New Funnyism

I have related many funny Dannyisms over the years. Now Ms V is starting to add her own :)
Last night I went up to do a clothing check :) and found her in her dora Pjs happily sleeping!!! As she had not really gone before bed I was afraid she might have an accident so I got her up and had her P in the potty.
I got her back to bed, tucked her in, gave her her babies and we kissed.
Just as I hit the chair in front of the tv I thought I heard Danny.
I got up and walked over to the bottom of the stairs and heard Danny yell "Ma".
Just as I got up the stairs I heard the pitter patter of bare feet running through the bathroom from Danny's room to Ms V's. I walked into Danny's room and listened to him complain that his sister was just in his bed! I cut through the bathroom into her bedroom to find her tucked in her bed, holding her babies and "snoring"!!!
I leaned over her and whispered that she needed to stay in bed that Danny needed to sleep. She rolled her head towards me and said "mama, I missed Danny"
what a little stinker!!
Danny heard her and yelled over "I miss you too Victoria!"
Just melts my heart!
I told them both to go to sleep!

clothing issue :)

First things first - Happy Birthday to my beautiful niece Kathryn who turned 18 today!!!


Now onto serious things:

This is how I found Ms V. after nap yesterday:


Here are her clothes in a pile on her bed, usually she throws them across the room:


This is what she woke up in - her pj bottoms. She couldn't get her top on :)

She stripped off her clothes, climbed out of bed, opened up her dresser drawer and pulled out her favorite pj's :) :)

She has decided that sleeping is for being naked. No matter what she wears when she goes down she takes it off. We haven't put a diaper on at naptime for a long time, but she still strips to skin. At bedtime she takes her pj's off, whips her diaper off and we usually find her with just her pj top on. I end up going up after an hour of sleep and re-dressing her. Two nights ago we put duct tape on her diaper so she could not get it off. That really pi**ed her off, but she could not get it off. When I went up to check on her she had only her diaper on. Last night we let her pick out her pj's and decided to just go without a diaper at all. We put the plastic sleeve over her mattress and a towel and layers under her sheets. Last night was the first night in weeks that she kept her pj's on!!!!
Then today's nap she wanted pj's and I told her they were for nighttime. When Dan went up to get her up she was naked with her clothes on the floor.
So I guess maybe we need to put her in pj's for nap too??
I guess we will see how it goes tonight and see if she keeps her pj's on.
If that works I hope we can convince her that all pj's are good and not just the DORA ones!!!!

Pound For Pound Challenge Widget

Exciting morning

This morning we were making coffee, getting the newspaper and chillin when the doorbell rang. Dan answered it and came back to tell me he had to help Bill, our neighbor, and would be right back.
About 15 minutes later I heard them on the porch and went out and found this:


This is what was inside:


Bill was walking his dog down our street and the dog sensed him. I wish I had known they were going to catch it because I would have filmed them doing it :)

I did some internet research and Bill made many phone calls to find someone that would take it in and care for it. We found a place in Elkton that specializes in birds and they were one of the few that actually answered their phone :)
So we had a great road trip! We all got dressed and piled into my car and drove the half hour to Elkton to turn it over.
The founder of the organization met us and quickly looked it over and told us that it was an old male horned owl!! She thinks he is starving and very weak and that is why he was sitting on the ground at the base of a tree. As they get older it is harder for them to catch food and it has been cold which makes it worse.
We gave her a donation and thanked her for taking care of him.

We felt so good!!
Bill is going to keep in touch with her and let us know how he is.

Just some pics :)

Busy week here, back to school for Danny :)
He started Karate again and was very excited to get his new tiger belt and show off his uniform with his name stitched on it :)
He starts track next week.
I go in for my back shot on Wednesday and am hoping it is no where as painful as the hip shot. :)
Dan sees his Dr this week to go over all his meds. His VA DR had added two new meds and the side effects have not been pretty :( His regular DR thinks he is on too much stuff too.
Ms V is her usual self, we put a diaper on at bedtime just to be safe and she rips it off as soon as she lays down to bed :) I sneak up later and put it back on. Knock on wood there have been NO accidents for weeks :) :)
(yes I know I just jinxed myself)
Here is a hodgepodge of pics from the last week:

Trying to get Nana's kitty to play


"helping" daddy clean the back porch


Sitting on the front porch relaxing (danny has the towel over his head because of the sun - he could not find his sunglasses)


Say "Cheese"

Back home!

We are back home in our shorts and tshirts!
Pictures from vacation:
Our niece Nicole with her shadow aka Victoria before the family dinner on New Years Day. We all got together and had dinner at Bertucci's, yummy!


Anyone for a little bit of chocolate?? We celebrated my OLDER sisters birthday :) :)


Victoria playing with Grampy :)


after dinner we all sat around watching Mamma Mia! I have now seen it 3 times in the last couple of days :) What a great movie!


My bil and nephew playing wii. They were so into it :)


We got a call Friday am to say that our flights home had been cancelled and they booked us on new flights. Turned out so much better for us, we got home 2 hours earlier! Victoria was so good for all the traveling.
I called Dan once we were about 5 minutes from home so he could wake Danny up. When we pulled up at the house Dan, Danny and the dogs were waiting on the porch for us!
We were all happy to be in our own beds for the night!

Danny funny - Dan had taken Danny fishing Friday. They had bought shiners to fish with. After fishing for a little bit Danny was pretty upset by the live shiners in the bucket so they were set free!
Dan made the mistake of taking Danny to see Marley at the movies - they both cried!
Danny is still talking about the sad movie!

Danny has been a real stinker all weekend since I got home, I think he is still mad I left him home :(

Happy Birthday to my OLDER sister!!!!!

PTL school starts again tomorrow!!! :) :)

Happy New Year!!

We got our snowstorm yesterday!! It snowed all day! We ended up changing our family dinner plans to today. So we had the fire going and watched movies all evening!!

Driving home from the mall yesterday! Thank heavens my sister was driving - it has been a really long time since I drove in snow :)


Winter Wonderland!


Victoria playing sausage with her cousins!


We finally got her to go out in the snow and play today, but she did not know what to do with it :) It was COLD....


I can even swing in the snow!!!!


Making snow angels in the house!