.


It ended up being a rainy nasty day but we still made it fun. These are some of the trails we took, several times John had to get out and remove trees or limbs from the road. Once he had to raise a tree a few inches so I could drive the jeep under it. The top right picture is an area we drove through that had me very nervous, I don't think we were supposed to be driving through there!


We stopped and had a picnic lunch in the back of the jeep and as expected Dani fell asleep in her car seat before it was all said and done.

I also have a page for my geocaching adventures it is www.geogoodness.blogspot.com but be warned...I'm even worse about updating there than I am here!!

Visiting with Tristin

August 15, 2009



Our little family went to play with Aunt Kiley and Tristin!





And we got a demonstration of how to play Superman...first you bounce on the bed then you have somebody bigger than you throw you onto a pile of pillows. After that you laugh a lot and beg them to do it again.





After a while you start a pillow fight





And here's my favorite picture of Tristin from that night. He's such a cutie!