Today

This morning I took Ryan to school. Zane and Delaney came with me. There were high school students there photographing the grade schoolers, because they are doing a project about a day in the life at McCleery school. The bell rang and the kids lined up and started going in. The high schoolers scrambled to take pictures of the first graders as they entered the school. Like usual, Delaney was on the merry go round while Zane was pushing it around.

The last person trickled into the school and all of a sudden I realized that all the high schoolers had turned around, found Delaney and Zane and were taking pictures of them. Then Delaney spotted them taking pictures, and what was just pure bliss from the wind on her face as she spun in a circle became a smile of recognition that she was in the spotlight. The smile was priceless. It was like she was the princess she knew she was, and she was smiling to all those in her court.

Today at the dinner table, Ryan told me that they practiced fire and tornado drills as well as soft lockdown and hard lockdown drills. I asked him what circumstances would warrant a hard or soft lockdown drill and he was able to explain them to me. I just started crying. We never had to think about anything like that when I was in school. :(

Delaney and Shoes

We are on our fourth pair of shoes right now. First, there were the generic Crocs, which she was wearing when she peed in her pants and got them all wet. So, those had to come off.

Then she decided to put on her Strawberry Shortcake tennis shoes. She wore those for a while, but they came off when she peed her pants again (Potty training is not going so well today).

Then she put on her Princess Sandals which I picked up for her recently. She was playing outside in the back with the boys, and oh, horrors! She got mud on them. Instead of trying to clean them off in the grass, she had to change them.

So, that brings us to her most recent pair of shoes. She came out with a pair of brown leather sandals. They were given to us at one point, so I have no clue if they are real leather or not, but they have butterflies stitched on them with some little rhinestones. She says to me, "Mommy! Look! I found some sandals with butterflies. These are the most beautifulest ever. They will keep my feet warm (like sandals will keep her feet warm...lol).

Well, at least she has nice warm feet in this 80 degree weather we are experiencing. Lets see how long it takes for her to come and change those.

And just now, Ryan came into the house telling me that he is doing the most dangerousest job. He is going to do the dangerousest job, and nobody else can do it. Gotta love how tough he wants to be.