Here are some of Haylee’s Easter/4 month old pictures along with her cousins Claire and Abby Roland.
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We received the go ahead from the pediatrician to start feeding Haylee some cereal and fruit juices.  Last night was the first attempt.  I know the video is long, but I’m sure some of the family would want to share this experience with us, so here is most of what happened last night.  By the way, this stuff grosses me out!

Today is my scheduled day off from work, which I was totally looking forward to, since all the routes at our station are getting inspected this week.  So far, it has not been a good experience for me.  This is the first inspection that I have went through. 

Although I was looking forward to this day, it doesn’t look like it is going to be a fun one.  Haylee is scheduled for her second go around on shots this morning, and after that, I have to go to the dentist to get some work done myself. 

But, I think I would rather have a root canal everyday for a week than to go through these inspections. 

Here I sit again in front of the computer.  I apologize for the lapse in posts over the past few months or so.  I am amazed, but I expected the changes that Haylee has brought into our lives.  Gone are the days of laying around on my days off and not doing a thing.  Gone are the evenings of a quiet dinners out with Ericcia and just being another couple eating out……nope, at times we are the couple with cute baby, and other times, we are the couple with the baby who won’t shut up.  There’s nothing like wolfing down twenty or thirty dollars worth of food, just because you think, and probably are, bothering those around you.  Case it point:  Ericcia, Haylee and I spent our Presidents day riding around Nicholasville looking for fireplaces.  After visiting my old employer, we thought we would stop by Bob Evans and get a bite to eat.  Haylee was fine going in, but two or three minutes into the meal….all that changed.  She couldn’t be pacified (I’m unsure who she got this from).  I finish eating pretty quick so I can walk around with her while Ericcia finishes her meal.  The walking around helped, but Haylee was still a little irritable.  Of course, once we went out to the Jeep and headed towards Georgetown, guess who was in a better mood.  It wasn’t Ericcia or I…….   Oh yes, the gooing and gaahing started up and within five or ten minutes, she was out like a light. 

I must say though, one of the most positive changes, I think, is the fact that Haylee likes to go to bed early!  I am pretty sure who she got this from.  Her last meal is at nine o’clock and Ericcia feeds her in our bed and stays there after that.  I can’t tell you how much I enjoy hitting the bed early again.  Haylee is also sleeping through the night and has been for a while, so we are extremely blessed in that regards as well. 

Just a few things that have been going on with me otherwise:  Work is pretty hectic as usual, I’ve been called to jury duty for three months, I am playing regularly with the praise band at church, I am gaining weight, getting more gray hair and loving every minute of life.  I think I have rambled on enough so I will leave you with another picture of Haylee.  Both of these were taken last Sunday at Protrait Innovations in Hamburg.  Pretty neat place and the photographers are great and really know how to work with the kids.  It’s hard to believe she is already three months old!

I happened to run across this guy on youtube.  I have no idea who he is, but he just amazes me.

