When Draya grows up...

Recently, if you ask Draya what she wants to be when she grows up she'll tell you "A singer."
The other day we were sitting in the car outside of daycare when an older girl came out of the dance-gear store next door. She was wearing her dance costume. I knew that Draya had noticed her when she piped up from the backseat. "Mommy, when I grow up I want the be a singer AND a dancer." It's the sequins, I know it is. Oh and she does actually like to dance as well.

Flower Girl

On Sept 6 Draya was give the opportunity to be flower girl at our friend S & D's wedding. We didn't get a chance to rehearse so she was a little shy as she stood at the end of the aisle.


I had to take the basket of leaves from her and shake them onto the floor while I coaxed Draya down the aisle with a handful of Smarties.


Midway through the ceremony she decided that it would be a god idea to pick up all of the leaves.


And the she scattered them in front of S & D while they walked out of the room instead.


We went to the legislature ground to take formal photos. Draya was quite taken by the fountains.




Of course she had to toss some leaves into the water.


Thankfully she posed nicely with the bride and groom.


And Mommy and Daddy too.


At the reception S & D would kiss if people put money in a glass. Draya put in a twonie.


Draya brought Polly as her 'date'. She got a little sleepy before dinner. Although contrary to the photo she never did actually nap.


At about 8:30 I changed her into jammies and she took out her colourng.


But then she discovered the dance floor and boogied the night away.

Growing like a weed/flower

Draya has finally reached 30 lbs. She also just grew out of all of her size 6 shoes and now she wears size 7. I'm not exactly sure how tall she is, at least 36". They measures her at Daycare and said she was 39" but she hasn't outgrown all of her pants yet so I think they're a little off.

Vacuum Blues

Last Monday we loaned out Kirby vacuum to L & A so that they could steam clean their carpets. We packed it up and Daddy helped carry it to the car. As soon an it was out the door Draya became quite upset. Her vacuum couldn't leave, it had to stay here, she would miss it. She even cried teal tears for a very brief period of time. Then we continued on with our evening and Mommy put her to bed.
Two nights later, out of the blue, Draya says to me "I really miss the vacuum!" to which I reply "But Draya y0u don't like the vacuum, you leave the room every time we use it" to which Draya replies "Mommy, I like the vacuum I just don't like the loud noise!". We'll who knew the vacuum was so important to her!
Friday night we went to L & A's for a party. On the way there I made a point of telling her that we could pick up the vacuum while we were there. She was very happy. Almost as soon as we arrived she had to go and find the vacuum and let me know where it is. Needless to say it came home with us. Needless to say when we vacuumed yesterday she left the room very quickly.
Hummm.. now K wants to borrow the vacuum so that she can do some steam cleaning... I wonder how that's going to go over...