5 More Days until Haley's 1st Birthday!

I thought I'd take the time to blog for a little big before this week gets even crazier!  Today has been a very productive day.  I went to water aerobics with my friend Beth and Jessie at 9am, came home and Haley and I took a nap, we went for a walk outside, I finished most of our laundry, emptied and loaded the dishwasher, cleaned the kitchen and living room and even vacuumed! Whew!  Tomorrow I'm taking Haley to the Zoo with the Mom's Group so we gave Haley a bath and put her to bed early so she can be well rested for a long day tomorrow.

So the countdown is officially on... we have 5 more days until we celebrate Haley's 1st Birthday!  It is going to be a very special day for us.  Haley is doing a great job on walking.  For a couple weeks now she has been able to walk with you holding only 1 hand.  The past couple days she has been walking all by herself! I don't even think she notices that she's doing it. She walks from one side of the room to the other and it is super exciting to see her do it.  I think she finally got her confidence and realized that it's much faster to walk than to crawl!  I posted a video the other day of her walking to her Daddy. Boy is she crazy for Daddy.  As soon as she see's him, she gets the biggest smile on her face and she loves to love on him!

Here recently she has been taking only 1 nap a day.  I do kinda miss 2 naps a day but it does make it easier to go out and do things knowing she's already had her nap and she won't need another one.  I also took away her baby sippy cups and she has offically graduated to using the big girl sippy cups with a straw!  I actually bought the straw sippy cups a couple nights ago and gave it to her when she woke up the next morning  and she knew exactly what to do with it.  I guess you can say her Daddy taught her how to use the straw because he got her hooked on Smoothie King smoothies!! 

This week we will be finishing up all her baby formula so she will no longer be getting any more bottles!  It's going to be kinda weird since we're on a feeding schedule and I'm so used to making one. I don't think she will even notice though.  Occasionally I will forget to give her a bottle and she doesn't care. I hear alot of babies don't handle the "no more bottles" too good but I don't think we will have a problem!

Anyway,  if I don't update before her birthday, I will definitely update again after!  Don't forget to RSVP for her party this weekend!!   And of course check out her birthday pictures that I'll post on Facebook probably after her party, or on Sunday.  I have put so much time in making her birthday banners, her 1 year picture banner and signs and I can't wait for you all to see!

Love,

The McDaniels