new pics

Telling daddy she wants more...
Signing "more"
Talking to grandma on the phone
Takes concentration...

Maybe she heard the tv?

So sweet...

My anniversary flowers

SHe's getting good at it
She likes to draw, even in the tub

Is that curly hair or just crazy?
4yr Anniversary

She walks!!! Yay!

Last week she started going from point to point, as long as she had something to aim for she would give it a shot. Now she is constantly walking. She is still a little unsteady, but she will get the hang of it.

She tired herself out

The first picture we got was when I was about to give her a bath and she decided she wanted to go in the other room. Stark naked. Haha oh well what can you do

Alex and Halia eating pizza(Alex is her first daycare providers little boy who is the same age as Halia)

update

Well I haven't updated recently, and I just realized I never added the rest of the xmas pics so I will try to do that later. Halia had her follow up ENT appointment on monday and after an attempt with antibiotic drops to clear them out, her left tube has fallen out. So she wants to wait a few weeks and check her again to see if there is any signs of infection and how she does being that it is the height of cold season, then we will go from there at the next appointment. She is finally starting to walk on her own. She has started being more brave and as long as she has something to aim for that she can grab onto at the end, she waves to us, throws her arms up and off she goes, a little wobbly and all :) It is fun to watch her try so hard, and she always looks at us after expecting us to get excited! It will be nice to have her walking on her own some instead of having to carry her everywhere. She has also learned to play peek-a-boo and will cover her eyes and laugh. Then you say peek-a-boo and she throws them off. Precious. I hope everyone is doing well! I will add more pics when we have a chance.

Happy New Year!

I hope that everyone had a happy and safe new year!! We had a good time with lots of company at our house. We watched the ball drop and spent time with a group of our good friends well into the late hrs of the night. Then all woke up early to watch the Cotton Bowl. We had a house full until about 4 this evening when everyone finally gave in to the fact that we were tired and only had about three hours of sleep in the last 48 hrs while we continued to share in the festivities. Here is some of the pics


The girls
Sue, Kara, and Mel
Kara, Lisa, and Lauren

Getting close to midnight
Lauren, Lisa, and Kara


Alll the boys

Halia Likes to draw....

Just some random thoughts... baby brag

It just amazes me to see how fast our little ones grow up. I know those of you who are older then us are laughing as you reading this probably saying that we have no idea. I just look back over the last 17months and am amazed at how fast Halia has grown, and on top of that, despite all the fear we may have had along the way, is incredibly smart and healthy despite all the odds. Yes we face all the things any parents of an almost 2yr old face, tantrums, leaving work early for fever, or the constant snotty nose. But she is amazing. She is not walking constantly yet, but I figure in her own time she will. The dr is not at all worried about it and encouraged us that her small feet have nothing to do with it as we both have small feet too. :) Plus I think in all reality she is walking far more then she leads us to believe at daycare, because everytime I go to pick her up without knowing I am there, she walks to the girls. How frustrating. I guess she just knows that we will baby her and carry her if she crawls so helplessly to our feet and lifts her arms and uhs at us. How can we resist snuggles? She is responding much more regularly to our questions by shaking her head yes or no. When we came home from Papa and Bana's on monday, we had not unpacked yet. Usually Halia will go to my suitcase and pull anything she can out and play with it. This time, she decided only to grab her bib that she saw, and walked into the kitchen to her highchair and want up. I guess she thought we were not going to feed her and wanted to make sure we knew she was hungry. Then wednesday she woke up from her nap and had her passi and blanket. Normally after nap she has snack. Well this time she shook her head no. So I held her for awhile and she kept laying her head down. FInally she took the passi out of her mouth and said, there go, handed me her blanket, there go. I asked if she was ready for snack and now she shook her head yes. She is always doing little things like that now and it is so cute, but I wanted to share a few. I never knew the love you could have for someone until you have a child, and I think I have probably heard that somewhere before, but it couldn't be more true.
Just wanted to share some thoughts...

Our Christmas weekend!

I hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas! We had a good but busy one! This weekend we went to Ft. Smith and did Christmas with his mom on Sat. Then on sunday we woke up and did Christmas with his dad and their side of the family. Sunday night we went to Aunt Melanies and did dinner with the family there and white elephant exchange. Monday we can home to be able to do our own Christmas as a family at our house. Halia woke up and opened presents from Santa which was fun. I cooked dinner that night, and We had two friends over for dinner.





All the girls and us

Caitlin
Tenley
Paige and Reese
Donleigh

Here is some of the pics, I will add more later