At the park

Haileys so big…

How big is she? She’s so bug she goes over to other peoples houses and they have to re-baby proof thing they thought they had squared away with their shorter child.

day one, trying the shred

I don’t want to jinx myself. But I don’t think i will. I borrowed the 30 day shred by Jillian Michael’s from my friend Meghan and I am determined to finish it. I EVEN FREAKING DID THE [MODIFIED] PUSH UPS. that’s unheard of from me. I didn’t even do those pre-baby. I’m sore right now. I’m going to go out and buy a shit-ton of salad and fruit (and teach hailey to learn to chew so she can enjoy this food too) and veggies too.

Let’s just say i’m very happy for it only being a high intensity 20-minute work out per day. I think any long and i’d die or be discouraged. And as pathetic as it sounds, the encouraging things she (Jillian Michaels) says on the DVD are so true. “there are no rests in a 20 minute work out.” and “if you don’t think you can do it you’ll never excell” stuff like that. totally true. i look at my gut and I’m like, that is the perfect example of thinking you “can’t do it.” So it’s really worth the shot to stick it out for the 30 days. I mean it’s 30 days?! come on.

MY BROTHER did p90X. MY BROTHERRRR. My “fat Asian little-big-brother.” enough said. Bro Tim, you are encouragement and motivation for me so don’t think I’m knockin’ on you. you kicked your own ass. It was awesome.

in other news, uhhh..
I’m getting an oil change tomorrow. EXCITING. Honestly I have nothing else to tell you, general public you.

Thank you

Hailey was fumbling with a Gerber boxed meal while we waited in line at the commissary today. She proceeded to drop it like she always does but the nice lady behind us picked it up for her. She said, “here ya go.” Hailey: “tank you” Lady: “oh wow!” she was impressed she said Thank you back for that atta girl.

Should have seen the way his heart melted.

Daddy left for a short trip today, and while dropping him off at the airport daddy wanted to hug his baby girl good-bye one last time.

He hugged her oblivious little body and kissed her a few times, she kept saying da-da da-da and threw a few smiles his way. Then he passed her to me, and I went to put her in the car seat and she started crying, with little tears and everything. Had he stuck around any longer his whole body would have turned to mush, but instead only his heart melted. It was so sad. I chose to think she was missing him, instead of thinking she just didn’t want to be in the car seat some more, which makes my womanly emotional side want to cry. (but I didn’t.)

I can’t imagine leaving this little girl for more than hours at a time. Not because she’s hard to deal with (well, that too) but because she’s become a staple in my life.

And while I use to be able to just go on my merry way when Tim would be MIA for whatever reason, I now feel incomplete when he’s gone. Don’t know if it’s the dependency for help with Hailey but It’s just not the same anymore when he’s gone.

She’s been a trooper today on an altered schedule, now it’s time for a nap then a trip to the commissary. Someone grant me patience for that!

Imitations

Hailey’s to the age where she’s doing imitations of everything we do. It’s super cute to see her try and call over the cat the way we do (by rubbing the pad of our thumb across all other finger tips..as if you were sprinkling spices into a dish), we tell her sounds “FFfffan” and she tries to say it… it’s all so cute. She runs to fast for her own two feet and doesn’t look up when she does so, nearly enough.
She’ll lean in to kiss me for no apparently reason, that’s what gets me.
Recently she’s been bonding with Lance the cat. sort of extremely cute if you ask me. She rubs her head into his, and he nudges her, she lays on his belly.. he doesn’t care. I almost hate the people who didn’t give him a chance the first time around. the people who gave him up because he was “too loving.” FOOLS there is no such thing! granted, he is a biter. I am always afraid he’ll be an old cat one day and hailey goes to grab him and he’ll be like “CHOMP, DONT YOU TOUCH ME CHIL’.”

She experienced her first thunderstorm and power outage this week! the second the power went off she looked up at me and cried because she was scared. Incredibly cute. I’m trying to condition her to not be scared of the thunder when it’s dark out by making light of it, saying “boom boom Hailey!” she smiles.
Header is new & recent. I got my RAW image editor working on PS CS3 and so I’m a happy camper.

Precursor to a blog update coming later…

I swear directly after my shower I will write something today. I swear. Scouts honor.

Take a walk in mommy’s shoes

Pretty sure you’ll trip!

I don’t know what you are

Are you sick? do you have allergies? PLEASE don’t let these be allergies. Oh my god no. You’re a snot nosed, runny nosed, coughing, sneezing (omg they’re messy) sometimes feverish, cranky, clingy baby.
The doctor put you on meds for Allergies, Zyrtec. Umm… is it working? not working? I can’t tell. You weigh 25lbs, you’re officially huge.
I just really wish you’d feel better and BE better. You are a handful plus some right now!

First water expedition

..fail! You act like you didn’t float around in fluid for 9 months. You were very afraid of the water despite the life vest, despite all the kids younger and older than you having a good time around you. Closer to the end of the trip you showed some sort of appreciation for the water and trip to the pool; leaning forward to splash with your hands or kick your feet. It was a Lil cold, even though it was 85 out, 90 + in the sun…the water was still chilly.