Your grandma Luli went with me to take you to Tyler to meet your great grandparents, Mama Lou & Daddy Dann on July 31st.   What a great time we had!  We got some great pictures and some even better video.  Daddy Dann is offically the first man to ever serenade you!  You were very intently listening and watching as he sang to you…it was one of the sweetest things I’ve ever witnessed!

Yesterday marked your 11 week birthday….you are getting more precious by the day!  I am going back to work on Monday (8/3)…that will be your first day at daycare.  While it will be terribly hard to go from spending every waking moment with you for the past 12 weeks to leaving you in the care of strangers, I know it is a necessary evil.  A cruel one, but a necessary one. 

Luli is coming in town for the weekend.  We are all 3 going to make a trip to Tyler on Friday so you can meet your great grandparents, Mama Lou & Daddy Dann.  Your daddy has to work so he won’t be able to join us.  🙁 

I’ve taken up the art of scrapbooking….and believe it or not, I am actually enjoying it!  I’ve attempted this before with zero success so I am not sure what made me think this time around would be any better.  However, the fact that I’ve already created 4 super cute pages gives me hope that this time will be different.  My favorite page so far is the one that shows how your father and I met; I even still had a copy of the personal ad your daddy posted on the internet.  It’s hard to believe that was almost 9 years ago!!!  This book will be an awesome thing for you to have when you get older. 

Your father is obsessed with making up fun nicknames for you.  The one that began while we were in the hospital and is probably used most often is Hailey Bear.  Your Godfather, Jeremy, calls you the Comet…as in Hailey’s Comet.  And your father has used everything from Sweet Pea to Princess.  Time will tell which ones stick for the long haul.  Good times, good times!  🙂

We saw Halloween costumes when we were at Babies R Us the other day.  We both got excited at the thought of how much fun is it going to be to dress you up!  They had lady bug, pumpkin, pea pod, and ghost costumes out already and the lady said there were more styles on the way.  How exciting!!!  Just the first of many wonderful holiday memories to come.

We love you so very much…you truly are our precious angel!

It’s a milestone…one that proves that our little girl is growing up way too fast.  You have officially outgrown the Newborn size diaper, the “N”, and have now graduated to the next size, the “1”.

It’s the end of an era.  🙁

Wow!  It’s hard to believe, but you are over 2 months old now!  You are growing up so fast….you can follow our faces with your eyes, you smile when something makes you happy, you’ve almost learned how to full on laugh, you are learning how to bat at things that catch your eye, you’ve started sleeping longer through the night (sometimes), you can go almost 4 hours between daytime feedings now, you’ve learned how to entertain yourself, and you are growing like a weed! 

We had your 2 month check up last week (7/8) and you were 23 inches long and weighed 10 pounds and 12 ounces!  You were right on for your weight but were above average for your height.  Even though your appointment was only 6 days ago, your father and I discussed the fact that you looked as though you had grown more just in the past week.  So, we decided to measure you… and we were right!!!  You were clearly 24 inches long last night…that’s TWO FEET tall!!!

Your looks have changed a bit since you were born.  You have really have started to take on the major facial features of  your father.  You have a few of my better features like my nose and hair; unfortunately you’ve gotten some of the not so great ones like my forehead wrinkles and a slightly lazy left eye.  The good news, I’ve lived 33 years with those things are have done just fine…I have no doubt you will, too.  🙂  The bottom line….YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE! 

Your grandpa Terry and grandma Sue came over for dinner last night.  They got some good cuddle time in…it’s clear that they adore you! 

Though nothing can fully prepare me for it, I am trying to embrace the thought of you going to daycare.  It’s going to be SO hard for me to go from spending every hour of every day with you to only getting to spend about 6 hours a day with you.  🙁  I see many tears in your mommy’s future.

We put Hailey in the pool for the first time today and she LOVED it!  We first put her in her floatie (the crab) and she was quite fond of it.  Then we took her out and daddy held onto her real tight and put her in the water.  It seemed to be very relaxing for her.  Thank goodness she’s going to be a water girl…that will come in very handy in our family!

Also see pics from the big day in the pool: Hailey Pics

And, more Hailey Video

Caught this pic of Hailey’s biggest smile ever…well, biggest ever as of 6/27.

Precious