Hayleigh Marie and Macauley Irene

All Signed Up!!!

2011-03-07T14:23:00.000-08:00

Where did my baby girl go???? We ventured into town today to sign her up for preschool, she will start in the fall. She really thought she was going to go today and see her new friends I told her she would be meeting and the teacher she HAS to listen to. She was not very happy when we came back home. I know she will have a blast and will learn so much. She already thinks she knows a lot and she is a pretty smart little girl. Structure and listening and sitting still are the main things she needs to work on there!!!! Good luck to the teachers !!
We love our crazy, wild, never ending energy little girl =)

New bath time fun!!

2011-03-07T13:58:00.000-08:00

I decided since Macauley can sit up now and she is about to outgrow her baby tub =( that she can start bathing with her sister. Of course I have to be right by their sides the whole time until I get a seat that Macauley can sit in and not fall out of. Macauley loves being in the big tub and splashing. Hayleigh enjoys spraying water on her or pouring water on her belly and Macauley will just giggle and smile at her.

Weekly Recap in Pictures (24th to 30th)

2011-02-02T15:00:00.000-08:00

Hayleigh LOVES her cousin Colten so this past Sunday we went to watch him wrestle. She thought it was pretty neat to be able to sit by Uncle Jason and help him coach. She was yelling "get off him" and believe it or not this child was pretty good and we were there for 3 hours!
Macers just played and chewed on things , she wasn't to into it =)

Bis Sis shared her penguin with Macers.

Hayleigh is a bottomless pit lately and I mean she asks for something to eat or drink about every 1/2 hour I swear! She is helping me eat pretzels and dip here.

Our Big 6 month old Baby girl!!! I can't believe it. She is sitting up like a champ now!! I love this point because she can sit and play with toys for a while while I try to get some things done.

Hayleigh sitting still for a few minutes to read a book.

Snuggle time with little sis!

Hayleigh loves to color on her easil. She makes many H's on it!

Just Macers being cute=)

2011-01-26T18:49:00.000-08:00

GO PACK GO , GO PACK GO!!!! They are sisters and love each other to death but today they are divided LOL. One in green and gold and one in orange and blue, one for mom's team and one for dad's team!!!

This picture was taken at the same time , but we are going to pretend it was taken after........... THE VICTORY OF THE GREEN AND GOLD!!!!!!!!!!! THE PACK ARE GOING TO THE SUPERBOWL =)

Jan 21st

2011-01-26T18:35:00.000-08:00

This is a typical spot for Hayleigh, watching her Dora on our extra laptop. She loves her Dora =) She does play too and plays much better while watching her shows in her room instead of laying in our bed watching tv. Lately Ive been trying to limit her tv and make her play more.

Well Hi there Macers!!! She is begin such a good girl and playing with her toys. I think she was trying to tell me with this look to stop with the camera already.

January 20th

2011-01-26T18:21:00.000-08:00

Look how flippen cute this little girl is!!! I actually didn't take a picture of Macers today. So its all about Hay day. Wait what day isn't (according to her lol)

January 18 and 19th

2011-01-25T18:40:00.000-08:00

(Jan 19th pics above)
The top picture is a picture of Hayleigh's new big girl hair cut. Doesn't she look so cute!!! We had to do something with her hair. I was tired of holding her down, literally, and trying to comb thru her hair with her kicking and screaming at the top of her lungs. I guess this is pay back from when i was little. Then we have a sister pic!! Hayleigh loves holding her sis (and torturing her too)

Macauley Irene= 25 weeks old

JANUARY 17TH

2011-01-25T18:26:00.000-08:00

Hayleigh had SNOOOOW much fun playing outside today in the snow with daddy =) They shoveled, she climbed "mountains", she ate some snow, and they started building a snow man. Hayleigh doesn't have the biggest attention span you see!

This is our CRAZY girl. She loves to put her belly on my feet and then I lift her into the air!! She giggles and laughs and wants to do it again and again =)

Macer Doodle Bug...... just sitting up playing like a big girl. She is getting stronger and stronger day by day sitting up by herself!!!

