A Morning in the Life of Delaney

On Mondays and some Wednesday mornings I have off work and Camden and Makenna go to school. This leaves just Delaney and I in the morning. Here is what many of these mornings consist of after breakfast.

Stretching (today we played pattycake in our straddle)

Dancing (actually this is pretty much what a full hour consisted of). She picks a song (usually Rockstar or Twist and Shout...both Makenna's performing songs) and entertains. Today she went in the toyroom and came out with this dance outfit and asked me to put it on her.

The video is a little long, I never know when to stop!


After dancing, she brought me book after book to read to her. I couldn't get a picture of that because there was no one to take it, but here is Delaney reading to herself, which she also enjoys. She actually makes up the words to the book too!

Notice the purse on her arm. It goes everywhere! It is a Cinderella purse which she fills with play princesses. Such the girlie girl!

After all this stretching, dancing and reading, it's usually time to get Camden. I sure enjoy this time with her though!

Julia's Basketball Game

On Saturday we went to watch Julia play basketball.

We had fun watching you Julia!

Go Cardinals!

The Cardinals have two games today...one at 9:00 and then a play-off game at 2:00. They won the game at 9:00!!! We'll see about the afternoon game....

And how could I forget our cheering section, with Makenna and Delaney leading the way! Thansk for coming Aunt Kelley! (sorry I forgot to take a picture!)

Fashion Disaster Day

Makenna's school had a Fashion Disaster Spirit Day this week. Here is the outfit she and I came up with. Thank goodness for brightly colored dance clothes!

Cam's 1st football game as a Cardinal

The newest season for football has started and this time Camden is excited to be a Cardinal!
I really didn't take many pictures, so next week I hope to have some better pictures.

I found my camera!

Just in case anyone cares to know, I found my camera yesterday. It was in Makenna's dance drawer, which I haven't accessed since the recital...where I thought I lost it. I was getting her clothes out for dance yesterday when voila, there it was!

All About Camden

Camden got to do his All About Camden poster over break and present it yesterday. Here is what it said!

I am 4 years old.

My favorite color is blue.

My favorite animal is a tiger.

My favorite food is pizza.

My favorite places are Disneyland and Legoland.

When I grow up I want to be Batman.

My favorite things to do are play football and baseball.

If I had one wish I would wish to fly.

Last Day of Break = Fun at the Zoo

For the last day of Christmas break, we decided to take the kids to the Phoenix Zoo. Now, I know I brought Delaney with me on the Kindergarten field trip last month, but we saw so little of the zoo because were in a group that I'd like to think this is really Delaney's first trip! We only visit once a year, so it's exciting each time.

(No we did not buy a camera, but our new video camera has a photo taking mode too. The quality of the video might be great, but the pictures are no substitute for a good digital camera. I think it will work for right now though!)

When we went for Makenna's fieldtrip, we didn't see her favorite animal, the flamingo. So that was first this time!

Here are our little monkey's (well two of them!)

Camden and Delaney sharing a snack

The kids enjoyed the play area (go figure!)

Camden always enjoys driving the tractor, but this was Laney's first drive.

Then the petting zoo. Delaney thought every animal looked like Eeyore, especially the goats. She wasn't quite gentle with them either. She wanted to run to every goat and "pet" them. We are still working on petting nicely! (The picture is deceiving!)

Makenna and Camden loved brushing the goats...the goats loved it too.

Our usual ride on the saddle. :)

So Laney thought the wallabys, monkeys, goats, and zebras looked like Eeyore, we thought we'd take a real picture of Eeyore! (His real name is Peter though, don't tell Laney)

This alligator was her favorite thing to climb on.

Makenna on the warthog!

Camden on the king of the jungle.

Nice ride.

Great view of the giraffes (always one of my favorites)

Our spiders in their web.

Looking at the prarie dogs.

It was a fun day at the zoo...and a nice end to a break that was just too short!

No camera is killing me!!!

I just have to tell you all that losing my camera has been devastating! I hate not being able to capture all the things we have done this week!

Christian had the week off, so we tried to make the most of it.

• Makenna is learning to ride her bike without training wheels (I will post a video as soon as I can figure it out!)
• We saw a movie (Princess and the Frog)
• Camden got to try out his new pitching machine
• Delaney got pinkeye (poor thing, but she laughs when we put in the eyedrops!)
• We went Christmas light looking at the temple and other various locations
• We spend New Years with Michelle, Logan, Daymon and Kelley. It was a great time, watching The Hangover, and just hanging out (Kelley, I need to get your pictures...I forgot)
• The kids have had a blast playing with all their toys all week.
• Christian and I bought a Blue-Ray player with all our Christmas money (thanks Grandma and Grandpa and Nanny and Gramps!) so Christian has been playing with that all week
• Camden beat his first Wii game (Diego...perfect for little kids I might add!)
• Delaney has cracked us up all week with her repeating everything and walking around saying, "Hi, I'm a Kitty Cat," and "Whoop, there it is!" She also walks around the house singing the entire song "Santa Claus is Coming to Town"

It's been a great week, unfortunately not documented in pictures (and no camera in the near future with my car costig $2,000 over the past 2 weeks...such a bummer)

I hope to figure out a way to use our video camera for some pictures in the mean time. I hope you all had a great New Year's and 2010 is great for us all!