Wild Wednesday

Our day today could definitely be described as "Wild Wednesday". Hailey had a crazy amount of energy!

Our morning started with getting dressed. It was cold so I wanted Hailey to wear a fleece shirt. She wanted to wear the Aurora one, even though it was too big. Not a big deal...I let her. Well then she wanted all of the princesses on it and asked for "Rella", Jasmine and Ariel. We didn't have a shirt like that so she had to settle for a "Rella" band aid.

Then she decided to do this...

But that's not all! I was giving Abbie a bottle and Hailey flipped over her chair and started crawling under it!

I got her to settle down a little by helping me put dinner in the crock pot. She LOVES to help me cook.

The rest of our day was fairly uneventful, until Daddy got home...Then she got a little wild again, with no help from Daddy (wink, wink).

Do you see that blurry thing in the picture? That is a sock that she and Daddy were throwing back and forth at each other. Hailey thought it was the funniest thing ever!

Then we ended the night like this...

Shew! I'm tired! But so thankful for an energetic, healthy little girl.

Play Doh

I decided it was finally time to bust out the play doh with Hailey.

If you can't tell by the above picture she LOVED it.

We have played with it every day since. She loves to make snakes, balls to bounce, bracelets and pancakes.

She loved when I gave her the plastic knife from her play kitchen and she could "hee ya" it.

And she only tried to lick it once or twice. Score!

Tuesday Mornings

On Tuesday Mornings Hailey and I (and Abbie) go to a Bible Study at our church. It is a great time of encouragement and fellowship for me and a great time of socialization and beginning to learn about God's word for Hailey. But, before we actually go to Bible Study we have a few stops to make...

Hailey now realizes that Daddy works at the church so every time we go, including Sundays, she wants to go to his office and see the "rhino", bookends that Ryan got in Kenya that are shaped like a rhino.

We then have to test out the furniture and make sure it is climbable. Usually we take the colorful books off of the shelf too, but not today.

Play with the air conditioner and feel the "air". We must make Mommy and Daddy feel the "air" too.

Then we have to go across the hall to see Mrs. Bev. (Ryan's assistant).

We have to say hello to her "sheep" and the Noah picture on the bookshelf. This particular day the sheep needed his nose wiped too!

Then we have to give the sheep some leaves to eat.

Usually we give Mrs. Bev a hug and kiss, but she wasn't in there this day. After all of this has been accomplished, and we can't leave anything out, then we can go downstairs to our "class". But we have to stop and say hi to the fishies in the fish tank first and walk down the hall saying "Diedre, Are you?" (Diedre is Hailey's favorite teacher).



Just thought you might need a glimpse into our Tuesday mornings! ;)

I love this age!

While Mommy Cooks

This morning I was cooking breakfast and notice that Hailey climbed up on her learning tower. Pretty typical of anytime we're in the kitchen these days. Then I look over at her and this is what I see

Sweet child of mine is having a ball playing in the candy bowl left over from Halloween. And what do you know; she got some open. Then we had to have the "no chocolate before breakfast" chat. Sad, huh?

While Daddy Washes Mommy's Car...

Saturday afternoon Ryan took Hailey outside while I was doing some things inside. A little while later I peek out the window and see that they are washing my car. Sweet, right? Well a few minutes after that I finish up inside and put on my shoes to join them outside. This is what I see as I walk out the door...

Ryan said Hailey got tired of helping wash the car and her feet were wet so he put her in the back of the truck to take her shoes off and she just started playing. So he brought her some toys and let her play in there! She played in the bed of the truck like this for about 20 minutes! It was crazy but she had the best time.

Painting

Ever since Ryan let Hailey paint at Marbles a few weeks ago she has been asking to do it again. So I bought some watercolors at the Dollar Store and we gave it a shot. Mostly Hailey just liked playing in the water bowl and putting her fingers and the brushes into the paint. Not much actually went on the paper but she had fun and was quite upset when I told her we had to clean up.

She's already asked to paint today, so I'm sure we'll be doing more often!

Halloween 2013

Last night we went trick-or-treating with our neighbors. Hailey had a blast walking down the street and seeing lots of people. She wanted to eat all of her candy! We only went to a few houses because it was more about seeing friends than really trick-or-treating for us. We had a great time!

We tried to get a few pictures before we left the house but you know how that went...

We met up with our across the street neighbor, Danny and his parents first and they took off together. We went next door and Hailey wanted to be sure that Mrs. Emily saw the Danny was with her too. So funny! They were so sweet and gave Hailey a ghost cup with a straw that she has been drinking out of all day.

After stopping by Abbie's house to saw hi, Hailey had to stop for a candy break. Can you tell she liked it?!

Me and my sweet strawberry!