Weekend fun

I can't believe the weekend is coming to a close. Where does the time go these days? On Friday night Matt went out with the guys so Haley and I had a girls night. I decided to try my luck with her at Kobe's. I love that place but wasn't sure how she would do waiting on food too long. Turns out she loved the show. The fire was a little scary but if I held her hand she was fine. She ate all the rice, which is my favorite too! Next time I'll know to order extra rice for her. I was getting tired of lugging her diaper bag around everywhere and found the cutest backpack for her at Walmart. Hey for $5 if she didn't like it then no biggie. Needless to say, it has been a hit! She wouldn't take it off at Grandma's for 2 hours on Friday. When we got out of the car at Kobe's she had her backpack on and we parked next to the day care school bus. She was so excited yelling "Bus!". I think she might be ready for school....what do you think?

On Saturday we checked out the bike's at Toys R Us. We didn't find what we were looking for but Haley really liked this one, even picking out the helmet. It makes her look so big!!

It's a little hard to see out of the helmet when all the packaging is still on it!

We had to bribe her to look at dolls to get out of the bike section...big mistake. Haley loves "babies". We let her pick one out and she was so cute. She picked one that came with a car seat that she carried around the entire store. She even picked up an outfit for the doll but mom and dad said no to that. I think I know what to get her for her birthday now. We went to dinner on Saturday and we had to take Baby with us. She even held Baby (car seat and all) in her lap in her car seat on the way home. She is so cute taking her on walks around the house in the stroller and feeding her. Apparently Haley thinks Baby likes salsa. She gets Buster in on the action too, of course, trying to get Buster to drink out of Baby's bottle. She has such an imagination.

Today we headed off to the pool to beat the heat, not to mention all Haley wants to do these days is go swimming. She wore her new bathing suit (everything is on sale at Toys R Us) and Daddy did her hair while I had to do some work this morning. I must say he did a very good job complete with 3 bows that didn't match, but Haley picked them out.

And last but not least, I forgot to update on the new baby! We saw the specialist a few weeks ago again and she can't see anything wrong with the baby. She thinks it is healthy and now just sees me every 6 weeks to monitor for any other potential problems. That was the best news Matt and I could have hoped for. We can finally breathe a little easier and enjoy this pregnancy. The baby was actually measuring a week ahead, which is something Haley never did. Who knows, it might be an early Nov baby instead of late Nov. Haley was 2.5 weeks early and the dr. said usually your first pregnancy is your longest. The specialist had the due date of Nov 15 but my dr. still has Nov 23. There is such a range of sizes the baby can be that she will not adjust my due date unless it is 2 weeks off. So still 23 weeks pregnant...17 more to go until we meet Vara Baby #2.

Have a great week! We're off to Boston on Friday so I'll try to post some more before then. If not we'll fill up the blog with pictures from our trip up north.

Talking Haley

We have been working on some new words. Every morning when we stop at a light I say "Red light stop" and "Green light go". So yesterday morning Haley started saying something out of the blue at a stop light and I couldn't figure it out. Then it hit me...

I guess that is language only a mom can decipher at this stage. Soon enough we'll get there.

Updated pictures

I can't fall back asleep so what better to do then update Haley's blog! We had a great 4th of July complete with a Veteran's parade of WWII vets. Haley liked all the candy she got, especialy the suckers. She was a little freaked out by fireworks this year. There was a show on July 3rd that we could see from Grandma's backyard and as soon as they started she said "inside, inside". So we watched them from inside the house and she did much better. She must have sensed what was going on the next night as she cried and cried until Matt took her back inside the house shortly before the fireworks again. Oh well, maybe next year. Other then that, not much else is new. Just busy with Ms. Haley having lots of fun. She's starting to repeat everything you are saying...fun age :) This morning I was trying to put on her shoes and I said "can I have you foot please honey". She said back "foot pease huny". She tries hard, good thing we can half way understand her. Tonight she was saying goodbye before Matt took her to bed. She said bye to Mommy, Bubber (Buster), Fishy and Light and waved. Not sure why she said goodbye to the light but it was funny.
Well, since it's 4:30am guess I better try to go back to sleep. I have an ultrasound in a few hours with the specialist again and then off to work. Hopefully the news will be great at the specialist and I won't have to see her much longer. I know I'll be paying for this early morning tonight!!!

Enjoy some pics from July 4th...

Late night swim on July 4th Weekend (finally using her floaties which makes mom feel much better when she dives off the steps!)

Posing for Mom

Yep - I look just like my daddy, even up close

Doing my best to wave the flag

My loot from the parade