Labor Day Fun!

The Records came to visit us over Labor Day weekend and we had fun! Jeremiah is so smart and Eliza is as sweet as can be! One of my favorite moments with Jeremiah was over breakfast one morning. I got out some cereal and Jeremaih asked me what it was. I told him, "Frosted Flakes." He replied, "I like frosting," and then looked to his dad hopefully. Maybe he will remember that he can come to Aunt Celia's house and get spoiled with sugary cereal!

One of our first outings was to go feed the ducks at a local park.























Hailey tried to swim with the ducks and I tried to dive in after . . . creating another memorable experience.























Luckily, we live very close by so we went home to clean up and met everybody back at the playground.

We also went to the Botanical Gardens. There were great big coy fish that swam on top of each other to get the fish food the kids were throwing to them. Hailey and Jeramiah really liked that. My favorite part was rose garden because it reminded me of Mom and Gramma Marge. We also did some interpretive tree dancing.

It was fun for the cousins to get together!

Cute Girl

Hailey cracks me up!

















I was trying to convince Hailey of my authority as her mother the other day. I said, "I kinda make the rules around here, don't I."

She thought for a minute and said, "You kinda make potatoes Mommy."

I guess we'll work on that one.


Nose-nuzzles from Hailey are one of my favorite things! I love seeing her little face come in while consentrating on carefully rubbing her nose against mine and saying, "nuzzle, nuzzle, nuzzle." Sometimes we turn it into a game. I ask her for a nose-nuzzle and she runs and hides her face up against the wall. It makes me laugh every time.






















We're big into making picture with our food lately. I'll cut cut her cheese into little rectangles and arrange them in a circle so it looks like a sun. Or some times it's just triangles or big rectangles; whatever she is in the mood for. One day I asked her what kind of cheese she wanted and she said, "Duck cheese."

I had to do some convincing that what I had arranged on her plate was a duck, but I aways enjoy the challenge of stretching my artistic abilities.