Don't hate me!

OK so we all know the mom who can't/won't shut up about how great and wonderful, smart, talented, advanced etc their perfect child it. In all honesty we hate those moms, in fact every word that spills out about their child makes you more tempted to punch them in the face. Well guess what---- for this post I am going to be that mom. so please dont punch me in the face next time you see me OR hate me for too long.

Grace is a pretty smart kid. I try to keep most accomplishments and things like that to myself or interested grandparents but occasionally I get carried away (as some of us do) But tonight I was amazed. We have taught Grace her colors and she knows every single one of them red, pink, blue, green, brown, black, grey, orange, yellow etc.  and for a 22 monther this seems pretty average. But what amazed me-- and I cant really take any credit for it-- She knows almost all of her shapes. We got this app on our phones when grace was about a year old and could push buttons its called toddler teasers. Every now and then she would get one right after pushing the wrong buttons four or five times but tonight was the night it all clicked. Heres the play by play--- I was  in the kitchen doing dishes after dinner and Brock was in the front room playing with grace and he handed her his phone and let her play with this app. every now and then i would hear her scream "I did it" after about 10 minutes of this brock said haili come watch this. so i went in there.  grace knew circle-square-hexagon-heart-cresent-oval-rectangle. I couldnt believe it ! So there it is Tonight my child was a genius--- i dont know Child development or age appropriate skills etc. by any means so really this could just be something everyones kid does. But our socks were blown off watching our little girl sit there and look at all the shapes before picking the right one. Anyway hate me for a little while and then get over it !!! My Child is a genius !!! hahahaha

Holiday Specials !

So as a few of you know I have started selling my skirts. This has been an interesting adventure to say the least. I am excited to say that I am currently talking to a few "big shops" to sell them online. I hope it works out but you never know with these things !! Anyway... these are the skirts that i have available right now. you can email me if you would like to place an order @ hailiann@gmail.com  (can you tell that I have to bribe my model with chocolate chips for every picture !!!)

trick or treat

Happy Halloween !! 

xoxo Dr. Grace 

Grace loves to play with one of my old stethoscopes so this year i hurried and stiched her up a pair of scrubs and let her be a Dr for a night 

We went around the block with Cowboy George 

One of her favorite things was to open the candy on the ride 

After a long night theres nothing better then relaxing with dad and eating marshmallows !!! 

Hope everybody had a great & safe Halloween !!! 

2 years Dr Stevens

2 years... and boy has it flown by... 2 years ago i was hooked up to a bunch of machines in the hospital and my poor husband was wondering if i was going to make it or not. I often feel like a broken record when talking about my bowels twisting and i am sure everyone is sick of hearing about it. So i will keep this brief. 

     Brock and i had a hard decision to make when it came to deciding if we were going to have more children or not. Obviously we decided to go ahead and give it a shot. and so far so good. I feel so blessed to be married to Brock and to have Grace as our little girl. She amazes me every day. We have been so grateful for the prayers that have been in our behalf with this pregnancy. I went and saw Dr stevens this week  for our yearly get together and i just have to say he is one of the best men out there. As I walked up to his office he was in the waiting room talking to a patient and getting their cell number so that he could personally check on something for them and then call them and let them know the results. There just aren't that many doctors around that would go through that much effort for one patient. and I was once again reminded of the effort that he put forth on me, he should have closed me up and signed my death certificate.......but thank heavens he didn't!!!!! I think those of us that are in the healthcare field sometimes loose our compassion. Its one of the worst things that happens. somewhere between caring for your patient outcomes and trying to "get the job done" it slowly disappears. I love working in the NICU and I hope i never loose my compassion because lets be honest who can look at a baby and not just love them?? ----back to dr stevens--- as soon as he recognized me (new hair& pregnant) he came and gave me a big hug!! He showed me pictures of his grandchildren and even tried to get me to come work with him. I know he was busy and i didn't have a scheduled appointment but he took the time to talk and catch up with me anyway. -- a couple of weeks ago i was really nervous because it was about the time i started twisting with grace-- I expressed my concern with dr stevens and he told me to not even let it worry me, that if anything were to come up he would be there to help. He eased my worries once again. I am so grateful that I got him as my doctor, I am so grateful to his family to be so supportive of him so that he can be the compassionate, hardworking man that he is. I feel so blessed to be here another year and that i get to raise the sweetest little girl and (hopefully) another NICE one in January. This last year has been so much fun getting to be a mom. It is the best thing in the world. There are times when i want to pull my hair out and don't think i can take another second of it but then i get a hug or a kiss or an i love you from her and everything is ok. I am so excited for this next year and can't wait for what new adventures it brings. !!!! 

We DID IT !!!

I am now on my 24th week of pregnancy and I finally feel like I can breathe a little bit. During my pregnancy with Grace my bowels started twisting around weeks 22-23 and although I am only a week past that we couldn't be happier !!! Now my next goal is 30 weeks so here is to hoping the next 6 weeks go well........




It has been forever since I have blogged and quite frankly I have no excuses. I haven't worked for about  2-3 months because we have been so slow, which is good because that means nobody is having sick babies but bad for my purse !!! I have enjoyed the extra time that i have got to spend with Grace, even though when i worked i wasn't gone that much I feel like these last couple of months we have had a lot of fun.

We ate lots of popsicles and went boating 

we went to the park and enjoyed chick-fil a shakes 

Visited the zoo LOTS of times

Went to the park and played on ALL of the toys

ate and ate some more yummy food and treats

went for hikes

celebrated daddys birthday

picked our tomatoes a "little" early

went to aunt edens wedding ! 

played with cousins

G

Since the leaves started changing colors we decided it would be a good time to get some pictures of grace. Out of all the pictures that we took ( and there were hundreds of them) these are the only ones that she was looking at the camera. 

Of course we had to throw in some of those artsy ones--- i feel like this is how i always see Grace though she is always running off to her next activity (aka mess)

Or i get to see the top of her head lots as she plays with her toys 

over all this is how we feel about these pictures 

Family of four

SUPRISE !!! We will be a family of four January 2013

Happy Fathers day

Brock- you are the best dad out there (just ask Grace) we love you so much and are so grateful that we have you !!! Xoxo h&g