One and a half years ago, our beautiful daughter was born! Wait, what??? How did time fly by so FAST???!!!??? We can't believe that today Hailee is 18 months old! She is growing up so fast! I always tell her to stay little for me, but she doesn't seem to be listening. Maybe one day I will get lucky and she will decide to stay little forever! =)
Some things about Hailee:
*She wears size 18-2T clothing. (She still wears some 12 month shirts too)
*She is about a 1/2 - 1 inch taller then all her friends who are about the same age as her.
*She loves her baby! We take her every where. When we go to any store, I let Hailee take her own baby stroller and she pushes her baby every where. (And I keep the back pack leash on her so I don't lose her) She also plays with her dolly like it is a real baby. She talks to her, puts diapers on her, feeds, washes and rocks her to sleep!
*She is loving to play in water so much more now! She loves to play in her little pool, in the spa, and with the hose.
*She gets so excited when ever she
sees a dog. She is a huge dog lover. Doesn't matter the size, she wants to play with it anyways!
*She still loves to be rocked to sleep for her naps and bedtime.
*She has to have silverware when she eats.
*Finally lets me brush and floss her teeth easily. No more pinning her down to get the brush in her mouth!
*Refuses to wear hair clips in her hair for a long period of time. And pony/pig tails? Forget about that! Hopefully she will let me do her hair again soon!
*Loves to play house, to have pretend tea parties/iron and fold all of her clothes on a daily basis
*Loves gardening with Grandma and Grandpa
*Not afraid of any loud noises! My Dad was jack hammering out side, and she wanted to be right there to watch everything!
*Loves to dance, play ring around the
rosies, go to the park, play with friends, play with family, and loves to play with all her toys.
*Loves to stand on the chair by the kitchen sink to help with dishes
*Loves to help clean
*Loves her cocoa bottles
*Loves being outside. If she could....we would be outside 24/7
*Loves to sit at the computer, pretend to type, talk on the phone and take notes all at the same time! She is so funny!
*Climbs up/on/over/under everything!
*Loves to sit on the big girl potty! Once we move and get settled in, I am going to tackle potty training with her! As soon as her diapers are wet, she lets us know, and she wants to sit on the potty! I'm hoping she will be easy for potty training!
*She is such a TOUGH girl! She can fall/get banged, bruised up/run into or off things and she doesn't cry! She jumps right up and continues on her way!
*She doesn't walk...she RUNS everywhere!
*She says so many words now! And when she isn't saying words we can understand, she is
jibber jabber talking all the time!
*She has such a tender/sweet heart. She gets concerned when she knows something is wrong.
*She loves to give us kisses and hugs, and to snuggle with us while we watch The Cat and The Hat with her.
*She is our piece of Heaven that we are blessed with to have in our lives everyday! We love you Hailee!
Memorial Day Weekend:We started the weekend off by going on a date...just Gregg and I! It has been
sooooooooo long since just the TWO of us have gone out...and it was so fun! We went to the Cheesecake Factory, and then to
Wal-mart!
lol. We were laughing as we were walking out of the store how much life has changed since being married and having a kid. We had such a good time eating slowly... not having to devour our food so we could play with Hailee...and being able to take our time in the store and actually being able to look in all the different sections on the store! Thanks Mom for watching Hailee!
From Thursday until today, we also were house sitting for our friends. It was fun! We
definitely got
alot of use out of their pool!
On Saturday, we went down to our house and started CLEANING!!!! Yeah!!! It was seriously SO much fun to clean!
lol. (Okay, well at first I was having a HARD time with it because we had bombed the house to kill all the spiders and bugs, and when I was cleaning, I ran into some DEAD black widows and STILL freaked!!! But once I got over it, I enjoyed cleaning!!)
Next step: Finish cleaning, paint, tile, carpet and then move in! Yeah!
On Monday, we spent the day with my family and had a great
BBQ and then went swimming! Gregg had to go to work that night, so he isn't in these swimming pictures. Bummer! We missed him but we were glad he was able to be there for the
BBQ!
We had such a great weekend!
We have so many projects going on right now for the house! It is so fun being a home owner already! We are so excited to finish everything and move in so we can call it our "home"! Thank you to Mom, Dad (Grandma / Grandpa) Kipper and Sarah and Dave and Cheryl (Grandpa and Grandma Hardy) for all your hard work, babysitting of Hailee and our furniture! We love and appreciate all you guys do for us. Thank you so much.
Starting to paint the downstairs:
Hailee's Room:
Next step: Cut and install chair rail on her walls.
Master Bath Tile:
Painting our bedroom!
