Easter Weekend

So this time I have no excuse why it took me so long to post...just been busy with life. Haley had her 18 month checkup last week and did great. For once she didn't even cry when the doctor came in. She's holding steady at 20.8 lbs, which is in the 5% now. Back to where she came into this world at. The dr. wasn't too worried though. Her height was right in the 50% and her head is still big at 75%. It'f funny because every single time they measure it twice. This time it was three times. I just keep telling the dr. her daddy has a big head...sorry Matt but you do.

On Friday we drove to San Antonio to go to Sea World. We had bought a season pass last year which was good for this year too. Haley did good watching the animals and we think she had a good time. We went late in the day Friday so we came back Saturday too. As far as Friday night, I had reserved a crib in the hotel room but when we got there the only crib they had was broken. So Haley slept with us, if you can call it that. She was so excited and spent half the night talking to us trying to wake us up my poking our eyes out. It was cute, but not too cute at 3am. We knew it was time to leave Sea World on Saturday when Haley wanted to eat her food off the floor, her diaper came apart, it started raining and Matt lost his wallet all during the Shamu show. Perhaps we should have left earlier looking back but at least Haley didn't poop on me with no diaper and Matt's wallet was returned to lost and found!

Easter Sunday we went to church and got caught in the rainstorm walking back to our car....oh well...kind of fun. We ate dinner with my family up at the lake and had a chubby bunny contest...needless to say Nathan won. I came in last as I was laughing way too hard.

Enjoy the pictures and have a good week.

Waiting patiently for the dolphin show

There's the dolphin

At the pool trying to pet the dolphins.

Feeding the birds.

Easter Sunday

Playing in the water in my Easter dress and crocs (i love those stinkin shoes, I want to wear them all the time)

Smelling the flowers with Uncle Mark

Blowing bubbles in the front yard

Chubby Bunny contest......

Nathan the winner!

Matt was 3rd

I'm back!

Sorry it has been so long since I updated the blog! Let me catch everyone up. Grandma & Grandpa Vara and Unlce Michael came to visit for two weeks over spring break. Haley had a great time with her grandparents and we went to the museum, butterfly center and the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo during that time. I was at work but Matt reported she really liked the animals at the rodeo but he was getting nervous that she was always trying to get too close to the big cows. She has no fear!
This past week we have just been getting back into our routine. I think Haley is going to be a girly girl. Not sure where she gets that from but she loves purses, shoes and anything that glitters. Grandma Jean bought her some "bling bling" sandles and Haley wants to wear them all the time. Today I took her to the mall and she was helping me push the stroller. Well, that was until she saw the purse display. She got so excited and ran over to it and wanted to pull all the purses down. I pulled her away but next was the shoes. We quickly had to leave Dillards :) At least she knows where Daddy's credit card is too!
She's been trying hard to say new words. This week she said banana, juice, McDonalds. Today is was "mouse" all through the mall when she saw the posters for a new movie coming out with a mouse in them. I didn't even know she knew what a mouse was? Oh, and I can't forget her new favorite body part to say..."boobie". Yep, she points to them and says it....nice. Well, no big plans for this week but everyday is an adventure with our little one.

Enjoy the pictures from the last 3 weeks.

Eating my cookies


My face after a peanut butter and jelly sandwich....who wants a kiss?


Trying on Mom's shoes...what fun. Later in the week I found her high heels


Trying to wake up Uncle Michael by poking his eye out

Checking out the rodeo in my boots!

Helping mom "prune" the flowers before she even had a chance to plant them. I kept taking them out of the pot and putting them on the other side of the deck. Carrying the flowers is much more fun then planting them.

Last Sunday we went to take pictures in the bluebonnets in Montgomery.

Daddy and Haley

Mommy and Haley

Trying to figure out how to get out of the flowers

Pretty girl (it was windy this day...can you tell by my hair)

I'm so silly

Haley's New Class

Yesterday I saw first hand how crazy some parents are for their kids! We decided to register Haley for day class at a church between my mom's house and ours. I had heard it was hard to get your kids in and they only had 3 spots for Haley's age so get there early. Registration started at 8am on Tuesday so I thought I was early showing up at 6:00am, which for me is REALLY early to be somewhere. Anyways, I walked in and was #24 on the list!! Some CRAZY people started camping at 6pm the night before!!! I love my child but I don't see how any school is worth that. Turns out 6am was fine for us as Haley got a spot. It wasn't the days we wanted but that's ok and we are waitlisted for the other days. So starting in the fall Haley will go to class 2 days a week from 9-2. It will be good for her to get around other kids so we can't wait to see how she does. I guess that was my introduction to crazy parents and I'm sure more will come.

Also yesterday was Matt's birthday but as luck would have it, he ended up coming home from work sick. He feels a little better today so hopefully we'll get his birthday celebration in soon. Other then that, life has been busy and fun. Haley has been blabbering away and every once in awhile you can actually understand what she is saying. Today she went to Weight Watchers with Grandma, I know...what an experience!...,and she talked the entire time. Oops....good thing she is cute so not too many people cared I was told. Enjoy some of the catch up pictures.

Haley and Grandma at Grandma's birthday

Uncle Mark and Haley

Haley playing hide and seek with the soccer ball. She kept putting it under her dress hiding it.

Superwoman Haley using my jacket as a cape

Throwing gang signs already???



