I cant believe how long it has been since I have posted, almost a year! I have decided to pick it back up again so you can get updates on Hailey, with new pictures as she is growing so fast! I also want to track my pregnancy like I did last time because I love looking back on it now and reading it! Here are a few family pics we took this past fall and some others of Hailey! :) I will be uploading pics from our ultrasounds soon!
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| New Year |
Hailey is 20 months old now and doing so great!! She has been a busy little girl lately :) She is constantly into something. Whether it be "cooking" in her kitchen, or dancing to "Choo Choo Soul" She loves to be go go going! I recently enrolled her in a great program at "The Little Gym" It is for kids 4mo-5yrs I belive and they get to do gymnastics. Since she stays at home with me all day and really only has interaction with other kids through church and here and there playdates, I really wanted her to be able to get out and play with kids her age. This is the PERFECT thing for her. She gets to interact with kids around her agea and she gets to run around without socks and shoes on and climb all over the gym! What kid wouldn't want to do that. She goes once a week for 45 mins. Her teachers name is Charolette, and even though we have only been twice, she already gets so excited when we walk through the door and she sees her! They learn a new skill every week and this week it was the balance beam.. Hailey wasn't scared a bit and was the first one in line to do it! She did so great and put her feet right after the other with a little help (video to follow soon!) I can't speak highly enough about this program!
Another exciting thing that she has been doing lately is potty training! She has been interested in it for about a month and doing pretty good I might add. I know it is just like a mom to go on braggin about her child's "#1 and #2's" haha. but I am so proud of her. If I might add, she has done her #2 business ONLY on the toilet this whole entire week.. six times straight!! Now that is worth braggin about :) She even surprised me on thursday and told me she had to go "tt" while she was in the tub and GOT OUT to do so!! WOW! I know some adults that don't even do that ;) JK!
She, of course like her mommy, is talking up a storm now! Half of the time we understand her and half of the time we don't! She has gotten a couple of phrases down: "Get out/off/down" which she learned from me telling the dogs and will now tell you if she doesn't want you in the room.. or holding her hand! yikes. "I said no" which she has heard me tell her numerous times when in trouble.. guess I had that one coming. She told me the other day.. I said "Hailey would you like a banana" and she said "no" and i said "are you sure, you havent ate much" and she said "I said NO!" haha.. it was actually pretty funny :)"dad bye" we tried getting her to say bye bye daddy but that is what comes out! And even though not a phrase but I find funny "dodo" which is dozi the dog. She will walk around saying "dodo, kkkkkk(like she was calling her..dont know how to spell that!)
She has gotten a few new obsessions... and the main one is CHAPSTICK. You can not mention the word or even let her catch you doing it without a melt down to have one. And YES, for those of you that know anything about me, it is ALL my fault as I am a chapstickaholic myself! She knows where all of them are in the house and it is now part of her nighttime routine before bed! haha. At least she will have soft lips :)
She is in the process of learning how to jump and it is soooo funny! We will say 123 JUMP! And she will bend all the way to the ground and come up so hard and fast you think she is going to go 2 feet up in the air... but then... she just gets up on her tippy toes. It is hilarious. She tries so hard and just can't figure out how to get those feet off the ground! I hope to video tape it soon as it is too funny not to share.
We so enjoy laughing and charishing these funny and sweet moments as we know that they pass all too quickly. I hope that you enjoy following along with us as we watch her grow! Until next time..
May God Bless Your Family :)
Love,
(ps. hope you like the new look too!)
I haven't posted since New Year's and I would like to try and do so at least once a month! I would def. like to give you more updates, but it seems I just can't to keep up :) Here are some update pictures of little miss independent! She is growing up so fast and just changing everyday! She can say so many different words and do some many different commands. I am going to try and post some videos soon! I am also working on a 2010 slide show.. but no date will be promised! haha
Hope you enjoy the pictures :)
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| The New Year |
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| Snow day |
We have been up to a lot of activites lately with Halloween :) here are a few pics from it :)and of course I can't wait to load the ones of our little black kitten after trick or treating tonight :D
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| Halloween Part 1 |
We went and visited Granny and Dadpa and Hailey had so much fun!! She always loves to go up there and visit them :) She got to feed the fish and play with all their toys. She loves to have Gran Gran read her books, she will just sit in her lap and flip pages with her.. it is so sweet :) This time she found a baby doll they had and was carrying it around everywhere! She would hug it and kiss it and pull it real close to her! She even wanted to read the book with her :)
I bought a craft for me and Hailey to do together! It is a wooden wall hanger with pumpkins. It had a place to put her name and everything. I thought this would be fun and special for her. So once she woke up from her nap, I took her outside and started the painting!! She looked like a natural with the paint brush in her hand :) She even helped me paint her name on it... which is why the letters are so straight and jagged ;) We had a lot of fun and now it is hanging up right outside her room!
