Haylee's 1st dance recital!

Haylee had her first dance recital last weekend! She took dance in the 2 year old class at my best friend from college's studio. When I used to teach at a studio, we only taught 3 years and up and I must say I am really impressed with what 2 year olds can do! I was shocked! They basically did what the 3 year olds did that I used to teach...impressive!

Anyway....it was fun and Haylee had a blast "dancing on the big stage."


Here are some pictures of her getting ready....don't mind the crazy hair, we hadn't fixed her hair yet (and she's had a hair cut since these pics too!)...

This next picture is at the dress rehearsal while we were sitting and waiting for her turn...

Here I am with my girl before her big performance (ha!). Thank goodness that tutu is big enough to cover my giant pregnant self! :)

And here's one with her proud Daddy! :)

This is her teacher, Miss Nicole, who I used to teach with. We also went to high school together and church youth group years ago! :)

Here's one shot of her on stage....all the other pics I shot had other kids in the picture and I didn't feel right posting pictures of someone else's kid online.

For family members who don't live near us....I video taped the dress rehearsal performance and we bought the professional DVD that should be in sometime in July so you can all see it! :)

Memorial Day 2010

Last weekend we were busy...Tommy got some yard work done and Haylee and I did more prepping for baby in doors. My list of "to-do's" before her arrival is ALMOST cleared! I hope to be done in the next few days.

Anyway, I pulled out all the bottles...whew...I forgot how many you have to have. WOW! I cleaned the bottles, sterilized the nipples, and put the bottles away. Meanwhile I gave Haylee one bottle for her baby doll. She literally sat and "fed" her baby for about 30 or 40 minutes. HILARIOUS!


























...and like any mommy of a little baby, you watched some TV while feeding her baby :)




























While I was taking these pictures she told me this:

"Mommy, when baby stista gets here, you can sit on one couch and feed her and I'll sit on the other couch and feed my baby."

LOL!! Everyday she tells me something new we're gonna do together with baby sister. In fact, today in the car she told Tommy and I that she was going to put baby sister in her car seat and buckle her seat belt. She sure seems excited about this baby...I hope the baby isn't too much of a disappointment to her when she just lays there and does nothing. LOL!






























Check out all this junk! Seriously...TWO tubs full of bottles and nursing supplies. Whew. You really forget after a few years how much stuff babies come with!

The evening of Memorial Day our block had a cook-out...complete with summer food, bubbles and plastic horse shoes for the kiddos, adult beverages for those not pregnant, and a hammock that Haylee thought was the coolest thing ever!

Here's a picture of Haylee on the hammock with Courtney and Delani...Haylee LOOVES to play with the big girls on the street. She wants sooo bad to be as big as them! :)

Doesn't everyone's kid use plastic horse shoes as tutus?? :)

HAPPY SUMMER!! :)

For my Nina!

Hey Nina...here is the picture I promised a

while ago of our new patio furniture!! We just love it and (when it's not too terribly hot) we eat out there a couple nights a week! It's great and makes for an easy clean-up! :)

The Frank Buck Zoo

My sister and her friend, Ornella, were in town visiting this past weekend. So we decided to take Haylee to the Frank Buck Zoo. It's a smaller zoo....but GREAT for Haylee's age b/c it doesn't take long to see everything and it's never crowded!

Here are some pictures from our day...

Nana & Haylee walking into the zoo..


























Pappy & Haylee checking out the flamingos!

Haylee taking a peek at the bunny rabbits. She thought they were cute!

Feeding the goats with Aunt Steph...

It was VERY HOT! Can't you tell by our matching pink cheeks??? :)

Finger Paints!

So apparently this is the week of "let's pull out Christmas gifts we haven't used yet". Maybe it's the anticipation of summer coming and us having lots of extra time to play. Anyway, we gave Haylee some finger paints for Christmas and just haven't used them yet....well we pulled them out the other day and she had SOOOO much fun with it! We've painted plenty of times, just never finger paints. Here are some pictures of the fun...

Tappy

Haylee got a gift card to Build-A-Bear from her Uncle Jeremy for Christmas. We decided to save it since she got SO MUCH at Christmas....we thought we'd wait until Christmas was long gone...so hey, it's May...way far from Christmas and her b.day is three months away, so the timing is right. So off we went to Build-A-Bear this past weekend.

We talked it up to Haylee and she was sooo excited! She picked a puppy and named him "Tappy"....she actually named him something waaaaay longer than that. The name she said over and over to us Tommy and I could not really repeat or figure out how to spell. So Tommy suggested to her that we shorten "her" name to Tappy. Yes, Tappy is a girl she says. And we let Haylee pick out two accessories for Tappy. She picked an A&M shirt (which made her daddy oh so proud!) and a pair of hot pink sunglasses. This kid cracks me up.

After we had been home awhile she asked me to take a picture of her and Tappy. I love that she is starting to like to have her picture taken lately....it's awesome! I think we are over the run-from-the-camera-stage! YIPEE! I knew from taking pictures of other kids that this ended around age 3...yipee! :)

Anyway, here is Tappy!



























Haylee also insisted that I take a picture of her kissing Tappy...oh dear baby sister, get ready...I think your big sister is going to be smoothering you in kisses the moment you join us!

Crawfish boil!!

A couple weeks ago we had a huge crawfish boil with our awesome neighbors. We have the best block...we all get along, the kids play hard together, and we do fun stuff like this all the time.

Here's Haylee & Courtney having fun...


























And here she is checking out the crawfish during their last few minutes of life. She thought they were pretty cool.

Haylee played HARD all day....and then took a great nap halfway through it all and slept HARD that night! :)

She also enjoyed having to put sunscreen on....weird child.

I just LOVE this next picture! She looks so sweet here!! And isn't her bathing suit for this season ADORABLE? hehe