Hailey's first Christmas

Hailey, Anthony and I had a wonderful first Christmas together as a little family. Of course Hailey is too little to really understand or enjoy the holiday yet, but we had fun watching her see all her new toys and play with all the family that was around for the holidays. And of course it was an excuse for her to wear lots of cute clothes!

Here is Hailey's first Christmas in pictures:




And finally, Hailey showing us how she is the best Christmas present ever:

Next up, time to say "so long" to 2009 and "hello" to 2010!

Getting ready for Christmas

We are so excited to celebrate Hailey's first Christmas! Even though she won't remember any of it, we are enjoying the holiday season and the amazing blessing we've been given this year.

Since she won't remember this Christmas, I'm doing my best to capture it in pictures so we can show her later how wonderful her first Christmas was.

Here is a picture of the Coulter Christmas tree. Note that almost all of the presents are for Hailey, and no they are not wrapped because mommy is lazy and refuses to wrap presents when Hailey can't even unwrap them yet! Next Christmas will be so much fun with Hailey running around and tearing through wrapping paper!

And here is a picture of the Coulter family in front of Grandma & Grandpa Hefley's Christmas tree on mommy's 27th birthday.

And here are pictures of the silly girl showing us how excited she is for Christmas!

And finally, here is a picture of Hailey showing us how she will sleep peacefully on Christmas Eve so that Santa Claus will come to visit her!


Lots more pictures to come after Christmas!

Hailey's friends

At just 2 months old Hailey is lucky to already have 2 good friends. My best friend Krissy had baby girl Riley on July 4, 2009, so they are almost exactly 3 months apart in age. Here is a picture from when Hailey and Riley first met, when Hailey was about a week old. It's amazing how different they are even though just 3 months apart in age!

And here is a more recent picture of the two girls, who are sure to be best friends and grow up together!


About a week after I found out I was pregnant, my good friend at work, Tiffany, found out she was also pregnant, so it was very exciting for us to go through pregnancy together, to find out we were both having girls, and to know that they would end up being so close in age! Tiffany's baby girl Willow was born exactly one day after Hailey, on Oct. 6, so it will be so fun to see them both grow up since they are basically the same age.

Here is a picture of Hailey and Willow from a recent playdate:

I'm so grateful to have good friends that are in the same stage (baby, family) of life, and I'm just so excited to see all the girls grow up together. Little Hailey is already so popular and lucky to have good friends!

2 months old!

Hailey turned 2 months old a couple days ago, I can hardly believe the time is passing so quickly! She is getting so big and changing so much, definitely not a newborn anymore.

Today we had Hailey's 2 month check up with the pediatrician. She weighs 10 pounds 8 ounces and is 23.75 inches long. The pediatrician was so impressed by how alert, interactive and smily she is, she said if she didn't know better she would have thought Hailey was 4 months old! Mommy's little over-achiever already! Along with the check-up came her first round of shots. She got one in each thigh; she gave a pretty good wail after getting stuck, but calmed down pretty quickly and then promptly passed out for a nice long nap.

Hailey is starting to "talk" a bunch and make so many cute noises. Anthony says sometimes she sounds like a cat! My favorite thing is to sit her facing me on my lap, she loves to smile at me and talk away, cracks me up!

Here is a comparison pic of Hailey at 1 month and 2 months, you can definitely see how much she is changing!


Christmas is quickly approaching and we've already got the house and tree decorated. I feel like I've already got the best Christmas present imaginable, my sweet little daughter! But we are very much looking forward to Hailey's first Christmas, even if she won't remember much of it! She's going to get very spoiled of course, and Santa is getting her a high chair, a Laugh & Learn puppy, a jumperoo, and her very first Barbie!

Our Christmas photo shoot at JC Penney went very well, here is Hailey in her Christmas dress and another cute family picture we took!

Along with Christmas and the New Year comes the end of my maternity leave quickly approaching. I'm scheduled to return to work on Jan. 4, and my heart aches just thinking about leaving my little baby girl. But I think this subject calls for a whole other post...