The Little Rascal is Walking

Well here she is! Our progressing child. We sure love her.
Haddy now has four teeth, the bottom front two and the top front two. She likes to scrape them together and it drives Justin and I CRAZY!!! It's so much worse than nails on the chalkboard...ewwwww I get squeamish jut thinking about it....moving on. Haddy started walking on Sunday, April 1st. After Conference ended I sat down on the floor to play with her and she remarkably took a few quick awkward steps towards me without holding onto anything, so I yelled at Justin to get the video camera and we got a bunch of great video of some of Haddy's first steps! It was so much fun and she was having a blast! You could tell she was so proud of herself. And we were quite proud too!
Here are a few more pictures of our sweet Haddy :)

Whoaaaaa there!!

Hello. What's that you say? I'm adorable? Oh, why thank you.

One of Haddy's cute birthday outfits

This beautifully made cake represents the love I have for Haddy (also I'm showing off how awesome it is because, let's all just say it, it's aweome....did I mention I made it?)

Haddy likes to help me with the laundry. I usually put her in the laundry basket, then go fill it up with the clean clothes in the dryer with her at the bottom, then scoot her through the apartment then into her room, where she hands me clothes to fold. Once I've folded all of them is when she goes into destructo-mode and starts throwing them all over the place...

This is Haddy in the process of making a mess...the mess turns out much bigger btw

This is Haddy playing with her favorite toy, her quiet book! But it doesn't keep her quiet.....she likes to take out all of the pieces and scatter them throughout the apartment. She does this, literally, multiple times a day, which means multiple times a day I have to go on a scavenger hunt to find each piece, put it in its spot, and zip back up the quiet book until Haddy hands it to me again to unzip so the process can start all over. And speak of the devil, she just barely walked up and handed it to me so I can unzip it....I promise I didn't plan that!

Love that smile!

Isn't she just the cutest little patient you ever did see? Haddy got sick and went to the Doctor. She looks pretty happy here, the following pictures are the worst of it and you can see she is a very sad little goob.

:( Poor thing. She kind of looks like a zombie in this picture.

Her sad little red eyes and runny nose. I hate it when she's sick!

Swimsuit showoff time!!! I have always loved the baby suits that have the rash guards, and I thought this one was especially cute!! This one is a size 2T! So it's slightly large for a swimsuit, but it will last a long time we hope! And I love it.

Another shot of her adorable suit. She's got a pretty great swimsuit bod, don't ya think?

So happy! She wants to go swimming right now!!

Doesn't she look happy to be in a picture with me?...and this will hopefully be one of the last pictures of me with brown hair, since I'm going blonde again when we get to Utah.

Haddy in her wife-beater, eating her first popsicle. I don't think I need to mention she loved it....

Diva! This picture is dark, but so cute.

Look at that face!

There is a picture of Justin when he was really little on his paren'ts wall, and this picture of Haddy looks JUST LIKE that picture!!

This is Haddy on her first walk where she actually walked and not just wheeled around in her stroller. She did very well!

Well I love this girl. Besides walking she can do some other cool things, for instance she points to her mouth when I ask her where her mouth is, and when we say "where's baby" she points to herself, and when we say "more" she does the sign language sign for "more" which we're pretty sure she does without having a clue as to what it actually means.... She also is on the verge of learning how to give me a kiss. I have been practicing this one over and over with her for a long time, and every once in a while it will actually work! Although the other day I asked for  kiss, puckered up, leaned in and got a big lick on the mouth (I didn't ask for a puppy kiss!)...but it was still cute, and a little gross. Haddy enjoys playing hide and seek with me, and she is quite good at it! I crawl somewhere very quickly and hide, and she always finds me. Amazing. And she loves piggy-back rides, she always pats me on the back (that means she wants a piggy-back ride) but I just don't have the energy to be giving her constant piggy-back rides!
I love being a mom. It is definitely not easy! Sometimes I feel lonely, and sometimes I feel overwhelmed, and most of the time I don't know how I'm supposed to react in any/all situations, but there's nothing else I'd rather be doing! I wouldn't want anyone else raising my extremely sticky and dramatic child! I love her.