Another one...

I've been into doing comparison's lately and thought this would be cute. It's Haylee in the same hat last Valentine's Day and this Valentine's Day (well pictures for it). Her hair has grown so much!

Sweet Valentine!

On Sunday the weather was nice so I decided to go take some Valentine's Day pictures. It was really last minute but I think they turned out great!

 love her face, so typical of her to think it's dirty! LOL

 waving at Daddy

 blowing kisses to Daddy

 she loves her Daddy

 beautiful

 one of my favorites <3

 tree hugger LOL

Date night

Haylee and I had a date night last night. After having school all week and not seeing Haylee much I wanted to get out of the house and take her to do something fun. We went to the mall. First we went to Chick-fil-A to eat dinner. She ate all her food and sat next to me and was really good.

Then we went and rode on the horse carousel. She was SO excited as she usually is. I let her pick the horse to ride and she walked around the whole carousel to find the perfect one.

(pictures and video are from my phone)

After riding the carousel we walked around the mall some. I was going to let her play in the kids play area but there were 101 kids in there and it looked too crazy! So we passed on that and just went shopping! She did really good shopping with me. She's such a joy to be around! We went to Crazy Eight then to a jewelry store (I want a wedding band to wear to school since my rings are sautured together, my engagement ring is a lot sometimes & can get in the way so I wanted something more simple). After that I got her some candy since she was being so good and then we went to Old Navy. I got her a cute red shirt to take some Valentine's Day pictures in and also an outfit for a baby who's baby shower we are going to today. After that we headed home.

We had a great night and it's nights like these that I'll always remember! We are so blessed <3

a few things at 26 months old...

I feel like I'm so bad at updating about the little things Haylee does. This blog is not only for our out of town family to see pictures and videos of her but also for me to remember things. I can barely remember what I did yesterday, let alone months ago. So I really like that I started making this blog, and I hope that one day I will be able to print it out into a "blog book" so I will always remember the things that happened. Especially if, God forbid, blogspot isn't here anymore or it's totally lost. I'd be devastated. Anyways, last night I was reading a friends blog and she had posted ones about the little things her boys do and it got me to thinking I needed to do that for Haylee... now hopefully I can remember everything! Just a warning, this is going to be LONG!

• One of the best things Dave has ever taught Haylee: when we are sleeping she needs to give us a kiss to wake us up, like a Princess. It is SO sweet, and you can tell when she's going to do it and pretty much does it every time she sees us asleep. I will often pretend to be sleeping just to get those kisses! She will grab your face and neck and pull you towards her and plant one on you. I love it!

• She loves to read and be read to. Especially her Bible. She will bring book after book to you to read to her. She'll ask me while I'm driving to read to her. When I say I can't, she says "ok, it's my turn to read"
• She is pretty passive. If she wants something and you say no, or she has to wait until later she will sometimes say "OK!" and move on. Don't get me wrong, she does throw a small fit sometimes, I mean she is 2! But for the most part she gives in pretty easily.
• She is the master delayer. When we put her to bed at night she will come up with any and everything to do. She always brushes her teeth, then will wash her hands. Both of those take a while. Then she will say she needs to pee and will sit on the pot forever (and never go of course!). Then she'll get down and we'll say it's time for bed and she'll say no, she has to poop. Which she of course doesn't go. Then we'll finally get her out of the bathroom and she will get book after book after book for us to read to her. Then we'll get her in bed and she'll say she wants to go lay in mommy & daddy's bed to watch "Daddy's soccer" (which is football). It could really go on and on...
• She plays in her crib for a long time in the morning. She'll stay in there for an hour or longer if we let her and just play with her babies or read her Bible. Sometimes she likes to pull things into her crib like she did this morning...

