water bottle - don't leave home without it

Hailey is in love with the new "large" Poland Spring water bottles. We figured this out the other day when my mom and I were shopping at the mall. She is not such a fan of shopping at this point in her life, so we were trying to get out of the mall as soon as possible, when we passed the cookie counter. Hailey noticed and asked for a cookie so we bought one and a water. Needless to say she loved the cookie, but there was something about the water and the new sip spout she loves. Sure enough she sat still, happily sipping and playing with that water for the rest of our trip. I think these will become a staple for our future shopping expeditions!

My mom watched Hailey's second cousins, Kaylee and Amber the last couple of Tuesday's and brought Hailey to their house. They love Hailey and Hailey loves them so they had lots of fun. Kaylee looked at me this afternoon and said "Hailey is soooo cute, I want to squish her like a blueberry" - I was laughing so hard!



Tonight we went to visit Robin, Luke and Alyssa. It was fun to watch Hailey and Alyssa interact. Hailey lately has become so much more verbal and will actually stay focused on a book or toy for more than a minute or two so they were able to communicate and actually sit down to play or read a book. I think both Luke and Alyssa loved to hear Hailey try to talk and figure out what she was trying to say. At one point we were trying to get her to say her numbers and if you remember earlier I said she has a vendetta against the number 2 and sure enough she would repeat the word "Nascar" when Luke asked her to say that, but ask her to say 2 and you can forget about it. Also, in the last week she has aged - last week she was 3, this week ask her and she says 4!



Robin has been great lending me clothes for each stage of Hailey's growth. Tonight we were going through shoes. Alyssa had a pair of great sandals from last summer that Robin loved so much she went to buy another pair for this summer and so tonight the girls walked around in their matching shoes ...