Hailey Loves Art

One of Hailey's absolute favorite things to do right now is draw pictures and make books.  She will literally spend hours recreating a book she read at home or school.  She either staples the sides of paper, or punches holes in it and uses some ribbon to bind it, and then she writes her story and draws her pictures.  She LOVES to show us as each page is done.  She will come read the first page proudly, then go back and finish the second, and then come back to us and read it from the beginning again.  She will do this until she has the entire book done.  This is usually right smack dab in the middle of dinner time, and I hurry her along as she reads each page, until she gets to the newest one.  I always feel guilty for rushing her afterward. This is something I am really trying to work on.  She's so proud of her work, and wants me to be proud too.  I AM proud of her, and need to really be patient and slow down and take my time with her, so she KNOWS it.

This is one of the cute books she made, called

Who Do I Look Like?  She took her time on each picture,

doing the best she could.  I love that this also helps

her practice her writing and spelling skills without

her actually knowing it!!

Another book she made. This one was called William 

Watches from the Window.  I am pretty sure she has

been reading this book at school.  She did such

a good job on it.  She even cut out little 

snowflakes and glued them on one of the pages

when she talked about the snow falling.

 Another favorite thing for Hailey is drawing.  She is 

especially loving all things fairy right now.  She worked

hard at these, and then taped them all up by her

bed so she could see them every day....so cute.  

Here we have "flower fairy, water fairy and orange fairy."

 Her we have "tornado fairy, and Tinkerbell

Lost and Found Fairy"....so cute!

 About a month ago, we told Hailey Addy's birthday

was coming up at the end of August.  She didn't

care that we had almost two months to go, she started

making her cards ASAP!  And boy did she make cards.  

I should've taken pictures of them all.  I'm guessing she

made about fifteen.  She drew her pictures and wrote 

her cute little notes on them and tucked them in

envelopes for her to open on her birthday.  

Another thing Hailey likes to do is wrap stuff we

have laying around the house and give it

to people as gifts...haha.  This one is for

Addy.  I'm not quite sure what it is, but

it is definitely something from her room!

 The other day I woke up before Hailey.  When she crawled

out of bed, she was annoyed at me that I was already awake.  

Come to find out, she wanted to leave me a note by my bed

so I would see it right when I woke up, but she didn't have a 

chance to that morning.  So...a few days later, this is what

I found next to the bed when I woke up....

A cute little note.  She is so sweet

and thoughtful.  Love my Hailey Bug ♥♥

More Hailey art.  As we were getting ready for school one

morning, the kitchen counter slowly started filling up

with the letters of the alphabet!  So Cute!!