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 |
Wow, i cant believe i havent given any updates since halloween!! I am so sorry. We are doing great and keeping very busy, as I am sure you are doing as well with this time of the year!
Hailey is reall having a ball with this Christmas and it has really just gotten started :) She is so funny about opening up presents and does it so delicately!! She even likes to hand out everyone elses first! We are so excited for this year and know it is going to be a lot of fun!! I have been holding on to her present since September... so I am def READY to give it to her!!
I uploaded a lot of pictures for you to enjoy. There are two albums, one of just Christmas and the other is of her since October :)
I hope you have a great Christmas and Santa brings you everything on your list ;)
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| 16/17 MO |
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| Merry Christmas!!!! |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
We had a nice relaxing Sunday today. We first headed to athens and found dustins bday present :) but NOT til Wednesday... although he is bargaining for tues. since I got mine a day early!
We then came home and just hung around the house (well except for the 45 min visit to the pool!) It was great to just SIT there. I made myself, and forgot about the house for once.. and guess what, it's ok! haha. I got some cute pics of HB today. The first ones are the the new ball I got her at Target in my dollar selections today! She LOVES it! 
The second ones are when we settled into the first Shrek and Hailey was eating her afternoon snack and juice... good thing she was in her around the house play clothes cause she made a MESS!!! I had to snap a couple of pics because it was just so funny! She was loving the new biter biscuits I got her! :)
Have a great week! :)
We had a great day on Easter. Church was awesome and very touching. It is always good to have such a passionate service! We had a lot of fun hanging out with all of our family. Easter is such a special time and always good to see family :)
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| Easter 2010 |
I am FINALLY getting to tell you about our awesome trip to Disney. We made our way out of the drive way about 9am on Tuesday hoping to get there by dinner. We had a great trip and were 30 minutes out when it all went down hill. We were pulling out of the gas station and I was with my parents in their camper and SCRAPE... we hit the gas tank on the way out and all the gas we JUST PUT IN was now leaking all over the road. Well needless to say, 2 firetrucks, 3 police cars, and the haz mat team later, we were back on the road and headed to the camp ground. Of course it was now 930pm when we were pulling in and a VERY LONG day (esp with a 10 mnth old) We set up shop and called it a night... we weren't going to let this get us down!
First thing Wed morning we hit the ground running. We were on our way to the Animal Kingdom. Soon as we got in the park we saw some characters from the Lion King, Jungle Book, and some other movie?? Hailey got her picture with some and was a little confused at first, but never got upset or scared. We made our way in and ventured around. It was very cool and so amazing to see what all they had done. We got about half way thru and found Minnie and Goofy and of course HAD to get our pictures with them! Hailey had to warm up to minnie but ABSOLUTELY LOVED Goofy!! When we were standing in line, she was holding her arm out pointing to him and grunting... eh eh eh.. like TAKE ME OVER THERE!! When we finally got to him she was all smiles and just giggling! He loved her too... even chased us when we left :) I know that Michael appreciates that ;) We then got on a train and rode over to the petting zoo and as you will see Hailey was a little tired from the big day, so Gdaddy rocked her to sleep :)
We had a fabulous first meal at Downtown Disney at a seafood place called Fulton CrabHouse. We had some great food and then went for a nice walk on the boardwalk. Hailey even got her first Minnie!
The next day was my, well I believe everyone's, absolute favorite! We went to see world and it was SO COOL and SO AMAZING at what they can teach the animals to do. We got there just in time for the dolphin show and it just blew my mind at how fast they can swim and how high they can jump. Hailey was jumping for joy with them and pointing at them laughing out loud. They let birds fly over the crowd and she was just in shock! We got some great pictures of the action. Then we made our way to the whale show, which is just beyond belief. The fact that they can get that huge animal to cooperate and learn hand signals just blows my mind. The put on a great show and SOAKED a lot of people. It was so fun to watch them in action and the relationship that they form with the handlers. Right before we left Dustin decided to ride MANTA the rollercoaster(of course by himself!) and said it was awesome... even got wet in the process :)
That night we had another fun adventure and ate at the Rain Forest Cafe! There was SO MUCH going on that HB could barely take it all in. Every 10 minutes the animals would move (elephants, birds, crocs, gorillas, etc) and every 30 minutes there was a thunder storm with rain and everything! Needless to say I didnt have to try hard at keeping her attention, not to mention the HUGE fish tanks they had EVERYWHERE!
