Summer update

Lots have happened since June. I changed classrooms and grades. I will now be teaching 3rd grade. After I moved classrooms, I went to Teacher Academy for a week. This was the first time I was away from Clinton and Daphne for more than a few hours. After I got back, we left that afternoon for Raleigh. We went to the beach and had a great time. We did lots of things there, including eating japanese food and Daphne making her first Build-a-Bear. It's a cute dog with a safari hat on. I also bought my handheld GPS so I could go geocaching. I'm addicted to it! Once we left Raleigh, Daphne and I went to the mountains for the rest of the week. We had a lot of fun up there with Mimi. On Friday night, daddy came up to be with us for the weekend. Saturday, we went to Tweetsie with mimi and paw. It was fun. Daphne had a good time. She wasn't too sure about the train ride, but she LOVED the dancing. She even tried to dance along with them on the table. It was cute. We came home that Sunday afternoon, and then had a day or two to play around the house. Daphne and I did lots of art projects this whole summer, including making stepping stones, bouncy balls, drawings, paintings, and other little pom pom ball animals. Clinton and I have basically torn our house apart and put it back together, with a lot less mess and old stuff in it. I am very proud of the hard work we have both been doing. That has taken up quite a bit of our summer, but we are glad we have finished our massive to-do list. Daphne has been right there with us playing and helping go through old toys. We even cleaned out the playroom. It's probably a good thing since her birthday is next week and I'm sure she'll have it packed again. You would be proud, I even put some of my DVD collection in the yard sale! Daphne got to see Toy Story 3 twice this summer. She loves "Buzz Likeyear," and listens to the theme song all the time. Her new favorite vegetable is "blockli," but she won't eat the stems, only the top. She has been helping me a whole lot in the garden this summer. I mean helping by eating almost all the strawberries and cherry tomatoes off the vines. Daphne is also a huge fish. She loves swimming, and she would go everyday all day if possible. Once when we went with mimi and paw to a pool party, she jumped off the diving board for 2 1/2 hours straight! She had to be like the big kids. She really acts like a big kid, even though she's not quite 2!

Ok...so this is an extremely quick version of our summer. We have had tons of fun so far!