January 16th pics

2011-01-25T18:13:00.000-08:00

Macers thinks she is a big shot now and wants to sit up in her tub. She is getting so big tooo fast!! Of course, Big Sis though she had to help give her a bath =)

January 15th and 16th Pics of the day

2011-01-18T15:33:00.000-08:00

Yes Yes I did miss a day, sorry was down with a touch of the stomach flu... not fun and not much rest either with Hayleigh and Macauley around !!
This is what happens when Macers gets tired of tummy time, she just lays her head down.

Princess Hayleigh =) (sometimes) She was looking for the pink castle to go to in her pink princess outfit

January 12 and 13th Pics of the Day

2011-01-18T14:27:00.000-08:00

Hayleigh was very interested in watching the squirrels jump through the snow and chase each other up the tress. She even said, "I better help them find their nuts"
This picture of Macauley is very typical of her lately, fingers in her mouth!! I think she is really working on some teeth, none yet but always chewing and drooling =)

(1-13-2011)

(1-12-2011)

Hayleigh does love her little sister very much and tells her almost everyday she is her best friend, then turns around and throws her toy that she is playing with and says, "You'll never find it now" (yeah that is what Swipper says on Dora)
Macauley is starting to enjoy tummy time a little more since she knows hows to roll over and roll back over but still doesn't' last for long

January 11th Pics of the Day

2011-01-18T12:28:00.000-08:00

Our silly Macers and her sweet potato face =)

Hayleigh copied my H, mine is the one on the left and she did the one on the right. Most of the time if u point to a H, J, or D she will tell you what they are. H for Hayleigh of course and J for Jodi and D for daddy/dave. We are working on M for Macauley.

January 10th

2011-01-11T08:20:00.000-08:00

Hayleigh had many friends to play with today (yesterday). The little girl i watch, Leah, was back yesterday and her cousins were over again. I miss daycare seeing this picture and watching them all eat as a group!!

I tell ya I LOVE sleep pics!!! Doesn't she look so warm and cozy and peaceful =) Only if I could get her sister to nap and look so cute like this LOL

Jan 9th pics of the day

2011-01-10T17:44:00.000-08:00

Well I didn't get any pictures from Saturday so double the pics today!(Sunday's)

My niece and nephew were over to play for a few hours today while their mommy and daddy did some work. Hayleigh loves to play with them and they do just that.... play and play and play!! They played dress-up (even Coehen, sorry JOhn), colored, cooked, watched Dora/Diego, ran around, jumped around, etc etc.....

Isn't this the most adorable face =)

Our mornings, especially weekend mornings are pretty laid back and lazy!!! Hayleigh loves to eat a banana for breakfast most days. She has to peel it too! Here is silly little Macers trying to get out of the Bumbo seat by arching her back, little turd!!

Jan 7th pics of the day

2011-01-10T17:21:00.001-08:00

Alright so I didn't do very well this past weekend with pictures. I basically missed Saturday but got a Friday and Sunday. So I think from no on I'm going to aim to get a few that sums up the girls weekend.

We ran up to Dave's bosses house to watch one of the college football games Friday night and have some pizza. Hayleigh loves to play with their daughter Ella and most of the time Ella enjoys her LOL. This picture is from when we got home that evening and it was past her bedtime but she thought she needed to take her baby for a walk (actually a run) from one end of the house to the other. She even got her purse to take along. This girl is something!

This is just another picture of Macer doodle in her usual position.... getting ready to eat or just getting done. She is such a ham and hasn't the cutiest smile and chubby cheeks!!

jan. 6th pics of the day

2011-01-07T15:00:00.000-08:00

Hayleigh insisted on wearing her ruby red shoes today!! She calls them her Halloween shoes cause that is what she wore with her Dorthy costume of course

Oh poor Macers , getting entertained by her sister yet again. You can guess what she is thinking!

