I know its been awhile, SORRY!!!

Hayleigh Marie...what do I have to say about her this time......she is one busy girl!!!!! We've been outside enjoying the river as much as the weather will allow, with many pontoon rides. She loves the pontoon!!! On the pontoon she is able to walk around, visit with everyone, throw her toys overboard, and eat what anyone has out and is snacking on. And on occasion she will take her nap if its naptime, Thanks Grandpa (see below).

On the move decribes this child to a T!!! If she is awake she is moving and playing etc....

Ohhh our Hayleigh Marie she is our life!!! She is crazy and wild but we couldn't imagine our life without her!!! I know I've said it a million times but this little girl has SOOO many people that LOVE her and have to get their Hayleigh fix whenever they see her. For the most part she soaks it all in and loves them all right back!!!

"I'm a little stinker!!!!!"

Oh what a stinker of a toddler we have these days!! Don't get me wrong we love her to death and enjoy every minute of her(well most of them) She loves to climb, run, scream, throw toys, and sometimes hit our friends. Oh what fun!! Let me tell ya, I'm pretty sure if you live within a couple miles of our house and both our windows are open you can hear this child scream its that loud. It so gets to me!!! Sometimes i so do the "wrong" thing and scream back at her many times a day. And yes sometimes she gets put in her little chair in her room, that she can't really get out of, for a "time out".
**Running away back to the house and looking back every couple of steps to see if mommy was looking.

She loves the sandbox.... throwing the sand by the shovel full, flinging it at the other kids, and filling the pales!!

I had to throw in a "not naughty" picture! She loves her bath time! She does have many other good moments too!!

This is the little stinkers new place to climb. She climbs onto her little blanket chest about a hundred times a day, sometimes she can get back down and sometimes she will sit there and wait for someone to get her done (and sometimes scream, her sign that she needs help)

Hayleigh is starting to say more and more everyday. She is so cute when she tries to say everyone's name. I don't have a picture but I say to myself many times a day "that is so cute" when she goes and gets a book and plops her bottom down on the floor and looks and looks through a book. She is so into it.

River Fun!!!!!

As a lot of you know, we spend a lot of time down by/on the river in the summer. With the lovely rain we have received plenty of, it has limited our start down there but the majority of the last few weekends have been spent on the river. Hayleigh is at the age (as you can see from the one picture)where she is running everywhere, this includes towards the river(where the other kids are swimming) or towards the firepit. Dave and I, along with all our friends, are always on consistent supervision of little miss Hayleigh!!!

She loves going on the pontoon expecially cause she can walk around and look out, we recently found this swimsuit with the floating device right in it. She likes this a lot better then the regular life jacket. It looks really silly but it works!! Most likely when we go on the speed boats she will wear her regular life jacket.

"Hi, I'm fifeteen months old today and my mommy put me in this silly suit!!!" Yep thats right, I swear our baby girl just turned one now here it is 3 mths later already. She is such a little joy but a stinker at the same time!!

Hayleigh is getting quiet the vocab let me tell ya. This is what I hear on a daily basis and about 100 times each!! She says.....

Buppy (cuppy)

Puppy or roof roof (for the dog or any dog she hears)

Mommeeeeeee or ma ma

Daddie

Ylie (Kylie)

baby

owie (all day long, everytime she falls)

ah ah ahhhhhhhh (when someone is near her or she doesn't like something or is mad at a toy)

Crawzy (this is a new one thanks to a good friend and Hayleigh adopted G-ma Nita)

When you ask her to repeat something she concentrates really hard on your lips and listens!! Its kinda cute! She also knows where her eyes,nose, and sometimes ears are. She blinks her eyes for eyes and sticks her finger up her nose to show you her nose. What can I say at least she knows where they are right!!!

I love my DADDY!!!

I know Father's Day has come and gone and this post is a little late but oh well!! Like i did on Mother's Day I'm going to post two pictures one of Hayleigh and her daddy from last year and one from this year. Last years picture was actually taken at the end of June because apparently the only Fathers Day picture I have of these two was when they took one at Cabellas when we went last year. Then the second picture is at Papas' and Nana's house on Fathers Day, we had a cookout!!

Hayleigh loves her daddy a lot!! He always says "oh she is such a mommies girl she never wants to come to me" which is true at times plus she is with me all day long. But you should see her when daddy gets home at night from work, she basically runs to him and raises her arms and is ALL smiles and giggles!! Its the cutest thing ever!! She she says, "Daddeeeee", even though sometimes he is mommie or ma ma too.

