Exciting Events!

Two exciting events happened last week....1) I bought a Honda CR-V and 2) Haylee started walking!!!

I have been in love with the CR-Vs and Chris and I decided it was time for a little bigger car than my civic. I am not excited about adding another car payment for the next 5 years, but I am already in love with my new car! It is so spacey, drives great, and lets face it...its a Honda-enough said!

Last Friday (ironically Friday the 13th), Haylee decided to walk 6 steps in a row! Christian and I were both home from work in time to witness it. For the past 3-4 weeks she has been taking about 2 steps then falling, but on Friday she did 6 in a row. Then she crawled to her room and not even one minute later she took 6 more steps in a row! Over this week she has been practicing and two nights ago we witnessed her walking 9 steps down the hallway! (thats her longest distance so far!). I didn't walk until I was 15 months, so if she keeps this new learned trick up, Haylee might be a pro by her 1st birthday!!! She is growing so fast and is such a smart-pants! (of course I am her mother so I am biased!)

Happy Wednesday!

Look what I found...again!

Haylee loves finding the toilet paper holder

in the hallway bathroom.....

A favorite mess to make that never gets old!

A few more pics!

Just wanted to add a few more pictures

from last Friday. These were taken

on Mei-Li's camera (Haylee's sitter!).

Enjoy & happy November!!

Haylee LOVES balloons!

Mommy & Haylee
(her beanie bat is a favorite at daycare!)

Happy 30th Birthday Holly!

My good friend Holly's birthday

is on Halloween. This year she wanted

to go to the West End's Halloween Bash.

I don't really like dressing up but felt

obligated since costumes are pretty much

mandatory in the CWE. So, I decided

to put on the poodle skirt & become

Sandra Dee from the 50's!

Our sorority sister Jess came into

town too and was a geisha...
The birthday girl Holly was Shirley,

a 1950's diner waitress...She looked fantastic!

Happy Birthday Lady!

1-2-3, lemon drop!

Ladybugs love to go trick-or-treating...

Saturday evening around 5pm we put

Haylee in her ladybug costume.

She was adorable!!!

Nana came over at 5:30pm & we went

trick-or-treating around the neighborhood.

Haylee had a fantastic time and was

really excited about exploring her

collected candy (thanks Sue Sue for the

matching ladybug candy catcher!).
Later on that night Haylee & Chris

drove me to Holly's 30th bday party

and while I was partying at the Central

West End's famous Halloween Bash,

Haylee was in bed & Chris

manned the door for trick-or-treaters.

Needless to say Haylee had a fantastic

1st Halloween!

Haylee's 1st piece of candy, a dum dum

lollipop....sticky!

Weekend Fun!

To start off the holiday weekend, Chris & I

ate at Applebee's Friday night and we

decided to dress Haylee in one of her ladybug

costumes. This was not her "official" costume

(those pics in the next post!), but the outfit

was so cute and I bought it 2 months ago

so I wanted her to wear it! The staff at

Applebee's loved her costume and we

think she is the cutest ladybug we have

ever seen!!!!

On Halloween Saturday, my good friend Melanie

stopped by with her daughter Olivia (7 months)

so the girls could play & be photographed in

matching outfits. I bought the girls matching

candy corn Baby Legs &

Melanie got the girls matching Halloween

onesies... Olivia & Haylee loved

seeing each other and sharing

pumpkins together! Melanie and I are

such good friends & we know our

daughters will continue to grow up together

and become good friends too!

I added one of Haylee's tutu

to her outfit for sass!

Haylee & Olivia

How cute are these girls?!

Daycare Halloween Party!

On Friday I took a 1/2 day off from

work and went to our sitter's house.

Mei-Li is an amazing babysitter & I

offered to swing by and help her change

the kiddos into their costumes.

She had a helium witch balloon and

a goodie cup filled with Halloween surprises...

Plus I loved seeing Haylee play since
I miss out on her daily adventures

when I am at work.

Haylee the Ladybug (10 months)

Alexander the Dinosaur (19 months)

Jordyn the Duckie (16 months)

Braydon the Puppy (15 months)

It was hard to photograph everyone together!

Mei-Li and her camera

All 4 of the kiddos barely in the photo!

The goodies from Mei-Li