January 5th, 2011 Pics of the Day

2011-01-06T08:51:00.000-08:00

Macauley is really starting to master the sitting up thing. She does good then all of a sudden she starts to slump forward and her belly gets in her way LOL =)

Oh Hayleigh monster.... she was hiding from mommy but I found her!!!

January 4th pics of the day

2011-01-04T17:44:00.000-08:00

Macers isn't too fond of tummy time but here she was enjoying it a little!!

Hayleigh made this with the stickers I gave her this morning. She told me it was a square, pretty good!! Yes its on the carpet!!!

1-3-2011 Pics of the Day

2011-01-03T17:57:00.000-08:00

Macauley loves to sit up like a big girl in the recliner and play with her toys. Gotta love the drool chin too LOL.

Hayleigh got Mr. Potato Head from her G-Nita and she has played with it several times each day since she got it this past Friday.

January 2nd, 2011

2011-01-03T14:14:00.000-08:00

I just love pictures of the girls sleeping!!! Hayleigh was so busy pushing her dora around in the stroller, then all of a sudden she was done and went to lay down at watch tv. That didn't last long, she was out by 8:15 (yeah thats early for her)

Macers is SOOOO good about being laid in her bed and tucked in and falling asleep on her own. She doesn't really like to be rocked to sleep. Sometimes she likes to watch a little tv too while going ni night LOL. If its much past 7:30pm and she is still awake it must be because she took a later cat nap cause once that time hits u can tell she is ready to go to bed!! I wish her sister was that easy!

January 1, 2011

2011-01-03T07:25:00.000-08:00

My New Years Resolution!!!! To take at least one picture a day of each girl and journal about it =) So far so good, now if I can get this blog to cooperate with me!!
JANUARY 1ST, 2011

HAYLEIGH MARIE HEUERMAN

Oh Hayleigh our wild, crazy, oh so full of energy little girl!!! This girl is always on the go... I like to call her the Energizer Bunny!!! She is one smart girl (and i'm not bragging) but sometimes to smart for her own good!! Some of the things that come out of her mouth .... Hayleigh loves to play with all her toys... babies, pegs, beads, play dough, books, ball, etc..... And one of her favorite food is ICE CREAM!!

MACAULEY=)
Macauley is our precious little baby, she was born on July 27th, 2010. After battling a yucky virus at 7weeks old that put her in the hospital for 5 days (no fun by the way) and getting her formula figured out (milk allergy) she has finally gained some weight over the past couple months!!! She is thinking about rolling over and does pretty good at sitting up with your help and on her own. For the most part she is a pretty happy baby, if u wait to long to feed her she gets a little mad then!
Here are her pics of the day.....

MACAULEY IRENE HEUERMAN

I know its been awhile, SORRY!!!

2009-09-13T07:34:00.000-07:00

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!!!!!"

2009-08-03T17:52:00.000-07:00

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!!!!!

2009-07-14T08:03:00.000-07:00

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!!!

2009-06-26T05:11:00.001-07:00

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!!

2009-06-16T12:27:00.000-07:00

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!!

2009-06-03T19:11:00.000-07:00

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????

2009-06-02T18:23:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-01T17:33:00.000-07:00

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!!!

2009-05-21T18:34:00.000-07:00

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

2009-05-12T07:54:00.000-07:00

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

2009-05-04T19:02:00.000-07:00

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!!!

2009-04-30T18:38:00.000-07:00

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!!

Hayleigh's 1st time at a park!!!

2009-04-22T05:31:00.000-07:00

Last Friday Hayleigh and I took a trip into the park to have lunch and to play with some friends. We had very beutiful weather too!! This was actually Hayleigh's first time to a park. She played with her BFFs'... Gabbi, Ali, Brenna, Kylie and Kaitlyn. Hayleigh and Gabbi went down the slide and played in the grass together. She had a lot of fun being outside. Hayleigh did take one step on her own in the grass then lost her balance and hasn't wanted to try since, being a little stubborn I think!!

I decided to take Hayleigh down the tube slide, what fun!!