Pushing her baby in the baby stroller. This was supossed to stay at Grandma's but Haley wouldn't get in the car without it and even cried the ENTIRE way home since she couldn't push it while in her car seat. After she went to bed I had to hide it in the trunk in order to get it back to Grandma's without the same sceeen. All for a baby doll stroller!

What a day

Well, I'll start off with the good news. The week up until today has been wonderful. We celebrated Grandma Jean's birthday on Monday and had a good time. I'll post pictures later. Then yesterday Matt and I celebrated our 3 year anniversary with an AWESOME dinner at Perry's. That was my first time their and it was delicious. So at least the first half of our week was good.

And then today....I went to check my checking account online and found that someone had decided to have a nice Valentine's day on my dime! Yep - $1200 worth of counterfeit checks were written against my account using fake checks. All within 4 hours on the same day. Luckily it was my Woodforest account and since I work there, I marched downstairs to our fraud department and the money was back on my account that day. It looks to be local as they were all local places but they have my drivers license number, date of birth and expiration date. So far they have only created checks with my info, no credit cards yet. For the next several months I'll be on the lookout for identity theft...fun! So I had to leave work early to go file a police report, which is an experience all by itself. I finished that, walked out to my car, started to drive away but before I even got out of the parking lot I saw a woman laying on the ground convulsing and a guy holding her. So I stopped, asked if they needed help, then ran back in the police station for help. While they were calling for help inside, I was helping the women on the ground trying to make sure she didn't get up as she was really confused and dazed. Long story short, she had a seizure for some reason and once ems came I left. What a day. Oh, and I left out the part where I spilled my lunch all down my shirt and had to go change at lunch....ahhhh.

But, we were reminded these past couple of days how precious life is. My mom had a friend pass away on Tuesday and Matt just found out an old neighbor of his that was his age passed away this week as well. So, even with the bad day I had, we are reminded everyday how fortunate we are and things could be much worse. If all I have to worry about is someone writing checks with my name, my life is pretty good :)

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Post Valentine's Day! Hope everyone had a great day. We spent the day with our greatest valentine and had a nice dinner at home. We HATE fighting crowds on Valentine's and since our anniversary is later this week we usually combine the two dates and have one really nice dinner. As for Haley, she enjoyed McDonalds, which I'm betting would be fine with her for every meal.
Her ear infection seems to be much better. She has a few more days on her antibotic and luckily Granpda Jeff (who is a pharamacist) recommended getting her medicine flavored. I've had no problems getting Haley to take it all each day. Looks like we're over our first ear infection and hopefully it will be the last! Other then that, the week was pretty unadventerous, or at least as normal as it can be with a toddler :) Have a great week!!


Wow, look how much I have grown in 1 year...
Valentines Day 2008 (4 months old....and yes, my chubby phase)

Valentines 2009 (16 months old)

There's my smile

Showing off all her teeth

Dr. Appt

What a difference a few days make. Haley has been fighting this cold/runny nose/coughing thing for almost 2 weeks now. Her nose was starting to get better and we thought we were over the bad stuff, until yesterday. She had trouble sleeping for a few nights but we just thought it was because she was congested. Then yesterday she was very sleepy and fussy most of the day. We decided to take her temp and it was 103! Don't I feel horrible for not taking it before. We finally got it down some with Tylenol but took her to the dr. this am. He took one quick look and gave the diagnosis: Bad Ear Infection. He gave her an antibotic so we'll see how she does. This is her first time to ever get any medicine and her first ear infection. Not bad for 16 months. We did see she officially weighs 20.2 lbs (with clothes and shoes on). Hopefully she'll start feeling better soon and start eating again soon. I'm working from home today so better get back!!

Here's some pics from Saturday when she was feeling better.

I AM just like my Daddy...I love chips and queso


Unlce John and his girlfriend Kendall playing with me at Main Event


Me and Daddy


Playing fooseball (no idea how to spell that!) with Trenton

Wow...this is lots of fun!

Fashion Show

This week we have been fighting off illness. Tuesday Haley started with a little snotty nose. On Wednesday, Grandma was sick and couldn't watch her so Matt and I split the day to stay home with Haley. Haley by then had a really really snotty nose. I'll spare all the details but needless to say I'm sick now and Matt sounds like he is coming down with it too. At least we are keeping Kleenex in business.
Even with feeling a little under the weather, Haley has been a character this week. I call it her fashion show. Let's walk thru it...

Tuesday...doing a throwback to Michael Jackson with the one handed glove. We tried to get her to do the moonwalk but that didn't go over to well.

Thursday...ode to the plumber's crack.

Friday...another 80's thowback...leg warmers. These are actually my socks that she LOVES for some reason so Matt put them on her and she wouldn't take them off. Who cares that they do not match and her pants are up to her chest..she thinks she looks GOOD. Makes me want to bust out the Olivia Netwon John and sing Let's Get Physical

Hope you enjoyed her fashion show. I'm sure there will be more to come.

Saturday we decided to enjoy the nice weather outside. Here's Haley trying to catch up to Buster to take him on a walk.

She caught him and walked for awhile but looks like she forgets to hold on to him. Then he runs around and she can't grab the leash again.

Sunday morning and her first golf lesson with Daddy. And yes, those are the socks/leg warmers again. At least this time they are matching. Guess Mom's socks are better then shoes any day.