Big Girl Bed!

Seriously? When did my baby grow up? She is amazing me everyday at the stuff she can do now. She likes to help make her own breakfast. When we go downstairs to eat, she grabs a chair and pulls it up to the island and climbs up in it and helps me cook. Her favorite thing to eat for breakfast is blueberry pancakes, or boo boo cakes/ booberry cakes. She will grab the box of bisquick, poor it in the bowl, pour the milk that I have measured out in and then helps crack the egg. And then she stirs, stirs, stirs, and stirs. This part takes forever. Sometimes she lets me help but other times she has to do it herself. She then moves her chair over by the stove. She lets me pour the batter and flip the pancakes but she adds the blueberries. Today she ate more than she added but she had fun!

She brushes her own teeth, takes a drink of water when shes done. She goes potty on the big girl potty, wipes and flushes, all on her own. Seriously? She isn't even 18 months old yet. Oh, and lately she likes to wash her hair in the bathtub too!

But the biggest thing is she is sleeping in her big girl bed now! She loves hanging out in the guest room bed and reading books. She will spend between 1-3 hours a day in there reading. She has started trying to climb in her crib. I think so she can read in there. Once I help her in she just plays and hangs out for the longest time. When shes done she tries to climb out and was pretty darn close to it. So we decided to take the crib rail off and let her sleep in her big girl bed. Night 1 (Tuesday, January 18) couldn't have gone more perfect. Ryan put her to bed at 7:30 while I was at Zumba. After reading Goodnight Moon and rocking and singing he laid her in bed and she didn't make a peep. She started whining around 11:30 I went in and laid her back down and then again at 4am. But she stayed in bed and wasn't awake for more than 2 minutes. She woke up Wednesday at 7:15am calling for daddy, but happy as can be! Unfortunately nap #1 on Wednesday didn't go as well. Naptime is at 1pm after lunch. Usually she lays down and I don't hear from her for 2-3 hours. She wouldn't stay in bed and would just stand at the door and scream. So naptime was a fail until about 3:45. She climbed up on the couch, put her head down on the pillow and passed out. I picked her up and put her to bed. She only slept for about 45 minutes but thats ok since it was so late.

Wednesday night bedtime was just as perfect as the night before! But I guess at 1:30am my mommy instinct kicked in. I never heard her get out of bed, she didn't cry or whine. But I sat up in bed and saw her walking in our room. She ran over to the bed, I picked her up and then she slept with us until 7:45!

Today's nap was a struggle at first, but she just didn't seem tired. Finally got her to stay in her bed and sleep around 2:30. It's 4:15 and she's still sleeping!

I bought her new bedding with flowers and ladybugs (it was on clearance at target for $12!) It is crib bedding, but thats ok for the price. I was wanting just a pink and or brown comforter but the ones I liked including a ladybug one was $100+. She likes having the bumper on. I think she feels safer, like its more closed in and private. I am making new ladybug wall art too, and ordering ladybug window valances. My baby isn't so much a baby anymore! Makes me so sad! But I love watching her grow up! She is so amazing, not to mention so cute! I want a million of her!

Ladybug pictures I made. Just need to buy frames

Naptime #1 (notice the cute new crib bedding set!)

She loves to sit in bed and read

Before bedtime night 2

ZUMBA!

I have a new obsession! HIP HOP ZUMBA! It is amazing. You not only burn 1000 calories in an hour but it is so much fun! Let me start off by saying I have never been interested in zumba. It is the fitness craze lately but I had no interest in trying it. I don't care for salsa music or salsa dancing so it did not appeal to me at all. Right before Christmas I saw on post of facebook from a photo studio in Fishers that was going to start having zumba classes every Tuesday and Thursday evening and Saturday morning for just $5 a session or you can buy a punch card and get 7 classes for $30 or 15 classes for $60. I saw in the post that the instructor said her playlist is all hip hop and full of energy. I figured for just $5 it wouldn't hurt to try it. I asked my friend Brandi to come to and she is now hooked as well.

The first class was on January 4. I only expected maybe 25-35 people at the class. Boy was I wrong. There were like 110 people there! Unreal! I guess the instructor, whos name is also Amy, has been doing this class for quite a while and this was just a new location for her class. So most of the participants had been doing her class for some time and had the routines down. It was very intimidating at first. We do the same songs and "routines" every week so you catch on quick. I wish this class was every day. I am addicted. I feel like I am at a night club dancing with my girlfriends shakin our booties and droppin it like its hot but sober and with brighter lights! It is so much fun!

Here is our song list, even though I think Amy said we will be getting some new songs this week. I love these songs and will be putting them on my iPhone so I can run to them this summer.

