Tag, Your It

Thank you Ang, I did need something new to blog about.

A)Four places I go over and over:
1. To work (Copper Canyon Elementary)
2. The mailbox-rarely do I find anything good
3. The garbage-those stinky diapers have got to go!
4. The kitchen cupboards looking for food that is usually not there

B)Four people who email me the most:
1. Heath
2. Tracey -my job-share partner
3. Diena Riddle-My boss
4. MSN and all the other junk mail providers


C)Four of my favorite foods:
1. Tiny Spicy Chicken
2. Wendy's #7 Combo
3. Reese's
4. Cold cereal

D)Four Places in which I would rather be right now:
1. in bed
2. Australia
3. summer vacation (4 weeks of school left!)
4. sleeping (i couldn't, that's why i'm blogging.)

E)Four people I'm tagging:
1. Meredith (even though I haven't replied to your tag-i'm still thinking of songs)
2. Jenn
3. Kellee
4. Tracey

F)Four movies I would watch over and over:
1. Pride & Prejudice (Keira Knightley)
2. Signing Time-only cuz I do watch it over and over
3. Napolean Dynamite
4. The Office

Giddy up horsey

I got these wooden rocking horses when I worked at Kiddie Kandids and they've always been in the basement. Well the other day I was watching a bunch of neighborhood kids, and they usually go exploring when they are here. So they found the horses and we brought them upstairs. Wasn't that an exciting blog!
Actually the fun part about it is that Hailee was so excited to see these horses. She got on one and started rocking back and forth all by herself, it was so cute. She also signs horse now-if you know what to look for. She doesn't do any signs that touch her face or head, but she signs horse and it kindof looks like she is waving bye bye-but I can tell the difference, and I know that she knows the difference.
Anyway, we can be playing with a toy and I'll stop and ask her where her horse is, and she'll look around the room, and then crawl over to it and pull herself up on it.
The other thing she did which I thought was really cute is, she signed bath and then took my hand so she could walk and we walked straight to the bathtub! This little girl used to HATE baths. She would scream every time, especially at Grandma Hall's. Now that she can crawl, she is always crawling into the bathroom and leaning over the tub to reach her toys. She still isn't the kind of kid that splashes and laughs and giggles in the tub, but she is very content to play with her toys and even let me wash her face!

MONKEY FACE!

This past week Hailee has been sticking out her tongue. Whether it is something new she figured out or something she's doing to feel her gums-which still have no teeth, just a canker sore- I just don't know. But I do know that it's a pretty funny face and her dad calls it her monkey face!

Midnight blogging-a look at Hailee growing up!

So Heath was ready for bed at 9:30 tonight because he has to be to work early tomorrow. After laying there for about an hour thinking I was exhausted I finally gave up and decided to check my blog. Then I decided I would add some pictures of Hailee from when she was just a small fry. AND since I haven't figured out how to do slideshows and other creative things I just decided to make one giant blog. So if you don't enjoy it then you should let me know and I'll try never to blog at 11 at night anymore! I however, enjoyed doing it, cuz it gave me the chance to look back at pictures of Hailee and see how much she had grown and changed in the past nine months. Heath said tonight that she's not his little baby anymore. It's amazing how fast they grow and develop. Two weeks ago she could barely crawl, she would just put her feet up (downward dog) then fall and move forward a little at a time doing that. Then her cousin comes to visit and Voila! She learned how to crawl. After one week she finally got the confidence to go on the linoleum and who knows what will come next. She went from only pulling herself up by using our hands to pulling herself up in her crib at 2 a.m. and not being able to get down, and now she can pull herself up on all sorts of things. She signs all sorts of things; fish, dog, diaper, more, bye, -dog is the most recognizable. Although she prefers when the neighbors dog is on the outside of the sliding door and she's on the inside, rather than being licked on the face! She loves being outside and if you are inside she will hold your fingers and walk you down the stairs to the front door.

She has been such a joy to have. I love watching her grow and play and trying different things to make her laugh. I am very much looking forward to staying home with her all the time, and not having to work. Thanks to my husband who is working extra hard to provide for us so that I can stay home. I will really miss teaching but I will love even more that I'm not missing spending time with Hailee.
I hope you enjoy all the cute pictures of my adorable daughter!


This is Hailee right after she was born. She was 5 lbs 4 oz!



This picture was taken close to the end of July. It was the day I had back to school night and she came with to see everyone.



When Hailee was first born she did the I Love You with her hands-on accident I'm sure, so I staged it again for the picture (I'm a professional photographer, I'm supposed to do things like that) but then we sent it to Dad and to Grandma's and Grandpa's to say I Love You!



Aggie Pride!



My friend Kristi took these next few pictures (and about 100 more) when Hailee was just one week old as a gift to us.




Hailee got this matching outfit from one of my students, she later got another outfit that matched the blanket & bear, that she could wear when she was a little bigger. It is one of my favorite pictures because her smile is so dang cute! I just LOVE her dimples!



Dad thought it would be a good idea if Hailee showed some Geneva Rock support at the annual truck rodeo. So we got this idea for a onesie-too bad the Rock doesn't make baby clothes, I think they would be a big hit!






