Christmas fun

This year Mimi gave Hailey a little Christmas tree to put in her playroom and Hailey has loved decorating and undecorating it. She is very particular about what ornaments are allowed on it.

We had a friend take a picture for our Christmas card and I love how it turned out! I think this is the only picture Hailey has ever smiled for!

Hailey wanted to help me with our Christmas cards this year. She was begging to help me lick them shut. Be my guest.. She really did help! She also helped me put the stamps and return address stamps on them. Such a good helper.

A few weeks ago Ryan and I took Hailey to the mall to look at decorations and see Santa. Well the line for Santa was really long considering it was the middle of the day so we skipped that but Hailey loved the decorations.

 She was just dying to touch Mickey. So we went in the Disney store and played for a while. Ha! We stopped at Panera for lunch because that's about the only place Hailey will sit and eat something. She loves their mac and cheese. This is us trying to get a selfie before our food was ready. Hailey kept yelling "Cheese!" at the top of her lungs. Oh well! Memories.

And my cutie in her Christmas dresses

This is one my mom made for us when we were little

 

George had to make the picture. Have I mentioned her love of stuffed animals?!

We've done a few other fun Christmas things that I'll have to update later. I'm getting better!

Picture Dump

I am SOOOO behind. Life has been moving at warp speed around here and the blog has definitely taken a back seat. So here is my attempt at a catch-up.

Thanksgiving: We traveled to Charlotte and had a great time with both families. Unfortunately I didn't get any really cute pictures of Hailey dressed up and with her grandparents but here is what I got...
playing/bouncing on the pool cover with her cousins at Grams and Das' house

her first game of Candy Land with Grams (it lasted about 3 minutes)

 having Das push her around in their new rolling ottomans

holding the new puppy at Ryan's family's Thanksgiving

 Getting sick with her second ear infection at Mimi's house

Poor thing. She definitely didn't feel like herself for our trip home and she and I stayed home from church the next day to rest. I was going to take another pitiful picture of her to send to Daddy at church but this is what I got instead...

Silly girl!

Well, we went all in with potty training which was nearly the death of me, and had lots and lots of laundry to do. One day as I was folding it, or attempting to, someone decided to burrow in it because it was still warm.

We now sleep with thousands of stuffed animals, as many as she can fit in her bed. And sometimes I even hear her talking to them to "move over" because "there's not enough room". Girl loves her animals!

We traveled back to Charlotte for Mack's birthday party and had a little fun at Grams' house with her shower cap.

 and in her new toy box full of, you guessed it, stuffed animals.

 I didn't get any pictures of Hailey with the birthday boy but it was Thomas the Train themed and there was a big ride-on Thomas in the living room. Hailey loved riding on it and had to take Curious George on a ride too.

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She had a ball at the party!

Hailey and Daddy have been playing horsey after dinner a lot recently and Hailey decided the other night that she wanted to be the horse and let her baby doll ride on her. Precious!

Well, I think that about catches the highlights: Thanksgiving, sick, potty training, stuffed animal love, Mack's birthday...I'll try to do better...