AU Homecoming!

We had a wonderful timing hanging out at Anderson University the other day and we had a great opportunity to take Hailey to one of Elizabeth Turner's volleyball game. Even though Hailey was having more fun playing with the dog that was in the gym, it was still a lot of fun to get to see Elizabeth play. She did well and we had a wonderful time letting her run around the gym before the game. We sure do miss having Elizabeth watch Hailey, but we are so glad she is having a good year at AU. Go Ravens!

Who are you voting for?

John wanted to get a picture of Hailey sitting by his sign for Mitch Daniels the other day....he finally succeeded!

Bad Hair Day!

I know that this will probably haunt Hailey when she gets a little older, but we couldn't help. The other day, when she was still sleeping, we took a picture of her bed head. The funny thing is this is how her hair looks most of the days as she is someone who plays with her hair and then also rolls all over the bed at night. Hope it makes you laugh!

A Time to Remember

Recently, I have been going through a lot of our old posts and so many of the pictures we had taken during the first year of Hailey's birth and think about all the many firsts she went through. I am so thankful and blessed that we have been able to enjoy all of Hailey's firsts and I can't be more happy to be a mom than I am right now. Even though it is so hard to not miss the days when she was first born and we could lay her on our lap and rock her to sleep. Or all the times we would just look at her and be in tears as she was such a little miracle and such a blessing. There are days that I miss her being that little, but I am so thankful for all the interacting she does with us now and just how much fun it is to go outside and run around with her. She is still our little girl and even though she is growing way to fast, we do still love every new first she does. We hope that you will enjoy the pictures we posted many of her first month at home, to her now....oh how time goes by too fast and how we should hold on to every minute we have with them as they grow way to fast!

Score!

We found this little basketball goal at a garage sale for a couple of dollars and we thought that Hailey may enjoy playing with it after we gave her some instructions on how to shoot and so forth....well we gave her a ball and before we knew it (actually the first time she shot the ball) she already knew how to score! From some of the pictures, you can see that she can palm the little ball, which is more than her mom could do, but she really enjoys playing with it. I love how she will hold on to the rim and then look at us as if she was saying, "this is way too easy." I can't tell you how smart of a little girl she is, she loves to learn and figure things out. She is such a huge blessing to us!

New Pet and New Outfit

Hailey is really starting to do some new things, like walking her pet dog Brutus, on a leash. She loves to walk Brutus around all the time and it is so funny to see Z watch her and then go and sniff the stuffed animal. It was neat to see her actually start getting into some stuff animals and this pet dog was a gift to her from Nila and Rex. She loves to give him kisses and she will take him up to you and want you to hug and give some love to him. It is so cute to watch her play with it.

I also posted some pictures of her in her new Gap sweatshirt that we found. We had put this on her as we went outside for a walk and we just had to take a picture as we thought she was so cute! Of course we are a little bias, but we are so thankful for how well she is doing and just how she is such a ball of energy every day. She is so special to us and we are so thankful for her each day.

Hailey's Backpack

I couldn't help but post these new pictures of Hailey wanting to carry her own backpack. This is her backpack that we use when we are going on bike rides or for the nursery at church. She is just now really wanting to carry things and be so much more independent. It made me laugh how big the backpack looks on her, but she is still very cute carrying it around the yard.