Everyone have a great weekend!
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| Having Fun |
I forgot to post the picture of my proud display on the fridge... haileys first finger painting! :D
Hailey has now turned 16 months old! WOW!! She has hit such a fun age and is just a joy to be around... except of course the few days that those dreaded molars were coming in :( She has such a personality and is just a ham! She is constantly making us laugh at the things that she does :) She now LOVES our Camaro since she has had a ride in it, and ask Daddy everytime they are outside together. So it is now a Friday treat for them to go on a ride in the neighborhood together!
She also LOVES for her Daddy to get in her tent with her! The tent is pretty spacious.. .but it is def. a funny sight to see! lol
Last Sunday we got to go and meet our newest addtion to the family for the Bagwell side, Gracie! She was such an adorable little baby. She sleeps so well! Hailey hasn't been around to many babies, especially teeny tiny ones like her... so she wasn't quite sure? haha. She ignored her at first and just played with toys, but once we finally showed her to Gracie, she was giving her kisses! It was very sweet :) She had a lot of fun at Hunter and Gracie's house!
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| Baby Gracie |
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| pumpkin pickin |
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| 16 mo mini session |
Last week when it was so nice outside and not so hot, we started hanging out there a little more after dinner. Hailey got some side walk chalk for her birthday, and I finally decided to bust it out ;) haha. She had so much fun doing it, and started drwaing right away!! She was a MESS!!!!!! I can not stress this enough! She literally had it from HEAD to TOE!! But it was absolutely adorable, and she was making me laugh. We def. had to have a bath after this one! Dad had some fun and drew a body around her and she actually did really well laying there! It was a great family fun night!
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| Side Walk Chalk |
So I promised in my last blog that I WAS going to be better at blogging... well as you can see, I didn't hold up to that promise :/ So here I am to update you on what's been going on (since August!!) We have been looking forward to the month of September for a long time, because it meant football (which I am VERY disappointed!!!) and Pigeon Forge.. our two FAVORITE things... and FALL!! We Made our way to Pigeon Forge the middle of September and were hoping for cooler fall air..well it was still HOT! But we did have a great time. I got some really cute pic of our precious girl, and we shopped, ate great food, and Hailey even visited her first amusement park, which she LOVED!!! She pitched the biggest fit when it was time to leave, I had to divert her attention to getting to ride in the BIG truck! :)We found a HUGE pumpkin at Dollywood (they always have the best decorations!) and stopped to take pictures. Hailey was amazed by it and just kept looking up! I got some really cute ones with her lifting her hands towards the sky :) Unfortunately Dustin came down with food poisoning... well what we thought was that, but actually turned out to be more of a stomach virus. He got that Saturday and didnt't get out of the bed (except to drive home) until Tuesday morning when he HAD to go back to work. (sorry for the red eyes in pics... didnt have time to edit)
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| Pigeon Forge |
Our church so graciously through a thank you party for the volunteers at the church at a local water park. Haiely had so much fun playing and DID NOT want to get out... and was still WIDE OPEN at 8 when we finally made her get out!! There was a lot of cloud cover and it was freezing when you were wet out not all the way in the water. She was shivering and had blue lips and still just a going at it! haha. Dustin took pics for us, so sorry, but some are blurry ;)
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| Water Park |
haha! JK ;) here are the pictures that have been stuck on my old camera! Dustin wouldn't let me use my new one too much on the beach, so these are the ones that were of us on the beach :) (only a month late!)
