Sunday, June 14, 2009

learning letters

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Hailey has finally taken an interest in learning her letters. We tried to start with A, but she didn't like that letter very much so we went straight to H and I! YEAH Hailey!

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Yesterday we took Hailey on her first hike where she had to put some effort into it. Last year we bought a "packpack" as she calls it and all she has to do was look cute, this year she is to heavy for that. I looked up great hikes for kids online and Arethusa Falls came up. Lets just say, by kids I think they mean older kids.

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While eating lunch we came across the butterfly garden above. Who knew they grew butterflies like flowers up in the White Mountains? :-)

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As you can see, this was no easy hike for those little legs, but she did amazing and hiked up all 1.3 miles of uneven terrain.

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She loved following the blue paint on the trees and rocks to make sure we kept to the trail.

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And here is the fruit of our labors ...

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After we took a dip in Echo Lake. Can you get more beautiful than that?

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Today Alyssa came over to play, here are a few pix of what is going on as I write ...

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2 comments:

Robin said...

This is SO WEIRD. I was just thinking of taking Alyssa and Luke to Arethusa Falls this morning (when I thought it might clear up)!! I love that hike! Nice to see what my daughter is doing before she even gets home :-)

XO-
Robin

Steph said...

Awesome pictures Amanda!!!