HI Daddy!

Halle Kate just wanted to say hi to her Daddy! Love you!!!

Bigger is better

We're on bow holder round 3 here in the Heald house and I thought this one would be big enough to hold all the girls' bows. I was wrong. I guess they will each need their own frame. If you've noticed in pictures recently Miss M's bows have jumped up another size. I spent several hours making lots of bigger bows not too long ago and needed somewhere to hang them. The "M" in her room wasn't working anymore. I got a frame, painted it, wrapped fabric around cardboard the right size and covered it in chicken wire. The bows slip on and it holds a ton more...just not enough for these two girls! It was a fairly easy project. If you're needing something for your own bows call me and I'll give you more details.

I am becoming an old Southern Lady

I am becoming an old Southern lady...and I love it! For my birthday I got a subscription to Southern Living from my mom. It think it is kind of like the line in Steel Magnolias about growing tomatoes. You know, something like, "I am an other southern lady and old southern ladies are supposed to wear funny looking hats and grow things in the dirt...". Except this is I am becoming an old southern lady and I am supposed to get Southern Living magazine and cook good southern food. The other night I made a spicy Mac and Cheese out of my first arrival and it was yummy! Since then I've made Jared a couple other things (chicken enchiladas, toasted lime and chili pecans) and they have also been really good. I bet when my subscription is up next year Jared will be the one rushing to renew!

Distraction

A few days ago Matney was in my lap coloring with a red pen on a piece of paper while I was on the computer. At least, I thought she was coloring the paper in front of her. It wasn't until I felt her drawing on my arm that I looked down and realized she'd been coloring her legs. Isn't it amazing Jared lets me stay home alone with these girls? I guess Mommy was distracted!

Puppy balloon

Matney got a puppy ballon animal at the fall festival we went to for Halloween and that darn thing still isn't flat! She loves it. Not long ago she messed with it so much that untwisted and was just one long balloon. She cried and cried until Jared got it fixed. Now, every time she sees it she says "thank you, daddy" over and over. So cute! And Jared just pulled up so no more pictures tonight!

Waiting and Playing

I am waiting on Jared and my friend to get into town and I refuse to go back into the dining room and mess with that paint one more time today so I thought I'd take a second and add some pictures. Last week our friends Allison and Mylee came over to play. Mylee is about 6 weeks older than Matney and talks just as much as Matney, if not more. I guess it was the level of communication that they had because for the first time I saw Matney "play" with another child close to her age. They had the best time. They cooked in the kitchen, read books, sang songs, ate lunch...it was a fun day. They must have gotten tired (well, Mylee, not Matney. She never took a nap that day.) because they played pretend sleep. Mylee would tell Matney to go to sleep, Matney put her head on the bed and "honk-shoo'd" and then Mylee would say "wake up" and they'd laugh. It was so so cute and so much fun to watch. It amazes me every day just how much children learn/grow/change each day.


Mylee teaching Matney to stand on her head!

Regularly Scheduled Programming

These are two random pictures because I know pictures are what you came for!


Just wanted to jump on really quick and let you know that we're still here and all doing well. Jared is travelling this month so I thought I'd try and accomplish a few extra things that are easier to do when he's out of town. Up first? Paint the dining room. I'll spare you the details but what I thought would be a fairly simple project has turned into a NIGHTMARE. Starting Monday I was up for 22 hours, slept 3, stayed awake another 18 yesterday...most of those awake hours painting...and it still isn't done. Or pretty. Note to self pay someone to paint red and be thankful for great friends who will come over and help all night and day!

Anyway, one of my best friends from high school is flying in tonight to hang out for a couple days so I'm in a mad rush to get this place put back together (and to make it look like my dining room walls aren't bleeding. I'm telling you, this red is horrible). Just wanted to share a funny story from yesterday. It was 9pm, the girls were in bed and I was downstairs vacuuming. When I turned the vacuum off I heard Matney SCREAMING from her room. Once she's in her bed at night we never have to go back in her room, she is always happy in her bed. I flew up the stairs feeling horrible that she could be hurt and I didn't hear her cry. I threw open her door and she stood up, held up her puppy dog and a kitty sock (he wears kitty socks when she can't wear them. don't ask) screaming "kitty sock, kitty sock!". Yep, the kitty sock had come off of puppy dog's foot and she was HYSTERICAL. I put the sock back on and immediately her crying stopped, she laid down and said "night night mommy". I wanted to scream "ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?" but I just closed the door and walked back downstairs shaking my head. Good grief! Night Night Matney.

So, as soon as I sew the kitty socks onto Dog's feet, climb back on a ladder to finish painting my dining room ceiling red, clean the house and find something to feed my sweet friend I'll be back to our regularly scheduled programming and post new pictures. These girls get cuter everyday! And please learn from me. Leave dark red to the professionals.

Alike? Similar? Totally different?

Here is a picture of Matney sitting and eating food in her high chair for the first time. She was almost exactly the same age that HK is today.





Now look at Halle Kate from today. What do we think? HK obvoiusly has a skinny face but other than that do they look similar or not? Looking at them now they look much more alike than I realized. They eyes and nose are the same...hummmm.....

Time for the high chair

I remember now that the "high chair phase" is when I finally got Matney still enough to get some really cute pictures. I think Halle Kate is going to be the same way. Just look at these pictures I snapped in the last 24 hours. I cannot even begin to explain how crazy I am about this baby girl!

Smile!

Just look at this happy girl! If Halle Kate could talk she would say "Thank you, MoMo!!! (what Matney calls my mom). I'd tried feeding that sweet little peanut solid food before but she hadn't seemed interested. When mom was here she thought HK acted like she wanted to eat...and she was so right. That baby LOVES her food. Loves.It.
Thanks MoMo for making her dumb old mama try again.