August Picture Catch-up

Not really in any particular order...

We took Hailey to the Raleigh Farmer's Market. I thought she would love it, seeing as how she loves gardens and holding vegetables. Not so much...but she did love the flowers and the cookies!

Each summer our church does an outdoor baptism service at a local Christian camp. We all have a picnic dinner then go up to the pool to watch baptisms and the kids can swim afterwards. I didn't even tell Hailey about the swimming but somehow she knew as soon as we pulled into the parking lot...and she had never swam there before! Needless to say it was a long (for her) baptism service with a little girl "whispering" in my ear every few minutes "Time to swim Mommy?" She was so excited. Thankfully, Daddy let her swim for a few minutes before we headed home for the night.

"waiting" for the baptism service to finish

 It was beautiful one morning and Hailey asked to have a picnic lunch, so we did. She actually did pretty well and ate a decent amount. Then, of course, she got distracted by the flowers, mulch and dirt. ;)

Dr. Hailey giving her animals a check-up one morning in her "office" (tent)

Hailey's imagination never ceases to amaze me! This morning we had watched a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse about Donald being turned into a frog prince and Daisy having to kiss him to turn him back to a duck. A while later we were playing in Hailey's room with her princess castle (I was putting away laundry) and she came up with this all on her own! Belle and Cinderella are in the tower giving kisses to the turtle prince (I did have to help her with a turtle prince because she couldn't find a frog), Ariel is taking a nap on the bed and Daisy is playing in the curtains (behind the blue door). She is beginning to make up more and more stories like this on her own and I love it!

Taking care of her "pet". She fed him lunch, got him water and took him on a walk

We went to Target one morning and after I had gotten what I needed Hailey played in the toy section. She found this display of animals and began separating them into "families" (sorting by animals) on her own! It made my teacher heart so proud!

"Patiently" waiting for "her turn" with Daddy's screw driver while he fixed the door to the playhouse

At least once a week Hailey asks Ryan to play the guitar for her. She plays in the case, dances and gets to strum a little too.

This night we decided to show her my flute too. She was pretty impressed...for about 3 minutes.

This is actually from today but oh well...we went to the library for the first time in a while and Hailey was so excited that they had Curious George books. We sat and read several of them before we had to leave. I finally got a Wake County library card after not having one since the move and let her check out 2 books. She was so excited! And we've already read them about a thousand times

Shew! I think we're caught up. I was doing so well for a while...maybe September will be better...