on friday, the daycare held a halloween parade. they dressed all the kids up in costumes and walked around the building 3 times, then all gathered togeter in the back and the older ones sang songs. haley was excited to see us, and to our surprise, she went back with the teachers after seeing us to continue in the parade. it was sooo adorable. haley's wings didn't stick very well with the velcro, so they were never really open. and i think they affected her balance because she kept falling over (could have been the uneven surface too!)
here are some pics of haley & her class mates + some of the older kids.
this is the outside of the daycare. her room is in the left building
little ladybug!!
this is the back side of their building, after they first came out
haley continues to grow and try new things! she is now 13 months old and since my last update here's what's new:
she has really gotten into reading. she will get a book and hand it to me or trey, then turn around and scoot her little bootie on our lap. it's so cute! but, sometimes we can only get to the first page before she gets up again and get another book. we have some slide out word cards, which she loves to show us.
she knows where her nose, eyes, teeth, tongue, head, and toes are. she can relate objects with words and seems to understand what we say for the most part. she knows 'arms up', 'sit down', 'put it back', etc.
she loves putting lids on things - opening and closing things
she want to eat everything -- especially everything that her daddy eats (including sucking on jerky!!) she's like a little dog when she sees someone with food!
trey taught her to stick her tongue in and out like a lizard, and i taught her to put some sound to it. i caught it on video, so you can check it out below.
she has not talked yet, but she says 'ha' when she waves, so we think she's associating hi with waving.
she can shake her head no for communication, but not yes so far!
we started doing a 'bye bye passie' ritual. after she gets up from bed, she usually grabs as many passies as she can to take with her for the diaper change. when we finish changing the diaper, we go back to the crib, and she will drop the passies in the crib and wave goodbye. she even sort of says 'bye bye'
ever since aunt kerrie showed her how to tumble over, she has loved doing it. she will stick her head on the ground, butt up until we flip her over. i got a short video clip of it as well. one time, she did it 5 times in a row!
on the bumps and bruises side, she got bit on her back a few weeks ago at daycare, which left a bruise the size of a dime. she fell at our house last weekend and hit a portable heater right above her ear which left a bruise, and also fell down in the store today and cut her lip a little bit. luckily they had a snack bar so we got her to suck on some ice in a wash rag. but, she was fine a few minutes later and i don't see a mark.
we went to the capitol for some 1 year pics, went to a farm to get a pumpkin a few weeks ago, and the daycare held a halloween parade on friday. i will put those pics on separate blog entries.
Thanks to everyone for Haley's birthday presents! Besides the items shown on her birthday blog entry, she got some cold hard cash from Grandma & Pepaw, Great Aunt Susan, Aunt Loie, Uncle Rodney & Tyler, and Deanna, Ronnie, Valori, and Evan Wilson. We took her to toys r us today and she was in heaven! She could not touch enough things, and forget about us trying to hold her while we were walking around!
So, we got a few things with part of the money today and will get some other things with the rest of it in the near future. We got: a leap frog toy to teach her letters and sounds, a turtle with holes in the shell to put in various shapes (square, circle, heart, star, etc) and a blow up red bouncing hourse, similar to Tyler's Rody.
So, thanks again for the loot! She will have fun playing with her new toys & future toys from the money!
Haley had her 1 year checkup today. She was not too happy a camper because the ladies at daycare had to wake her up from her nap when I picked her up. But we had some milk & goldfish and that seemed to make things a little better.
Dr. Baugh was very pleased with her stats and her checkup.
She is 32 inches long, which was off the charts for 12 months old - essentially equal to the height of an 18 month old, he said.
She is 21 lbs 12 oz, which is in the 60th percentile
Her head is 18.5 inches circumference, which is 90th percentile.
He said that her height to weight proportion is very healthy and where they like it to be.
She has had a runny nose & cough all week and did have a fever yesterday. Unfortunately, Dr. Baugh found an ear infection, so we will hold off on her next round of vaccines until 2-3 weeks from now, when she goes back for her ear follow-up. But they did prick her finger for an anemia test. We started a once-per-day anitbiotic this evening for the ear infection, and are really hoping it does not mess her tummy & bootie up too bad.
She slept for 2 hrs today at daycare and would have likely slept longer had I not come to get her. So, I was very happy to see that. She seems to be adjusting OK to all the new changes at daycare:
No more morning nap
Moved from crib to cot
No more passie at naptime
No more bottles - sippy cup only
No more warm milk - cold
Since we got the OK from Dr Baugh today she will start on whole milk monday.
Moved to the older kid menu (still tiny pieces tho)
No more breakfast at daycare - has to eat at home, then gets a snack at 9:00
Apple juice with a snack
That's about it for now....hopefully she will get to feeling better soon !
since kerrie was in town, we decided to try some of her birthday outfits on haley and take some pics. they are so adorable!
.. i don't know why some of these verticle pictures won't stay verticle when i post them!! :-(
kerrie had to give her puffs midway to avoid a meltdown!
haley has had some rough times lately...periods of unconsolable screaming...we were in denial that it was temper tantrums - both the doctor and daycare provider said they typically don't start throwng temper tantrums until they are around 18 months. In some cases, she was teeting, and in other cases, didn't seem to feel well, BUT, in other cases, we believe she was throwing tantrums. kerrie pointed out that it might be all the changes that have started taking place at daycare (started shortening her morning nap, no more bottles, cold milk, no passie at naptime)...which makes total sense. hopefully she will get adjusted and not have to go thru them for a while longer! we'll try to keep the changes at home to a minimum until she gets adjusted to daycare. poor thing!
This blog would not be a true representation of haley if we did not show the bad with the good! So, here's miss haley throwing a fit!
most of the tantrums have been lying on her back
passie would not even help
bottle cap didn't calm her either
this is her position before going to the back & kicking her legs.
We also went to the National Zoo so Haley got to see real elephants, zebras, horses, leopards, pandas and monkeys for the first time ever. She was really excited when she could see them, but in some cases, they were asleep so not much activity going on. She did great at the zoo, but due to the drive time she fell asleep in the car for the last 15 minutes of the ride home. Then, when i tried to put her down for her nap when we did get home, she never fell back asleep. Since she missed her afternoon nap, it was a rough night!
Here are some pics from the zoo. Not many animal pics...but still some fun ones!
