Sprinklers

Not much to report. Ten weeks old and Tanner is smiling plenty -- he's such a sweet boy. We've determined that he does have a bit of reflux, but the medicine helps a lot. I got away with eating chocolate when he was first born, but lately it seems to bother him. :( Bye-bye Oreos.

We've got a great sprinkler park here that we like to go play at. Brandon had never been able to come with us before, so we went as a family on the 4th of July. We were suprised to find it almost empty. Hailey loves to just run the whole time, but with her bright orange suit and white body she's pretty easy to keep an eye on.

Tanner even had fun.

When we can't go to the sprinkler park, there's alway the good old fashioned sprinkler in the backyard.

Clearly lots of fun as well.

One Month Down

We survived the first month! Tanner is filling out nicely, Hailey is working on her sistering skills, Brandon has learned to sleep through crying in the middle of the night, and even I am getting a functional amount of sleep. Hailey and Tanner even nap at the same time frequently so Mama gets a nap too, which makes everyone happier in the end!

We had some great help from grandparents this month! What would we do without Grammas? It would have been fun to just have them come visit, but they did the cooking and cleaning for us too! (Thanks again!)

Grandpa and Gramma Tueller left the day before Hailey's 3rd birthday so we did cake and icecream that night. The next morning I told her that it was her birthday. She looked at me and asked, "It's my birthday again?"

In all, we had three days of birthday fun because I lost my head and threw Hailey a birthday party for her friends the day after that. She wanted a pink circle party. We kept it short and sweet, but the kids seemed to have plenty of fun just the same.

But this is our little guy at one month old. Our little girl is pulling out all the stops right now to get my attention so I'm going to end.

not just Hailey's House anymore

Hailey's House has a new arrival! Tanner was born one week ago on May 12th and so far he has been such a good baby! Haiey has been a good big sister too. She likes to hold him but gets bored of it quickly. "I'm tired of holding him now," she says. But she loves to "ooo" and "awww" over what a "pretty" baby he is.

We did a little home-made photoshoot when he was four days old. You may have already seen some of these.

And Princess Hailey is still the princess.

spring fun

Hailey likes to pretend to be a turtle on the toilet. She leans forward and pulls the lid on her back like a turtle shell. Not that I like to encourage too much creative play involving the toilet seat, but I had to admit that was pretty creative.

I don't know which made Hailey happier this Easter: all the candy or her new dress. This girl is definitely into fashion. The Easter Bunny brought her a candy necklace and candy bracelets that she loved so much that she didn't want to eat them. Brandon was trying to convince her that the beads were candy by taking a bite out of one of her bracelets. She looked at him disapprovingly and said, "Heyyy, why did you do that?" She wore the nasty things for about a week and a half before I could sneek them into the garbage.

As you can see Haily is 8 1/2 months pregnant too! We're getting pretty excited about Baby Brother coming soon! We're down to a couple weeks until the due date so we'll see when he decides to show up.

Hailey and her best friend Bella having fun a Red Birds baseball game. Brandon's class at SCO organized a social there.

Tile! Tile! Tile!

So this is my first time posting anything. Celia gave me the commission to post the blog today. Seeing how we need to keep our fans happy, especially our # 1, fan Lexi, I accepted the job.

Not a whole lot has happened since out last post. We did tile our kitchen and fireplace. Here are some before and after photos. The "befores" are from before we bought the house so it makes the "afters" look that much better. : )

Kitchen before (pay special attention to the floor)...yuk!

and after...oooo...awe

Fireplace before...(pink, gross huh?)

After...

So that's our newly tiled house, we are really happy with how it all turned out. I did it with the help of a good friend from Salmon, Ben Sessions. OK...so Ben really did most of the work and I just helped out here and there.

We can't post a blog with out adding a little Hailey spice to it.

Here's Princes Hailey in her new princess dress that Celia made. Hailey's world revolves around reading princes books and watching princes movies. She is 100% princes and quick to remind us that she isn't Princes Aurora or Snow White, she is "Princess Hailey".

Poor Cinderella Hailey has to work, work, work.

Photographer in the making.

Snow Day!

Memphis got snow! But not very much and most of it melted by the afternoon. It sure was fun for Brandon to have the day off of school though! I don't know who was more excited -- Brandon or me! Our western roots sure make us laugh when the entire city shuts down because of a little white stuff, but hey -- we'll take it! Hailey was pretty exctied about the snow too. It was all we could do to get her to sit down and eat some breakfast before going out to play. Her favorite thing was trying to throw snow at Daddy, even though half of it ended up in her own face most of the time.

(sorry it's been so long)

It rained last night so everything was wet and soggy on the drive to church this morning. I asked Hailey why the ground was all wet. She said, "Because Jesus made a mess."

We've been working on being reverent during prayers lately. During the opening prayer at church today Hailey did well at keeping her eyes closed, but she was fake snoring too. At least we entertain the people around us as much as we disturb them.

I called Hailey a "young lady" yesterday. She said, "And you're a lady too. And Daddy is a . . . softly-man." It took some persuading to convince her that what she really ment was gentleman.

Hailey got sick last month with a stomach-bug that was pretty mild, but it gave her some gas that could about knock you out. (Sorry if some of you have already heard this story.) Brandon was reading books with her one evening and she let one go. He fanned the air with a book and told her it was stinky. We explained that her toots were stinky, but it's okay because toots help her tummy feel better. She thought for a minute and said, "Toots make . . . my bottom wet." It turned out to be a false alarm, but good to know.