A Visit from Mary Poppins!

Last night we got a fun late-night visit from Uncle J. While he was here, the doorbell rang. Daddy and Hallie answered the door to find a pumpkin at the end of our garage! On top...a card. Hallie was SO excited. The first thing she said was, "A pumpkin!" Then she said, "There's Mary Poppins!" So fun! Mary Poppins had left Hallie a Halloween pumpkin. This might be a tradition that "Mary Poppins" will have to do year after year!

This morning, Hallie was sitting on the couch...the little conversation started like this, "Where's Uncle J? Hey!!! I know! Wanna go see my Mary Poppins punkin?!"

Fun at the Punkin' Patch!

We spent our Sunday afternoon at Kaska Family Farm in West, Texas. Hallie was so excited about going to the pumpkin patch, and this place did not disappoint her! I am so glad I found this little place! I have been wanting the "pumpkin patch" experience for Hallie for a while now. Translated: I wanted the picture of her with a pumpkin! Turns out...I didn't get a single picture of Hallie and a pumpkin. Ha! So, we might have to visit a little patch in town (one of those that's not really a patch) just so I can get a few pictures. But shh...don't tell Jonathan! ;o) When we got there, we were given a duck with our admission to race. Now, I had honestly never heard of such, though I had seen it on others' blogs. But this was so much fun and Hallie absolutely loved it! After the duck races we headed over to the cow train. I really wanted to ride this with Hallie, but all the cows that were big enough for adults were taking by little ones with smaller bottoms than mine! Ha! So Hallie braved this by herself...wearing a smile the ENTIRE time! It was very cute! Jonathan was excited about the Corn Maze...though 20 minutes into it, the excitement retired and the frustration joined us. Ha! Hallie was a trooper, as were Gramps and RahRah. The rest of the afternoon was spent getting mud (from the maze) off shoes, riding a hayride, and playing in the corn box. The corn box, by far, was Hallie's favorite. There were a few things that Hallie couldn't do because of her sweet little collarbone, so next year should be even more fun (and we'll skip the corn maze)! Here are a few (OK, many) pictures of our trip! Enjoy!

Waiting her turn for the duck race!

Look at that sweet smile!

Getting ready to ride!

Already over?!

Whew...will we ever find the exit?!

We're out! We're out!

Monkey see, Monkey Do. Hal picking mud off her

shoes like Gramps and RahRah. Sweet.

The corn box! So much fun!

Hayride!

The Mr. and Mrs. :o)

Loving the corn box...glad we saw this last!

We might not have done anything else!

Hallie had so much fun...she was tuckered out!

So Excited!

Sunday afternoon, we headed to the pumpkin patch. Hallie was SO excited to be going. And of course, I had to make a shirt (and matching bow) for the occasion. Jonathan said that Hallie's going to have a complex, thinking that she has to have a themed shirt for every "out of the ordinary" thing she goes to. Hello?! Does he not know that she does?! :o) Hallie was very excited about her pumpkin shirt...the pumpkin shirt that Daddy convinced Hallie was an apple b/c it didn't look enough like a pumpkin to him. Gee, thanks. Ha! Here are a few shots snapped of Hallie and her new shirt taken as we waited on Daddy to head to the pumpkin patch!

Show Us Your Crafts!

I love reading Kelly's Korner. Every Friday, she has a new "Show Us Your Life" post where people all over the blogging community come together and let you sneak a "tour" of their lives. It's quite fun and entertaining. I've never been brave enough to let anyone sneak a peek into our perfectly chaotic life. However, I couldn't pass up this week's tour--homemade goodies. If you know me, you know this is one of my favorite things in the world. If you know me and didn't realize that, now you do. :o) I have created a blog just for my crafts. Keeping with the "theme" of my blogging, it is lovingly called Craft Happies. I have lots of happy things on there and would love to create your perfect happy for any occasion! Take a peek! :o) Just don't steal my ideas without asking...that would make me a little sad.

Just click below!

CRAFT HAPPIES

Making Monsters

Hallie had a doctor's appointment today with an orthopedic doctor. He took a look at her x-rays from last week and basically told us what we already know. Hallie needs to stay in her little arm contraption, er brace for another couple of weeks at least. On November 4, she'll go in for new x-rays to check to see that her collarbone has healed properly. Her collarbone has the little callous over the break now where it has already started healing. Praise the Lord! She has definitely been a trooper through all of this. Although yesterday she managed to wriggle out of her brace with a firm, "I don't need it! My arm's all better!" Stinker.

