Benny and Joon

One more project checked off the list! Yesterday we were able to get our bedroom floor in. (When I say we, it was mostly Josh and his dad, though I put a board or 2 in.) It looks awesome!!! It's a lot lighter than the floor we put in downstairs and looks great with the new paint.


After we had chucked the carpet and padding out the window, we were pulling up staples in the closet and Josh's dad says "This is mouse poop." After he said that I thought "huh, what is this under the wall." I used my trusty pliers and pulled out the culprits, two wee mice (at least I hope they were the culprits and there aren't more running around in there). They were very much dead...I'd guess a few years or more. They have been named Benny and Joon, and tossed out of our window into the bushes, where they can make friends with the bugs.


Other exciting news! Hailey has found her center of gravity, making sitting up much much easier. My baby can balance. It will be a whole new perspective on the world for her. Also, she has now eaten some avocado! Yummy! She likes eating much better now than when it was just rice cereal. And next week, (on Thanksgiving) she will get to have some sweet potatoes too!

Red, Black, and Gray

We finally finished painting our room!!!!! Our room has been in the process of being painted for many months now, and we are finally done! (Except for a few touch-ups.) Before we bought our own place we would talk about how we would paint things and such when we had our own place. And now, we finally do! It's so fun to be able to do what you want to with it. Over the last 3 years our ideas have morphed to many different things, and this is what we finally came up with. It looks awesome.


There is still much more work to be done. We are going to tear out the carpet and put in laminate (fake wood) flooring. We are going to install some book shelves so we will finally have a home for our many books. And, we are going to make a headboard for our bed. When all is said and done, it is going to rock.

6 Months!

Yesterday Hailey turned 6mo old! I can't believe my little girl is getting so big. Time has flown by. She had a doctor's appointment and weighed in at 16lbs 7oz and was 25.5in long. I remember when I used to be able to get my hand around her thigh (with room to spare) and now I can hardly get my hand half way around. She is so precious. Josh and I are having such a blast with her. She is getting more and more fun every day.

She had her shots yesterday morning, and it has been a little rough. She hasn't ever really had a reaction to her shots before, so it is a new (not so fun) adventure. Poor babe. She just wanted to be held all night long (I don't know how she can tell a difference when she's sleeping, but every time I tried to put her down she started screaming). She seems to be feeling a bit better though. Her fever has gone down, though not completely away and she is actually taking a nap in her bed.

Today we are going to give her some real food, not just the rice cereal. I'm excited. I'm hoping she will like it better. After the first time we did cereal, she wasn't a big fan, so maybe a little flavor will make it better.

It has been an amazing 6 months watching her grow and learn new things. She soaks in everything around her and is so interested in everything. I love it. I never thought being a stay at home mom would be so awesome.

6mo! Finally asleep after a long day.

First Food

Yesterday we gave Hailey her first taste of real food (aside from the hot dog Josh stuck in her mouth a few months ago). She has been very interested in food for about the last month, and definitely new something was up when I was mixing her cereal together. We sat her down in her high chair and when I tried to give her the first spoon full, she grabbed the spoon out of my hand and shoved it in her mouth. It was adorable. Granted, everything she gets a hold of gets shoved into her mouth, but this time it was supposed to be there. We gave her a few spoon fulls with most of it ending up on her face and bib, but I think she swallowed a little bit. It was a really fun "first" for all three of us. Next week we are going to try a veggie.

Snip Snip

Hailey got her first haircut. Her hair has just been growing and growing. She was starting to look a little ragged and her bangs were in her eyes, so we decided to get a little trim. Wednesday evening we went over and Hailey's aunt Kristen gave her a hair cut. She did a really good job, even with Hailey constantly turning her head trying to see what was going on.

New Tricks!

She has done it! She has rolled over from her back to her tummy. On Monday she was laying on the floor trying to reach a rattle. She tried a few times and finally flipped over. It was so exciting! This morning she was laying on her back when I left the room, and when I came back, she was on her tummy.

Hailey is also learning how to sit up. She is getting stronger and stronger every day. It's amazing to watch her grow and learn how to do new things. She can't sit up by herself for very long, but she can do a good 10-15 seconds without falling over. She really enjoys sitting up and playing with her toys, a new perspective on things.

No one is holding her up!

As for her last new trick, Josh has taught her how to turn off the light.

Halloween

We had such an awesome day. We carved our pumpkins in the morning and Josh came up with this cool idea of putting dry ice in them. It took a few tries to get it to work right. It looked really cool, though the pound of dry ice was gone before we knew it. Now that we have it figured out, we can do it better next year.

Josh baked his pumpkin by putting a 250w halogen work light inside of it. It was awesome, though after a few hours it started to stinketh.

Hailey was a tiger and she looked super cute. In the afternoon we had a neighborhood party for the little kids to go trick-or-treating before dark. It was actually really fun. There are 2 other babies that were born within 5 days of Hailey, and we finally took a picture of the three of them together. It has been so fun to watch there similarities and differences as they grow.

Later that night we got a good amount of trick-or-treaters, which rocked. Last year we had one knock at our door.

Hailey and her pumpkin

Rawr!!
(Ok, so it was a yawn.)

Tave the Pirate, Hailey the Tiger, Noah the Bee

Us and Our Pumpkins

I would say Hailey's first Halloween was a success. We are already starting to plan for next year.