Brenna had on a pretty cool shirt I guess or thats what Hayleigh and Gabbi thought. They both like Brenn a lot and Brenna loves them too!! My friend Karshon actually watches Brenna and I'm her backup , so with Gabbi's therapy Brenna is at my house once a week.

DOUBLE TROUBLE HERE!!!

Our Baby Girl is The Big 1 Years Old

2009-04-12T17:21:00.000-07:00

Well this past Saturday was Hayleigh's 1st birthday party!! It of course was mommy's birthday too but it was all about our baby that day!! She enjoyed her mommy's cupcakes A LOT. She just about dove out of her high chair to get to them. Once they were in her position she went to town. I took them out of the dish I had them in and she was able to get at them much better and smash them in her face more too. It was very cute and quiet funny to watch her. This duck sings If Your Happy and You Know it.... and dances at the same time. Hayleigh loved it. Once we got it home though she wasn't quiet sure of the duck. Her great aunt and great grandma got it for her. This was among many spring/summer clothes that are colorfully filling her closet. She receive some money, a water table, sandbox, and a couple of baby dolls and toys. We had a great turn out!!!

This was her birthday party outfit, isn't she such a cutie!!! She wasn't quite sure why all her favorite people were in one spot at the same time.
I went ahead and made a few dozen cupcakes and made them into my own design instead of spending money on a big old cake. I though I did a pretty good job. Everyone seemed to love them. The frosting was make with Kool-aid instead of food coloring so it added a sweet little twist.

As I have said many times before here on this old blog of mine or on facebook, where has time gone. It seriously doesn't seem like its been a year. We couldn't imagine our lives without her of course and don't remember what our lives were like before her. I don't remember when I was able to take a shower that last longer then 2 minutes, or that getting boogers wiped all over me was so disgusting, or a time I didn't stick out my hand to catch spit-up or puke, etc.... Thank you to everyone who had a hand or say in Hayleigh's first year, IT WAS A GREAT ONE!!!

Love to all,

Dave, Jodi, and Hayleigh

Picture Day....

2009-04-03T06:45:00.000-07:00

Picture Day wasn't so fun this time!!! Hayleigh didn't really think she needed her picture taken I guess. She was a little stinker and didn't want to cooperate at all. Aunt Heidi still managed to get a few very cute pictures. Sorry some are so small, I think its the way they were edited??? I can't believe these are her 1 year pictures and now its down to once a year for "professional" pictures, not every 3mths or so=( Makes me very sad!! Of course I take plenty on a daily basis!! I am in the process of trying to finish her scrapbook because I really want to have it done for her party next saturday (the 11th) and I still have two months of pictures to go!! I can do it, Ican do it!!!

Oh she loved the cupcake, good sign for her birthday!!!

My Favorite!!!

Time to catch up on our little Punkers!!

2009-03-26T18:23:00.000-07:00

First of all since Monday she has had a little flu bug that bit her, ha ha, ok not really. She is finally getting back to herself today. I hate seeing her sick and whiny!!! She is slowly getting back to eating and maybe tomorrow we will try some milk again. But this has given me an easy way to get rid of the bottle because she has been on water, very diluted juice, or pedilite(which she doesn't really like) in a cup and she hasn't had the bottle much at all. We were down to just a night time bottle anyways. And she hasn't napped in her swing in almost 2 wks, minus a couple times this week cause she has been sick. So another thing checked off my list. I don't like checking these things off this kind of list because that means she is getting way to big. Two weeks from Sunday and she is 1 year old=( , but we are having a big shin dig to celebrate!!!

I just wanted everyone to see how much our "little piggers" eats. It may not seem like that much to some but to us it is. If she doesn't eat "big people food" then she eats a whole toddler meal and some extra fruit and veggies. She does love her veggies and fruit, which is good.

On Sunday we enjoyed a nice family ride on the Kubota, first daddy took Hayleigh for a "nap"ride. What is that you ask, its when its time for a nap and the Kubota does great at putting her to sleep!! We went to a friend's woods where they were cleaning up some trees and fence lines and had a little fire. Do you remember is was kinda windy that day, yep you guessed it the fire spread pretty fast on that dry grass/woods. It was all put under control quickly!! Hayleigh played with some friends and took a nap in the back of the Kubota for awhile and mom and dad talked.

