Daphne's Got a New Toy

One great thing about Daphne having an early bedtime (and since she hasn't taken a third nap lately, early means 5:30 or 6:00) is that we can spend our evenings working in the yard. Summer evenings are the best; so peaceful and warm, and thanks to the baby monitor turned up as loudly as it can go, also filled with the sound of Daphne's heavy breathing.

We have this area of our yard that is basically a barren wasteland. Nothing grows because of the maple tree that sucks every nutrient out of the soil. We've played around with various ideas on making it a little more lovely, but nothing seemed perfect until someone in our family came up with the genius idea to hang a swing from the nutrient sucking tree.

Now our wasteland is no longer a waste and Daphne can have all her friends over so that they can fight over our one swing. Perfect.

Here's Daphne in her first swing ride with the before mentioned genius:















Brynner thinks we put the swing up just for him to chase whoever is swinging. I'm sure getting kicked in the head a few times will cure him of that habit.