New Front Yard

Ady is so excited to have Grandma and Grandpa VT coming next week. Ady wanted everyone to see why she is so excited about her new house. I'm sure that she loves having more space and her own room but what she really loves is having the playground right outside. This picture is taken while I am literally standing in doorway. Ady will come to the screen door, point outside, give me that puppy-dog look that she does really well and plead with me to let her go play on the slide or swings. If I don't do it right away then she starts to cry. Sometimes I have to close the door or else she'll sit there and cry for 20 or 30 minutes. She likes going down the slide by herself now too. She'll push your hands away if you try to ride with her. Yesterday she wanted to swing but there was this other little girl in the baby swing, you know the one that has sides and kids can't fall out of?, so she was standing there looking sad but not crying and then she looked at the normal swings, tilted her head to the side and gave me this really cute please-dad-look. So I ended up on the swing with her in my lap and we swung(correct conjugation?) for 20 minutes till Kasey showed up. I think she could have sat on that swing for an hour.
We got some really good news yesterday. Kasey got a promotion. She is now the Fixed Assets Supervisor at BYU-Hawaii. So she got a pay raise and full time benefits. This will help us out so much financially and we feel very blessed that she has been given this opportunity. So we decided to celebrate and went to McDonalds to order off of the dollar menu. We bought Ady a double cheeseburger since she always wants her own food now. She was so funny to watch eat. She felt like a queen, sitting there in the high chair with her own sandwich and eating the same thing as mom and dad. You could tell she was proud. The really funny part was how she ate the burger. First she took off the top bun. Then she ate the pickles, after sticking her fingers in the ketchup and licking them a few times she decided to eat the top layer of cheese. Next she tried a few bites of the bun, then she decided to take on the two patties and the with the cheese in between. She made it part way through that and went back to the bun. She was such a mess when she was done but had eaten more than half of the burger and shockingly enough not too much was on the floor. We were just glad that we could sit there, eat, talk and not have her grabbing at our food. Of course on the walk home she did spill Kasey's sprite all over herself.