Ready, set, crawl!

Okay... she is at the "ready, set" stage but hasn't quite figured out how to move forward. Hailey gets up on her hands and knees and rocks back and forth, at least until she face plants from pushing too far forward with her legs.



"how do I move these hands Mommy?"

We also had a fun visit with Grandma and Katie on family day and my brother came out for a couple days of his reading week. Hailey will now smile at him and play but heaven forbid Uncle David should pick her up. We are working on it!



We all seem to be recovering from colds (thankfully); Hailey has her two bottom front teeth in (I'm still trying to get a picture of it) and we are heading back to Edmonton this weekend to give Ian peace and quiet while he completes his project and studies for his Saskatchewan Land Surveyor exams which are coming VERY soon.

Lucky girl!

Good thing this little girl is cute! It is what protects her from a very cranky Mom who is so far beyond exhausted. I thought sleeping through the night was supposed to happen once they got older. Hailey is worse now than she ever was waking up EVERY 3 hrs or less. Think about how you might feel after 6 months of no more than 6 hrs of sleep in a row. How can I get this baby to sleep through the night?!? PLEASE HELP!

I just can't get enough!

This little girl is the sweetest part of my day! Maybe not so much my night... but definitely my day. She is moving around quite a bit with her rolling, squirming and scooting and talks fairly constantly. She has started to love making noises with objects and now chews on her tongue. Her first tooth just popped through yesterday (THANK HEAVEN) but the next is only a couple days away too. Teething is not fun. She is laughing so much and I will never be able to get enough of that sweet smile!

I love my drama queen!

Um.... who's child is this?

I think I took home the wrong baby! As if Ian and I could create such a stubborn drama queen! I mean honestly.... where did my quiet, agreeable baby go?

Oh wait a second... that was a dream. Right...

Here are some recent pics of the crazy girl who is trying to cut 2-4 teeth at the same time... not so sure yet as they keep going up and down but she is MISERABLE. Oh and remember when I complained about Hailey getting up once or twice in the night? Well now it is 3-4 times. Gotta figure out how to cure this new bad habit. Hailey has also started to pull up on her knees with her bum in the air. She tries to crawl and reach things but just ends up pushing herself further backwards. It is pretty cute though as she is all over the floor now.



Grandma and Hailey



Ha ha, I love this pic. I know you can't see Hailey's face but she is enjoying it... and so is Daddy!



Squishy family



I love toques. I will be sad when winter is over.



Hailey's friend Olivia!

Baby Legs

What can I say except for "TOO CUTE"! I know she is my daughter and I am a little biased but I just can't get enough of her in these little leg warmers. It almost makes up for the fact that I spent the entire duration of church in the hallway with a screaming, teething baby (except for my 15 min talk when Ian had her in the hall).

Simplify

I'm a talker... I know! My resolution for this year is to listen more and talk less. As a result my blogs will be slightly less.....'wordy' than in the past. I'm going to post more pictures with less talk so I hope you enjoy the 'quick' updates.

Made French Onion soup tonight for dinner!

Bought and built this for Hailey today. She seems to love it already!

Some more pics of our hilarious baby! She has so many expressions. It cracks me up!

Tonight I was invited to attend the YW New Beginnings program (being the former YW Pres). They introduced the new Personal Progress Program and invited the mothers to do the program with their daughters. I know Hailey isn't quite at that age yet but I have decided to do the program again!

I have been feeling that the spiritual side of things has been missing in my life and I think this will solve that problem. I'm looking forward to serving, learning and growing closer to my Savior.

Such a slacker...

I need to post more... I like to think that I am busy, but really I'm not, unless busy includes enjoying Hailey as much as possible, reading books and sleeping?!? Does that count as busy? Whatever the case I am having a blast with my hilarious little girl. The other day she laughed about something and it made me laugh... and then she started laughing at my laughing and it went on for a good 5 minutes. It was SO freaking cute. I wish those things could be documented! Maybe I should get a tv show like Jon and Kate so that I have people filming my EVERY move so nothing is missed with Hailey. Hmmmm, I would rather keep my family together though ;)

I got a gift card from my SIL for Christmas (which was actually really funny cause we got each other the same thing - even the EXACT same gift card). So I was super excited, left Hailey with Ian and went to the book store (it is truly tragic that there is no Chapters here - reason enough to move away from Lloyd ;). I got (and have read already) The Choice by Nicolas Sparks (author of the notebook, walk to remember, ect). It was a cute, sappy love story (yes I cried). I'm in the middle of Eragon (saw the movie and thought I'd read the book) and Ian stole my copy of The Blind Side which I will get to before the week is up. Anywho... I'm already looking for new books to read so RECOMMENDATIONS are needed. I'm a big fan of series' as they keep you hooked for longer than a couple days so please let me know what you like!

Anywho.... besides the fun times of napping whenever I want (of course dependent on Hailey) I started a project of making my own soother clips. I was dang tired of Hailey spitting them out everytime I walk down the stairs to my basement. It was always in the same spot too. I think she planned it!

Here is a pic of the first few I made... I secretly want to make a million of these and sell them and become wealthy but I don't think I could get the sales here :)

Also some pics of our growing girl who melts my heart.