CuTesT uTe EvEr!!

HaLLe iS siX mOnThS oLd!

My little baby is almost six months old! I can't believe how fast time has gone by! Even though I miss my sleepy little baby... I LOVE this age! Hallee is doing so many fun things! She is getting to be such a big girl!

First of all, she is sitting up! Oh it is so much fun. She can be a little tipsy at times, but it sure makes her happy! (As you can see in the pic, she can dance too!)

Hallee loves to move her arms. They are ALWAYS moving. She wants to touch everything! She is getting pretty resourceful with them. My favorite things she does: picks up her binky and plops it in her mouth, pick up her rattle and cocks her wrist back and forth endlessly listening to the pretty sounds, scratching her sheets as she falls alseep, playing with Daddy's face and them both screaming, her excited face in the mirror, seeing her happy face when I get her out of her crib, and tickling my side while I nurse her! What a funny babe!

She also is always moving her little fingers. Notice all the pics. they are always doing something different. Sometimes we find a special little finger up... that can be offensive. LOL

Here is Hallee practicing sitting up. She can completly fold in half. This pic also show her pretty hair that she loves to run her fingers through. (Those fingers moving again!)

Hallee love to suck on her bottom lip. She is teething and always wants to suck on something... her thumb, lip, braclet, toes, highchair, the mirror. Pretty much anything she can get her little mouth on! The lip is by far her favorite!

She is eating rice cereal! She just gobbles it up. Sometimes she eats it so fast I can't even get the spoon back to the bowl, before she is begging for more. She lets us know when she is ready... she just opens her little mouth. She also has learned to drink out of a sippy cup. She doesn't hold it too well, but she gets what she wants.

Hallee is smiling all the time. She is such a happy baby! She knows what to do when I pull out the camera.

She also knows how to FAKE smile! It is so funny. When she is tired of me taking pictures, she pulls out this little half-wide smile thing. It is our favorite!

Hallee is so animated. She loves pulling funny faces. When she is excited she opens her mouth up as wide as she can. She also moves her arm and legs as fast as she can. She shakes with excitement.

Hallee also loves to talk! She loves to scream in the highest- pitched sound you can imagine, when she gets really excited. It is usually when we are shopping or in some public place. Although we think it is adorable... I am not sure if everyone appreciates it.

She loves to talk to herself. She always just blabs away in the car when I am driving her around. It is so funny! She also is always very talkative in the morning... bright and early!

Hallee rolls ALL over the place. She can get to anything that she wants. She has got stuck in some very interesting places and positions. Sometimes I don't even know how she managed to get there. She also is scooting backwards, and trying to push up on all fours. It is so fun to watch her try to figure it all out. She loves being mobile.

One of Hallee's favorite times of the day is BATHTIME! She loves playing in the water. She just smiles the whole time. She loves sucking on the wash rag. We have to bring two in every night. One to clean her with, and one for her to suck on. She thinks it is the best treat in the world.

Just this past week, we took out her pad she lays on in the bath, and now she sits up! She loves playing with the bath toys. She just can't quite understand how they keep floating away from her.

Bath time is also OUR favorite time. We love having our little bedtime routine with Hallee. We are enjoying the time when we can BOTH bathe her and play with her. In the future... I am sure bath time will be quick and hectic with other children. But for now- it is a fun, peacful time! We especially love her chubby little rolls.

She is growing up so much. She takes up the whole changing table. Could she have ever been my tiny, little baby??

For as happy of a baby that she is, she also is very serious and intense at times. She loves to watch people. She just stares at them, until she has figured them out. Sometimes when she does this, she actually scowls! She gets that from her daddy. She is just deep in thought. I wish I knew everything that was going through that little head of hers. She is very aware of everything that is going on around her... and wants to be apart of it.

This age is just so much fun! The best thing in the whole world is listening to her laugh! She will laugh so hard... at the silliest things. She has gotten us to do some pretty crazy things. Whatever it takes... whatever it takes!