SONG LIST 1.1.2011

• Break Your Heart - Taio Cruz
• Jai Ho - AR Rahman & Pussycat Dolls
• Hey Baby - Pitbull
• Crazy - Lumidee
• 3 - Britney Spears
• La Fiesta - DJ Laz
• Drop it Low (clean) - Ester Dean & Chris Brown
• She's Hotter - Zumba
• Con el Pompi Pa'Arriba - Mala Fe
• La, La, La - Auburn
• Throw Your Hands Up - Rihanna & Elephant Man
• HeartBeat Love - Janet Jackson & Pitbull
• Danza Kuduro - Don Omar & Lucenzo
• Jump - Rupee
• Jiggle It (clean)- Young Leek
• Take your Shirt Off (clean) - T-Pain
• One Step at a Time - Jordin Sparks
• Chocolate -Joul Control
• Here I Come -Fergie

Saturday morning before class Amy sent out an email about a Party HEARTY 90 minute Zumbathon with 100% of the proceeds going to the American Red Cross. It's only $10 to participate and then I also bought one of these super cute tanks to wear during it!

Hurry up February 19! I am so excited!

And of course this class is helping me get bikini ready for May! Maybe I can finally get my pre-baby body back. Just because you are at your pre-pregnacy weight does not mean your body looks ANYTHING like it did before. Hopefully Zumba will get me where I need to be. And come spring when I can run outside again! Ah so much to look forward to!

NORTH CAROLINA TRIP!

FINALLY! The trip is planned and booked! Atlantic Beach, North Carolina watch out, The Hahaj's are coming May 7-14.

Growing up my family went to Atlantic Beach every summer for 2 weeks in June. My Great Aunt Karen and Great Uncle Chuck (my grandma's younger brother) had a beach condo there and then a house on a golf course inland in Morehead City. It was always my favorite place to go. I love it! So naturally, when it was time to start planning our wedding I wanted a beach wedding at Atlantic Beach. It took some convincing but I finally talked Ryan into doing a destination wedding. We decided to rent a 7 bedroom BEAUTIFUL beach house to have the wedding at. It was perfect. The wedding would be on the beach outside of the house and then the reception around the pool area. The house was also big enough if we needed to have the wedding inside due to rain. The only down side to the house was that Ryan and I didn't get to stay there. We rented 3 condo's just down from the Ocean Splendor wedding house for our wedding party and friends to stay at. Our families stayed at Ocean Splendor.

Ever since our wedding we keep talking about wanting to go back. We talked about it last summer but I was still breastfeeding so we didn't want to go without bug but didn't really want to go on a beach vacation with a baby. We talked to Ryan's parents over Christmas and they said they wanted to go back this summer! So we started to plan. We needed 6 families/couples to be able to stay at Ocean Splendor in May without breaking the bank. We tried getting some friends to go but none of them were able to go in May and later in the summer is too expensive. So, it was down to 3 families. Us, my in-laws, and my sister in law. 3 families at Ocean Splendor was way too expensive so I started looking into other beach house rentals and I found Bay Tree. Looking at it wasn't love at first site like Ocean Splendor was. But it was close. It looks a lot like Ocean Splendor but 5 bedrooms, 4.5 bathrooms, no movie theater and no game room or exercise room. But all the bedrooms are king or queen beds, the bathrooms are beautiful, huge kitchen and a pool right on the beach and only TWO houses down from Ocean Splendor! PERFECT! So we called the family to tell them about the house we found and emailed them the information. They loved it! Much more affordable and just what we needed! We then got a hold of Ryan's brother Chris and asked if he and his family wanted to go too. They were in so we booked it for the second week of May! I am so excited. We plan on taking the kids to the Pine Knoll Shores Aquarium and maybe check out Fort Macon as well. We are all really excited for the food too. We are most excited for Big Oak Drive In! They catered our reception and we eat there at least once a day while down there. They have the best North Carolina style BBQ!

I have contacted the guy that took our wedding pictures to see about doing family pictures on the beach while we are down there. It will be so much fun!

Hopefully this will be the start of a Hahaj Family Annual Vacation!

Now the countdown to a bikini ready beach body begins... yesterday!

OCEAN SPLENDOR HOUSE

http://www.bluewaternc.com/CrystalCoast/VacationRentals/PineKnollShores/Details/OceanSplendor/

BAY TREE HOUSE

http://www.bluewaternc.com/CrystalCoast/VacationRentals/PineKnollShores/Details/BayTree/

Sledding videos

DRIVEWAY SLEDDING!

First time sledding!

January 12, 2011

Ryan worked from home on Wednesday since we had some snow. It's so nice that his company allows the sales team to work remotely. 95% of the time I enjoy him working from home! We still have to tell Raegan that daddy went bye bye or else she just stands upstairs and cries because she knows daddy is downstairs and she wants to be down there with him. After Raegan woke up from her nap and Ryan wrapped up his day, he went outside to shovel the driveway. I figured this would be a good chance to get out of the house and try out the new sled Raegan got for Christmas!

