All about Hailey

Well Hailey is fully on the move now, she is crawling all over the place. She is also now pulling up on EVERYTHING. She loves to holds Mommy's hands and walk around. I don't believe that it will be very long before she is walking all over the place.

She has been battling an ear infection for almost 4 weeks now. She was on the "bubble gum" medicine, which didn't work. Then she was on Augmentin, which killed her stomach and didn't work. This past week she had to get 3 shots, one Thursday, one Friday and then the last one Saturday. This is suppose to clear up the ear infection.......cross your fingers that it does.

So Hailey has made lots of friends in the new neighborhood. There are two little boys that live beside us and a 2 year old little girl and then a little boy across the street as well as another little 2 year old little girl. Today, the girls took turn ridding in the wagon with Hailey. It was so cute. Here are a couple of pictures.

House progess

So we have been working like crazy on the house trying to get it the way we would like it. I found out with our previous home that no matter how long you lived somewhere, you can always find projects to do. We are just trying to tackle one thing off our list at a time. Our big project right now is the kitchen. We ripped out the existing kitchen and are putting up a new one. To-date, our cabinets are in, our appliances are here and our counter tops and sink will be put in on Wednesday. Here are a few pictures of the progress:

BEFORE

DURING

Old cabinets with the new stove temporarily in before demolition

Cabinets in but no counter tops or paint on walls

Playing catch up

So you may want to sit down because I am going to play catch up on all the things that Hailey has been up to.

Last Tuesday, September 1st I took Hailey to the park for the first time. My friend, Amber let me know that she and her girls were going to the park that Tuesday afternoon, if I wanted to bring Hailey. I was decided that it was a beautiful day, so I walked up to the park after work with Hailey. My friend, Shelley was also there with her two kids. It was great to enjoy that afternoon with great friends and watch the kids have a wonderful time at the park.

This past Saturday, September 5th was Hailey's first football tailgating experience. We loaded up the car with all of the tailgating "stuff" and headed to the field about 8. We tailgated from 8-12 then off to the game. Hailey tailgated and did wonderful. She did not attend the game because it was way to hot outside. A side note: she did not drink the beer below that she is holding. The can was empty.

My parents came down to visit Hailey this past weekend. We all had a very nice visit. Although we put them to work on the house while they were here, Hailey got to enjoy time with Grandma and Grandpa. I didn't get a good picture of grandma and granpa with Hailey but got a nice shot of grandma with Hailey.

Yesterday, September 8th, Hailey was 8 months old. Where has the time gone?? I know I say that alot in my posts but I feel like Iblink and my baby gets bigger and bigger. She is doing the following things:

• claps up a storm


• eats big "girl" food i.e. chicken & mashed potatoes once a day


• sits up by herself


• "scoots" all over the place


• isn't fully crawling but has taken up to 6 "crawls" (one knee, two knee, etc)


• is pulling up and standing in her crib (although she is not pulling up anywhere else)

Lastly, I have to say that she cracks us up when she sleeps because she sleeps on her knees. I just had to take a picture of it tonight, since I knew that I was going to update the blog. I don't think that anyone would believe us unless they saw the picture.

Our little worker

As most of you know, we (the whole family) were working really hard the few weeks before we closed on the house. Here are a few pictures of our little helper.