These pictures are of Hayleigh throwing one of her fits. She does quiet well at them. The arms flail in the air, she arches her back, and she sceams and kicks. At 11mths old she is full of attitude!! Dave and I both think she is going to be a little meany!! She is also hitting/slapping us or at us now. Well she does it to just about anyone really. She scrunches her forehead and gets this look like she is really mad and the hand goes a swatting. We tell her no over and over again but she doens't listen, most of the time it makes her more mad.

I hope everyone is enjoying the blog the same way I am enjoying typing it!!! I love to share with everyone how our little girl is growing up!! Until next time....

Things that Hayleigh loves to do....

2009-03-23T18:38:00.000-07:00

Hayleigh loves bothering the dog, no matter how much we tell her no, she does it anyways. Ya see Rex is 14 years old and with an older dog you never know what they will do when a child is pounding on them and pulling on their collar. Hayleigh is in love with Rex right now for some reason. She talks to him and laughs and giggles at him. It's rather cute.

Hayleigh has also enjoyed brushing her teeth. Mommy makes the first brushing, then I had the brush to her and she basically chews on it and we sing "This is the Way We Brush our Teeth.....". She finds that kinda funny.
Stay turned for another round of "Hayleigh's favorites".....

I DON'T THINK SHE CAN GET ANY CUTER!!!

2009-03-17T18:54:00.000-07:00

Ok, so my pictures never end up where I would like them to go, so the stories and the pictures are not in order!!

Happy St. Patty's Day!!

We enjoyed

another beutiful day outside. I strapped Hayleigh in her carseat and strapped her into the Kubota, because it was nappy time, for a ride with dad. Dave took her for a little ride around the yard picking up sticks and that didn't wo

rk so onto the road he went and she came back asleep!! Good work dad!! Hayleigh and I both wore our green today and I tried to get a good picture of us. The other night I was typing away and heard Hayleigh whining and I turned around to see that she had fallen in her toybox. It was quiet funny and I hurried to grab a picture!! She didn't think it was quiet so funny. Last but not least, Hayleigh loves bathtime, from the time she gets all undressed to the time she gets out of the tub she is full of smiles!!

Spring, is it really you???

2009-03-16T18:48:00.000-07:00

Ahhh, what a beautiful day it was today. Can it please stay this way?? The kids and I enjoyed a couple hours outside today. Hayleigh, Kaitlyn, and I enjoyed a short walk while Kylie was napping (and under Dave's watchful eye). Hayleigh loves to ride in her stroller!!! She just plain loves to be outside like I've said before.

Kylie woke up and we all enjoyed some Kubota riding. Don't worry Kylie was strapped in and yes Kaitlyn was in the back strapped into the bouncy seat. She loved it back there, it even put her to sleep. Also we went 5 mph around in a circle in our driveway. This is another one of Hayleigh's favorite things to do. Kylie also enjoyed playing with the sand toys in the drive-way and Hayleigh wanted so bad to be down on the ground with her, but sorry she had a new outfit on.

2009-03-14T20:06:00.001-07:00

Well another month is upon us and she is on her way to turning 1!! She is the most precious thing you could ever imagine. She smiles at mostly anyone and also makes her silly face at all most anyone. We took this picture on the day she turned 11months. She wasn't cooperating as usual, but it still turned out cute I think.

I love my horsey rides with daddy!! Her face lights up with a huge smile as daddy pushes and pulls her around the room, until he gets to tired of course.
Picture time with mom. I have to take these myself of course!!

Now that I can pull up on everything, I like to go under the table and I end up bonking my head

Daddy put this book bag on her and she thought that was pretty cool !!

"Hi everyone I'm playing with my favorite toy" She could sit forever and push the buttons on this toy, believe me Dave and I both know most of the songs/music that plays.