If I have time later I plan to post another entry with pictures of what Hayleigh has been up to lately!!

I FAILED!! But a few great pics to catch up on!!

This is Miss Hayleigh Marie a lot lately, fingers in her mouth. She has been getting the "devil" teeth in since forever!!! These are really called the eye teeth. Hayleigh hasn't really had any issues with her first 12 teeth that she got from 3month of age to 10months of age, not eve her 1 year molars that she got at 10 mths. But these teeth are a different story!!
Anyways onto happier moments ..... when its nice we are outside playing !! This past weekend we had my brother John's wedding to go to and be in too!! Hayleigh was so cute!! She even was walking up the isle holding onto my hand until her shoe came off and I decided to carry her instead of stopping and fixing her shoe. Then she went and sat with daddy while the wedding was going on. She danced the night away at the reception and was ni ni by 11pm (naps were a
little off so that is why the late night for her). She had a blast though!!


She had her first haircut/hair trimming last week!! She did very good, wasn't to sure about he cape though!

Day 3...we got outside today!!

Playing Outside is SO SO much fun!!!

Well this afternoon it finally warmed up a little, so the girls and I went outside to play and took a little walk. Then when the Krugs left, Hayleigh and I continued our walk and then took a Kubota ride up the road to check out the cows. Did I mention she loves to be outside!! Especially with the devil teeth that are coming in, she is much happier.

The last picture is off Hayleigh getting the hang of walking and pushing her popper!! She was pretty proud of herself!!

June 2nd- What is Hayleigh up to today????

Nap time, isn't it GREAT!!!! Well the past week or so she has been very attatched to her babies!! This baby that she is sleeping with goes a lot of places with her/us, she loves her!! She seems to fall asleep a lot faster at night when she has her baby to hold onto, its very very cute!! When she wakes up in the morning I swear she looks all around for it and notices it as soon as we walk out of her room. No I don't let her sleep with it because when you squeeze its tummy it say, "I love you", and then makes the kissing sound and I don't want that waking my child up in the middle of the night. I heard it go off once in the the middle of nap, but it didn't wake. Then again neither did her shelf that fell partly off her wall and all the stuff went sliding off of it.

Well that is all for today!!

June 1st- The first day of my new blogging idea

Today is the first day of my new blogging idea.....instead of bloggin every week (ok so it hasn't been that often lately) i'm going to try to add a couple pics each day for the summer with a short entry about Hayleigh's day. This of course all depends on my time at night or early in the morning when I really have time to be on the computer for more then a couple seconds.


This has been Hayleigh Marie's mood the past few days.... crabby and very clingy to her mama and da da. Well we are both mama most of the time, as long as one of us picks her up. She has an eye tooth about to poke thru, I swear these eye teeth are the devil and like to take forever to come thru.

This is a mommy's best friend, Tylenol. I know not the best toy in the world but she loves to chew on the top of the bottle. And at this point if it keeps her happy for a few minutes, then I'm going to let her chew on it!!!

Lately I have been letting her experiment with a fork when she eats to see how she does. She still needs lots of help but loves to take the fork from me after I put food on it and feed herself and try to get food on the fork.

They start way to young don't they!!! We got a new home phone (actually its a cell phone) so I let Hayleigh play with the old ones for a little bit. She is so funny!! She puts it up to her ear and says, "Yeah yeah."

She is walking and loving the wonderful weather!!!

Well she is finally walking!! She started probably about a week ago really going at it. Before that she would take a few steps and go to crawling. Don't get me wrong she still crawls all over the place, but she will take off and just start walking on her own. She does very well, not a pro yet but does good!! When she is walking outside and loses her balance and falls she starts to crawl but its on either rougher concrete or gravel, so her poor little knees. Now she will either get up or do the bear crawl , using her arms and legs and butt in the air. Its kinda funny!!!

Hayleigh, the kids I babysitt, and myself have been enjoying this wonderful weather we have had this week by playing outside a lot!! We go out in the am for a bit, come in each lunch and nap, and then back out in the afternoon. Plus sometimes Hayleigh and I will come back inside and I will feed her supper after all the kids leave and then back outside we go. I've told you several times this child loves to be outside. Now she has tried to eat numerous rocks and has eaten some sand/dirt and seeds from the trees. She won't stop.

