A Day in the Life

Monday, July 12, 2010

Jumper Joy

Aunt Sondra loaned us this doorway jumper. Hailey loved it as a baby and Levi loves it just as well. The other day Levi crawled into his room and saw the jumper and started slapping it so I took it out to hang it up for him. He got so excited.

Glasses

Hailey loves to try on our glasses. She looks so old and grown up.

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Sibs

Hailey and Levi LOVE each other. Hailey can make Levi laugh better than anyone. In the morning Levi and I go to get Hailey, and I say, "Good morning Sister." Levi gets all excited and starts flapping his arms and kicking his legs and saying "sisss" sounds over and over with his teeth. It's so cute. I don't know if we'd count it as his first word, but considering he doesn't seem to say "dadda" and "mamma" in reference to Matt and I, I'd say it probably is.

Hailey's hair is long enough now that I can do a crown braid and it is so pretty. It doesn't last long, but long enough for church. These were pre-church photos and I love this one of her looking like a little angel in the sunlight.

I don't know yet if his personality or physique will be cut out for football, but when I saw this photo I laughed because I could just hear a little football player's growl coming from that look.

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Easter, etc.

Hailey LOVED hunting eggs this year. We had a dozen plastic and a dozen real and she was ready for more. She still asks to hunt eggs - again at dinner tonight, two weeks later!

Levi thought the basket was pretty cool.

A new teething toy. Little guy has five teeth now and no others on the surface (as of today).

Decorating eggs!

Levi is so happy. He is totally laid back and loves to watch Hailey. He's starting to get up on his knees a little, and even into push-up position. He rolls, turns in circles and scoots backwards, but hasn't figured out how to go forward.

Soaking in a bit of sun in our beautiful backyard. The weather has been gorgeous. Not too muggy yet, thank goodness.

Any takers for a pollen bath?

This is what our cars looked like on Easter morning - after we washed the cars on Friday. I guess you could say we've had a bit of pollen in the air. It hasn't been real pleasant for allergies. These photos don't even really capture how bad it was. I should have taken a photo of the windshield after we used the wipers. There was a perfect thick, green outline.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Our "Talent"

A couple of weeks ago our ward had a talent show. Another couple and we decided to show our talents of working together as husband and wife to cook. :)

If you've never seen this done before (unlikely though it may be), Matt is playing my hands.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

My dream job

So I was chatting with my friend the other day about my "dream job" of working with LDS Social Services' adoptions. However, later in the day as I was playing with my sweet babes I realized that I have my dream job and I love it. What could be better than spending all day, everyday with my two adorable babies.

Man can this kid put some food down now! We have his six month check up next week (at 6.5 mo) and I'm curious to see how much weight he really has put on. He's chunked up and it's adorable!

This is what Levi looks like after being attacked by Hailey. Oops. He was eating the dirt and it was in his ear even. He didn't mind the excuse for another bath. Oh, and this is one of his favorite outdoor perches. Hailey loves to push him.

Levi's haircut #2 - at six months old! He HATES it! We decided to go extra short so we could wait longer before the next one.

Levi can really pull the heartstrings with his little lip. It's so pathetic. Whenever he hears loud noises, Hailey crying, or when a stranger holds him (lately), his little lip pops out and his eyes water up and he gives the most pathetic little wail.

My kiddos zoned out on Beauty and the Beast on the portable DVD player on my bed while I was organizing my clothes. I love that they finger/thumb suckers. I think it's so cute.

We went to the park today to fly a kite. The weather was perfect - warm and windy. I intended to keep Hailey clean - hence the khakis - but obviously I failed. After she wiped out and got soaked I gave up and let her enjoy time playing in puddles with Addie. Yeah for carefree times as a 2-year-old.

I laughed so hard at Hailey after we took the photo. The picture is cute, but what's hilarious is that we used the auto timer on the camera and ran to get set up before it went of - thus the not-quite-on and upside-down glasses. Afterward we went back to the kitchen to continue working on dinner. She grabbed a straw, put it on our chest freezer and stepped back a few steps, sat on a chair and said, "Smile. Say eeee." I laughed so hard.

Above is what Hailey looks like after I help her put the clothes on she has chosen - note that they really don't coordinate at all. Below is what she looked like before I helped her. She really usually does pretty well, that's why I had to laugh and take a photo this day.

