Playing at the play ground.....

I couldn't help but put a lot of pictures of Hailey bug playing at the play ground. Since John has been home for the last couple of weeks, it has been nice to all do things together and one of Hailey's favorite things is to go outside. She loves this little play ground we have in our neighborhood and we put her on the swing for the first time. As you can see from the pictures she loves it! She just laughs and smiles so big. It is so wonderful to see her have so much fun with the littlest things. She also enjoyed playing in the water that collected at the end of the slide as well. We took Z with us and even though he enjoyed the walk, he didn't have as much fun as Hailey did. It was a wonderful time as a family and we are sure there will be more trips to the playground as Hailey will go to her stroller and cry if we don't put her in it to go outside. She loves the outdoors!

First Steps...Finally!

I apologize for not being able to put a video or a picture of her walking, but to be honest she just did it at home. John is at home recovering from thumb surgery and while we were there, she stood up be herself and then took her first steps without us bugging her to do. We were so excited and even more excited for John to be able to see it. I am sure there is more to come from her, but we were so proud of her as she took her first steps and stood up without our help.....what a big girl!

Hailey's Favorite Things To Do.

We wanted to post some of our favorite pictures of Hailey bug....we have some of her dong her favorite thing, which is showing us that she wants us to read her a book. There are some that are her favorite and that she wants read all the time. There also is a picture of her standing up on the entertainment center and it makes her look so big. She is growing so much and really wanting to stand and reach for things. Then we have one of her and John outside...before we took that picture she wanted to sit in the grass, but didn't want to touch it. Now she is finally wanting to walk in it and so it is not such a big thing for her. Before she would cry if you tried to put her in it. So she has come a long way. But all in all she would play outside all day if we would let her...we hope you enjoy the pictures.

Love,
The Andersons

Daddy's Money

Hailey thought that it would be fun to go through daddy's wallet the other day and see if she could find some money. We were talking about how we were already in trouble if she was trying to get our charge card and taking John's money. It was so funny to see how she would just throw it around and laugh....she was so cute!

Birthday continuation.....

Well, we had just a wonderful time celebrating Hailey's first birthday....and so we finally have had a couple minutes to sit down and post the rest of her pictures. It was such a wonderful time for her to be able to have some fun with all her friends and family. It was wonderful to get to see some of our family and friends that we have not had a chance to get to see recently. She only had a couple of melt downs and that was in partly due to her not having enough sleep for the day. But all in all she did wonderful and we loved watching her have fun. We had to put a picture of her knocked out after it all was over to show you how cute she was.

How Cute!

I couldn't help but post this picture of Hailey falling asleep on Lindsey Reed. Lindsey is a good friend of ours who plays on the softball team that we coach and her and Brian (her boyfriend) were over one night and she got Hailey to go to sleep on her. All it took was for her to read Hailey "hand hand finger thumb" book....a lot of times!

Hailey's First Birthday....part 1

It is hard to believe that we just celebrated Hailey's first birthday. There are days that it seems like we just brought her home from the hospital just yesterday, but we are very grateful for how I was feeling this year at Mother's Day and her birthday....a much better feeling than a year ago!

Here are some pictures of two of Hailey's birthday parties as we had to celebrate with John's family before they left to visit his family in Iowa and then a celebration with my parents and grandparents. She had a wonderful time diving into the birthday cake and cupcakes. Her Gramie also gave her a piece of corn and she ate it like a pro....even though she has only two teeth! She loved all the gifts that she received and we are so happy that she finally got her first softball glove, soccer and football. She loved being able to spend time with her family and see everyone.

She continues to grow and change with each day. She is almost walking now but we are still enjoying her as she is crawling all over the place. She is into everything and is so smart. She really loves it when we read her books and she will be sure to tell you exactly which book she wants. She is such a blessing to us and we love her so much.

More pictures to come later as we have her play group on Friday for her birthday...hang tight!

Love,
The Andersons<><