Fishers doesn't have too many hills. I was spoiled growing up in Bloomington with hills everywhere including our back yard! I didn't want to walk to the other side of the neighborhood to go sledding for 15 min. As I watched Ryan shovel I decided the driveway would be perfect. There was some ice under the snow so it allowed for the perfect spot for bug to sled.

She loved it! If the wind wouldn't have been blowing we could have stayed outside longer but it was just too cold for her little face.

Here are some of the videos we took.

Raegan saying her last name!

This kid is a genius I tell you! Pure genius! She gets that from me!

In college when Ryan and I met, the girls and I never new how to pronounce his last name. We called him "How-High" Well once we started dating I needed to figure out how to say it correctly. Some of his teammates called him "Ha Ha" but I didn't think that was correct either. So I would call Ryan while he was at work in meetings and knew he couldn't answer his phone so I could hear him say his last name in his voicemail. See, I am a genius, told you! I finally started pronouncing it correctly... I think! Ha-Hi!

Raegan talks up a storm. She repeats everything I say. Yesterday when we were talking about keeping her socks on I told her I had on my purple socks and she says "purple socks" clear as day! So whenever I need to keep her awake in the car I try and get her to repeat what I am saying or have her sing me a song. Her favorite song is "Hot dog, hot dog!" from the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse! I started asking her what her last name is and then I would say "HA-HI." She started of saying "HA-HA." Close enough, works for me!

Just before Christmas I got her to finally start saying "HA-HI!" When we were in Fort Wayne with the "HA-HI's" for Christmas she said it for Grandma and Grandpa and they LOVED IT! Yesterday I got her to say it while I was recording it from my iPhone. Yay! So cute!

Ringing in the New Year!

Happy New Year!

First off, Congratulations to the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame for their victory on NYE in the Catholics vs Convicts game! ND beat the Miami Hurricanes 33-17 in the Sun Bowl. Go Irish!

At the start of the 4th quarter of the game we had to leave to head to a wedding on the southside of Indy. Tricia and Jon came up to babysit Bug. Ryan's good friend, former teammate, and former roommate from Ball State was the groom. Of course its a Ball State Football wedding so you know it will be a good time. And it honestly might of been the most fun I have ever had at a wedding reception. The reception ended around 2am (maybe, who knows at this point!) We went across the street the hotel everyone was staying at and ordered a pizza. Finally around 4am we were ready for bed and headed home. We were finally home and snug in bed at 5am and got 4 hours of sleep before Raegan woke up!

2011 is off to a great start. If it is half as good as 2010 it's going to be a damn good year! Look forward to everything 2011 has to offer!

BSU Football guys! Love them!

Football wives!

The girls with the Groom!

The girls with the bride!

Ringing in the new year!

Ryan and Michael!

Love him!

Christmas pictures

In November we realized that we didn't really have any pictures we wanted to use for our Christmas card this year. We love the ones that SB Childs did for Raegan's one year photo shoot but she has changed so much that we wanted more up to date pictures of her. I was at Castleton Square Mall and noticed The Picture People across from Crazy 8, where I love to shop for clothes for Bug!

I came home and talked to Ryan about it and found a 30% off coupon online so we called and made an appointment for that Saturday. The session was only about 30 minutes long but the photographer did great and exactly what we needed for the Christmas cards. Poor Raegan though just didn't seem herself. We chalked it up to waking her up from her nap to leave to get the pictures done. While we waited for the pictures to print we went to the food court and ate Chic-fil-a. Raegan wouldn't eat anything but a couple of pieces of fruit from her fruit cup and was very grumpy. So we got our pictures and went home. It was close to her bedtime so we got her in her jammies and off to bed she went. Ryan and I stayed up and watched a movie then went to bed. Right around midnight she started to cry. We let her cry for a minute and then she started screaming. And then something just didn't sound right through the monitor. Ryan got up and went to check on her and I quickly followed. Buggy had gotten sick and puked all over herself and her bed. Ryan put her in the bath and I started to clean up her crib. Well, she puked again, and again, and again. This went on every 20 minutes all night. Ryan went to bed around 4am while I stayed up with her. She was just miserable, but likely no fever. It was heartbreaking because she was so scared. She has never thrown up, or even spit up when she was a baby so she had no idea what was going on. I fell alseep on the couch with her around 6am and then she woke up at 8:30 ready to play. She was completely fine. It was awful while it lasted but luckily it didn't last long, and even better, no one else in the house got it! Yay!

So here are some of the pictures from the photoshoot!

Little stinker took her bow out!

Reading "The Night Before Christmas"

This is probably the best family picture we have ever taken!

The Official 2010 Hahaj Christmas Card!

And the ever so famous letter by Ryan!

