October Spook-tacular!

We've sure had a wild month. Hence, the lack of posts lately. I thought I'd put up some pictures of what we've been doing.

Snow Day!
What a surprise to wake up to find snow! Hailee was so excited, she wanted to go out and play right away! Later that afternoon, she looked out the window and said "Mom, where did all the snow go?!"



Black Island Farms!


Hay Ride


Jumping in the giant pumpkin bounce house


One of many slides


Hailee's favorite activity...rubber duck races. Climbing to get to the slides.


Corn Maze: The look on her face was because she asked me not to take any more pictures of her!


See Saw


Piggy Train: Hailee's other favorite activity


Hailee's Date with Grandpa!


Carving Pumpkins & Being Silly

Mommy/Daughter Date: Last Day at Lagoon!
The Lagoon season is coming to an end so Hailee and I went one last day. We had so much fun! I couldn't help but remember the very first day we took Hailee to Lagoon and how tentative she was. She sure knew her way around this time! She was running from place to place telling me which rides she wanted to go on and getting in and out of the rides all by herself. She has come a long way.


However, the lame baby boats are still a favorite!


Proof she likes a little adventure too!


Unfortunately on this last day during the last hour we were there, I discovered she had grown quite a bit over the summer and was actually tall enough to ride a bunch of other rides. We had fun trying those out and since I wasn't pregnant anymore, I got to ride them too!


They had this darling "non-scary" spook alley for little kids call the Spook-a-boo. She got to go trick or treating in a bunch of different rooms. She loved it!


Aquatic Center Boonanza!
This was a blast. I've never seen a halloween party like this. I couldn't believe all the stuff they had. Jake slept through the whole thing, but Hailee had so much fun!


Rubber Duck Ring Toss, Canoe Rides & Catch the swimming duckie


Cookie Decorating, Hailee cheating on ring toss & Coloring

Halloween Party!


Our beautiful princess & cute little bat


All the cousins


Fun Games! Hailee carefully carrying her candy corns with a spoon and playing "hot pumpkin"

Jake Can Smile

We caught Jake smiling a really good one.

Fwd:

Wishing I was on this hay ride with Hailee instead of at work,

Hailee's Been Tagged

Here are 5 things you may not know about Hailee:

She is meticulously organized and borderline OCD. It’s got to be genetic, because we’ve never really taught her these things, she just naturally does them (genetic, of course, from her dad, not her mom!). Here are some examples: She has a teeny tiny tea set that has lot’s of little pieces and she has not lost any of them yet, which has been almost a year (keep in mind she’s 2 ½). They are princess ones and she always makes sure the Belle cup is on the Belle plate and the Cinderella cup is on the Cinderella plate, etc. My parents like to mess with her and switch them when she’s not looking and she immediately notices every time! She will not allow toys in her bath water, but she does like bath toys. She lines them up all the way along the edge of the bathtub to play with them. If you take one away, she knows which one is missing. If one falls in the water, she has a total fit until it is out of the water and safely back on the edge of the tub. She lines up her food in a row before she eats it. Those are just a few things, but truly she does crazy things like this everyday!

Hailee has a good mix of introvert and extravert it her. She is always talking and loves playing with her cousins and friends, but she also likes her alone time. Sometimes when we are having a party or have a lot of people over, she’ll just disappear after awhile and when I go to find her, she’ll be in her room with her door shut reading books or something. I can’t relate to that, but I know my husband can!

She still uses a binkie at night. Someone tell me how to solve this! She loves that thing and I cannot bear to take it away from her. I’m thinking of having her use them to “buy” something at the store, but I know she’ll regret it later even if we can talk her into doing that.

She loves her little brother. We have to watch her closely because she smothers him and doesn’t realize her own strength, but it’s all out of love. She is always bringing him blankies and binkies, playing patty cake with him and running to help him whenever he starts to fuss.

Hailee never stops talking. She talks just to hear herself talk. She makes up stories and songs, even her own words when she’s run out of things to say that actually make sense. This is the area she’s more like her mother. My mom says I used to do that when I was little too (however Ty would argue that I still do).

Hailee Tags:

1) Samantha M.

2) Maren J.

3) Adelyn S.

4) Adilyn K.

5) Abby D.

Jake's Blessing

We had Jake's blessing at church yesterday. He looked very nice in his white shirt and tie. How anyone ever found a tie for a baby I will never know but he did look pretty good in it. Jake did really well and had a pleasant day, he didn't cry through the blessing and he held up pretty well being passed around to everyone who wanted to hold him and see him. We had a lot of family and friends join us for the occasion. Thanks to everyone who came and supported Jake.

Pirate Jake!

Brooke took this picture with her cell phone and sent it to me, I had to post it.