The Dougal Times

Marcella has been staying with us while Kanien and Jon work. She came over wed. night and will be here until Saturday evening. It's been fun having her. She wears me out, we are constantly on the go from the time she gets up until the time she falls asleep at night. I have laid by here the last two nights until she goes to sleep which is rather fast - she is worn out by the time she gets into bed. It's all worth it when she is laying there almost asleep and she says grandma I love you. I don't know what order these pictures will show up in but they are random pictures that we took last night and today of the various things we did. She loves to feed the puppies. She is a little nervous at first and I have to hold her when we let them out of their kennel but by the time we put them away she is the one leading them in and locking the door. She also likes to give them food through the holes in the kennel. She played with the next door neighbor today Lily and they had fun swinging and playing on their bikes. After lunch we got out the swimming pool and Marcella had a blast until the neighbors, Carson and Nikiya starting swimming and tonight when she was in bed I asked her what the best part about her day was and she said playing in my wimming pool. She said she liked it the best by herself and not having everyone over there. She likes going in the garden area and walking on the stepping stones and we caught her sitting on this stone so Grandpa went and showed her some of the things in the garden and we took a picture of them. There is a picture of Nathan trying to exercise his dog by having the dog chase him. Marcella loves corn on the cob and we had it again tonight. She ate two pieces and lots of watermelon. She loves grandpa to read to her before she goes to sleep so we went to the DI yesterday and picked out some more books. She said she wants to swim some more tomorrow by herself. Dann and Nathan are going to try and get cement poured. Today has been the hottest day of the y ear so far. It was nice.