This is the outfit I found for Halloween when she wasn't wearing her costume.
Below is a picture of her and her friends William and Logan on Halloween. Grandma Hall helped us create the perfect costume for our little pickle! Isn't she the sweetest pickle you've ever seen?!




This is Hailee's first bite of cereal-Yum! She was about 5 months old. After that bite she did a lot better. In fact she'll eat pretty much anything you give her. Lucky for me she doesn't spit anything out, so I can pretty much feed her whatever nasty veggies I want and I just have to deal with the nasty face between bites of fruit! I think I'm pretty nice though. I give her one bite of fruit for every two bites of whatever she doesn't like, and she doesn't complain too much!
Some of her favorite foods are: squash, fruit, chocolate, peppermint, cheerios, crackers, oh and paper!



This was Hailee's first Christmas. She slept in longer than anyone-which is very surprising since I am NOT a morning person and she almost always gets up before me. Then she wasn't too interested in anything but the wrapping paper and the toy the Uncle Nathan gave her-a wooden spoon and a metal bowl!



We went to a Jazz game and Hailee got to come with us. It was really loud and at first she was having a great time. Everyone was cheering and she thought it was all for her, she had a perma grin on her face. Then Boozer had a foul shot and everyone says BOOO zer and she got scared. After that I walked her around in the hall where it wasn't so loud. Then a guy who works there gave us some ear plugs cut into small pieces and after that she fell asleep until the last few minutes of the game and she woke up happy again. Oh and the Jazz won that game! We decided we'd wait until she was a little bigger before we take her back to another game, so she's missed a couple good games, but we'll get her back into it next season!



This is her blessing day. Grandma Hall made her dress, and it was soooo gorgeous. What a wonderful day that was. Our house was full of family we had a great time with everyone who came.



Just hangin' out with my dad!

Something fishy

Yesterday Hailee and I met Grandma, Grandpa, Jenn, Jonathan, Emily and Ethan at the Living Planet Aquarium.
Hailee had a lot of fun. Her eyes were wide and curious at each tank. When we first got there I was showing her fish and she was signing dog-but we got her straightened out and a little while later she was signing fish!
She put her hand in the water to feel different things. She started with the starfish but they were at the bottom and she didn't go that far. She did feel a pin cushion sea urchin-or somethinglike that, it was sure pokey!
We sure had alot of fun. Too bad I can't tell you more about the fish we saw, Jon, Emily & Ethan were just too excited to see everything that none of us stopped to read much about the fish.
I only wish I would've remembered my camera!
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Hoppy Easter

We had a really great Easter this year. On Saturday Becca, Mike, Makayla, Ben, Savanah, Hailee and myself (Heath had to work) went to Copperton park for an Easter egg hunt. It would have been much better had the limit not have been three eggs, but we all got candy so it was alright anyway.


After that Hailee, Heath and I headed up to Plain City for a Hall family Easter party and we had a great time their too! We roasted hot dogs, ate yummy food, Hailee rode on a pony and we had an Easter egg hunt. They had cool eggs that were real egg shells filled with confetti that you smash on people's heads-it was a lot of fun!


On Sunday my parents and Stephen and Kellee came up for dinner. It was delicious we had ham, mashed potatoes, jello eggs, rolls-yum! yum!
It was a great weekend!

*This is Hailee in her Easter dress the Grandma Hall made for her*



I want to thank Savanah Breinholt who just learned how to crawl. So while she was here visiting I think she helped Hailee get the idea of moving your hands and knees. Before Hailee would get up on her feet and plop forward just a little bit at a time. I think that she has found this new method of crawling to be much more efficient.
Hailee is also learning more signs. I'm so excited for her. If you are lucky you can get her to sign ball, she waves bye bye and sometimes she does all done-which looks a lot like bye bye. Now the trick is trying to decide if she is trying to sign something or just waving her arms around and having fun-which is the more likely of the two.
I can't believe she is almost 9 months old. (Saturday) Time is flyin' and she is growing up soooo fast.

My first sign

I am so proud and excited. Hailee signed her first word on Thursday.
It was the sign for DOG! Yes, it is pretty simple-all you do is pat your leg. But she really does it and she does it on purpose. I pulled out a stuffed animal dog that she had never seen before and she started slapping her leg. I thought she was just getting excited about a new toy and left it at that. When Heath got home for work I was gone and he saw the dog and showed it to Hailee and she started signing dog. Then when I got home that night I asked her "Where is the dog?" and she started signing dog. On Friday I took her to a babysitters house that has a dog and she started signing dog when she saw their dog too!
However, it seems to be like her rolling over phase where she forgot how to do it for awhile-because on Saturday she wouldn't really do it for Grandma=(
BUT I do have in on video camera-so I have proof. I just don't know how to get that on my blog right now.

Also, she had her 9 month appointment today (a little early) but here are the stats:
19.1 lbs--50%-weight
28 1/4 inches 75%-length
44 ( i think) 50%--head

No teeth. Trying to walk, trying even less to crawl-but she does try on her hand and feet.
Loves cheerios and mom. She has been very clingy lately-the whole seperation anxiety thing. It should make my off track experience fun-I'll never get anything done with the way she holds on to me and cries (screams murder) if I walk 3 ft away!
She is still so much fun to have around and it is amazing how much she changes everyday. I love her so much!
Even with the seperation anxiety, I am SO excited to go off track!