Bobby.

So, I'm Bobby. I guess it's better than "Daddy" or "Heidi" my two names up until about three days ago. Now I'm Bobby. Hayden says it with great excitement though, so I'll take it. Other words:

Shoes! (Always said with awe and excitement)
Hi
Off (to mean on, off or down)
Bye
Santa (always with a goofy grin)
Daddy
Bobby ;)
Heidi
Cheese! (Her favorite)
Hmmm (for hummus)
Doo Doo (for rooster)
GaGa (cracker and duck. Usually the context clues help with that one.)
NahNah All done - said with the sign language gesture for "all done")
NO! (how could I have forgotten that one?!)
BaBa (Bottle)
There are more I'm sure, and a lot of words that she'll copy (from "Apple" to "I love you")

First sentence?
Kev swears her first sentence was "You're still there!" while playing peek-a-boo. I heard it too, clear as day, but it's hard for me to think it was real. Kind of like the plant speaking in full sentences.
She said "I love you" with prompting
Tonight in the tub she was putting toys on her feet and I said, "You did that". She responded "I did that". Cool on a few levels, mostly because she changed "you" for "I". Still, I'm not sure I'm totally sold that she says all those things given that most of the time she speaks only fluent Muppet.

Baby at the OK Corral

Hayden, obsessed with Uncle Kev's hat. Note the binky/cigar action there.
Spinning, the all time favorite pastime. Hayden is obsessed with spinning. She can get herself going so fast that her head can't stay upright. She does this thing where she twists on the bottom of her foot and just gets going like crazy. We worry that she takes after Uncle Kev and his rave obsessed ways.
This is Daddy walking Hayden around on her hands. Note the shoes. It's a good thing they both think it's funny.
You can't see it in the photo, but Hayden is trying on her new shoes from Bamma. She's crazy about shoes. Everything is "shoes?!?" (always said with a hint of a question, like she just can't believe her luck). Bare feet "Shoes?!" footed pjs "shoes?!" Thank God the closest they come to designer baby shoes is Robeez. She'll be dangerous when she gets older.
I thought this one showed the preggo me better, but really it's more of a photo of the tree. Cool tree, smells like oranges and it hasn't lost a needle yet a month and a half after we cut it down.

New Year's Eve! It was just the small crew of us, Kev, Lorrie and mom. Michelle, Paul and Maria came over for a while and the girls played, and then the kiddos went to bed. We played games till midnight, watched the ball drop and then called it a day. Not a bad way to bring in the new year.

Holiday photos: Christmas morning with Hayden's Christmas morning Crazy Hair. Opening presents with Mommy, Hayden and Maria on New Year's Eve, and a very blurry photo of the family. I didn't realize how out of focus it was, but making it sharper will mean deleting all of these and I'm not having the easiest time uploading photos.

Christmas was a lot of fun. Hayden is really into saying "Santa" these days. She doesn't say "Mommy" but she says "Santa" with this goofy grin on her face all the time. She did really well opening presents and waiting her turn while other people opened theirs (I'm figuring this will be the last Christmas where that really happens for a while!) Her favorite gifts? A baby with a bathtub from Nana and fake food for her kitchen. She also got a Little People garage from Uncle Kevin and Auntie Lorrie that's a big hit. Christmas itself was pretty much devoted to opening presents and eating. Not a bad way to spend a day!

Oh, the photo with the fish is Brian and Hayden at the LL Bean Outlet in Freeport, ME. They have a big fish tank there with a little bubble you can stand in to be "in" the tank. As you can imagine....big hit!