I can’t begin to tell you how my heart hurts.  Early this morning, we lost my grandfather, Willie D. Robinson, to a short battle with cancer.  I last saw him alive on Tuesday night.  It is very hard to see someone you love so much in that much pain.  I can honestly say that I was glad to see the Lord take him after seeing the agony he was in.  I got the call at about six this morning from my mom.  She said today that you think that your parents are always going to be there but it is just a very cold reality that someday they are going to leave this world.  I remember growing up living just a parking lot away from mimmaw and pappaw (paps).  I always waited for Saturday night to arrive so we could go watch Hee Haw and eat popcorn that mimmaw would fix by shaking the pan back and forth across the burner….Those were the days…….I remember pap’s old goat that he had in the lot where their house now stands.  I remember the old hurst that paps bought for some unknown reason other than to pinch my leg and scare me to death while sitting in the back of it.  I remember waking up under a pile of covers that mimmaw had placed on the floor me to sleep on and seeing paps at the kitchen table in his chair by the bathroom door, drinking coffee and smoking a cigarrette, only to hear him blame his dog snowball for the gas that HE just let.  I remember him out working on mowers in his garage and I always wondered what was upstairs but he would never let me go up.  I remember Christmas as a child and watching him and my uncles sit around after opening presents and play music……those were the days.  I remember paps at the Elmer Davis Lake riding up and down the driveway on his three wheeled motor bike.  I remember even recently the relentless kidding he would dish out towards mimmaw, just to get her flustered……I hear her now…..JUNIOR!  We always said they could have made a sitcom around the two of them.  I still have yet to figure out how one person can know so much about what is going on in Versailles and never leave the front porch.  I remember just over the past several months, I would make a trip to Versailles every Monday night and sit under the tree and drink a bottle of green tea and just talk……I’m really going to miss that…….I remember how much, even though he may not have said it all the time, he loved his family.  Families like ours are few and far between this day in age, and we have been blessed to have parents and grandparents to raise all of us with pure and unconditional love.  When you look at our family you can see the love and companionship we have for each other and I know it is all because the love that mimmaw and paps have given all of us.  I’m so grateful that paps got to see his new great-grand baby just a couple of days before he passed away, and I am grateful that the last words he heard from me was “I love you”.

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Well as most of you could understand, finding the time to write a post on here has been harder over the past few days.  This time last week, we were already at the hospital and Ericcia already had her Epideral and we were all waiting for the big arrival. 

Everything has been going great since Haylee has been home.  It seems we are getting on a nightly routine of about every four hours instead of being sporatic throughout the night.  The three of us spent the last couple of days visiting Great Grandparents, Grandparents, and a few other people in the Versailles and Cynthiana area.  We made it to the library last night and picked up a movie for Ericcia and I to watch, since we really haven’t had a lot of together time.  Haylee was fed and clean, the movie was in the DVD player and we had our nest made in the couch.  Thirty minutes later…..at 9:30pm…….we both woke up and decided we would just have to watch the movie during the day……so we went to bed!  Walking up the stairs, I told Ericcia that we have officially become old…..

We have some more pictures and video to post as soon as we get the house back to an organized mess.  We hope this finds everyone well, and now it is time to go back to sleep for a few more hours.

Please remember to be in prayer for my family.  For those of you who don’t know, we received word while Haylee was being born that my grandfather has cancer.  It has been an emotional rollercoaster over this past week for everyone, so please jsut keep us in your prayers.

2:30 Sunday morning:     I’m up changing yet another poopie diaper on a wide awake Haylee.  I have found out that she doesn’t mind the changes while she is awake, and the pacifier that the nurses used is a great tool as well, but hopefully we can keep that to a night thing.  I haven’t slept much tonight at all, not that Haylee has been too fussy…..I am just up at every little sound she makes, and trying to keep her fed with milk and Ericcia fed with the drugs. 

By the way, I have officially lost count of how many diapers I have changed, and Ericcia’s total is………zero!  She has worked it out pretty good so far that I or somebody who would love to change her is around at the time.  That’s ok though, they aren’t very stinky right now……we’ll let Ericcia get more involved at that time….ha ha

We were finally released from the hospital today around 2:30 or so.  Ericcia hated to leave her little button in the bed.  She loved being able to push that button and have people come running…….I guess that’s me now……

It has still not set in that we are parents, and especially for me….I CAN’T BELIEVE I’m a daddy!  So far the experience has been pretty wonderful, but we have yet to spend the first night in our house…..so……ask me tomorrow and I may have a different answer.  Haylee is so precious……even those dirty diapers I’ve changed….and even when she pee’d on me the last time I changed her.  SOMEHOW, Ericcia has yet to change a dirty diaper…..I think that may have to change soon though   ;0)

It’s gonna be tough not going to church tomorrow……I know there are quite a few people who want to see her, and believe me……we wan’t to show her off.