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| Beach trip 2 |
I will have to admit that I have been pretty slack about keeping updates on the blog this summer... I took full advantage of the relaxation!!... well actually of keeping busy!! We have had such a great summer and did all kinds of fun things... one being Hailey's first birthday.. and I STILL cant believe it!! She had her first beach trip too and as you saw from the last post, had a mostly great time!! Since then we have kept pretty busy just doig things locally :)
One of the major projects we decided to take on was building HB a playroom... now it sounds like a whole lot, and sort of was, except that we had a great builder.. my dad!! For those of you that remember, when you walk into the front door, normally you would see a sitting room and could walk through to the living room. Well now there is a wall there and it looks like a hall way!! And on the other side is a fun playroom for HB that she is LOVING and so am I! For numerous reasons, but my favortie is that I can shut the door on the mess and leave it for another day ;)
Here is HB supervising the construction.. 
and here is one of her and how EXCITED she was to go in (FINALLY!)
(more pictures to come when finished decorating) The room seems like it has filled up already and one of her favorite toys is a kitchen set that we got from our friends at church.. look she even bakes us cupcakes ;)
She is def. a summer baby and loves being outside... ALL THE TIME!!!!! She will walk to the door.. and almost understandable talk say "outside" .. or sometimes just "this"! haha. We usually go outside every night for 30 minutes or so before bath, books, and bed. And sometimes it is a fight and the tears break out because we have to go back inside :( The other day it was raining here, so I decided to take the opporunity to get some cute pics (no, not me!) and put her in her rain boots and umbrella (yes I bought the umbrella just for the pics! ;) (hush!) They turned out very cute, but as you will see, she didn't really want to take pictures, she wanted to play in the rain! The sun had already came out by the time her BF got there, but they played together and got some cute pics anyways :)
She is doing ALL KINDS of new things. It just amazes us how quickly she can catch on to things and how quickly she learns to say new words! Some of the new things that she says and does now are: she can say, moo for cow, her version of quack quack for duck (and the word duck) ;) bock bock for chicken, i can spell how she makes the pig! lol, tickle tickle, shoes, hi (along with hey), fish, dog (and dozi) and she can do: kick the soccer ball (:D), run, blow bubbles in the water, blow kisses bye bye, make a smackin noise when she gives a kiss, push the button on her four wheeler, climb onto and off of the sofa! haha, and points at everything!! There is so much more that she is doing, but these are the main ones :) (ps. the last pictures are her having her first blow pop today!! she LOVED it :) ) Enjoy!
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| 14 months |
We finally got to go to the beach this year after a two year wait!! We were so excited to get there esp since this would be HB's first time! We left out friday and met up with dustins grandparents and camped with them for the night. It was good to get to see them on the way :) We left first thing on Sat for Flagler, FL Beveryly Beach Campground. I wanted everyone to change in their bathing suits as soon as our feet hit the ground!! I could not wait to see Hailey at the beach. She LOVED it and (the first time, but this will be later in the story ;) ) was pointing and laughing the whole time. She even sat down in the sand and started petting it. We gave her the shovel and bucket and she would dig it up and then put it in the bucket! It was so cute and I got a couple of cute pics of her doing it :)
The second day she HATED the sand. haha!! It went like this the rest of the week. She loved it, she hated it, she loved it, well you get the point. The third day that we were there, Nini (dustins mom) got shoulder deep in it with her building a sandle castle and she was having a ball! After about 15 minutes she realized what was going on and immediately wanted to be washed off!!!... but the again I don't blame her! :) Glad Nini jumped in there with her, cause mommy def. wasnt :b We traveled into St. Augustine and Daytona two of the days we were there and had fun viewing the towns :) Wednesday was Ann's bday we went to a good fish house and eveyone got fish sandwiches (if shrimp counts ;)) We got some family pics the last day we were there and enjoyed a late night on the beach followed by a good camper cooked steak meal :) We had so much fun and were ready to be back Thursday night when we got in. So glad that we got to get away for a while and bring HB to the beach!! :)
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| Floyd Beach Trip |
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| Fireworks |
Hailey seems to be turning into a little girl who is so independent. I know it is just me being that first time parent who now has a toddler, but I feel like she is changing and learning new things everyday! Each day she changes her mind as to what she needs help with; She now thinks that she can feed herself, get in the bathtub by herself, brush her on teeth, brush her own hair, take off her clothes AND her diaper, and even likes to put on bracelets and carry her own purse ;) It is all still so surreal and hard to grasp. She is doing great with learning new words and understanding commands. And sometimes just because she understands them doesn’t me that she is going to listen to them! Haha She has been teething really bad the last few days and we had to stay home from church because of a temp. She just isn’t feeling great and you can tell she isn’t herself. She has had a terrible diaper rash and is is a lot of pain. She just screams when she has to get her diaper changed and it breaks my heart :( I am hoping that the devil tooth is going to pop thru soon so we can move past it :) Here are a few pics that I have taken of her. I love the one in her rocker watching tv. She is doing better and better with sitting in it to watch her shows (instead of the usual, climb in, climb out, climb in, climb out… etc etc repeat!!). Once you can get her to relax in it, she will just sit there for 15 minutes or so and sometimes 30 for a good movie!!:)
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| A Sunday afternoon :) |
This year was Dustin's second fathers day. He happened to squeeze it in by a few weeks last year ;) It was still a very special time! Boys are always so hard to buy for so I decided to go straight the the heart of each man.... food! I decided to get him an Edible Arrangement!! I did a box of strawberry and bananas covered in chocolate!! He loved it and I even got a couple of bites ;) Hailey gave him a gift card to his favorite fish store so that they could go out and pick out the perfect fish together!! "She" also wrote him a poem that he can always keep :) He also got to take a little over a 2 hour afternoon nap, which he LOVED!
