Dailey

As I'm sure that most kids do, Riley has an imaginary friend. Her name is Dailey. The funny part about this is that Dailey is my good friend Tracy's last name. I have no idea where Riley picked this up as a name for her friend, but I die laughing every time she says it- which, by the way, is more and more lately.

So now, there are three Dailey/ Kline friendships going on here- I have been friends forever with Tracy- we played bball together at the University of New Mexico, and were roommates there for part of our stint in Albuquerque; John played football with and has been friends forever with Tracy's husband, Mike, at the University of Iowa (remember, John and I met at Mike and Tracy's wedding); and now, there is the Riley/"Dailey" connection. As I have recently informed Tracy, though, Dailey is the evil on in this friendship.

Riley has been talking about Dailey for some time now, letting me know that they visit each others' houses, sometimes they go to work together, and more and more lately, when Riley does something naughty, she blames Dailey. Yesterday, Riley decided to sneak a couple of tubes of lipstick from her babysitter's house and shove them into her underwear- I'm thinking she just wanted to borrow them, which she does pretty much every day, but this time, Dailey made her put them into her underwear and then lie about having them. I found all of this out tonigh at dinner, where Riley proceeded to tell me that she was glad that Dailey is now in trouble, because now they are going to go to Max and Ruby's house.........

If this makes little or no sense to you- GOOD......spend 5 minutes in my world!!