Father's Day & Other Things

Grandma and PaPa Clark came over on Tuesday night last week and watched Paisley all day on Wednesday since I went out of town for two days and Brian had baseball.  She loves spending time with her grandparents!  I heard they did a lot of playing and Paisley was wiped out and asleep by 6:45pm that night!  Way to go Grandma and PaPa!

This was the morning that I left.  Oh how my heart melts for this little girl!

I went to a school counseling conference in Hot Springs and got to meet up with a bunch of Springdale counselors.  I had a great time but was ready to get back to my family!  This is a picture of Fisherman's Wharf, a restaurant on the water in Hot Springs.  It was such a beautiful night to be outside!

Paisley LOVES books!  She just may be a teacher someday.  She mimics a teacher and holds the book up like she's reading to her class.  I got three videos like this.  She just kept reading and reading.  I was having trouble not laughing while watching her!!

We celebrated Father's Day Sunday!  We got up and gave daddy our presents.  I got him a watch that is made out of wood.  For every watch bought, they plant a tree.  How cool!  I got it at Red Envelope which is a great place to get manly gifts.  Paisley made this stepping stone for Daddy - with my help.  She had a lot of fun placing the stones and jewels although she kept putting them in her mouth and I kept having to tell her to spit them out.  I could not get her to stop doing that!

This morning we took the tricycle up to our neighborhood and found two little girls there already.  It didn't take long for Paisley to make friends.  They were all looking around for roly poly's and found a bunch!  Paisley thought it was funny that the bigger girl let them crawl on her arm.

And she hugged one of them two times and gave her a couple of pats on the arm.  They all went down the slide so many times!  She's getting so good at doing all of it by herself!

After playing at the park, Paisley wanted to play in her new apron that I got her in Hot Springs.  I had her name embroidered on it.  So cute and the hairbow matched so I thought it was a cute touch.

Lastly, we read her book "Potty" and talked about it.  I asked her if she wanted to go to the big potty and she said she did.  She walked in there and we talked about the big potty.  Then I put her seat on it and asked if she wanted to sit on it and she said yes.  We took her diaper off and I sat her up there and she hated it - just like the other times we tried it.  But, I took her off and we talked about it and finally after several times of not wanting to be up there, she grabbed the handles and sat up there all by herself and just looked around.  I kept telling her to let out her peepee.  She didn't end up doing it but at least she sat up there and knows what she's supposed to do up there!  Progress!

Lovin' P Time

This week Paisley and I did some fun activities together!  Along with her Wednesday night dance class, we went to our neighborhood park a couple of times.  We are so lucky to have this super nice area that is walking distance - or tricycle distance on this awesome tricycle that grows with Paisley.  Right now she can't reach the pedals so there are separate pedals she can rest her feet on.  It also has a very handy little handle that I can push her and a seat belt so she is safely strapped in.

We took two trips to the library this past week.  Paisley loved the "Baby Bookworms" where a lady came in a read books, sang songs and had a puppet and other props that all of the kids enjoyed.  Today a lady came in with a guitar and Paisley danced around and had a great time.  There were TONS of kids there today.  After Baby Bookworms we went into the kids area and looked at a bunch of toddler books.  We saw two little girls there with their moms from Paisley's dance class!

We surprised Daddy this week and made brownies so he saw them when he got home!  Paisley enjoyed mixing and playing with the box.

We also made a surprise project for Daddy for Father's Day but I can't post pictures of that yet since he hasn't seen it yet!  I will post those next week.  PaPa and Grandma Clark are coming this week for a visit.  They are going to watch Paisley all day on Thursday so Brian can work and I can go to a school counselor conference in Hot Springs.  They always have so much fun!

Warrior Dash

Hmm... My very first post - very first blog - EVER!  Wow...  How could I possibly make my life so interesting that anyone would want to read or follow it? :)  Here goes...
My last day of work was last Friday, June 1st.  I'm officially an unemployed stay at home mommy to my sweet 20 month old daughter Paisley.  My sweet sister Lagena came over Friday to stay the night and watch Paisley.  Brian and I plus two of our dearest friends did the Warrior Dash on Saturday in Morris, Oklahoma.  We saw videos and sort of knew what to expect - 3.11 miles of running on trails and numerous obstacle courses where we had to walk on balance beams over water, army crawl in the dirt under boards, climb over many very tall obstacles - one with water spraying directly in your face, using a rope to crawl over a wall, jumping over several fire pits and crawling under barbed wire - once through waist high water and mud.  The guys would run ahead but stop at the obstacle course so we could all do them together.  We finished the race together - all four of us holding hands.  We weren't super competitive this time, we all just wanted to finish.  So finishing in the middle of almost 6000 wasn't too bad for our first time I don't think!  What an amazing experience!  Afterward, three of us ate a big turkey leg.  YUMM-O!  We have all decided that we would like to do this again soon.  Two days later, I'm really sore so I better take some time off before doing so. :)

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