Hello family, friends, and all who are lucky enough to receive this letter because Amy and I continue to neglect updating our address book of constantly relocating friends.

As we draw near the end of 2010, I am a big believer in sitting down and reflecting on all the amazing things that have happened throughout the year. I am an even bigger believer in exaggerating those amazing things beyond belief, making our year sound even more eventful.

First and foremost Raegan turned 1, which means Amy and I survived our first year of having no clue how to raise a child. I must say we did pretty well. Raegan is currently reading at a 6th grade level, thus having the ability to teach me how to spell so many words I never took the time to learn. Raegan has even taken time out of her busy schedule to expand her mother’s cooking knowledge beyond frozen or pre-cooked meals.

Amy has done an excellent job of being "super mom". Not only has she kept the house spotless and her family fed she has even started training the other mothers in Fishers Indiana on how to be "super" as well. A few local investors caught wind of this training and decided to help Amy start her very own university. After much thought it has been decided it should be called The University of Indiana. Thanks to Kevin Wilson, the new IU head football coach for the idea!!!

Outside of expanding my vocabulary beyond words that are 6 letters or less (Raegan has been really pressing me hard on my spelling) and playing assistant to the President of The University of Indiana, I won the lottery. 2.8 million to be exact. I thought about retiring but Amy did not let me, forcing me to get an entry level position at the local Coach store. Trust me, with a habit like hers, we would be broke if I did not receive the employee discount on all of her coach purses.

Anyone jealous???

In all seriousness, things are going very well. Raegan is one and she is acting like a one year old should. She sings and dances all day long and loves going to the baby gym to play with all the kids.

Amy really is a super mom and every day I count my blessings that she picked me to spend her life with! I also count my blessings that she babysits a friend’s six month old child two days a week, best birth control ever!

I am not working at coach, though I am sure Amy would love it if I was. I am working at an IT consulting firm downtown Indianapolis and continue to wish for early retirement and proudly invest $1.00 per week in the lottery in support of that dream.

Raegan, Amy and I would like to say thank you and we love each of you who have touched our lives in so many ways. It is because of you we have the ability to feel this blessed over the holiday season.

Cheers,

- Ryan, Amy and Raegan Hahaj

Merry Christmas 2010

Christmas was so much fun this year! Raegan was almost 17 months old, and although she doesn't understand Santa yet, which is a good thing since she doesn't like him, she had a blast! I can only imagine how great next year will be.

We went to Evansville on the 23rd since a big snow storm was predicted for Christmas Eve. It was nice getting there early and spending time with my Grandma Miller. It didn't start snowing until it was time to leave for church. We had about 2 inches of snow in less than an hour. I was surprised that Grandma still wanted to go to church.

Raegan was very good through out the whole service much to our surprise. We all made bets at what point she would need to be taken out. But she made it through the whole thing thanks to the candles to play with as well as pencils and the envelopes for offering. She colored and played the whole time.

Raegan was so excited for Santa to come, she didn't sleep well at all that night. She was up until almost midnight and really tossed and turned all night. I had to wake her and Ryan up around 8:30 so we could finally open presents. Santa must of thought she was a very good girl this year!

We let Raegan open some of her big presents at home before leaving for Evansville so that we didn't have to haul them down to Grandma's and back home. She loves her kitchen and shopping cart with all of her play food.

Bug also got a red Radio Flyer Wagon! It seats two so it will be so nice to have this spring and summer since I am babysitting a 7 month old little girl named Kaylie two days a week. We can get out of the house and go on walks around the neighborhood and to the park once the weather finally gets warm!

See what I mean? Santa's nice list = Raegan! Yes, those are almost all for her!

A new baby doll for the bathtub!

Trying out the sled with baby!

Her awesome new wagon... minus the wheels, so it looks more like a boat!

After Christmas morning at Grandma Millers we had a yummy dinner and then tried to get Raegan to take a nap before go to Newburgh to Grandma Cookseys. After trying and failing for over 3 hours we gave up on the nap and made our way to Cookseys where they were having a surprise baby shower for Aunt Tricia! Yes, Tricia and Jon are due with a little girl March 9! We are so excited!

Bug helping open her shower presents!

Don't you just love her Christmas outfit?! I do!

We left Evansville on Sunday, the day after Christmas and headed home for a couple of days before going to Fort Wayne on the 29th to do Christmas with the Hahaj's!

Grandma Hahaj with her girls!

Raegan and cousin Ava! I just had to put her in her cute outfit one more time!

Coloring on her new scribble board!

So of course since we were in Fort Wayne that means DATE NIGHT! WOO! And of course we always go to one of two places... Casa Grill or Bdubs! It was 9:30 before we left the house so we went to Bdubs. The Fort Wayne Bdubs are amazing. There is just something about the way the feel that is so great and so fun. We have so many memories from there!

GO IRISH!