Family Pictures 2009

Enjoy our new family pictures! It was definitely exhausting getting our sweet little Haylee to cooperate, but we did end up with some amazing photos. Our photographer, Janelle Bird with Labella Photography is the best! I am so happy with how they turned out!

We tried everything possible to keep Haylee sitting in one place for more than two minutes at a time. Pearls seemed to do the trick!

While Haylee was busy crawling all over the studio, we decided to take a few shots of just the two of us!

Janelle took some "on-the-move" shots because Haylee did not want to sit still. This one turned out amazing! It is actually one of my favorites.

I am a little upset with myself that I did not send out Christmas cards this year. I procrastinated like always. I put this photo session together in one week, outfits and all. I was so lucky Janelle was able to fit us in at the last minute. So consider this our Christmas greeting.
Merry Christmas! May your holidays be merry and bright!

Haylee is now 8 months old! Time is going so fast and she is growing and changing so much! I did not even do a post when she turned 7 months and by the time I got around to it, she was turning 8 months. Well, here is a little update and some pictures .... FINALLY!

Haylee started scooting on November 9th. She is getting around quite nicely as a matter of fact. I wouldn't call it crawling because she is not up on her knees. She really just pulls her body with her hands and pushed with her feet. She is everywhere and getting into everything!

She just started moving one night when Rich laid down his shiny watch on the floor and Haylee was determined to get it. We were so proud of her!

Don't worry! We let her play with the watch as soon as she achieved her goal.

Haylee is such a happy baby! She is always smiling and loves to laugh. If you look close, you can see her two top teeth. Yup! That's right! Haylee had a total of four teeth just after turning 7 months of age. Don't even try and feel for other teeth because this little one bites!

Haylee loves her Daddy! She says "DaddaDaddaDadda...". Sometimes she gets out a little "MommaMommaMomma" too! Rich thinks she says "Dadda" more because she loves him more, but I reassure him that she is just blabbering and has no idea what she is saying. He disagrees of course!

This is Haylee up at the cabin. She loves to play with pill bottles. She just shakes them and loves to hear the noise she is creating. It actually looks bad that I let her play with them, but don't worry. I don't leave her unattended with them and as of right now, she can not get the lids off.

I leave the room for two seconds and come back to find this! My little monster got into the Wii! It is definitely time to do some more child-proofing around the house!

She was very upset when I took it away! She had fun while it lasted!