a walk on the beach

Its amazing how much a toddler can change in 24 hours. Hailey just gets more and more brilliant every day! She follows commands, says more words and is just plain cute! As you can see after visiting my dad at the hospital this afternoon we took Hailey for a walk on the beach. If we didn't stop her she would have run in the water - brrr ...



This week she learned to say Santa or as she says Sanca. Now everytime she sees anything with a picture of him she yells - Sanca!!! She also now says thank you. She has said it before but not on a regular basis, now its in her everyday vocabulary. Please and thank you are regulars at the dinner table. What more could I ask for :-)

Also, Hailey is starting to learn to sit still. I wouldn't believe it if I didn't see it myself. Don't get me wrong, sitting still for us only means for a minute or two, but thats better than a few seconds. Usually these minutes are for reading books. We used to try to read to her every night, but she just wouldn't sit. Now she brings books to me and even participates. Woof, woof for doggies, choo, choo for trains - and babies and sanca - they are all in the books and she points them out and says their names! Why does she have to grow up so fast?!



As some of you know my dad was admitted to the hospital Sunday, he is still in there today. They believe he has a blockage in his intestines, but they are not sure what it is. He has had it pretty rough, but things seem to be moving along very slowly so they are holding off surgery to see what happens. Right now I just got off the phone with my mom and he is getting worse again. Please pray somehow he can pass whatever it is and not have surgery.