Graduation FINALLY!!!!

I finally graduated.  Our whole family is very excited.  Dayona went to both my reception and graduation and was sooo good at both of them.  At the big graduation, when everyone started walking in Dayona said, "I'll never find my mommy!", but we did finally see each other.  I graduated with honors (4.0 in all masters classes)!  My goal is to pay off my student loans, maybe part of the house, save up for a car, get some money in savings, and then go part-time!!!  I've already had four offers, but we have decided to try Geary for a year and then do PRN for rehab care at Hydro nursing home.  Dayona is getting so good at t-ball.  She hustles after the ball no matter where it goes.  Papa Joe went to her game this week and yelled at her "get your game face on", when she got to a ball before another little girl and let the other little girl throw it he yelled "good sharing Day Day."

Dayona with her teachers Mrs. Vonne, Mrs. Taylor, and Mrs. Diana

She got all of this out and then ask me where that thing was that I held when I graduation.

Dayona and Katlyn.  Dayona's first friend.

Weenies make you strong!

Easter 2011

Dayona had such a good Easter.  She found 16 eggs at a church hunt and was wrestling with her older boy cousin Kyler.  She found 37 eggs at the town eggs  hunt, 19 eggs at her school party, and 22 eggs at Katlyns. Katlyn and Day were taking turns "sharing" the eggs they found.  They are great friends and had a great time.  Dayona has been playing t-ball.  SHe is a really good hitter.  She gets bored in the outfield but she loves going after a ball.

Faith. Trust, and pixie Dust

Dayona has really been into the peter pan movies lately.  In fact she has rented them three times in a row.  She ask her nana if "she could give her some pixie dust so she could fly".  When I got home she kept showing me how she "could fly like tinkerbell".  She loves to pose for pictures.  In fact she kept posing with the Easter Bunny so they kept snapping her picture.  Her nana and I were talking about the price of gas, and Day said "nana, I will kick them in the head and get you some gas!"  She is so loyal, sweet, and smart.  She wants to help, and knows that she knows it all! She told me to "tell nana to stop rocking me" and "tell nana I've already had a nap".

Princess Run

Dayona loved the princess run.  This is only the second annual run in Oklahoma and it goes to benefit childhood leukemia and lymphoma.  She said she was gonna win, and she really wanted Kenna to come along.  She ran almost the entire time, and if someone would start to pass her, she would run faster.  She ran an entire mile in under 15 minutes, so proud of her.

Getting her number 355!

At the start line.  We couldn't stop laughing.

She's a serious runner now!

She got chocolate milk and cupcake after the big run!

and a Dora painted on her face!

Getting her medal!

Stuff

Jason got a new car, and to Dayona it's her car.  Yesterday she wanted me to call daddy and tell him to stop taking her car.  Then when I offered to call nana instead she told nana that mommy wouldn't let her come over and to tell mommy to let me come over.  She recently also swallowed a penny and that came through okay, then she hurt her foot.  We had it x-rayed but the x-ray showed nothing.  She thinks she knows more than we do.  SHe likes to call us "poops".  She loves to play especially with friends, and she loves to change clothes several times a day and look in the mirror at every outfit.

Shopping (notice she "shopped" from the refrigerator)

She made me dinner (while daddy was watching her)

This is Dayona's car.

She was putting lipstick on.

Happy v-day 2011

Day had a valentine party this week.  Nana told me that her "sister"  Katlyn and her were looking in their sacks to see their treats and Katlyn noticed she didn't have something that Day had. All on her own Day said you can have mine I will share with you.  I am so proud of this girl.  After dance class we went to visit my uncle Wilbur.  She walkedto him tickled him and said happy Valentines day.  So proud of this girl.  She says he can't talk.  Then this morning, she was playing with my phone, she said "its papa" and handed it to me.  When I said hello I was greeted with an unrecognizable voice and noticed an odd phone number  like *55--- had been dialed, I just said I'm sorry I didn't mean to dial this to which he burst out in laughter as I hung up.  She has also been signing her name all on her own now, and coloring very well in the lines. She is funny and smart.  Yesterday after we watched sweet life she was worried if we had a cellar and didn't want the house "ruined" in her words.  We have also been talking alot about our vacation.  She asked me the other day if that was "the real mickey, or is it just a costume".  I said "what do you think"  she said "I think its the real one", so I said "I do too!"