Hallie's appointment was at 9 am, so I took the day off. I had no idea how long the appointment would take and we didn't want to be rushed for me to get back to school. It turns out, we were finished at 10:30, so I could have easily headed back to school. But I'm SO glad I didn't! Hallie and I had a yummy breakfast and then made the monsters that Nonna sent yesterday.

The monsters...I want y'all to know (all five of you!) that Miss Priss made these monsters ALL by herself! The only thing I did was take the stickers off the sticker sheet for her. I was impressed with her monsters. Now she wants to go to Target (Nonna found this little kit in the Dollar Spot) and get some more monsters to make...she loves crafts! :o)

Notice the little "arms"...well, those are in fact shoes.

Hallie said so. Ha! She wanted to put arms on the red

one later and I said she already had arms. Hallie

quickly corrected me by saying, "No she doesn't. She

doesn't have arms. She has shoes." Oh. Pardon me. ;o)

The finished monsters! Didn't she do a great job?!

Making Monsters!

You'll hear my phone causing the camera to "buzz".

Don't worry...it's not your computer! :o)

Talking on the phone...she is getting SO big!

Happy Hallie-ween!

Hallie got a package in the mail today with this cutie-patootie outfit! Sweet Nonna sent it to Hallie for Halloween along with a few other goodies. Hallie immediately wanted to put it on. The girl loves clothes...what can I say? ;o) Now Hallie's ready for Halloween! Well, not completely ready...I still need to make her costume--she wants to be pink. So she's going to be a pink crayon! :o)

Hallie in her new outfit...don't the SILVER shoes

just absolutely make the outfit?! ;o)

And I huff and I puff!

Hallie was having some kind of fun on Sunday having everyone here to entertain! She started this game with Jonathan of "And I puff and I puff and I puff"...then she'd blow air really hard to try to blow you down. I'm not sure how it started, but we all thought it was hilarious. It wasn't until the end of our 20 minute game that she figured out it was "Huff and puff" and not "puff and puff"...too cute! :o)

Miss Ballerina

In case you didn't know, Hallie LOVES ballet. On Sunday we had everyone over for lunch. Hallie had worn some pink leggings and little dress to church, but when she got home she wanted a little pink shirt on. I later realized that she was trying to pretend like she had on her ballet outfit. She was in the living room "playing ballet" with Uncle Jeremy. Then she invited the rest of us in to "play ballet". She had taken random objects on the floor in a line--just like Mrs. Korpi does. Mrs. Korpi puts out discs or cones for the girls to do leaps over. She spreads them out across the floor. Hallie was doing the same thing. Then she was running and jumping over them. Well...sort of. We always laugh that she doesn't miss a thing...she really doesn't. She is so observant. We thought this was just darling, of course!

Heart of Texas Fair!

The fair is in town--Hallie has been wanting to go since she noticed them setting it up last week! In spite of her little injury, Hallie wanted to go to the fair this weekend. The weather has been so iffy, we decided to go ahead and take her this past Saturday. It has been quite chilly here in Waco...I believe the high was 57 on Saturday! We bundled up and headed out after Hallie woke up from her nap. In fact, the first words out of her mouth when she woke up were and excited, "I go to fair now!" She was SO excited once we got there and loved seeing all the sights! Our first stop was the petting zoo...I thought Hallie would enjoy this...but this year the animals were wilder than I remember them being last year! OK, maybe not wild, but aggressive. They wanted the food you had in your hand as soon as they noticed it! And they would go to great lengths to get it! There was a llama who targeted my ice cream cone full of feed...that llama head-butted me, followed me, and just really haggled me the entire time we were in the petting zoo! Hallie tried to feed some baby goats until some other goats came up and practically pushed her down after jumping on her. She immediately dumped her food on the ground and raised her arm for Jonathan to pick her up! We had a great time at the fair. In fact, Hallie woke up Sunday morning and said, "Guess what, Mommy!? We're going to go to the fair again today!" We didn't. ;o)

At the fair entrance

This was before Hallie was "attacked"! :o)

There's the llama...lol!

Sweet little babies.

Hallie wanted to ride the ferris wheel--she was

SO excited to be riding it!

The fair!

Look at those two cuties!

Hallie rode a little kiddie coaster and loved it...but it went

too fast for Jonathan to get a picture! Here she is on the

little ladybug ride. :o)

Daddy and Hallie went fishing...and she won this little crown.

All Hallie wanted the whole time we were there was

some ice cream...it was about 55 degrees outside! But

she got her ice cream--with lots of sprinkles!

On the way to the doctor...

