Metro Richmond Zoo

This past week Hailey has started noticing animals. Since it was exceptionally warm yesterday, we went to the zoo. It was so much fun and Hailey loved it. There were tons of animals out and about, and it was so fun to watch Hailey's excitement. We saw lots of animals, but here were some of the favorites.

She loved the Flamingos. They were very loud, pink, and active.

Our little Zebra with the Zebras

Giraffe Goo!!

Christmas Slide Show

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone! We hope you all have a safe and awesome Christmas and New Year.

For some reason the video squished our heads.

Monkeys, Loud Noises, and Baths

Here are a few fun facts about Hailey at this time in her life.

1. She has a sock monkey. Actually, it is a super hero sock monkey, made especially for her by a family friend. She loves it. She especially loves the tail and spends a lot of time sucking on it.


2. Whenever there is a sudden loud noise, Hailey makes the funniest face. The other evening Josh had the tape measure out and had it stretched out so far that it would snap and fall. Every time it snapped, Hailey would make this face and we would just laugh. The funniest thing about it is that she makes it like 5 seconds after the noise.


3. Now that she can sit up, she loves taking baths in the sink. She really likes playing with the water coming out of the faucet. She seems to really like the water. It makes me excited to take her swimming in the summer.




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If you scroll down, to "Hailey Meets Santa", I added a couple pictures.

Hmph

There are no words...

Hailey Meets Santa

One of our friends had a Christmas party this evening at his place of work. He is a dentist and every year he does a Christmas party/Food drive at his office and Santa comes for a visit. We took Hailey to have her picture taken with the big guy. She was so in awe of him, it was cute. She didn't know what to think.



Hailey's new favorite word has to be "dada" or "dadadadadadadadadadadadadada." Sometimes when she wakes up in the middle of the night she just lays there and talks to herself saying "da da da." Then of course she eventually starts crying and wants someone to come and get her. But, we are working on that.

Hailey's First Gobble Gobble Day

Our First Thanksgiving as a Family

We had a great Thanksgiving. We spent a few days up in Park City with Josh's family. Sadly it didn't snow, making skiing a little hard, but we still had a good time. We spent about 7 hours Friday night playing guitar hero, which was actually a ton of fun.

On Thanksgiving day, Hailey got her first taste of sweet potatoes. She wasn't really a fan. I think it was more of a texture thing. It was a lot more gritty than the avocado. We tried them again last night and she liked it pretty well. This week we are going to go with a banana.

Hailey has a new facial expression. When she does it we call her Beaker because she looks like Beaker from Sesame Street. It's the funniest thing. We can't quite figure out how she does it. Josh thinks it's because she doesn't have any teeth.