16 Months Old... Already!

Our little one is ALREADY 16 months! She is rapidly turning into a little girl! It is bitter sweet watching her grow up so fast. I love all the new things she is picking up, yet she is moving away from the baby stages WAY too fast!
New words this month:

• apple
• sit down
• I don't know
• I'm sorry
• Where it go?
• witch
• oh WOW

New favorites this month:

• Hailey has been absolutely obsessed with our Halloween decorations. She has become best friends with a stuffed witch that we have. It is about twice her size so we thought she would be a little intimidated by it, but she just loves the ugly thing! Every morning she walks by and says "hi witch" and at night she has to kiss it goodnight at she tells it, "night night witch". It is so funny. I wonder how she is going to react when we have to take it down?
• The child is crazy about ice. She would chew on it all day long if she could. Patrick and I have come to the point where we have to hide our drinks from her otherwise she starts demanding "ice" and won't stop asking for it until we give it to her. Sad how easy children can control their parents, huh!
• My mom bought Hailey a little water baby with a bottle. She loves to rock the baby and feed her a bottle. It is cute to watch her hold the baby the correct way. She also likes to say "oh baby" as she is holding her doll. It cracks me up!
• She loves to play ring around the rosie. She spins and spins and spins then falls down and laughs.
• Her daddy caught her whacking me in the face and made her apologize to me. She said "I'm sorry" and now she says it every time she thinks she has hurt someone or something!
• She follows me around everywhere I go and yells, "mama". I think she thinks I am going to disappear so she has to keep a really close eye on me. I thought this was because she was a huge mama's girl until I heard she does the same thing to my cousin, my grandma, my mom and even Patrick. ha ha! I think she just likes to say the word "mama".
• Hailey got her first flower from a boy this month. She even told him thank you! It was really sweet!
  
  

Still ALL about shoes

Hailey is STILL obsessed with shoes. Here she is in her daddy's flip flops. She even knows the correct place to put the strap between her toes. She likes to go into my closet and pull my shoes off the rack and try each one on. She loves putting on my high heels and then loves to walk REALLY slow in them! It is so funny. I will die if she turns out to be a girly girl, she sure won't get that from me! I will just have to blame it on all the time she spends with my mom! =)

Playing with my new camera

Hailey

Hailey is ABSOLUTELY obsessed with cats. Daddy and her were watching Animal Planet the other day and a lion came on the T.V. Patrick grabbed the camera and captured this picture for me. He said she was SUPER excited. I think the picture says it all! So cute!

HaPpY bIrThDaY tO mE!!!

For my birthday Patrick invited my family and his family over for some dinner, cake and ice cream. He worked really hard cleaning the house, shopping for the food, preparing the food and baking a cake. I have to say that it was such a wonderful birthday present. It was so nice not to worry about anything and just sit down and enjoy time with the family. I felt a little bad because Patrick was running his butt off trying to get everything done and he was EXHAUSTED afterward. He also passed up a chance to go hunting to stay home for my birthday... So, I have to say...Thanks Patrick, it was such a nice day for me... you are the best husband ever and I LOVE YOU!!!

The SWEETEST cake ever made by my even SWEETER husband! =)

The house getting ready to burn down because of all the candles. It is a good thing the girls were there to help blow them out for me!

I had to put this picture on here because it shows just how well my mother-in-law knows me. Check out the HUGE bag of peanut M & M's. YUMMY!!

Hannah, Syd and Hailey play so cute together. Here they are causing havoc in Hailey's crib! I was so glad that it was still standing after their rough housing!

Getting ready for their yummy food!


BY THE WAY...The reason I have not posted in so long is because Patrick bought me a MUCH needed new camera for my birthday and for some reason the memory card is not working in my computer. Of course, being the nice husband he is, he took the camera to work and downloaded them onto a CD for me so I could finally post some pics!