9 Months Old

Haylee is 9 months old! It's unreal that she has now been here longer than I was pregnant with her. Time flies, we will be celabrating her first birthday before we know it! She is crawling now, it's funny how that ability just clicks one day. She also is pulling up on anything and everything. She is a busy girl!

And she's off!
This is her after her nap the first time she pulled up in her crib...I walked in and saw her standing up so I had to run to get my camera. This did not go over very well, she screamed and cried (and I mean full blown, snot running out of her nose tantrum) that I left her there. But she was still standing when I returned with my camera!

Spooktacular!

We had a great Halloween! Rylee really enjoyed it since this year she understood what was going on. Everynight leading up to Halloween she would ask if it was Halloween time yet.

Carving our pumpkin

Haylee really enjoyed the pumpkin slime
Our finished product!!

"I want my Mummy"
Scott's guacamole creation
All dressed upHaylee went as a monkey and Rylee went as Minnie Mouse
Trick or Treating
Wardrobe change
We totally wore Rylee out trick or treating. My whole family gets together for trick or treating at my mom's house. Not too many houses were giving out candy this year so we had to walk a lot just to get to a house that was handing out candy. She was pooped! I ended up having to carry her all the way back to my Mom's house! I was pooped too, she is a solid packed kid, let me tell you!

Little Pumpkins

We took the girls to pick out pumpkins this weekend

Rylee was really into it this year!

"This one? Nope, too heavy" "This one? Nope..." "It's perfect" She said.
We also took the girls to visit their Great Uncle Terry at a Halloween carnival. See the family resemblance??

Painting

So last weekend we took on the big project of painting our house. We just did a neutral color (It's basically a few shades darker than before just semi-gloss...I just wanted something other than the flat paint) for the living room, dining room, office, and halls and a red accent wall behind the TV. It turned out great! I am SO glad we are done!

Rylee Helping

Haylee LOVED the plastic we laid down. I know some of you are freaking out that I let her play with it....It was only for a few minutes and I watched her the entire time...sheesh. =)

She loved the noise it made. Everytime we put her down she would go straight for it.

So we had to contain her in her Mini Me cart. She loved checking herself out in the mirror.

Here is the after.

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Haylee is now 8 months old!!!

I only got one picture of her before she discovered the sign....

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This picture reminded me of one of my famous lines as a kid.

Guesses anyone??

"All this pay-per. All this crwap!"

Weren't you laying down a second ago?!

The other day I laid Haylee down in the living room, went into the kitchen, and when I turned and looked back at her she was sitting up! I second guessed myself, thinking "I did lay her down when I left her, didn't I?! And now she is sitting!" Now she is a pro, the second you put her down she sits right back up all by herself. She also hit another milestone, clapping her hands together. When I got excited that she sat up all by herself she immediatly started clapping. So proud of herself! Here she is right after she sat up on her own with her silly laughing face. (She has a snort laugh which explains the face...)

Our Anniversary

We have been married for 4 years now!!

My Mom watched the girls while we went out to dinner at Mastro's City Hall Steakhouse (formally Drinkwater). It was sooooo good!! I only have 2 pictures from our evening out, one is of the dessert and the other is a very unflattering picture of us!

Here is the dessert that was on the house since it was our anniversary! How nice!

Fountain Hills

We decided to take a day trip to Fountain Hills along with Tony and Holly. I love that the place we were married is such a cool place to visit! They have a new (well new to us) children's play area complete with a water zone. Rylee loved it! Daddy had to give Rylee a little push because she was being cautious about getting wet. After that she was good to go...

Chasing the ducks

Sliding...(Sorry Scott, had to post at least one! =)

Holly took this pic but I had to post it. They look they are breaking into a dance routine.

"And 5,6,7,8!"

Haylee and the fountain
The girls. This is the best picture I could get of them, lol.
Family of 4
Scott and I were trying to get a picture of just the 2 of us but Rylee kept interfering. This is Rylee trying to press the button on the camera just as the self-timer went off. lol
We got it

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A few highlights from last week:

Rylee went stinky on the potty!!! She asks everytime she has to go now. It magically clicked, just like everyone and everything I've read said it would happen! I am so excited!!! Finally!

We bought Haylee a walker because I just didn't know what to do with her in this inbetween stage. She isn't crawling yet so I wanted to give her a way to get around. She is like a little Mini-Me following me around.
We also got her a big girl car seat. The days of lugging her around in the ridiculously heavy infant carrier are over, thank goodness!!
Her first trip in it.