The Daintys

Happy Father's Day to all the daddies! (Especially Grandpa Dainty and Grandpa Rutecki!) We started off the day by going to the early Mass, then Leah helped me make her daddy some banana peanut-butter chip pancakes and cherrywood smoked bacon. Yum! We gave Ryan his gifts. He is holding up his nifty new golf towel below. (Who new a towel could be so high tech!) After breakfast Ryan started working on painting the basement since we're trying to get most of that done before we have new carpet installed. Leah decided to paint as well. She made some beautiful pictures and got very messy. So, of course we had to get out the sprinkler to rinse off. Next it's lunch and nap time! Check out her face in the picture above. She was not crazy about the feel of paint on her hands!

Now that it is officially summer, we took the plunge and converted Leah's crib into a toddler bed.  (Due to the fact that she could climb both in and out of it...)  It has been an adventure.  The first night Ryan went in to check on her and found her sitting cross-legged in the middle of her bedroom, looking exhausted but content with her own power.  The next night we checked on her before we went to bed and found her sprawled out on the carpet.  Tonight, she came out to see what we were doing a good half hour after we thought she was asleep.  Such a stinker!  The best part is hearing her little feet POUNDING down the hallway in the morning when she runs into our room to wake us up.  What a great alarm clock! If only she had a snooze button...  :) In other news, I have a new job next year!  I am transferring to another Catholic school that is much closer and I will be teaching middle school science, which I'm really excited about. Also, we have had a bit of a home-owner catastr