Haileyisms

I always love reading the funny things kids say or do and I don't want to forget the things that Hailey does. So, I'm going to start a list - hopefully I'll come back to add to it more often than I have been. :)

4-18-10

In her bed yelling out to me (even though she's aware of the rule that once her door is closed we don't come back until morning...)"MOOOOOOOOM.....MOOOOOMMMMMYYYY.....DO YOU HEAR ME? I CAN'T HEAR YOU. YOU NEED TO SPEAK LOUDER. DO YOU HEAR ME? "

Every morning when Matt is leaving she stands in the doorway and says the cutest things like, "I love you, Daddy. Have a good day. Seed ya waiter. Be safe." She always reminds him, "Kisses, hugs."

Unfortunately Hailey has learned lately (by watching other kids) to be afraid of bugs. We keep telling her that bugs are nice and wont hurt her, but she persists in SCREAMING every time she sees one, or hears one (bees and grasshoppers, especially). And I'm not being sarcastic on the scream - it turns heads from neighbors. One day she got so upset she even threw up. It's so sad. Anyway, she says, "buggies go inside." This is her solution - because that's what makes the neighbors scary barking dog go away. What a thinker. :)

3-11-10

Hailey loves to do the same things Levi is doing. I was practicing sitting up with Levi and put my hand behind him as support while he was getting his balance. Hailey said, "you help me sit, Mommy?" She sat down and pretended to fall back. I was amused by her observations.

A few weeks ago during FHE we decided to teach Hailey to play hide-and-seek. She LOVES, LOVES, LOVES to play. Several times a day she'll say, "count to 20 and come find me." or "I count to twenty, you hide, and I come find you." It's so fun. She'll even play with Sandy, her bear. She even looks in a few places before finding Sandy, even though she's the one that hid her. It makes me laugh.

"Daddy, I don't want you to go to school. I just want you to stay with me."

"I sure love you mommy/daddy."

We've been potty training the last few days and Hailey has done incredibly! She has had a few accidents, but she definitely gets the idea and is doing very well. One of the fun things is that she loves the shapes/colors of her panties. Yesterday I had to laugh when she said, "hurry, I gotta pee in the potty. I don't wanna pee on my apples."

1-27-10

Hailey has really been into making up songs lately. Sometimes she does different words to tunes she already knows (Twinkle, Twinkle is a favorite tune) or most recently she's tried making up the tune and the words. So, today after church she's sitting in her chair at the table singing, "Jesus for me....Jesus for me..Jesus for me," over and over - higher pitched then lower. Later Matt told her to sing it for me so she ran through the living room (pigtails and hands flying) singing, "Jesus for Mommy, Jesus for Mommy."

Sitting in church today Hailey was looking at her Gospel Art Book from Grandma Stevens. She would turn to a picture, hold it up for me to see and say "what's this?" (Can you tell that's how she learns at nursery and FHE). One of the pictures was of Jesus when He was 12 and teaching in the temple. When she asked "what's this?" I told her it was Jesus when He was young. She said "no," and pointing at the man behind Jesus with a long white beard, "it's Santa."

"Maybe later" is one of Hailey's favorite phrases as of late. When I tell her it's nap or bedtime she says "maybe later nap" or "maybe later bed." I had to laugh when we were discussing in the car on the way home that we were going to have spaghetti for dinner and she replied, "maybe morrow spaghetti. We have macacheese for dinner."

If Hailey was older I couldn't tell this one - so thank goodness for sweet innocence of toddlers. We haven't 'officially' started potty training, but she knows when she needs to go poop. This morning she and Matt were enjoying cold cereal for breakfast when she started making her poopy face and moaning. She said, "I can't poop"...moan..."I can't poop. It's stuck." Matt grinned and they finished. A few minutes later she was running around with her little stroller and found Matt and exclaimed with great excitement "Daddy, I got it!"

Matt was walking out the door for school, and Hailey sent him off with, "Love your guts!!" (Yes, Matt says that to her.)

When Hailey first started going to nursery we'd chat with her in the car on the way home about nursery. One Sunday I was busy chatting with Matt instead of following the normal ritual. I heard her announce in the back seat, "Bubbles, fish, Addie (her friend), learn about Jesus."