Pictures!

Hey all, I just wanted to update real quick about Haylee. It's SO hard to believe that in 2 weeks she's gonna be ONE! JUST 2 WEEKS! I just can't believe it and I know it won't sink in for a while. She's becoming such a big girl and I can see all the big changes she's been having on her way to toddler hood [ =( ] She's still getting ALL over the place. She loves to play in the dogs food bowl and even eat the food! Gross! She goes into the bathroom if someone leaves the door open and stands up next to the toilet, haha she wants to be potty trained now! She pulls herself up onto anything and everything now, the couch, coffee table, bottom stair, a box. She can get in and out of Kylie's play room (as you can see in the picture below). She's a very smart cookie and figures out how to maneuver around objects so she can get where she's not supposed to be. Stinker! If you tell her "no" she just looks at you like you're crazy and then smiles and it's so hard not to smile back LOL. She says 3 words now that I can understand. "Dada", "dog" and "uh-oh". It's so cute. She also talks more, not just babble but it sounds like she's talking to you about something. She LOVES to dance! Any music that plays she will start bouncing where ever she is and gets all happy. I also think she sings along to songs or with me when I'm singing (& she happens to love my singing, thank you!). She's eating mostly solid foods even though I think she might still prefer baby food. She likes to feed herself with a fork. I'll put the food on the fork then she will take it and feed it to herself. Such a big girl! One night she was eating dinner and I had some food on the fork and wasn't paying attention to her and she just reached over and grabbed the fork from me! haha, guess I was too slow! She's almost got all of her teeth! Her 4th molar is breaking through right now. Crazy that she will have all four of her 1 year old molars before she's even 1! She's also got a bottom tooth trying to come through. Once that one's through then she'll only need 1 more and then she'll have them all (except her 2 and 6 yr. old molars). She's the tooth queen! I guess that's about it for now. Here are a few pictures of her on Wednesday before we went to Kylie's fall festival and then a few in her cat costume. She looks so fat in her costume haha! Enjoy!

10/28/09, 11 months 2 weeks old

"can I help you?"

lots of hair!

Haylee and her Auntie Kimberly at Kylie's fall festival

"what's going on?"

getting ready to pounce!

getting her tail

pretty eyes

love this one

Oh yeah, there's ONLY 26 more days until Haylee and I leave for IL! woo hoo! Less than a month and I know it will fly by!

Video!

So today I put Haylee down for a nap and then got into the shower. When I got out of the shower I looked at the video monitor to make sure she was asleep and I did not see a sleeping baby... I saw a baby's face VERY close up! We have a camera/video monitor in her room and the camera part was on her wall above her crib so we could see her in there while she's sleeping... and not sleeping. Well she decided to take it down and play with it. It was so funny. So I decided to go sneak in there and catch her in the act. She was so into it that she didn't even realize I was in there until I said something! She's too funny. So here's the video.

(oh and don't worry, I already moved it so she can't play with it anymore or get tangled in the cords)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qggORmsn-Bc

new camera!!

So Dave is the best husband ever and let me get a new camera. It's a digital SLR, Pentax K100D. I LOVE it!! I'm still new at the whole professional camera and all so I have a lot to learn and a lot to learn how to make good pictures (pose and all) but I'm having fun playing with it and can't wait to keep playing with it! Today we went to the Hunt Club to play with the goats and take pictures of the kids. We go there every fall, we love this season! Here are a few of my favorites...

Kylie, Cole and Marty cutie

checking out the goats

a few videos and pictures

Here are a few videos I took of Haylee and thought they were cute!

Haylee playing with Princess through the cage. Princess always makes her laugh!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHEVB9RkzzE


This evening Haylee was out of control, going ALL over the place! She's none stop now and is going to make me pull my hair out haha. I've tried to block off different sections of where she can't be getting into and she's figured out how to get past those barriers. So she can't be stopped anymore. Here's a video of her playing with a toy that she stands next to. She likes to dance and so she was dancing to the music it was playing =)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go89n-u1OFA

concentrating real hard

telling mommy something

spitting while she plays haha

quick update

I have some videos I wanted to post on here that I thought were cute so I thought I'd do a real quick update too.

We had a wonderful wedding! It was so beautiful and fun and way more wonderful than I could ever have expected. The weather was so perfect for the ceremony! I just can't get over how nice it was, not humid or hot or cold and had a nice breeze and the sun wasn't right over our heads or anything. I thank everyone who could make it and helped us with it! Every single person truly made it memorable!

