Daddy Time

Hailey got really spoiled over the holidays having her daddy home for some long weekends. They had so much fun playing together and they got really creative. Here is the fort they built, Hailey loved playing under it with all her toys but I think Daddy had just as much building it and playing with his Hailey bug.

Nursery

As I promised here are some pictures of the nursery. Brian's aunt Lisa came a few weeks ago and painted everything, she is very talented. My mom came this past weekend and surprised me with my shower gift early, baby bedding! It really brings the room together and looks fantastic. I love how girly the room is and can't wait to bring Mackenzie home (hopefully soon).

Christmas

We had a great Christmas! We were able to celebrate Christmas at our house this year and had both sets of Grandparents here all day. Uncle Jason and Aunt Allison came by later in the morning and then stayed for lunch and some games. Hailey had a blast opening all of her gifts. Her big gift from Santa was a Thomas table with all the tracks and trains, she loves to push the trains around and tear down the tracks every day. After we opened each gift all she wanted to do was play with it and we had to ask her if she wanted to open another one (for some reason I don't think it will be this easy next year). We surprised our families this year and the last gift they opened was an ornament from the baby announcing her name.

We are looking forward to celebrating the New Year with our family and getting ready for baby #2, Mackenzie Paige to arrive.

Is this my child

So about a year ago I posted about Hailey's first attempt at finger painting and that she hated it and cried almost the whole time because she hated getting her hands dirty. Over the past year she has gotten better but we have to constantly wipe her hands clean (she is like this even when she eats dinner). Aunt Lisa came on Thursday to paint the nursery (pictures to come after our parents see it finished) and Hailey wanted to paint also, so we went downstairs and got everything set up. Sure enough as soon as we got started the phone rang, I went to answer it and when I was done I came back to this. It was so cute I had to take pictures, of course this is the same day as her Christmas program so I had to give her a bath before taking her back to school. She had a lot of fun painting and it is one of her new favorite things to do, if I can just teach her to keep it on the paper we could start painting with clothes on (especially since it is now winter and really cold).

Christmas Program

Here are some pictures of Hailey from her Christmas program. Her class dressed like Angels and got on stage with all the classes at the end and sang We Wish You A Merry Christmas. You can see in the one picture that she is actually signing along. She was good for the whole program, she sat quietly in her chair through all the other classes productions and even clapped when the audience did, she really was an angel.


Hailey looked so cute in her dress and hat. This is the outfit my mom bought as soon as I found out I was pregnant and even thought we didn't know what I was having the dress was too cute to pass up. I don't know if we realized it was a 24m size when we bought it so it has been hanging in her closet since before she was borne. It was so cute to see her finally wear it.

Santa

Hailey had breakfast with Santa at our church this weekend. She was so excited to go and see him. We knew she wouldn't talk to him but we were worried she wouldn't sit on his lap and take a picture. Well we didn't need to worry she did great. She waited in line patiently and then walked right up and let him pick her up. She looked at me the whole time and she seemed a little scared but she didn't cry so that was good. We couldn't get her to look at the camera but I think the picture turned out cute anyway.

We tried to do a little experiment with her hair this weekend (what little hair she has, I hope it starts growing faster soon). We thought it would be cute to see if it would fit into pigtails. So I tried and we got two little sprigs coming out the back, she actually kept them in until her nap so that was good. I need to get some hair ties that are small enough for her hair and maybe that will make them look a little cuter.

She spent Saturday night at Gammy and Papa's house and had a great time. I can't get her to play with play-dough but I guess Gammy has the magic touch because she looks like she was having a blast, and I love the picture of her reading the comics. She is growing up so fast. She has a Christmas play on Thursday so hopefully I can get some good pictures of her first performance. Hope everyone had a good weekend.

Christmas tree and Santa Train

We spent this weekend in King at Mimi and Popi's house. We got there Friday night and had chili and watched some Christmas specials. Hailey went to bed a little past bed time and got up at 3:40am ready to play. We went to Floyd VA on Saturday to help mimi, popi, uncle Jason and auntie Ali pick out their Christmas trees. We drove through the mountains on some windy roads and Hailey got a little car sick. We had to pull over in somebody's drive way and strip her down in the freezing cold. Luckily I had an extra outfit packed. She slept the rest of the way to get the tree and just wasn't acting like herself. So needless to say we didn't get any good pictures at the tree farm this year. It was cold but it was also snowing so that was fun.

By the time we left the tree farm Hailey was back to her lively self and we had a great time shopping in Floyd and spending time with our family. We even stopped at a little craft show and Hailey made a Christmas ornament with a little help from her mom and dad.





On Sunday we got up and went to Church and then we headed to Spencer to the train museum. They had a Santa train that we promised to take Hailey to. We got on the train and took a little ride and Santa was on the train and came and talked to all the kids. Hailey was a little hesitant of him but she didn't cry. They gave her a candy cane and she thought that was the best. I think she liked riding the train the best and probably didn't care if Santa was there or not. I think we are going to try and take her to see Santa again this weekend and hopefully can get her picture with him.



We stopped to see Gammy on our way home so Daddy could get a hair cut. While we were there Gammy took some cute pictures of Hailey by the tree. She just looks so innocent doesn't she.