Busy Busy Busy!

Well it looks like I really suck at keeping up with my blog, that's probably why I stopped writing in a journal when I was a kid. Anyway, the rest of the summer was fun but really busy. Classes ended two weeks before Amber and Mark's wedding and there were still things to get ready for that as well as get things organized before I started my co-op job at the Canada Revenue Agency (as an Assistant Research Specialist! I hope I live up to the title, lol). The pic on top is a shot I finally got of Hailey with a barrett in her hair! It's surprising that she 1) let me put something in her hair and 2) didn't rip it out before I was able to take a picture! Her hair is growing, but sadly still not enough for a pony or pigtails :(

We managed to cram in as much as we could in the week before I started to work full-time. Hailey saw the beach for the first time when we took her to Port Stanley. As you can see in the picture she was a little surprised by the amount of water! She loved it though and we played in the sand, but thought that next time we should remember her sand box toys. She ran through the water a little bit and thought that was pretty funny, but it wasn't too warm that day (about 20C) so we didn't let her go in past her knees.

Hailey and I went with Lindsey and Olivia to the Children's Museum here in London. It was pretty cute and there were lots of different rooms that they saw, but it did seem to be for older kids (under 2 yrs old is free for a reason I think!). They had fun in the sand boxes and Hailey had fun pretending to ride the snowmobile and pushed a mini shopping cart around (there are a lot of different exhibits if you're wondering why those two things have nothing to do with each other, lol). Sorry no pics of that b/c I forgot my camera!

One of the last day trips was to Storybook Gardens. We went on Labour Day weekend which we knew would be busy but we were running out of time to go and the weather was awesome that day. Here's some pics....

Hailey was pretty anxious to get into the park!

With daddy in the mist!

Playing in the sandbox!

Next week we're going to Oshawa for a combined b-day party for Olivia, Sarah, and Natalie (our nieces).

Finally started my blog!

Well I thought it was pretty sad that I'm in a social software class where I have to write a weekly blog about academic related stuff and I haven't even got around to making my own personal blog yet! It would likely have made it a little easier to archive Hailey's first year (well now 15 months) of life but I have a feeling I will reminisce and post pics and stories anyway. I realize the name of my blog is a little misleading as I don't have a hyphenated name, but I just can't seem to cut the "Husk" ties yet and have kept my last name. Some day I'll change it, I told Mike it might be a future anniversary gift :)

I don't have any really recent pics of Hailey as I *think* we might have lost our camera, but this pic is from the London Public Library website when they took pics at Baby Storytime when Hailey was there with friends at daycare. I just randomly noticed it one day when I was on the LPL website and thought, um wait a minute, that's my kid (the one holding the book).

This is a more recent pic of Hailey the first nice day of the summer showing off one of her cute sundresses. It's crazy how many clothes this kid has. I think here she was still really wobbly walking, but now she's full out walking/trying to run and she also repeats alot of words.