Getting bigger & bigger

Everything in our world now is a "big girl" thing. Here is just another "big girl" thing...drinking from a big-girl cup. And VERY proud of it...

I just love this fall skirt I bought her. I'm not sure what I said to make her laugh....but she laughed hard....

Pappy & Haylee

Pappy was in town on business this week and came to stay with us. Haylee had so much fun playing outside with him. Here are some pictures...

Cleaning

Haylee loves her cleaning stuff she got for her birthday. Last weekend she "helped me" clean our bathroom for literally 30 minutes! I've decided to take advantage of the excited help.....b/c she will turn into a teenager one day. And when that day happens, she'll still help me...but not b/c she wants to. :)

You can kind of see her cute little booty in her big girl undies...

Farewell diapers

We have been potty training for exactly one week today and my daughter is doing soooo good! She wears big girl underwear all day and only wears pull ups during nap and at night (& if we're gonna be gone for a while). However she rode home the whole 30 minute drive from Miss Shari's today in underwear...and stayed dry! (she even does POOPOO in the potty!!) She's only had about 3 accidents in the past 4 days or so. YIPEE! It's so awesome!


This isn't her best picture....and no award for it either....but it's all she'd give us.

Playing outside

Haylee's two favorite things right now are playing outside and playing in her room. The child would play outside 24/7 if we let her....which we love b/c we love to be outside too. She loves it so much that when we get home and get out of the car in the garage she usually says, "No side, no side." Meaning she doesn't want to go inside....ha!

The other night while playing outside I grabbed my camera to get some pics of what we do most evenings. Bebe & Pawpaw gave Haylee an awesome sand/water toy. She LOVES this thing! Here are some pictures of her playing with it...





She LOVES to put water in this pitcher and add it to the mess...

Then this is what it usually looks like.....a fun muddy mess that Mommy is ONLY okay with b/c it's an outside toy. We usually go straight to the bathtub after playing with this toy b/c she is usually covered in mudd as well.

Then the other night she wanted to practice her flips in the grass....so I threw Tommy the camera to get some pics...

We've been getting a small taste of fall weather and it's been GREAT! yipee!

Labor Day

Haylee & I celebrated Labor Day by making letter shapped sugar cookies. They've been working on numbers, letters, shapes & colors at Miss Shari's house for a couple months now...so I thought Haylee would have fun with this. Boy was I right! I have a 100 piece cookie cutter set that comes complete with every cookie cutter shape you could ask for! Every holiday, letter, number, and shape! So we'll be making cookies for Halloween, Thanksgiving & Christmas this year!

Haylee helped me roll the cookie dough...


And cutting the cookies was her favorite part (besides the eating the cookie part...)

I think this is one of the cutest pictures ever. She didn't understand why I had to put all her pretty cookies in the oven for so long. So I turned the oven light on so she could watch them cook. You can tell by the grin on her face how much she loved this...

Cute hair & Elmo

I love it when her hair flips out like this....it's just so cute. It only does it some days....

After I took her picture, she said, "Elmo Cheese!" So we had to take a picture of Elmo. She was telling Elmo to say cheese while I took this...ha!