A Visit From Grandma Bockholt

This week we were lucky enough to have Grandma Bockholt (Blaine's mom) come and visit! We had so much fun with her... we were able to visit the Memphis Children's Museum, see the Peabody ducks, play downtown, go to the zoo, pick a pumpkin at the pumpkin patch, and a few other things. And even though we added a few unplanned things to our list (like the hospital :) ) it was a fabulous week and we were said to see her leave! Here are a bunch of pictures from all the fun things we did. And I have to apologize... some are not in order, and I don't know an easy way to fix it, so just deal with it :)

Playing in the stream and trying to catch some fish at the Children's museum

They have an awesome little grocery store at the museum, which Hailey loved.

At the check out counter

Driving the police car

Driving the fire truck

Walking across the balance beam with a little help from Grandma

Testing out all the bikes at Toys R Us

Checking out the cockpit at the Children's Museum

Watching the sea lions swim by with Grandma

Peering over the water line to watch the grizzly bears playing

Reading books with Grandma before bedtime.

Our attempt at a family picture, which is often difficult with a little girl who won't look at the camera for more than half a second... which is the reason that in most of these pictures, she doesn't have a smile- I wasn't fast enough to catch it!

Watching the polar bear at the zoo with Grandma

Being daddy's little helper

Hailey with her perfect pumpkin!

She really wanted to pick all of them up!

Dad and Hailey on our adventure!

Here Hailey is painting her pumpkin... all by herself... and she LOVED it. This kept her busy and completely quite for almost an hour.

These pictures are a little older, but I think they are so cute. Hailey is helping me make some bread. She loves to help cook, and most of the time is a pretty good little helper :)