stages

Looking back over Hailey's "almost" 2 years I realized I have loved every stage of her growth and it just seems to get better! Right now she is at a fun stage, where she can really understand what I say and verbalize back what she wants. She also has a funny personality that justs gets more and more developed as she grows. She is outgoing and just so darn cute! I couldn't be more blessed as a mom.

Part of this new stage is repeating EVERYTHING! You look at her and say something, she will repeat it. She also copies many of our actions. Her newest is to pretend to give you something and then when she gets close to giving it to you she takes it back, opens her mouth wide and laughs! When she does this I look at her and say "meanie" and so now she looks at me and says it back with a smile on her face! It is quite cute, but I can just see her doing this to the wrong person or another child. I don't think they will think its so cute.



She also has reached the stage - maybe you want to call it "terrible twos" - where she isn't as easy going as she used to be ;-) This past week she has decided she doesn't want to go to sleep at night. I have never had this problem. Even when she was first home from the NICU she slept so well. So when this pattern first started I would go in, rock her, lay her back down and come out again. Eventually she would fall asleep. Then the next night she would push it further, I would go back in, hug her lay her down and she would cry again ... after a couple nights I noticed a pattern. Last night was the worse. 45 minutes of on and off crying and "mama". I had a hard time with ignoring it (but I did), because I knew this would only get worse as the nights progressed. Lets hope last night I made a point and tonight she settles down.



Hailey loves to "cook" so for her her 2nd birthday we were going to buy her a kitchen set. Last weekend we were driving around and went by a second hand children's store and they had a kitchen for a really good price, so we gave it a home. I thought about waiting till her second birthday, but living where we do there isn't much room to store anything. So when she came home from Nana's last week it was waiting for her! She was so happy and now serves us breakfast, lunch and dinner :-)

and potty update ... Hailey now tell me when she has to poop, so I put her on the potty, when she decides she is done she gets up and I put a diaper back on her. She then proceeds to really poop! I guess its a good step that she warns me when it is coming...

Happy Mothers Day to all the wonderful mom's I know!