BACK WITH OUR BABY

Xax and I were able to escape for a few days without Hailey, while she stayed with Grandma and Grandpa Roylance.  We had a good time, but I missed Hailey like crazy.  We got home today and all I wanted to do was love on her and she wanted nothing to do with it.  She is into everything, pulling herself up to everything and walking along and around everything.  She is getting so big, I can't believe it.

JUST WAKING UP

HAILEYS FIRST CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE

 Hailey is starting to feed herself and the last week of Xax's course we made an insane amount of cookies for him to take to get everyone through their field exercise.  Hailey was being a little cranky, and we still had a lot of work to do, so we stripped her down and gave her her first chocolate chip cookie, and lets just say we were able to finish the cookies with one happy baby! She had the time of her life! And, yes, Uncle Bobby, we brushed her teeth after!

YET ANOTHER ONE

Tonight while I was playing with Hailey, I checked to see if she had sprouted any more teeth, and by golly, she has!  She is getting another one on the bottom left and the one on the top left has finally broken through.  She is going to be eating solids before we know it.  For all I know there could be another one or two on the way, but she won't hold still long enough for me to explore her whole mouth.  I would be fine if she decided to sprout all of her teeth at once.  Less pain for her, and less stress for me! Three new teeth in a week, that must be some kind of record! Five teeth before nine months old.  Go Hailey!!

FUN WITH DADDY

Xax came home late Saturday night and left Sunday night.  He always makes the most of his few hours with Hailey.  Sunday night before he left, we were doing his laundry.  While we were folding it, Hailey discovered the basket and was rather curious.  Xax took full advantage of this opportunity

I know she has boy jammies on, but we don't turn down free clothes, and Xax's mom bought these at a garage sale! 

PIANO PLAYING

A few weeks ago, Hailey and I were out visiting my parents and Hailey got really grumpy, and nothing was making her happy. Grandpa set her down at the piano, and she was instantly cured!  She had the time of her life, and now every time we go over to their house, she migrates to the piano.  Thank heavens shes not in the climbing stage yet!

FIRST LEMON

This past weekend we went down to Salt Lake to visit Xax, and we went out to eat.  Hailey was really enjoying experiencing new foods, and so we decided it was high time she had her first taste of a lemon.  This was the result..

NEW ADDITIONS......

Turns out that in the midst of Hailey's two ear infections over the past two weeks, she has sprouted a new tooth, with another one on the way.  The top right tooth is just poking through, and the top left one is swollen.  I guess it's a blessing that the ear infections and teething overlapped.  I didn't even know she was working on cutting more teeth, and that's not a complaint.  She has been pretty miserable, so hopefully now she'll be a lot happier with the ear taken care of and the tooth through! Now she can start eating a wider aray of food, which I'm sure she'll enjoy, being that shes our baby!

PLAY TIME

Haileys thing lately is to wave at everyone and everything.  It's pretty darn funny, especially when she waves to Xax's picture on our computer.  She sure loves her daddy and misses him a lot.

Even with an ear ache, she still tries to be happy!



I am still amazed at how cute she is! She is the spitting image of Xax, and I guess thats not a bad thing, just look at her!



The look says it all! Utterly disgusted.  This one is a classic, for sure!

So Hailey has another really bad ear infection, and for the most part hasn't been happy, but, bless her little heart, she tries so hard.  This was one of those few moments of happiness yesterday.  She is so darn cute, and I have to admit I like the fact shes cuddly when she doesn't feel good, because that doesn't ever happen normally.  She's too interested in getting down and going.  I guess we should count our blessings where we can, right?

HAILEYS NEW FAVORITE PAST TIME

I love this little girl more than anything in this world!  How could you not? Look at that smile!

She had just thrown her binky and she was a bit concerned

I love this picture, crazy curls and all.  She went down for a nap after her bath and this was the result!

Hailey thinks shes pretty grown up these days.  While she can't quite pull herself up to things yet, if you stand her next to something she is content for a long time.  A few days ago, I stood her up in her crib and she grabbed onto the side and walked back and forth for 20 minutes.  Now when I go to get her up, she wants to stand and walk.  She is getting pretty darn good.  We bought her a walker and with any luck she'll be walking before too long.  She is no longer content sitting and crawling.  She wants to get to things faster!