Last Sunday the boys in Eric's Wednesday night church class had a swim party at someone's house. He let Grace and Lyla go too though. They had a diving board and the girls loved it! Lyla is working on her swimming. She started out with a life jacket on. Then she took it off and practiced jumping from the board and swimming to the ladder. Eric was right there in the water, of course. They had a great time.
Last Saturday morning Grace and Lyla worked hard to make a restaurant for us in Lyla's bedroom. It was called "Jenny's Pizza Place." They made a sign for the door, two different places to sit and eat, and a "cabinet" for the food. They took Eric and me in for lunch and fed us whatever we chose. They were the waitresses. Very Creative!
Last Friday night Eric went to play cards with some friends and Grace decided we were going to have a girls night. They decided exactly what we were going to do. First, they wanted to take a bath, then we made pancakes for dinner, then they wanted their fingernails and toenails painted, then it was movie time, or as they call it, a "special night". So, there are the pictures of the crazy girls. They had chocolate chips to put in their pancakes. They ate too many chocolate chips before the pancakes were done! They had fun and enjoyed our girls only night. They wanted their nails painted like a zebra. I did the best I could with the polish I had. They were fine with it, thank goodness. They ended up turning the radio on in the bathroom and having their own little dance party. They're funny. After that, it was movie time. It was a good night with just the girls!
When I was a kid with Julie and Joni we used to dress up in Mom and Dad's clothes. I remember wearing one of Mom's long slips as a dress with something underneath that was supposed to make me look pregnant. I know Mom has the pictures somewhere. Anyway, that is what I thought of when Grace and Lyla came downstairs dressed in our clothes. 
When we were at Grace's ballet recital the girls found a tree swing and rope swing on the church property and really enjoyed playing on them. So Papoo went back to his farm and recreated the swings for the girls. He made a swing on one of the big trees in his backyard that overlook a large valley. The ropes are really long so the swing can go really high! I swung on it first and had to tell him to stop pushing because it was high enough! Then he also put a single rope with a knot on the end for them to hang on and swing out over the valley. They really like them. They are pretty fun to swing on, I have to admit. My pictures don't really convey how high they are swinging. The valley is full of poison ivy so I couldn't really get under them to get a good picture of how high they were going. 
Here are the pictures of Grace and Lyla making Eric, Papaw Gardner and Papoo Wade's Father's Day gifts. I forgot to put them with the earlier post about Father's Day.
Last week Grace went to Writer's Camp with her preK buddy, Addie. Addie's mom is a kindergarten teacher and does this camp each summer for kindergarten and first grade kids. I told her I'd take Ford each day (Addie and Ford are brother and sister) for Lyla to play with while she took Grace for camp each day. She told Ford he was going to Lyla Camp for the week. They had a great time playing together. On one of the days I took them to the Nature Center. I tried to snap a couple of pictures. They're so cute together. I wish they would go to the same elementary schools. That's the difference in a small town and a big city!