• Like I said above, she calls football "Daddy's soccer". I have no clue where she got that from but she's stuck with it. She'll say a ball is that and the football helmet is that. Or even while watching the game. Which she does like to do. She's definitely being brainwashed by Daddy already ;-)

• She's getting more brave and climbing on stuff more. She'll climb on her dress-up clothes toy box to play with her kitchen. Or she'll climb onto her chair to get movies. She still isn't climbing out of her crib or anything but she's doing more then before. She's still cautious Haylee though ;-)
• Favorite movies: Nemo, Shrek, Little Mermaid, Bambi
• Favorite music: Dora Holiday Christmas CD or the ABC CD - both are in the car. She will dance and sing to everything and anything though

• Favorite foods: Chicken nuggets, cheese, milk (of course she can't have it though), yogurt (also known as Dora applesauce), pickles, broccoli & carrots, a lot of snacks and of course candy!  She will pretty much try almost anything. I've really never had a problem with her eating habits.
• Favorite person: really everyone! LOL! She loves her Grandma & Pandka, she says she's KK's girl and of course she loves her Mommy & Daddy. She also loves her KyKy, who lately she has been calling Kylie. If we go somewhere she'll go through a whole list of people asking if they're coming.
• She calls Grandpa, "Pandka". Not sure why but she has been doing that for a while and hasn't changed it!
• She goes to storytime every Wednesday. Either Kimberly or Dave takes her, depending on who has her that week. Although I don't think KK will ever take her again because Brayden should be here soon! She loves it and loves telling me all about it. A new thing in the 2 year old storytime is that they have homework every week. They bring home a paper with a new letter on it every week and have to bring it back the next week. This weeks letter is "L".
• Potty training is non-existent right now. We tried and she just would not go pee in the potty. She'd sit on there for a while but never go and as soon as we'd put the pull up on she'd go in it. So we decided she wasn't ready yet. She still wants to sit on it often and wear panties but we're sticking to diapers for now and let her explore it as much as she wants. We are in no hurry, she's barely two!

Can I help you??

• She still takes an afternoon nap and it's rather long. Usually we'll lay her down around 1:30 and she'll sleep until at least 5, or sometimes 6. Then goes to bed for the night at 8:30ish.
• Clothes size: She's still wearing 24 month pants. 18 months are finally getting too short for her. 2T are way too long still. She can fit into 2T shirts just fine though. Diapers are a size 5 (as they have been forever now). Shoe size is a 5.5 - 6.

Guess that's about enough for now. I know I've missed a lot but I have to stop somewhere ;-) We love you Haylee Renee and hope that you stay as sweet and wonderful as you always have been!

more videos...

Just a few more videos we took last night =) Enjoy!

Singing with Daddy

not doing anything special, just hanging with Daddy

GO IRISH!

Dancing

Haylee was dancing a little to the credits after Shrek was over. Shrek is her new favorite movie she wants to watch all the time.

Bible story time

Tonight as I was putting Haylee to bed I asked her if she wanted me to read her a book. She was upset that she had to go to bed and said "noooo, Bible" with all seriousness and sadness on her face. It was sweet. So she went and got a new prayer and bible verse book that she got for Christmas out (which I didn't even know was Bible verses and prayers but she sure did!). Then after we read that cute book she got out her Bible. I guess I wasn't reading fast enough because she decided to take over...

another cute comparison!! HAHA!

cute little comparison!

Wii Mario Carts

Haylee enjoyed a game of Wii Mario Carts with Daddy...

so sorry it's dark of course! 

just for one day...

I want this back...

Every now and then I get these crazy "baby bug" feelings. I blame it on Dave today because he posted a baby picture of Haylee on his Facebook! But it's crazy to try to remember her like that. I barely remember it and oh do I miss it! Don't get me wrong, I LOVE watching Haylee grow up and learn, she's so sweet and so cute at this age! However, nothing compares to having a sweet, warm sleeping baby on your chest...

I wish I could bundle her up and hold onto her so she won't grow up anymore. It's really hitting me tonight how fast she's growing up and how I can't do anything about it and how I'm going to miss it just like I miss this!

Oh how I wish I was a time traveler...