Haircut, Miss Arkansas pageant, my birthday, dentist

I got 10 inches of hair chopped off and mailed it to Locks of Love.  I was so sick of my long hair and needed a big change!

Brian, Paisley and I went to Hot Springs to see our sweet friend Sloane in the Miss Arkansas pageant.  Aunt Monica and family came over and watched Paisley at our little house we rented while Brian and I went to the pageant and they had a great time playing together.  And our friend won Miss Arkansas!  We are planning our trip to Las Vegas in January to go to the Miss America pageant.  I'm so excited to go!

Paisley had two firsts - her first popsicle (many more of those to come!) and her first dentist visit.  Her dentist visit was just a consultation about her frenum growing between her two front teeth.  Although they said it was moderate to severe, they did not want to do anything until all of her permanent teeth come in because sometimes it fixes itself.  So, we scheduled our first teeth cleaning for the end of August.  She loved the dentist office though!  They had all kinds of animals inside to look at.

We went to Boingo Bounce last week and Paisley had a ton of fun.  They have a bunch of bouncy houses and slides that she can play on.  She was cracking me up the whole time and we went down the slide what seemed to be a hundred times.

Funny story: While emptying the dishwasher, Paisley likes to help me by taking things out and handing them to me.  She had some play shoes on that clip clop through the house.  She saw a spatula and said "golf!" and clip clopped off.  Then she came back with a golf ball and starting hitting the ball with the spatula!  Where in the world did she learn that I wondered...!

My birthday was last weekend and Paisley stayed with daddy Friday night so I could spend the evening with my mom and sister.  We went to a mystery dinner theatre and then to the landing in Branson where there were some past contestants from American Idol singing to raise money for the people in Joplin.

Paisley and Daddy at the park.  Paisley is 2' 8" tall!

Daddy let Paisley get away with a few more things than Mommy...

On my actual birthday, Brian set up a babysitter and we went to the movies and saw Hunger Games.  Then I opened a bunch of wonderful presents and ate yummy cake!

Paisley started swimming lessons this week.  We are having so much fun in the mom and tot class.

The new thing for Paisley is to sit in a basket and say "swing?!"  She loves for us to swing her in this basket.

In dance class this week, the girls wore their tap shoes for the first time.  She had fun clip clopping all around.

July 4th, Dance Production and Other Silliness

I was SO excited to take Paisley to the zoo!!!  We went to Springfield for July 4th to visit Grandma and Papa Clark.  Aunt Monica, Uncle Greg and Maddie and Bee came up so we got to have a few days together for July 4th.  We had so much fun taking Paisley to the zoo.  We got to see all of the animals that we talk about and I was so excited to show her!  It was a super hot day so we didn't stay long because it was so miserable for everyone.  But we got to see her favorite - elephants!  We saw giraffes, monkeys, lions, bears, a fox and a hippo!

Paisley had so much fun with Bee's play pots and utensils that I HAD to get her a small table top kitchen.  She'll get a bigger one when she's a little older but she has had so much fun with this - giving mommy and daddy "coffee" and tasting whatever it is that she's making!

This past weekend Paisley's dance class went to an assisted living facility in Springdale.  I was so proud of my little dancer.  She definitely put on a show for the residents and staff!  Afterwards, many of the residents said that Paisley was the best one. I guess I am not too biased afterall!  She loves dance class and I'm excited to watch her progress by continuing with classes!

This girl cracks me up.  She is constantly getting mommy and daddy's shoes out and walking around in them!

Mommy, Daddy and Paisley took a trip to Toys R Us and found quite a few things that we wanted.  Daddy and Paisley rode a bicycle around (although we didn't get that yet!) and she HAD to have a Caillou doll.  Boy does she LOVE Caillou!!!

Florida Trip

Boy have we been busy!  Paisley and I went to Florida a couple of weeks ago and had so much fun!  We went with my sister, Lagena (Ah Jah according to Paisley) and met up with my brother Greg, Dad and brother Terry, his wife Lisa and their kids Alicia and Jacob.  Paisley LOVES her cousin Jacob!  She talked about him every single day for weeks after we got back!  She followed him around and wanted to be a part of everything he was doing!

We all went to a wine festival where they played live music and had a grape stomping contest.  Paisley loved dancing to the music and Lagena, Lisa, Jacob and I all tried the grape stomping.  Lagena WON!  I was so proud of my grape smashing sister!

Every morning Papa would show Paisley outside and they would watch cars drive by.  I could hear them talking and it was so cute to hear them together.  Papa also showed Paisley how to stomp in puddles which she has done since she's been home!

Paisley got to stay up later than usual while we were there and if she fell asleep before we would get the hotel, she would think it was just a nap.  Well, here is Paisley after a bath.  She fell asleep on Papa (which he loved!) and then this video was after her "nap" at 10:30pm!  Uh, it's bedtime silly girl, not time to dance!!

This girl loves her some music!!  She had a blast playing Jacob's drums!

Paisley, Uncle Tay-ree and Jacob-a

Paisley LOVED the airplane ride and wanted to look out the window at them!