The Rowans 4: October 2014

Hello everyone!

Wow! I'm back again after a few months off... opps! As I'm sure many of you can understand, it's a bit crazy busy being a mommy of young kiddos. It makes me really sad that I have done such a bad job of keeping this thing updated though. I have two wonderful children and I absolutely love writing about them and sharing pictures of them with you all but man oh man- they really keep me busy! There just aren't enough hours in the day. There is always something that doesn't get done. Anyway... back to the kiddos!

They have adjusted so well to the move. We are all loving it here and have settled nicely. Callie is involved in several activities. She enjoys soccer, gymnastics, swimming lessons and Awanas. All of that and playing with friends and trying to get some preschool in keeps us quite busy throughout the day. Matt is staying pretty busy with work, but we knew that coming into it- and it's really not as bad as I thought it would be (although I hear it gets harder).

My sweet precious Hailey just turned 11 months old yesterday. 11 months old. How? Can time really be passing by this quickly? I just had her. Now she army crawls with speed all over the house, stands up, cruises furniture, waves, and even has words! Right now Hailey loves to say "Mama, Dada, Baba, hi, bye, and uh oh". Tonight it really sounded like she said Hailey right after Matt did... but who knows! We will see if it becomes a trend before we say that she can say her name! She also refers to Chile as "Dah"! She is in love with Chile. The first time she sees Chile in the morning she gets the biggest smile on her face! It is precious. At 11 months old Hailey is wearing size 3 diapers and 9 and 12 month clothes. Everything that I am buying now is 12 months but she still fits her 9 month stuff pretty well. She runs a bit smaller than her sister did at this age. She still has bright blue eyes and not much hair! Hopefully it will be ready for bows and pony tails soon! Her favorite hobbies include, trying to play in Chile's water bowl, making a mad dash for the pantry if it gets left open, trying to play with everything that big sister is doing and finding full glasses of water to pull off of the living room tables. She knows what she's doing too! When she sees Matt and I coming she starting crawling faster to whatever mischief she is about to get into. Her personality is really starting to show and she is a funny one! Hailey loves to eat everything but also still enjoys Mama milk. She is such a wonderful easy going baby. I simply cannot imagine our family without her. She is a precious gift from God and we cherish her.

Big sister Callie is growing in so many ways. She is about 41" tall and 40lbs. She was so proud that she could ride all of the 40" roller coasters at Disney. This girl is a thrill seeker and is scared of nothing when it comes to rides. The faster and scarier the better. (Little sister seems to be the opposite... she doesn't like being thrown up in the air at all! Callie loved this as a baby!) Callie is reading simply books all by herself. She loves reading Dr. Sues books and continues to get better and better! The other day I asked Callie what she wanted to be when she grows up and she said "an instruction worker". Of course she meant construction worker. Hahah... Matt immediately started talking about how she could be and engineer and design the buildings. But Callie quickly corrected Daddy and told him that she wanted to build the buildings! Hehe so cute.

Mom recently came for a visit and we were able to go to Disneyland. It was a blast. Well I guess I should post some pictures now!