Smile

So this is Haley at the table being told "smile". Hmmm it is a different kinda smile. I'm not saying that I don't like it..it is just a little less the spontanteous grin. However, maybe we will have to use this more often, because as you can see...she is sitting still. Hmmmm
Okay and about the bad haircut...this is cutting Haley's hair in the bathtub...very difficult...People tell me to give her a lollipop and she would sit still for the haircut...others tell me to see a professional....I'm not convinced about the lollipop and I don't want to pay a professional yet....so I am left with a lopsided haircut....hmmmm....maybe for Christmas...we will get a professional?...maybe sooner...hmmmmm

Mommy & Daddy Love Haley So Much

So it has almost been a year...what a year. If the slideshow ever works you will see the most beatuiful, loving, little girl. Our Haley has brought us the most fantastic year. She is the centre of our world and we would not wish it any other way. Our family is closer than ever and we could not be happier.

What a perfect year

Create Your Own!

Daddy

These are for Daddy. Geez I am a single working mom and he wants more pictures....So this is the time I can take pictures...Bathtime..which is a good time!
We can brush our own teeth and spit! Can you guess whose toothbrush this is? It is not Winnie the Pooh....

So you all hear alot about Haley and mommy through this blog....but what about daddy? Now daddy has been away for a about a week and a half....he is working far away. I think daddy can be summed up in a little story...Here is is. So every year Andy goes away for about 3 weeks. Every year we decide that it is pointless for me to go as well...but for completely different reasons. Andy thinks that he will not be able to spend enough time with me and I might be bored and lonely. okay true...I decide not to go...because given these conditions...I will be tempted to go shopping and I can think of nothing more fun than to spend a week shopping!...and well I probably should not go shopping for a week, sit in cafes and read...entirely too decadent..best I stay home...work and pay off my current visa bill....very practical but you have never seen me really get into shopping. I really would love to go along. Okay so this year we had the same debate but with Haley. I said it was too much of a trip with a 1 1/2 year old....true enough. Andy agreed. But this is the fun part...Now about a week and 1/2 into his trip away...he has declared that next year we are both coming no matter what! He misses us terribly. And from the way he declared this...the tone in his voice...Next year we are really going along. Now I am not confused about whom he really misses the most...since he has survived this trip for many years without me...he really misses Haley...There you go. That is how Daddy feels. I think this is a great story and says everything. Smiles from mommy.

Haley's Words

So what are Haley's words these days? As we know "horse" was and continues to be one of her favorite words...these days "blue", "orange" and "purple" can come out...don't really know if these are tied to anything real. I think most parents love to exaggerate their children's vocabulary and what sounds like "dah" can be translated by the best meaning parent..into anything they wish. I can respect this..since I have been known to do it myself...However, I really wish to let you all know that these are really good words...understood by others...not just myself. Some others...let's say thanks to the three year olds in Haley's life "mine", and then "bubble", "poop" "more poop", "mommy", "mum", "ma", "daddy", "duck". Okay, she still prefers some of our sounds or symbols to real words...so some words are missing...though Haley and myself can communicate...."flower" is a sniffing sound, "dog" is unh unh unh...I really think this is Haley's interpretation of the sound they make....Then there are the confusing words...context is needed...box, books, rock, big rock, more rock, you can see the problem...then there is spoon, moon, ahh the list grows every day....I love this age.

My smiling girl

So this photography and motion thing still has me stumped. You have to take about zillion pictures before you get a good one....thank goodness for digital...I have been trying to get Haley grinning....this usually involves running or jumping these days...As we clearly saw....bribery and food only gets you eating pictures...so this is my best picture...so far...still practicing

Remember this one!

Almost one year ago...we saw our first pictures..Oct 13th to be exact...What a year!
Hi to Daddy so far away!

Eating

Not good times to take a picture....First..the breakfast of champions....this is Haley licking the butter off her bread...with one hand in the raisins....yep...sometimes this is what it comes down to. Next...trying to get her to pose with her moon cake...I had to strap it to a button and bribe her with a jelly bean...She is savouring the jelly bean with all her might. Our lovely friend Christine brought us these from the big city....kid's moon cakes in a little flower bag...they were so cute. Thanks so much Christine...next year we will drive to Chinatown ourselves to celebrate the occassion...Mommy will get better at these holidays.

Breakfast Time

So Haley has very little time to eat these days....and being strapped into a high chair or booster is almost ridiculous. She is a grown up and deserves her own chair. A chair she can climb on and off, and on and off, as often as she wishes during the course of a meal. This is her pose....and she is currently staring at the food she has spilled and I can hear the oh oh as I look at the picture! Going out to dinner?!?! hmmmmm very interesting....luckily she is very cute!

Sheri's wedding

There is always time for a park...even at Aunt Sheri's wedding. And there is certainly always time to make a new friend. So my darling little social butterfly was apparently the "one with the idea". Haley grabbed Dominique's hand on the way in and only later did we discover that they are only 6 days apart in age...with Haley being the older. Needless to say this was a true meeting of kindred spirits....when one threw something...the other usually thought it was brilliant. When one stood on a chair the other thought it was brilliant and so on. Even their dinner etiquette was so similar...neither one had time to sit still and both thought that crayons tasted quite good. It's great to meet friends!

Horse

Haley's new favorite place to sit...on her horse!