Lei

I had a concert this afternoon and Tom graciously brought Daniel.  Together they watched about 2 measures of the concert.  They ended up playing outside the concert hall the entire concert.

When we got home, Daniel was pretty excited to put on my lei.

Beach

I was trying to figure out why it was so quiet on our car ride yesterday.  Opened the door to see him reading a book.

Had a little Sunday morning beach time today.  Daniel definitely loves the beach...more than the ocean.  He'll happily go into the water with us but after about 30 seconds, he's ready to go sit on the sand again.  He loves to sit in just a little bit of water.

More videos

Apparently this is becoming a video blog, but oh well!

Daniel is such a good helper right now (can we freeze this age please?).  How do we keep this trait as he gets older?  It's so awesome.  He always puts his chair away after he eats, when he spills milk he runs to the kitchen to grab a towel and then wipes it up, he loves to help sweep, etc.  Even today after playing with my shoes, we couldn't leave the house until he put the shoes back in the bedroom.  What the heck!?  Trying to enjoy this while it lasts and keep giving him jobs so that it becomes a part of his routine.

Anyway, here he is simultaneously sweeping and swatting flies.

He's also obsessed with shoes.  His shoes, my shoes, Tom's shoes, doesn't matter.  Apparently at daycare when they go outside and other kids take their shoes off, Danny just goes over and puts them on.  This morning he found some of my work shoes and was walking all over.  Pretty darned cute.

Seriously, can we freeze time?

That's Bananas!

I'm not sure what he was making last night, but he needed two liquid measures and a cheese grater.

Is this how you use a fork?

Saying "banana."  I sort of hope he keeps saying it this way until he's 30.

Hard at work

Daniel helped me out with prepping the BBQ for Freshmen Orientation today.  I was putting some things away and I came out and he was doing this...

He honestly was taking those bags of Gatorade mix back and forth for at least 5 minutes.  It was awesome.

Book in the Drawer

Likely about the tallest and skinniest that you'll ever see this kid.

And just a cute one.

A few gems over the past few weeks

Its true...Molly is a rock star at keeping this blog going!  For a change up, here's old Dad as a contributor, in particular to assemble a few gems from the past few weeks.

Like this one.  Molly's been in rehearsal on Thursday nights this summer, which means Dad has to brave bath time on his own.  Daniel and I have to bear the time away, and sometimes Danny just looks at me all puzzled like...

But we like making funny faces and sending pics to Mom to distract her.

and anytime we can make a mess of the joint...that's good too.

In other randomness, ol Danny boy decided to strut his best Mom impression, beach hat and all.  Turns out that a tanktop works out to be pretty much a dress when you are only two feet tall.

He was enjoying himself though...

In the past few weeks, ol Dad got jealous of all the time Mama and Daniel got to spend together.  They had all kinds of awesome outings while I was locked away at work.  But then on the weekends I get to join in on the fun too.  Like Maui Plantation and the ducks!















Danny really could sit on that bench for tens of minutes (that's a long time!)

And finally, things got exciting this week when Mom brought home a new stool so that Daniel could reach the counter.  Now he's ready to get cooking!