first kiss & swim time

we had our friends and neighbors over for memorial day weekend and they have a son, henry, that is 1 month younger than haley.  the kids are good buddies.  we got out her kiddie pool and bought a 'willie waterpiller' sprinkler for them to run thru.  well, they were both a little freaked out by the sprinkler but we did manage to run thru it a few times with them. 

haley opted to lay in the grass for a few minutes and henry came over and gave her a KISS!  it was so cute!!!    here are a few pics.

sitting with henry in the pool

a little fun rolling on balls

henry & dan running thru the sprinkler

gazing at the sky

henry checking out the sprinkler up close

henry moving in for the kiss

and he planted the kiss -- looks like right on the nose!

video of saying names!

We've been practicing all the family and classmate names and caught it on video. 
This week especially, she finally has started saying her name regularly -- she'll point to herself and say 'haw-ley", then point to me and say 'mommy' and again and again. it's really cute.  in the video, she was saying her name first, but i don't think i caught it all.  enjoy!!

new toothbrush, strawberries & other pics

I was tired of getting my finger bit, so we upgraded Haley's toothbrush to a 'big girl' elmo brush. now, every time i brush my teeth, she has to pull up a chair and brush hers!  but of course, she won't let me help. 
We planted strawberries last spring, but they never produced anything last summer.  We just left them, and to our surprise they produced a ton of strawberries this year (still small so far).  Haley was pretty excited to see them so we let her pick a few. 

Also, just a few more pictures that we've taken the last few weeks.

Her rash is getting better but she still has visible spots on her arms, legs and bottom, even after 12 days!  they crusted up, peeled but the red spots are still there.  her finger tips are peeling a little, so she's been a little anxious seeing the loose skin, but is doing ok otherwise! 

elmo toothbrush!

she put on my hat before we went outside!

looking at the strawberries

she picked the red one but got two green ones too!

this is how long her hair is!!  never had a haircut!

her hair is still wet after her bath

reunited with KITTY!

so there was a silver lining to the week of haley's rash.  we were sitting on the floor playing with one of those little cars that you pull back and it takes off when you let go.  well, it went under her dresser, so she crawled over to get it.  as she looked under, her face lit up and she got all excited.  so, i crawled over too and low and behold she found her long lost kitty! 

she had LOVED this kitty and it's been lost for over 2 months now.  we had looked everywhere (well, so we thought everywhere) and in the end thought she had thrown it away since she was just learning about the trash around the time she went missing.  since then, we have gone thru 2 other kitties (the first new one got lost at daycare).  she was so excited to see her old kitty -- hugging and kissing it!  the timing was great since she really wanted some comfort this week.