Pre-birthday party fun

Hailey's birthday party wasn't until late on Saturday afternoon, 3:00 pm.  So we decide to let her open the presents from us, Grandmom and Grandmother before her party.  I'm all about getting as many miles as possible for birthdays!  After chocolate chip pancakes, we opened presents. 

Grandmom helping open presents.

She got the hang of it, no problem.

As some of you may remember a previous post regarding Hailey's love for shoes, we got her a box of 6 pairs of dress up shoes.  All of which were mini high heals!  She loved them.  She was a little wobbly at first but got the hang of it.  Here she is playing with her new coloring thing-a-ma-gig, wearing her new shoes.

Deciding which ones she wants to try on next.

That's right people, hot pink feather boa high heals for my 2 year old!!!  I was a little concerned after I saw the "variety" of shoes what they may imply however I was reminded that they are just for dressing up and playing.  Thankfully she doesn't love them so much that it's a battle to get her out of them.  She's easily distracted these days. 

4th of July

First off, can I just tell you how proud I am of myself for posting something the same month in which it occurred!!!  Yeah me.

Moving on.  For the 4th of July this year we went to the wonderful city of Buda, TX to check out a concert and some fireworks.  Some friends of ours are very good friends with one of the musicians performing so we go to hang out back stage.  The best of this for me was that there was a porta-potty with no line!!!  What pregnant woman wouldn't be excited about that!  Knowing that we wanted to stay until the fireworks, which were not for several hours, we brought lots of snacks and toys to entertain little miss. 

Chasing bubbles back stage.

Snack time.

Checkin' out the bands with daddy.

and more snacks...

We had some other friends meet up with us before the fireworks show.  They had all sorts of stuff going on at the park so we moved our "camp" to an area by the playground to yet again buy us more time while waiting for the fireworks.  We played at the playground and even went for a little train ride.  My very good friend of mine, Kori, was a trooper and rode this itty bitty train around the playground with us.  Thanks Kori!!  We had the boys take pictures but it was getting dark and well...they're no photographers.  Hailey's bedtime is 8:00...the fireworks were not scheduled to begin until 9:45!!!  She did pretty well while we waited.  I brought every light up toy she owned to try to tide her over.  She lasted about 2 minutes into the 10 minute show.  That's right, 10 minutes!!!!  We hung out all afternoon and evening in the heat and ended up sitting in traffic longer than we did watching fireworks.  Oh well, it was still a good time.  Not sure that we will do it again next year though.

"Payin'"

Several weeks ago we went to Dallas to visit my grandmother for her birthday.  It was the a week or two before her 102nd birthday!!  We wanted to see her before I got too big and uncomfortable, (too late) to travel.  It was a great trip and always fun to see the fam.  We left Sunday to head back.  Hailey slept almost the entire way.  So of course when we got home she was wound up.  I was relaxing on the couch when I hear some commotion going on in the corner by all of her toys.  And this is what I see...

She pulled every single book and toy out of the basket and climbed in.  When I giggled and asked what she was doing, her response was "payin'".  How can you argue with that.  Play away kid, play away!

Cowgirl

Baby Girl #2

I generally don't post without pictures.  I just assume people are only coming here to look at pictures of Hailey or perhaps a funny tale here and there.  But I feel it necessary to start talking about Hailey's little sister that is cookin' away. I will be 30 weeks this week.  We have a ton of sonogram pictures buuut that would require me to scan them in.  I feel lucky at this point to be catching up on posting. 

For those of you with more than one little one, did you all wait until much later to get everything done or is it just me?  I finally went to pay for the furniture yesterday.  The funny thing is, I was hoping it would be about 2 weeks or so before it would ready for us to pick it up...oh no.. it's in stock now.  Normally that would be great but we have no where to put it yet!  Our guest room will be the baby's room and Hailey's birthday is this weekend.  We're waiting until after this weekend to move everything out so my mom has somewhere to sleep while she's here.  Then we still have to paint!  I'm starting to stress a little.  We also don't have a name yet.  The first time was hard but now you have the challenge of making sure the names go together too.  Everything is coming along fine but I am starting to feel the nesting urge and can't nest because we have "stuff" in the way of my nesting! 

Oh, I have also decided to take on about 3-4 crafty projects in the midst of everything else.  I found some fabric that I just fell in love with for the bedding.  I kept looking online for sets and couldn't find anything I liked as much as the fabrics.  So I found a seamstress to make the bedding.  Well she wanted to charge more than I was willing to spend so I decided to have her make the bumper and I'll make the bed skirt.  Then while I was looking on line for "how to make a bed skirt" I found a ton of other super cute ideas that I have set in my head that I will be making.  My project list now has: bed skirt, crib sheet, contoured changing pad cover, possibly curtains, (hoping to find something out of the box that works with the colors though), burp cloths AND a very detailed art project for the wall.  Oh, and if I have enough time an adorable initial pillow. You know, once we decide on a name.  I guess there's one upside to not having a name picked out yet.  Now, I can't promise anyone that this list will be complete prior to sweet baby girl #2 making her arrival but that sure would make me feel better. 

Enough rambling for today.  I'll try to some how post some sonograms pictures of Hailey's little sister soon.  Thanks for listening.  I feel better now. 

Watermelon

If you follow this blog at all you will begin to notice a pattern and that's the fact that I have a very hard time picking "just a few" pictures.  I take a ton of pictures trying to capture just the right moment and then think they are all cute.  That being said, here are a lot of pictures of watermelon.  That's right, watermelon.

It was a Sunday afternoon and Stephen decided to build a garden.  It was very hot that day but we wanted to all be together so we got Hailey's little wadding pool out and I cut up some watermelon.  This was her 2nd experience with watermelon, the first being at the beach with Wyatt, so I wasn't sure how she would take to it.  It was really hot though and she wasn't drinking her water. Well I didn't have to worry about her dehydrating...she LOVED every bit of it. 

Notice her red cheeks.  She would eat straight down the middle so it covered her face! 

Such a little lady. 

Piece #2

Hailey was not the only one that loved the watermelon.  Decker was the beneficiary of a few stray pieces and he was sold!  Notice him licking his lips hoping Hailey drops another piece. 

Shoes!!

Hailey is into shoes right now. She is not picky about what shoes she puts on, she just wants to walk around in someones shoes all the time.  The first picture is of her in Stephen's Crocs!  Then before "school" one morning in my heels.  When I have friends over, she will grab their shoes and try to walk around in them too.  It's too funny.  Her birthday is Saturday so I think I may need to get her a few pairs of dress up shoes. What do you think?