Random Toddlerness!

Hallie still absolutely loves the animals!  She's getting better about being gentler with the cat, but seems to not understand why the can't runs off when Hallie chases her.  Since we chase Hallie a lot and say, "I"m going to get you!", she will say something to the effect of "Meow not get you!" (meaning Lilac doesn't want to play!)

Molly is calming down a bit and not licking so much in Hallie's face, so we've had more interaction lately!

Hallie has found a liking to the water hose!   She liked when Jason would water the yard and she'd put her hand where the water came out!  Then, we just let her take control of the hose itself one day!   It was a risk, but she really enjoyed it! She knows how to turn the water on and off!

She did manage to get her face and hair a bit wet when she dropped the hose!

Here's a new toddler fashion idea-tennis shoes with PJs!

Hallie also loves the recycle bin (or what's in the recycle bin to be more accurate!) She loves bottles with tops and will thrown them down the steps outside! Jason called this toddler dumpster diving!

She's getting better with her words and singing!  It actually seems she can sing a bit on key!  She's forming more sentences we can understand and warming up to family members!!!  Yeah!  She loves to grab hands now and take you somewhere!  Her  hair is also starting to curl more at the ends!

Her birthday pics will be coming soon in two weeks!!  Can't believe it!

Early birthday present!

My mom called on Saturday to say that she saw a playhouse at a yard sale for $5.00. So, we went over there and got it for Hallie!  It's an early birthday present!  It fits nicely in our front yard (for now!).  She loves to open the shutters and the door!  She calls it a "tunnel" (because we got her a tent with a tunnel a few weeks ago and I guess it reminds her of that!)

The back of her hair was very curly today, so I tried to take a pic of it!

Hallie is moving on from her addition to Elmo and now is interested in Dora, the Explorer, and this show on Netflix called the Mooh Brothers (about cows & farm animals). We think she mainly likes the theme music of each show because she wants to play once it ends!  

She learning more Elvis songs (especially likes "All Shook Up" and "Teddy Bear").

Something new she's saying now is if we tell her "yes", her response is "No, yes!"  We usually laugh when she does this, but sometimes it can be annoying!

The Beach and More!

We had our first trip to the beach and it went a bit better than expected!  We knew she wouldn't like the water, but she did enjoy the sand!  She seemed to like the ocean from afar because she loved the deck at the condo and kept saying "water, water" when she wanted to go out there!

Look at that bikini belly!

Yes, she is wearing Elmo water shoes!!

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The first evening we took a walk on the beach!  Johnny Bravo hair!

Our niece McKenzie was there and she and Hallie had a GREAT time together! They made each other laugh, and played on the deck a lot!  Hallie kept saying "Kenzie, Kenzie!" (which sometimes sounds more like "KiKi").

Hallie's got a thing for shoes now and kept putting McKenzie's shoes on!  

(She also puts our shoes on as well)

Hallie would let us hold her in the water, but didn't want to touch it!

 Hallie and Jason took a much needed nap under the tent one afternoon while I got to play
with McKenzie in the ocean and pool!

Hallie's vocabulary gets expanding!  We can understand more of the "ABC"s and she can count two, three, four (sometimes she says two again here), five!  She seems to also pick up songs well!  She got out a book we haven't looked at in awhile that sings a few nursery rhymes and I realized she was singing  "Row, Row, Row your boat!"

I found a farm animal book that makes the animal sounds that she loves as well! She's very into cows still!

Going back to Father's Day, my mom and dad joined us for lunch with the Holcomb clan!

Hallie's language continued....

Just like any parent, I always forget to put stuff on the last blog!  Here's some more of Hallie language!

She says a few phrases, like "All done",  "All gone" and "Get out" (which is usually said right after we buckle her in the carseat!)

The funniest thing she does is say "nice" to us. We tell her to be nice when she isn't behaving rightl, which she has interpreted to mean that when mom and dad don't do what I want, I must tell them to be "nice!"

I have a very cute video of Hallie singing with Rockin' Elmo, but videos aren't loading anymore on the blog!  So, I'll post on facebook, or you can ask me to show it to you if I have my camera!

There was a birthday party for Jason's cousin on Sunday at Lakewood Park on Sunday!  Hallie enjoyed feeding the ducks and hanging out with Nana and Papa!

I took off this Monday and Tuesday since daycare is closed, so I was able to hang out with two of my friends and their kids since they're stay at home moms! We went to Zahra Baker's playground, which was very neat!  Then we headed to the mall to eat and play there!  Hallie didn't seem at all tired at 1:00 when we came on, but feel asleep within a minute of being in the crib!

Hallie's language!

Hallie's saying tons of words!  She repeated "apple" to me this week and is saying more animal sounds!

We can understand most of her words, but she does have her own little language!

For example, "bye-bye" can mean she wants to go outside or leave
"Me-Me" is "excuse me" (she'll say this when she burps or hiccups!)
"Hot" can mean something is hot...or cold
"Bee" is any kind of bug, though she sometimes will say "ant"
"Mana" is "banana"
"Pippy" is "Chippy" (our dog Chip)
"Bolly" is "Molly" (our dog Molly)
She just says "Meow" when she sees the cats!

She loves to be outside and loves parks! We went to Athrun's 2nd birthday party last weekend at a park in Kannapolis.  It had a cute "train" ride around the park!  She loved playing with Aida too and wanted to know where Aida was when she didn't see her!

Yesterday, we went to Dean and Karen's pool.  As we expected, she didn't want to get near the pool and pitched a fit when we got her near it! She quickly realized Granny wasn't going in the pool and could be trusted, so she really clinged to Granny and kept saying her name!

At least she looked cute in her bathing suit!!!!!

Gatlinburg!

We went to see Chris, Lesley, and Isaiah in Gatlinburg this past weekend.   Hallie and Isaiah LOVED playing together! They would "chase" each other and just laughed! 

She would say "Zayah" and he would say "What"

The cabin we stayed at had a deck and we had some bunny vistors a few times!  Hallie would say "munnie" for bunny and "wrabbit" for rabbit!

We hiked to a waterfall on Saturday morning; it had a paved path so the kiddos were in strollers.  It was cute because they would call each other's name to make sure the other one was there!  Hallie wasn't too impressed with the waterfall....but she realized that it was water because she held out her hand the way she does for rain or the faucet!

The loved looking at books and each other's toys! She really liked the see and say farm that mom has and now can say 'Eeeii, eeeiii, ooo!"   Apparently, the only animal on Old McDonalds farm is a cow because that's all she'll say when we sing the song to her!

Isaiah really likes horses now, so he pointed those out to us in the books!  He really liked the lap top toy when it said the "ABCs" as well!

The men!



What are you looking at in my book???

Saturday night we went to "downtown" Gatlinburg and walked around after dinner. Lesley suggested doing the old time photos which we did (minus Carl).

The girls were Southern Belles and the boys were Cowboys!