Text for Fall Fun!

Again, blog alittle fussy, so here's the text for the pictures below!  Hallie loves to wear sunglasses and likes to put them on top of her head like I do.  She's wearing mine in the picture.   She started to really like her little pool at the end of the summer- of course.  She talks about wanting to swim in the big pool next summer, so we'll see!  We went to Oktoberfest this past weekend and to our delight, she rode on some rides and had a great time! Plus, she got her face painted- had to have both cheeks done as well as something on her forehead (a heart).  Later, we went to a farm that had some baby animals she petted and a wagon ride that she really enjoyed!  Her favorite movies lately have been Tinkerbell and Rio.  She's still as stubborn as ever and we've had a few coming to Jesus meetings....but she's set in her ways!  Hopefully, one day Jason and I will be thankful for her strong willed nature, but right now, it's hard dealing with her arguing with us and telling us no a lot.  Oh well!  Most of the time she's good, but when she's not it's just to the extreme.....

Fall Fun!

Text for Birthday, Beach, and Beyond!

Here is some text to go with the pics below!  The blog website is being fussy again! 

We got to go to the beach for a weekend  in August.  Still not digging the water, but did enjoy the sand! She has at least gotten into her little pool at Dean and Karen's!   The pic of her in the truck is Grandpa's old Ford truck!  She still loves to play in cars!  I think she'd rather do that than anything!  Just had her birthday party which was fun!  She got lots of Tinkerbell stuff and some cute tea cup sets that she's already playing with!  Lately, she's also been into Alvin and the Chipmunks movies too!  Can't think of much else at the moment so hope you enjoy the pics!

Birthday, Beach, and Beyond!

 

 

Catching Up!

Here are some updates!  The blog is giving me some trouble, so I'm going to type everything here!  Hallie has let me do her hair alittle bit: when I did pig tails, she called them "piggy tails." But she does mainly like me not to do anything.   Karen and Dean got her to actually get in a little pool at their house! She's still afraid of the big pool though.  It's ironic though since she loves to wear a bathing suit!  She loves to swing and does well in a big swing now! One of her favorite stuffed animals is now "Geoffrey" the giraffe, which Linda and Gary got for her!  She loves her IPAD and is doing really well with the letters games. She can even write some letters since there's an app that focuses on phonics where it says the letter sound and has you write it!  She loves to sit in our bed under the covers with the IPAD. She also loves to swing on the treadmill.

  As far as shows, she really likes "Handy Mandy" and the Tinkerbell movies (with one in particular that she wants to watch a few times a week. I think Jason and I can quote the whole movie now!)  She also found this movie called the "Ooglieloves" on Netflix (but playing with the IPAD) and she wants to watch that constantly!  It's a bit annoying for me and Jason, but she loves it! She sings their songs a lot now! A video is at the bottom!

 Potty training is not going as well as we hoped.  She doesn't "want to" go to the potty most of the time.  Hopefully, she's just going to get it on her own soon and be fine, but it's hard right now because I don't get a memo telling me when/if that's going to happen, so I worry.  I just don't want to force her too much because I think that would backfire with her since she's so stubborn. So, pray for us to have wisdom with this!