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.

A birthday party and a suprise

Today we went to The Little Gym for Tyler's 4th birthday party. I'm not sure I have ever been around so many kids under the age of 5! It was a blast...thanks Tyler for inviting us.

Playing Superheros


All the kids on the gym track -- minus Haley

Haley watching from the side while all the kids were on the gym track bouncing away. She doesn't like it for some reason?

Ready for her cake sitting next to Ashley

And on to the suprise! We ran some errands after the party, had a nice dinner and came home. After playing for awhile at home, Haley needed a diaper change for a stinky one. So I changed her diaper and let her run around naked for no more then 5 minutes while I got her bath ready. She had just done her deed so what could be left? So off to the bathroom we go. Haley ran into our closet and laughed at me. Then she peed as I was trying to get some cute pictures! Yuck! Then she proceeded to bend down and put her hand in it as to say...."I'm cleaning it up Mom". So I put down the camera and got a washcloth to clean up the mess. Haley went back out in the living room with Daddy. I walked into the closet and screamed...turns out did a little more then pee in there. OMG!!! She let out a poop too!!! Thank goodness it was solid and on Daddy's side of the closet (I know...tmi). I sprayed the carpet with Buster Spray (the animal mess cleaner), I mean I don't have experience in cleaning up baby poop from the carpet so I don't know what else will work? Good thing Buster is finally fixed or I am sure he would have tried to mark his spot too. We finally got Haley in the bath and all washed up. Our little munchkin! She makes us laugh, and keeps us on our toes too.

Caught in the act! I should have known from the face...

All clean

Mary Lou or Mia?

This past weekend we were deciding if Haley was going to be the next Mary Lou Retton (which is my all time favorite athlete no doubt!) or Mia Hamm. Saturday was her last class at The Little Gym for the semester and they had a Fall Show. For her group there wasn't too much to show but Grandma came to watch and Haley got a ribbon at the end. It wasn't her best day but she managed to smile at the end. This Saturday starts the new semester but we have kept her in the same class. It's nice to have Haley time every Saturday morning since we are both working.
Sunday it was beautiful out so we went to the park and a nice long walk. This time we brought a soccer ball and Haley showed us her best Mia Hamm impressions. I don't think Haley got the memo that Mia is not a goalie :) Watching your kids laugh and have fun has got to be one of the best parts of being a parent.
I can't believe how fast time is going by now. It's already almost the weekend again...whew! Enjoy the pictures of Haley's sports adventures.

Parachute time...not so sure about this

What just happened?

Whoops...I missed the bars

About to climb on the beam...and about 2 secs before I hit my chin on it...ouch

Getting my first ever ribbon.

Soccer time...good job watching the ball! Your Uncles Mark and Brian would be proud.

Carrying the ball is easier

Mama's gonna get me...run faster

That was fun but I am tired

Our little cowgirl

Wow....rare mid week post from Stephanie!

For Haley's first Christmas in 2007 Grandma had bought her some cute pink cowboy boots, a cowboy hat and an adorable dress. Well this summer she got pictures made with all of it on but the boots where way to big. So this Christmas Grandma bought her a new cowgirl dress so her boots wouldn't go to waste. She wore it for the first time this week and wanted nothing to do with the boots kicking them off right away. I didn't want to fuss with it in the morning as I was running late, as usual. When we got home from work and the day at Grandma's, we decided to try the boots again. This time Haley loved them. She was strutting her stuff around the house. Now the hat, not such a hit, plus it doesn't fit anymore. Hopefully now that she is comfortable with the boots she will wear them all day :)

Checking out the boots


The entire outfit


Strutting her stuff

Haley got her last Christmas present last night. Uncle Mark bought her a huge chair from Pottery Barn complete with her name! Haley loves it. She was so anxious to get it out of the car yesterday and even cried when it couldn't come out at the same time she did (she got over that really quick considering it was 30 degrees out and she was pouting outside). Thank you Uncle Mark for the great gift!!!

BTW, we do brush her hair! I'm noticing in these pictures her hair is always in her eyes. She has a swirl in forehead by her hairline and it is an odd length now so her hair always appears so uncombed (if that is a word). I'm working on my mommy skills of putting the little she has up in bows. Now only if she would leave it.