I Have Been Camera Happy....So Prepare Yourself!!

Taylor and I belong to a play group that meets every Friday morning at different locations. This past Friday we met at Snead's Farm. If you have little ones and you have not been to Snead's Farm you must go. Its free during the week and only $5.00 on the weekends. It has tons of animals, swings, slides, pumpkins and sunflowers to pick. We were there for 2 1/2 hours and I had one exhausted little baby!

Swinging on the tire horse swing

Walking into the barn to go play in the hay.

Pushing a dump truck. I try so hard to make her girly, but she always seems to want to play with the dump trucks, John Deere tractors, and dirt!! I am blaming this on all the boys in her life.

Back to swinging

As you can see Taylor LOVES swings!!

Of course Taylor found the farms dog

Chillin with some pumpkins

Ohh how I have missed that face

Friday afternoon Taylor got to play with both GinGin and Poppy!

Getting tickled by GinGin

What me? I would never do that GinGin

Taylor and Poppy

Now being tickled by Poppy

Being silly and playing games with Poppy

Saturday night we went to Richmond to go see our good friends Anne Taylor, Alexander and Isabel. I didn't even get to hold Miss Isabel because my jealous little daughter would start to cry when I even got close to her. Wow does she have a rude awakening in store for her!!

Isabel and Taylor playing with a toy. I am sure this will not be a surprise, but Taylor basically nudged her way underneath the toy and took over.

Isabel would pull Taylor's hair bow and....

Taylor would turn around and say "Noooo"

Taylor was very intrigued with Isabel, but definitely more intrigued with all of her toys

7 month old Isabel. She is also a little March baby

Taylor sporting her new dress from Bess! Thank you Scribner Family

Dinner Fun!

Angela and Brayden came over tonight for dinner. Brayden and Taylor get cuter and cuter together. They play and interact with each other and basically Taylor tries to do everything that Brayden does. It was enjoyable not being in a restaurant this time and letting them run wild in our house. Here are pics from our evening of fun!

Brayden jumped off the ottoman which meant Taylor had to jump off as well!

Getting on the ottoman for jump #30

Actually playing together. Taylor was being nice and sharing her toys

The highlight of Taylor's evening. Brayden pushing her on her train.

Snack time. Brayden has taken his pants off by this point and Taylor just doesn't sit like a lady. Cotillion here we come!!

Now jumping from ottoman to couch

Please check out Brayden's HOT outfit. Nothing like underwear with aqua socks!

Follow the leader

My favorite picture of the night! The method of bribery to get them to sit on the step together was peanut M&M's. Taylor is about to hyperventilate for her M&M.

The State Fair

We took Taylor to the State Fair on Sunday. She loved walking around and looking at all the rides and mostly, she enjoyed looking at the game booths filled with toys that you could win. We had the brilliant idea of letting Taylor play one right away. She got to pick three yellow ducks out of a tub of water which then allowed her to pick a toy. Taylor is obsessed with balls so it was no surprise that she picked a big purple ball. So basically John and I were either chasing the ball that she tossed or kicked or we were holding it while she took a break from it. Brilliant, brilliant idea. We will be sure to do that again right away:)
Here are lots of pictures from our fun State Fair Adventure!



Taylor picking her three yellow ducks

Her favorite part of the State Fair....her new purple ball

Taylor and dada on her very first ride. She pretty much did not have any reaction for the whole ride.

Flying through the air. Still not so sure about this ride

Get Lost is what Taylor wanted to say to the flying elephant

Taylor was really intrigued by the pig until it tried to come out of the cage and eat her. Her fascination with the pig quickly ended.

Didn't matter that it was not a "real" dog. Taylor still loved it and kept going up to it and saying "woo, woo".

Taylor and her big, spiky purple ball

waving to momma

Taylor made a friend! She and this boy played soccer together for awhile. It was hysterical. He was so sweet with her and just kept kicking the ball back to her.

Taylor and her little soccer friend

She loved walking all around which was a good thing since her mom forgot the stroller...woops

Taylor and dada walking back to the car

Here is my FAVORITE cell phone picture right now. I have it as the background on my phone and it makes me smile every time I see it!!

The Little Gym!

Taylor and I met Jessica and Anna at The Little Gym this morning and they LOVED it. I was nervous that she was going to be shy and not want to participate in any of the activities. I was very wrong!! She took off as soon as we arrived and played with everything. Jessica and I went ahead and signed the kiddos up for weekly classes since they liked it so much.
The Little Gym = Long Nap....so I am a big fan as well!


We played on the balance beam

We played with balls!

We even cleaned up our balls

We ran to mommy

We would sit with mommy, but only for a second.

We played with bubbles!

We played with our BFF Anna

We said our goodbyes to Anna and said "See you next Tuesday"

Jessica, You might want to drink 5 lattes before next Tuesday if you want to have as much personality and pep as the teacher!! I would also like to see a little more jazz when you are shaking your moroccans! See you Tuesday!!