We decided to hit the pool for a full day and soak in the sun. I could not wait to get HB in the water bc I could just tell from her baths that she was going to love the pool. Well I was right. She never took a smile off of her face from the moment we stuck her in the (cold) water! She was splashing around and just having a big time. She looked adorable in her one pc with a cover up and matching hat with sunglasses! Very sassy!;) Mom has the pictures for that, so I will have to add them at a different time. Maybe in a seperate post with the video we took as well :)
The very last night we had the most wonderful and scrumpcious dinner I have had in my life. We ate at a hawaiian family style rest. and totally stuffed ourselves. They started us with appetizers, then came with 4 diff. kinds of meat, which you could have any and as much of as you wanted! Then finished us off with a banana pudding dessert which does not sound very good but was awesome! Adam and I even got up and danced with the Hula lady! We finished our trip off right with a night view of the Magic Kingdom. It was beautiful and just a heart warming site. It can bring you back to a kid again in a second. I felt like a 5 yr old princess :) We got special treatment and got to take pictures from the 14th floor of the hotel across from it. The lady let us step out there "quickly", so sorry for all the pics but I just snapped away. It was def. an enchanted way to call it an end to the wonderful World of Disney :)
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| Orlando |
We had a very happy and cold New Year. We headed out to Pigeon Forge the Tuesday before New Years. Unfort we did not check into ALL of the road conditions. We had called ahead to the mountain and heard that it was not recommended for bigger passenger cars to travel through. Since we were pulling the camper, we decided to go around the mountain. We got within 2 or 3 miles of our exit and found out that I40 was completely shut down because of a rock slide that covered both sides of the road. At this point we were set in for a long road ahead. Needless to say we left right at 1 that afternoon and we didn't actually pull into the camp site until 9:30 that night. I do believe that is one of the longest trips that we have had to PF. Once we got there it was FREEZING!!! We of course hit the stores shopping that first morning. I didn't find as many good deals as I was hoping for. I did get a couple of dresses for HB for next Christmas. On New Years Eve we had a few flurries, but nothing like we thought we would get. It was 25 for the high that day and very breezy. It was going down to the teens at night. We decided to watch a movie that night to tick away the time. It was longer than expected, so we turned the channel to Dick Clark with about 20 seconds to go. Everyone stole a new year's kiss, finished the movie, and then got a late night start to bed. After being gone for almost a week, we were glad to be back home and in our own beds. Hope that everyone has had a good start to the New Year! :)
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| New Years 2010 |
We had lots of food and fun with our family on Thanksgiving. We started it out with lunch at Dad's parents and man did we eat. The food just kept coming and by the time it was done, the whole table was full! It was all so delicious and needless to say, we were miserable! Hailey even joined in on the food and had pickle for the first time. Don't worry! She just chewed on the end of one which I am sure felt good to her teeth! She loved it and cried when we took it away.. haha. That night we relaxed and watch some movies. I usually go home and start the Christmas decorating. But this year we had Thanksgiving at my house and it wasn't until Sunday. Mom's side of the family came over and we had a good time with them as well... and again.. more food! It was a full house and great weather for the kids to play outside. Dustin showed off his 'petting zoo' to everyone and the kids loved it! We managed to get a good pic of all the great grand kids. That night we had Dustin's family over and celebrated his Grandmothers bday as well. By the time it was all over, we didn't want anything to do with food for a while.
We count our blessings everyday and have so many things to be thankful for. Thanks to everyone who made Thanksgiving that much more special :)
(more pics are to come, so check back for new ones tomorrow)
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| Thanksgiving 09 |
Two weekends ago we went down to see dustins grandparents in South GA. They hadn't seen HB since she was 2 months old, so they were very surprised at how she had changed and were so happy to see her! She gave them both a big smile soon as she saw them. We had a lot of fun hanging out and getting some time to relax. We rode four wheelers and played with the dogs in the lake (well we didnt get in the lake!) We even got to have a big early Thanksgiving dinner... it was so delicious :)
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| South GA |
We can hardly believe that 3 years have already gone by. My how things change :) We were fortunate enough to be able to leave Hailey at mom's house and go enjoy the day off and night. We started out at the Zoo, which I have to admit was a little weird going to and leaving our child at home... haha. It was beautiful weather and we had such a great time. Neither one of us had been since we were in middle school, and let me tell you it looks mighty different through 'big girl' eyes! When we got done there we headed out to do some shopping. Of course the only person that got anything was Hailey! We decided to hang it up on the shopping and leave out for PF Changs at the Mall of GA. We had a bad experience there a couple of years ago, but heard so many others talk great things about it, so we decided to give it another shot... it was amazing! The food was awesome, and because of the great weather, we got to sit outside and enjoy it. We were going to catch an IMAX movie, but nothing was playing when we were there, so we headed to the new Brandsmart instead. I know, I know, not a typical anniversary date, but that is so us. You know it could have been Wal-mart, so we are stepping up :)
We stopped for a warm 'Caramel Apple Spice' at Starbucks on the way home (which I am totally addicted to now!) and decided to catch up on some tivo. It was an awesome day and my hubby is just the best. I didn't mention his totally sweet scheme he had going. So he asked me on tues night if I could let the dogs out in the morning because he would really like to sleep in.. so I had no problems in this. I go to let the dogs out and flip on the hall light... there is was, my new pretty pink northface jacket with a note that read "Hey babe, I got this for you so you wouldn't be cold when you let the dogs out"!! How sweet, he does have a few tricks up that sleeve ;)
All in all, we had a beautiful day and were able to get some much needed one on one time.
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| Anniversary |