Happy Mother's Day

I love to look back at pictures and see how time can change us all. Well here Hayleigh and I were on my 1st Mothers Day (about 1 mth old) and then here we are now (almost 13mths old). I have to say I think I look a little better in the second picture. Of course Hayleigh was and still is the most beutiful baby that we could have ever been blessed with!! I had a pretty good Mother's Day. I got up and went to church with my mom and grandma and then met the fam for breakfast and then we came home for a little bit and relaxed and played outside. Then we went to nana and papa's house for a cookout and enjoyed more outside time. It was a nice relaxing day!! But I really think us mommies (and Mr. Moms) should have a day once a month!!

I hope all mommies out there had a wonderful day!!!

Our Weekend

Happy Birthday to Hayleigh's cousin Coehen, he is 2 today, but we had his bday party yesterday. What a beutiful day it was. We didn't really do much on Saturday. Hayleigh and I went to Dekalb with Karshon and her girls to Gabbi's therapy and I did my grocery run while that was happening. Then Dave and I enjoyed a couple hours out on the town while Hayleigh was at Grandma Sharon's and Grandpa Tom's house. We were literally out for 2 hours and on our way to get Hayleigh my mom called and said that Hayleigh just fell asleep a little bit ago go ahead and leave her, Ok will do!!! Gotta love those grandparents!! We got up and I went to get her around 8 or so and Dave started cooking b-fast. We kinda bummed around the house and did a few things here and then went to the party.

Hayleigh enjoyed playing outside, with the rocks of course, and her Uncle Jason!!

She really enjoyed the wagon rides by mommy with her Coehen and Cylee (below). She kept trying to touch Cylee and kiss her and hug her. She loves her babies!!!

She isn't really sure about her Uncle John though. He loves to hold her and play with her!!! Only for a little bit then he has to put her down he says because she is heavy, not my baby!!LOL!!!

She was quiet funny on this tractor. As you see my mom was close behind her because she kept going backwards and sliding off the seat!! When she would go forwards she basically picked the thing up and walked with it!!

That was about the extent of our weekend!! Of course this weekend is busy!!!

A busy Little Girl!!!

Hayleigh is a busy little girl!! She is always on the move, still not walking yet but on major cruise control and not slowing down for no one!!!! If you take her hands or hand she will walk with you all over the place. She will take 2 to 4 steps by herself and is getting so close but just doesn't want anything to do with it right now. I guess she will get there.

Yep here she is again riding in the Kubota!!! She loves to ride in this thing. I usually have her in a car seat but we just went around the driveway and as you can see she does have a seat belt on and we go like 5mph. She just sits and looks around and smiles.

At this point in my day it was getting close to the kids going home and one was screaming because she was mad at me, so I went out the door and screamed myself (not really, I just wanted fresh air) Hayleigh kept looking out the door at me like hello mom come and get me and take me outside.

Hayleigh was having lots of fun with daddy tonight. She would giggle and giggle, too cute!!

Then he kept putting his hat on her and she usually loves that but not at this point of the evening, it was bed time. And speaking of bed time and naptime today, she put herself to sleep in her crib. She kept fighting me at naptime and daddy at bedtime so off she went to her crib. I bet it wasn't 5 minutes both times and she was out like a light. Another sign that my/our baby girl is getting big. Now I know this could be just a fluke and that its also a good thing if she can put herself to sleep.

This was when Hayleigh had had enough playing!!!

Aren't we SOOO cute!! I even dressed us alike today, if you can see our shirts.


Look at our big girl!!!

Oh and we still love our roof roof!!!!! Even though lately they are separated because she will pounce on him like a mad cat and flip over top of him. Its really funny but Rex is 14 and even though we don't think he will do anything , you never no about an older dog. Last night Rex was on his couch/bed and she went over to him and just laid her head by his and tried to give him several open mouth kisses, it was quiet adorable.

Oh poor Kaitlyn, she is adored by my child!!! Sometimes she likes her a little too much. As you can see she is trying to sit on her lap and Kaitlyn is a whole 15-16lbs maybe and Hayleigh is 24lbs. Hayleigh loves her baby dolls too. When she sees one, real or fake, she says daddy daddy in a sweet little voice. That is right it sounds like daddy but she is looking at a baby. It took us forever to figure this out!!