Two years in review~

Hallie Kate came into our world two weeks

past her due date on June 4th 2006 at 3:15 am.

We all fell in love immediately with our little

brown eyed girl who oddly enough was born

with a little tooth up front. The tooth was so

loose we had to have it pulled right away so she

didn't inhale it. She started cutting her baby teeth

however by two months old. Now at two years old

she has all of her baby teeth (minus the one pulled

at birth) including her three year old molars.
Hallie Kate has been an energetic little girly

from the day she was born. She crawled at 6

months, walked at 9 months, then started 

climbing on everything. She's so much fun

and loves her position in the family of keeping

everyone on their toes.

Hallie Kate is also VERY ticklish, she

loves being tickled, and its so fun to

get her giggling.

My Mom says Hallie Kate acts a lot like

I did as a baby, but she looks totally

Wakefield. Hallie takes after her Daddy

and Grandmother Wakefield.
Heidi is such a first born and loves mothering

Hallie Kate. She never went through any 

emotional changes from being an only child

when we brought Hallie Kate home from the

Hospital. The two are the best of friends one

minute and the worst of enemies the next.

I know they'll be close as they grow. 
We're so grateful God gave us Hallie Kate

when He did. His plans are so much better

than ours. We thought we wanted to wait

awhile after Heidi to have another but God

had other plans and we're so happy He did

because we can't imagine our family being

complete without little Hallie Kate.
I know that God has special plans for this

little girly's life. 
This year Hallie has started to LOVE water.

That is quite a change from last year when 

she cried even to have to take a bath.

We were at a friends house recently and they

were in the pool. The pool has a huge step that

is designed for toddler's to play on. Hallie Kate

in her typical fashion kept playing right on the

edge of the step putting her foot over the side.

My friend suggested that I hold her hand and let

her walk over the edge so she could see how deep

it is and would realize that she couldn't stand there.

I held her hand, let her walk over the edge and

completely dunked her (quickly), she came up

spitting water out and laughing saying "gen, gen!!"

Hmm... didn't really work like we were thinking. :)

Recently during a trip to the grocery store

Hallie Kate was having a rough evening.

It was just one of those grocery store trips

where I wanted to hide behind something

and pretend I didn't know whose kids were

fussing and crying in the shopping cart...

Micah and I were just trying to survive,

get what we needed and leave. Micah decided

to take Heidi and go pick out some ice cream

(huge necessity I know:)) So I took Hallie with

me to the produce section to get some fruit and

veggies...

Hallie Kate was in the back of the shopping

cart, supposed to be sitting, but mainly standing.

I put a cantaloupe in the cart and Hallie got all

excited about it saying "ball, ball". I was like, yeah

it's a ball, sit down and you can hold it, (you guys

can probably all see where this is going, but I've

never had a boy and didn't expect this from my 

girlies:)). Hallie happily sat down holding the "ball".

I turned around to grab something, can't even

remember what. When I turned back around I

saw Hallie standing at the edge of the cart with

the cantaloupe up over her head, still excitedly

saying "ball, ball" as she threw it with quite 

some strength across the produce section floor.

She was so excited about the whole thing,

I know she must have thought it was a game

because she continued to squeal excitedly the

whole time as I chased the cantaloupe that was

rolling across the floor. I could just feel everyone

watching me as I'm running after the cantaloupe

in front of carts trying to keep some dignity saying,

"excuse me, oh, excuse me". Thankfully I didn't go

under anyone's cart.

Meanwhile Hallie's back in the cart cheering

me on. I looked back and saw her excited little

face laughing as she clapped her chubby little

hands. Hmm... I'm sure I should have been a

good mother and corrected her, but all I could

do was laugh and leave the produce section as

quickly as I could. Hallie likes to find the fun

in everything most of the time this gets her

into trouble, but she likes to give it a try anyway. 

We're so grateful for our little Hallie Kate and

look forward to seeing what God is going

to do in her life in the year to come!