you can do it...

I want to start off by saying I am the worst blogger out of all my sisters. The only reason I am preparing this post right now is because I don't want to hear why I never post again (at least for a little while). My sister Lesley deleted me from her page for goodness sake because I hadn't done a post since February. Who deletes their sister from their blog?? Lesson learned sissy...

Where should I begin? Should I start with how sweet, innocent, intelligent and funny my little girl is or should I get into the temper tantrum fiesty little girl I have? I guess I will start with sweet. Haylee is so sweet. She always gives us kissies when you ask and she even makes the kiss noise (muah) when she gives them. Not as generous with hugs but thats okay. I will take whatever I can get... She is so innocent. I watch her learn new things every day and she gets so excited it makes me laugh. The smallest things intrigue her and I find it fascinating. Anything from finding a leaf on the ground to realizing that she can color on a piece of paper without eating the crayons.

Doesn't she look so sweet and innocent
in this picture? Picture taken by her
Auntie Lesley. Thanks Auntie!

Haylee is so smart. I know we all think our kids are smart, but I really think she is. She is a talker or shall I say mocking bird! Everything we say she says. I can't believe her vocabulary these days. She says things like mommy, dada, water, ba ba, halloween, poo poo, no (of course), pretty, tree, moon, and her latest... I love you! When I tell her I love you sometimes she says it back now and it seriously melts my heart. Jimmy and I are amazed at the things she can say. It is truly amazing how she has gone from a newborn that didn't do anything but eat, cry, sleep and poop to a walking, talking angel. When I tell her let's eat she runs to her highchair screaming EAT.. EAT.. and when I tell her let's change your diaper she runs to her bedroom yelling DIAPER.. DIAPER..

She has learned the art of tantrums. Within the last month she has realized that she can not only cry, but fall to the ground crying while kicking, waving her arms violently and scream all at the same time. The first time she did it Jimmy and I were staring at her and looking at eachother like what do we do? She has been so good for so long we didn't know how to calm our child down. We tried ignoring her and that didn't work so then I tried to help but instead got hit by her vigorous hands so we finally did what any sane parent would do. We tried to distract her by showing her everyone's Christmas lights. Getting her in the car was a little difficult but once we started driving and showed her lights is all she kept saying was lights, lights. So we drove and drove finding as many lights as we could. Let me tell you, these tantrums are so much fun.

Is all I have to say is my mom was a rock star. She took care of her husband and 6 children of which she had by the time she was 30 so we are close in age, and I don't remember her every really freaking out that bad. I do remember her always saying something about wanting to go on a vacation, and we would get all excited wondering where we were going, and then she would mumble something under her breathe about wanting a vacation away from kids, but who can blame her? I surely don't. I'm surprised she is still sane.

This picture is for you mom (for having to put up with
all of us)! This picture is also for Grandma Bea...
Happy Birthday Grandma!!! Picture taken by Auntie
Lesley. Thanks Auntie!!!

I think this post is long enough now. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!!

could i be the suckiest blogger ever...

So I know I totally suck and haven't posted anything in forever, but I thought this picture was so cute I had to post it. I am at work and don't have time to fill everyone in on how things are going, but in the meantime look at precious Haylee in her Halloween costume. She is a pirate... errr!! Isn't she the cutest pirate you've ever seen?

P.S. Better posts are on their way... hopefully sooner than later =)!

P.P.S. Don't mind the laundry basket in the background... I think that is its' permanent location.

what to do...

haylee's daddy decided to head to california today with his brother for a concert (iron madden) and he isn't coming home until tomorrow... this means i get to do everything all by myself. tonight won't really make a difference because i am the one that picks her up and i usually feed her and put her to bed, but tomorrow is going to be a different story.

haylee's daddy decided about a month ago that he would give her all of her morning bottles on the days i work which has been awesome!! i am in charge of diaper changes and diaper bag but he does the feeding so i don't have to get up that early and i love it! he also drops her off in the morning too which is also nice because if i had to do it i would be late! i am not a morning person at all! so not only do i have to feed her, get her ready, get the diaper bag ready but i also have to drop her off and still try to make it to work by 7:30am. i don't know what you are thinking but i am thinking being on time probably isn't going to happen???

all of this probably sounds like a piece of cake to the rest of you, but it is going to be somewhat challenging for me because i am not used to doing everything. i think i am going to give my honey some goodies when he gets back for realizing how much he helps with chubbs...

i love my babies!!!

where does the time go...

photo taken by haylee's auntie lesley

i can not believe it... my little tiny baby is 6 months old! where does the time go?? i still remember when she was kicking me 24/7 in my belly and now she is this beautiful, fiesty, attention havin baby.