The honeymoon was also nice. It was VERY relaxing. It forced us to relax... way more than we're used to. I know Dave really needed the break with the way he works so much. It was a little too long for us though, we were missing our Haylee far too much. But we had a good time and really enjoyed the ports we stopped at (Port Cannaveral, Fl - Nassau, Bahamas - and Freeport, Bahamas).

While we were gone Haylee changed a ton! I knew that would happen =) We don't realize every single little thing that happens when we are with her every minute of every day. Her hair got longer. She got TWO more teeth! I knew one (her bottom molar) was going to come through but she also got another on the top. Poor thing. She also starting saying "ooooo" which she does say often now. It's too cute. She learned how to go from sitting to crawling. Which is not good, now she will never stay still or in one place ever again!! Bummer ;-) She waves good-bye on demand now. She's such a happy and good baby. Thanks to Nana and Papa and my mom and dad and sister for watching after her while we were gone! She got so spoiled and I can tell she had a good time. Oh, today I showed Haylee a picture of Nana & Papa and she got the BIGGEST smile on her face! And then she pointed at Papa. It was too cute. She really remembered them. I'll try to catch it on video tomorrow!

Here are two video's of her. One was from before we left and it's long but cute. She's just playing and screaming LOL. The other is from yesterday and it's the way she drinks her water now. Too funny. Hope you enjoy them!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcKyVPkSY5o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IitTlEYJyKs

new faces

Just a quick update. School is in full gear, I'm pretty swamped with it. Between that and finishing up last minute things for the wedding I'm starting to feel a little overwhelmed. I'm just ready for the wedding to be over so I can focus on school. I'm not liking Micro too much, probably because it's more work than I have time to offer right now. My online classes are pretty easy and I'm actually ahead in all of them. I just finished my first essay in English. One bad thing is that in one of my Psychology classes I have a test due on the day we get back from the cruise, so we will be rushing to get home so I can take it in time! This week is going to be so busy! I really should be studying right now for a Micro quiz I have in lab tomorrow. I'm so afraid we're going to have a test in lecture during the week of the honeymoon and I won't find out until class on Thursday which will make it too late to take it. She allows you to take the test before but not after she gives the test. So I'd be pretty much screwed! Lovely. So let's pray that doesn't happen. I'm already missing a very important lab (according to the teacher) while we're gone so I can't afford to miss a test too. Ugh, joy! And here I thought I'd be just fine taking this class with the honeymoon and wedding and all.

We finally found some jewelry for me to wear at the wedding! It's really simple and a lot different than what I originally was going to do but it's more me, I'm not much of a jewelry person. Hope it looks okay because we don't have any time to try it on with the dress and find something else! So, even if I don't like it... oh well! I'm sure it'll look fine. I still need to decide how I'm going to do my hair too, what I originally planned on doing I'm not anymore (sound familiar?? LOL) because I would have to get hair extensions for that style and I just don't have the time or money to get them. So I just need to figure something else out. Even though it's going to be busy I really can't wait to see everyone! I don't think the family members who are able to come to the wedding really understand what it means to us. We are just so delighted! Counting down the days =)

Haylee is getting SO big. I probably say that every time I update about her, haha. She is just such a joy to be around. So happy and funny. She makes the silliest faces now (which I have a video that I'm going to attach). She's getting so beautiful. Every time I look at her I can't believe how we made such a beautiful little girl =) She is getting her 9th tooth. Well it hasn't broken through the skin yet but I can feel the pointy part coming. It's her first molar! I know those are painful but she's tough. She still only does the army crawl. Won't crawl on all fours yet. She gets into everything though moving around that way so she's just fine.

Well that's all I can think of right now so I'm going to go study for Micro. Enjoy the video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHBlAwiAjSo

the army crawl

Sorry I haven't updated in well... forever! I've been so busy between the wedding and starting school. Taking 4 classes is time consuming! But so far it's not been too bad. Of course it's only been a week! The wedding is in only 3 weeks and I'm freaking out. SO much to do before then and it's stressful of course. We've had a fun couple of weeks with Kimberly's birthday weekend this past weekend.

Haylee learned how to crawl!! She did one movement of the normal crawl then decided it was best to just do the army crawl. So that's what she does, all the time. She'll still get up on her knees, sometimes more one or both but doesn't move (she won't move her hands). But I am still very proud of her and she's getting so big! Here's a short video of her crawling... oh and a retarded person recording =) Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w43rrUJVto8