Last night, Hallie's booster seat toppled off her chair while eating at Fuddrucker's. She landed on her left shoulder and instantly began screaming. I just knew something wasn't right. On the way home she was not herself. We tried to take her mind off the pain to try to gauge how much pain she was in--we offered her ice cream from Baskin Robbins, a new doll from Target, a new toy, a new movie, popcorn, an ICEE, all of her loves were offered...and turned all of them down. We knew she was in pain at that point. We asked her where it hurt and she consistently pointed to her shoulder/neck. We offered all her favorites when we got home...she turned them all down, too...except for marshmallows--which we were out of. Sigh. She went to sleep easily, but we agreed we would take her to the doctor the next day.

So...we headed to the doctor today. Our doctor, Dr. Popejoy, doesn't work on Fridays, so we saw Dr. Huitink--he's a great doctor, too. He was great with Hallie. As soon as he walked in, she said, "Hi. I hurt my shoulder. I fell off my booster." She pointed to the exact spot where she was hurting, and he was quite impressed with her ability to tell him exactly how she felt. He ordered an x-ray of her shoulder. Hallie was wonderful on the x-ray table. I wish I had've goten a picture of what a big girl she was! She thought it was neat that they were taking a picture of her shoulder with such a big camera! A few minutes later, Dr. Huitink returned with the x-ray results...clear as day, you could see her little collarbone, broken. I was so sad!

While waiting for the doc to get in touch with the orthopedic doctor (who actually left early), Hallie entertained the nurses by pretending to be Dr. Popejoy. While she was pretending, Dr. Popejoy came into the office to pick up some paperwork. Hallie was SO excited to see her! Dr. Popejoy is pretty high up on Hallie's list of favorite people. She is on several billboards around town advertising Hillcrest Medical Center. Everytime Hallie sees one she yells out, "There's my Dr. Popejoy!" It's SO cute!

I called Jonathan to tell him her collarbone was broken; he left work and came right over. Dr. Huitink showed us how to wrap her arm with an ACE bandage to immobilize her arm. Hallie actually has not fought this at all...yet. We go next week to see an orthopedic doctor and get some physical therapy exercises to do with Hallie in a few weeks, once that bone starts to heal.

So far...this whole ordeal hasn't slowed Hallie down one bit!

Trying to climb a tree before the doctor's visit...

"Nah, I don't wanna go to doctor. I wanna go for a walk."

said by Hallie before leaving.

Rocking Out!

I was gathering laundry when Jonathan called me to the living room. I heard Hallie giggling, as she had been spotted by Jonathan rocking out on her Little Tykes guitar...she was even head-banging! LOL! She was in the mood to perform and gave me a little taste of her rocking show to catch on camera. Hallie has so much personality and continues to amaze us daily with how much she is growing from a baby to toddler to little girl. She has her own little personality...and with that comes her own opinions! :o)

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First piggy tails!

As many of you know, Hallie has yet to have the long flowing locks of most two year olds I see...but that's OK. I can't imagine her with shoulder-length hair. She is too cute with her curly locks! Lately Hallie has wanted ponytails and piggy tails...finally her hair is long enough for some piggy tails! She looks so cute with them, though they don't last very long. I'm sure her hair will be long and beautiful soon enough...for now it is just right for our sweet Hallie!

Shampoop

My little pumpkin has the silliest personality. I just LOVE it! Tonight I took a shower in the guest bath and had forgotten my shampoo. I asked Jonathan (and Hallie) if they'd get my shampoo for me. Jonathan asked Hallie if she wanted to help him get my shampoo. She stopped, looked at him puzzled and said, "Shampoop?!" Jonathan looked back at her with a little giggle and said, "Shampoop?" And Hallie burst into fits of giggles. The duo returned with my shampoo and Jonathan prompts Hallie to tell me what she has. She shyly says, "I have your shampoop" while waiting for my reaction (which she OF COURSE received). I give the little girl what she wants with my surprised, "Shampoop?! What?!" And she returns to fits of giggles. And those giggles lasted probably 15 minutes after giving me my shampoo...er, shampoop. :o) I could hear the giggles from her room. She would say, "Shampoop!! Bwhahaha!" So silly!

It's nice to know that my two year old has a sense of humor...and that she thinks poop is funny. Because let's all be real with ourselves...it is pretty funny. :o)

You Are Silly

Talking like a robot is a bath time favorite lately for Hallie and Daddy. One night Hallie was being very silly and Daddy told Hallie she was being silly...in a robot voice. She thought that was hilarious and Daddy taught her how to say it. She has to be the cutest little robot ever! Now she'll say several different things in a straight monotone robot voice. Too cute! Here she is saying "You are silly." :o)