We love you more everyday Hallee Bear!

HaLLe'S 1st ThAnKsGiViNg

Happy Thanksgiving!! Hallee got to celebrate her first Thanksgiving this weekend! How much fun! We had such a great time, and Hallee was an angel! This is her Thanksgiving outfit!

We started the day out at my family's house. We had a fabulous dinner (thanks to my wonderful mommy!) with lots of wonderful family! My brother- in-law to be got to celebrate it with us! I love our family getting bigger!!

After our first wonderful dinner, we headed to Eric's family's Thanksgiving feast! Boy, were we stuffed! It was fun spending time with the Short's. They are always entertaining! We had some very intersting conversations. LOL

Here is our little family on Thanksgiving day! Hallee's face shows what a great day she had! She loved spending time with both of our families!

My sister's cute family came up the day after Thanksgiving. Hallee loves her cousins! We were so excited to see them! Here is beautiful Maddie and Hallee. Maddie is soo cute with little Hallee!

Parker loves her too! He loves rubbing her hair! Hallee was very entertained watching all her cousins. They are going to have lots of good time together!

My family has a tradition every year to decorate gingerbread houses the day after Thanksgiving. So I thought that it would be fun to take Hallee to my Mom's house and decorate her first gingerbread house. Well, she ended up taking a nap... and I decorated the gingerbread house! LOL! I am still a kid at heart! It was a great day!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE! WE ARE SO THANKFUL FOR ALL OUR WONDERFUL FAMILY AND FRIENDS! LOVE YOU ALL!!

RiCe CeReAl...YuM!!!

Today Hallee tried rice cereal for the first time! I have been so excited for her to try it! The first few attempts she wouldn't open her mouth. She would just squeeze her lips together as hard as she could. But once I got some cereal in... she wanted to eat the whole bowl! She also thought she was ready to feed herself! :)

Movies to come!

OuR LiTtLe LaDy... BuG!!

HaLloOwEEn

Halloween was so fun this year! It was so fun to have our little Lady Bug with us. On Friday, we took Hallee to Eric's work to go trick-or-treating. Since she was so little, we thought we would just bring her in her costume for everyone to see. But much to our surprise, she was more excited than most of the kids there. We walked around with a little pumpkin cup, to put any candy that Eric might like to snatch from his fellow co-workers. Every piece of candy we got, Hallee would reach out and grab and just start shaking! She wanted it so bad. She just LOVED the sound of all the wrappers. Her favorite was a little dum-dum. She put that sucker right in her mouth (with the wrapper of corse). She was so sad when she dropped it on the floor and didn't get it back. She loved all the other kids in their costumes too. A little confused, but very interested!

On Saturday, we went to Aunt Lacey's house for some yummy soup and breadsticks with all the Short cousins. I snatched some pics of Hallee Bug while we were waiting for everyone to get there. I just love her little face in this pic.

Not quite sure what is going on... but lovin it!

So happy to be with dad! After our yummy food, Eric, me and Hallee headed off to the University of Utah Blackout football game! Hallee did great! We took her in her costume, (the colors were PERFECT!) but didn't last long. We put her in her jammies and hat, and she snuggled up and slept through most of the sound! It was a great way to spend Halloween!

CaStLeTon HaLloWeeN PaRty!

Every year my family has a Halloween Party a week or two before Halloween. It is so fun! Everyone dresses up, we eat yummy food, play games, and enjoy being around each other. Some great costumes this year! (Check out my dad... a little too skinny to be Santa, but great costume. The flamingo is missin her beak!)

The scary witch and the little Lady! (ok, so I am not so scary, but I don't do scary).

The Short Family all dressed up. Eric was a good sport. He is not the biggest fan of dressing up, but at least pulled out the Ute gear.

It was a nail bitter!

Cute little bum!

Hallee was dressed up as "daddy's little pumpkin" before she turned into the little lady bug.

As you can tell by Hallee's face... she LoVeD Halloween!