We celebrated the day with my dad first for lunch with his family and then headed to Dustin's dads to celebrate with him. But it is funny no matter what the holiday is, there is always one cute little girl that steals the show!! :) haha. She is always such a ham and LOVES to be the center of attention! I dont know WHERE she got that from?!?!?! She loves to entertain and then laugh at herself with you. She is so proud of any activity that she does and makes you laugh at her. She is always checking to make sure that you are watching!
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| Fathers day 2010 |
Instead of writing about how FABULOUS ;) the party was, I have decided to put up the poem that I wrote for her. It somehow didnt make it out at the party, so it should be new to everyone. Hope you enjoy :)
SWEET BABY GIRL
June 8, 2009
I held you in my arms for the very first time
10 Perfect fingers and 10 Perfect toes
I love to watch you crinkle that cute little nose
We brought you home so anxious and stressed
the next few nights you would put us to the test
Restless nights while watching you sleeping
Waking up for 3AM feedings
How I ever made it, I'm not realy sure
To tell you the truth, the first few weeks were a blur
You learned so quickly to hold up you head
And it seemed all too fast wehn we moved you to your own bed
You flashed your first smile and I felt my heart melt
This kind of love, I have never felt
Wow! you are crawling all over the house
As quick as a cat chasing a mouse
It's high fives and patty cakes all in a row
It's hugs and kisses, your love you can now show
Waving "bye, bye" to friends and to strangers
In your little eyese, there are no fears and no dangers
We blinked our eyes and you took your first steps
Mommy closed her eyes and simply wept
You are a big girl now who is turning one!
We will celebrate with a party and have lots of fun
But on this day there is one thing you should know
I have had so much fun so far watching you grow
God has blessed us with a miracle from up above
A sweet little Angel who is full of pure love
So here's to the party, the guest, and ballons
Out little Cupcake turns ONE on the 8th day of June
Love Mommy :)
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| First Birthday Party :) |
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| I am ONE year old!! |
I know that I have been terrible on keeping everyone up to date lately, and I do apologize for that. I have been super busy and the time that I usually do my blogs, at night, is now filled with trying to get HB's scrapbook done by the time that her bday gets here.... which is nearly impossible with how long I waited to start it. To give you a hint, about the time you saw me disappear from here ;) I have been doing pretty good with it and think that I will get most things in, but not done by her party :/ I have also been planning that, so needless to say I have been pretty busy, but can't wait to get back in the swing of things after her bday :)
We have all been doing great and HB is growing and changing everyday. She has learned a few new words and my favorite, can now shake her head no at you. While in the future I am sure this is going to prove to be quite the opposite, right now it is adorable and funny! She doesn't do it a whole lot, but if she is done eating...soon as you get the spoon near her mouth, there it is, the head shake! haha And the other time she does it that we probably shouldn't laugh but just can't help it is when she is escaping out of the living room and we say Hailey come back here... and the head shake no! :)
She has now also begun to stand up for the floor all by herself. She has all but perfected the walking, but has always used the furniture, walls, the dogs, or even your leg to get up ;) She has also dropped all of her bottles but the very first morning feeding and the bedtime bottle which we are going to keep around for just a little longer...and yes it is more for me than her! haha but she does need the milk, so THERE!
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| Memorial Day 2010 |
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| 11 months random |