in case you are wondering why i say "attention havin" i will explain what i mean. it seems like everytime i pick up haylee from nancy's (haylee's auntie and "nanny") she is always thriving for attention. if we try to talk at all she will start yelling and screaming to get our attention so i have to go pick her up and hold her so she can be included. the other day she was having one of her "i want your attention right now" moments, so nancy and i decided to play a game with her. nancy held her youngest (bella - 5 years old) right in front of haylee and was kissing and hugging on her saying this is my baby, and i am not joking, haylee was getting mad! it was so funny.

she has started babbling which is so much fun listening too. her new words are ba-ba-ba and da-da-da... when she wakes up in the morning she very quietly starts talking and it makes it so much more precious because she is talking so soft and sweet.

we got to spend tuesday with haylee's auntie kristy and cousins alexee, braiden and carter and we had so much fun!!! carter is getting so big! haylee had a great time growling and yelling. i think it was crackin up her auntie kristy. she let me know that i will probably have my hands full with haylee bean. i can't wait. everyday she shows us more and more of her personality. she is so special.

have i told you how much she loves her jumparoo?? thanks to her auntie kristy she gets to jump up and down and has the best time doing it! forget the exersaucer... she is all about her jumparoo! i have decided she likes anything rough (i think that is why she loves her daddy so much)... every morning (well it is pretty much all day) she loves to smack us in the face with her hands. it is her new thing she does. if we try to get up close she swats at us until she hits us and she gets this smirk like ha ha i got you!! i swear everyday i think how could i love this baby anymore, and then somehow i do. sometimes i think my heart is going to burst it is filled with so much love for chubbs and her daddy...

i finally finished my post! i have been working on this post since last friday. how sad am i? it is time to go so i shall end with happy valentines day... get naked and have fun! haylee did and she liked it!!

photo taken by haylee's auntie nancy

finally... i am officially part of the "club"

who is this you ask?? this is haylee lynn... she was born on august 9, 2007 at 11:16am. she was 7 lbs 5 ounces and 18 inches long. it has only taken me 5 months to set this up!! i think i am doing pretty good.

i don't even know where to start... maybe i'll just start from the beginning... well, labor sucked (and mine wasn't even that bad)! who ever would decide to have 6 must be insane... just kidding mom!! i hate hospitals so having to stay there from early thursday morning to saturday afternoon was too much. once we got home i think i was still a little medicated because i remember feeling confident about motherhood... ha ha ha.

the first month was a little rough (scratch that... it was really hard)! i don't remember being pregnant thinking "what if i have a hard baby"... i just remember thinking "oh my gosh, i am going to have a baby". was i in for a rude awakening or what? i look back now and realize i am pretty sure i was starving my baby... she just cried and cried and my doctor told me to only breastfeed every 2 hours no matter what. so that is what i did, and in between poor haylee would just cry. i'm sorry honey!! i don't think that was all of your frustration though. i am pretty sure you didn't know how to take this huge world when you were so used to your little apartment in my belly... you figured it out though and are so much happier now! it could also be because i started feeding you more too (i eventually gave up on breastfeeding after 1 month). it was for both our sanity...

after the first month it started getting easier. not easy, easier... i am now back to work (i went back after haylee was 3 1/2 months old). it wasn't fun but obviously i survived. i only work 4 days instead of 5 so at least i get more time with my haylee bean.

she has already starting rolling from her back to her stomach, but has only rolled from her stomach to back a few times. her new thing is when i put her down for a nap, she just rolls over on her belly and then cries because she gets stuck, so with each nap i probably go in 5 times to roll her back over and pray she finally goes to sleep. it's a great time!

she loves to talk, and make weird sounds with her mouth which is adorable. she also loves to stand. when i try to take her hands to put her to a sitting position she makes me let her come all the way up to a standing position and stands for a very long time. i think she is going to have her daddy's strength! that should be fun for me when she gets older... she loves her daddy's beard... just kidding! she pushes him away when he tries to give her all of his kisses because i think the beard hurts her cheeks. she loves him very much though.

she is such a happy baby. she is always smiling. as soon as she wakes up from naps she instantly smiles at us and it seriously melts my heart... she used to sleep the entire night until about 6:30am, but for about a week now she decided to wake up at 2am and roll on to her stomach and talk and talk and then start yelling because she is stuck. so me and daddy (shame on us) grab her and put her in between us because we are not about to get up with her at 2 in the morning. what is she, crazy??

that is all i can think of for now, and this post is getting way too long, and my sweet angel just woke up so i will end with "we love chubbs"...