My Laundry Helper

2009-03-11T18:51:00.000-07:00

As many of us mothers know laundry isn't a real fun job to begin with but isn't it so much more fun with an 11mth old (tomorrow) helping you?? Hayleigh does a great job taking the clothes out of the basket before they are folded and then proceeding to either push the basket away from me or trying to get in it. This is Kylie, one of my best friend's little girls, posing for the camera and trying to hold Hayleigh so she doesn't fall.

Well this picture was taken after Hayleigh was standing up outside of the basket thinking she was hot stuff , when bam in the basket she went head first. Of course I turned her right side up, while I was laughing (sorry it was funny), and then took the picture.

"Who me, I didn't do it, I'm too cute !"

"Oh, what do I do with this??""Let me help mom"

Well in less then 12 hrs my baby girl will be 11 months old and one her way to being 1. I've said it once and I will say it over and over, I can't believe it!!! We love you more then anything baby girl=)

Sunday

2009-03-08T17:49:00.000-07:00

What a lovely weekend it was, not!! We didn't do a whole lot this weekend. We mostley stayed at home and were lazy. Well Hayleigh is never lazy unless she is sleeping. This girl is always on the go!! She is quiet funny, once she hears the bathroom door at all she is on full speed to bathroom. Hayleigh has been doing a lot of pulling herself up to standing and "cruising" from toy to toy. She really needs to stop growing up so fast!! The last picture made my laugh so hard, she dropped/threw her toy on the other side of Rex and decided that she was just going to climb over him to get it.

Pictures from the last week

2009-03-07T18:27:00.000-08:00

This week was a long one for babysitting but we did get to enjoy sometime outside a couple days. Hayleigh loves being outside when its nice out!! We found a new "playpen" it's the Kubota but it requires lots of supervision because the sides of course aren't that tall and Hayleigh is always on the move anymore!! She also rode around in the stroller awhile and after the kids left on Thursday we enjoyed a family ride in the Kubota and it put Hayleigh to sleep. I have a couple more cute pictures of Hayleigh that I would like to share with you in another blog tomorrow because this mama is tired and going to bed!!

More Florida pictures...

2009-03-05T18:03:00.001-08:00

#1 picture is off me enjoying some pool time!!

#2 Me and my ever so cute Valentines Day shirt

#3 Spending some time with daddy!!

Fun at the beach!!

2009-03-05T10:32:00.001-08:00

Here are a couple pictures of Hayleigh at the beach... so seriously it took me about 7 or so trys to download these two pictures because everytime it was about done the stupid phone would ring and kick me off the internet (gotta love dial-up)

The second picture she wasn't to sure about the sand that was all over her hands. She didn't mind eating it though!!

Florida

2009-03-04T17:43:00.000-08:00

As most of you know we recently went to Florida a couple weeks ago and had lots of fun. Hayleigh did very well on her first plane ride and hads lots of fun being outside on the beach trying to eat the sand. We had a blanket thingy down for her to play on but no she had to try to crawl away all the time. Here are a few pictures of Hayleigh in Florida.

Starting with the plane ride and going over in the ferry to North Captive Island.

Pictures from Hayleigh's baby days

2009-03-03T06:09:00.000-08:00

I though I would share one of my favorite pictures of Hayleigh from when she was only a few days old. Plus here are some more baby pictures. It's hard to believe she was that little!!

Where has the time gone???

2009-03-02T19:12:00.000-08:00

Wow where has time gone?? This was my baby girl 10 1/2 months ago, so small (well kinda, if you call 9lbs 10oz small) and so full of love. Dave and I couldn't imagine our lives without her. She has grown so much into her own little person. I've been asked many times, "Can you remember the life you had before her?" and the ansewer is no. It seems like I've been a mommy forever and I love it.

My first time bloggin....

2009-03-02T08:29:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone, I've always wanted to do one of these so I'm finally going to try it. I know I can type and go on and on about Hayleigh, it's just getting the ever so cute pictures on here to go with the stories. Ya see having dial-up internet sucks!!
I should have started this months ago probably!!