reading on the potty

Hailey loves to see herself on the camera, but that means as soon as I pull out the camera she runs toward me to see the picture rather than actually smile. So this picture below is priceless!


We are still potty training and one tip given is to have your child sit on the potty and read books. Well, for some reason Hailey has discovered a love for this. Does she actually go potty, no, but she loves to sit and read books. So tonight while I was preparing dinner she decided to take ALL of her books and tote them via a basket to the bathroom in order to sit and read!




On another note, Hailey will start going to daycare 2 days a week. My mom who has watched her the first two years of her life needed to get a job outside the home. We found a daycare we like close to home and Hailey starts 2 weeks from tomorrow. I am so happy I have not had to put Hailey in a daycare before this point in time, but now that she is older and "self-sufficient" (ha, ha). I am actually looking forward to her being with kids her own age. She is very social and actually when we went to "interview" the daycare she jumped in playing and cried when it was time to go. So in a couple weeks we start a new chapter in Hailey's life. I think we may be in for a few "bugs", but thankfully its getting to the end of cold and flu season!

conversation between friends

Watching a train go by with daddy ...

Hailey was able to play with her friend Wyatt tonight and they had so much fun! Notice the trampoline behind them. Wyatt received that for Christmas and they practically jumped all night. Valerie and I have been friends since grade school and these two have been friends since about 9 months old and they are at a fun age now. They really interact with each other and play quite well. Tonight they actually had a little conversation about the movie Nemo they were watching. We laughed so hard, it was so cute!

Hailey's favorite thing at the moment is to play with her little figures. These consist of little animals, disney character sets and little people. It is entertaining to watch her set them up and play pretend.

beautiful

My dad took these on our trip last week. We can never get her to smile in an actual picture at this stage in her life, but I think these actually came out beautiful!


On the update front, Hailey has taken gymnastics for about a month now and absolutely loves it. She is really blossoming and talks about it all week. When we started in the class she was beginning her "scared" phase and so in her first class she was scared of everything, but now she jumps on the trampoline all by herself, she tumbles and flips with the teacher and even walks the balance beam high off the ground. Today we were just thinking back to how far she has come in the class in such a short time. It is also great for her to be around other kids her age and she already has made some new "friends".

On the sleeping front she is regressing. She has ALWAYS slept through the night. Even when she is sick she sleeps through the night, but lately she has been getting up and wanting to sleep with us. I am working on putting her back in her own bed, but its so much easier to put her in with us and fall asleep (bad mommy). The trouble is, sometimes she just lays awake and talks at 3am! Help me! Last night she was up at 3am, then up at 6am! I think the reason she is waking is due to noise. Our heaters make noise sometimes and she is now "scared" of them which doesn't help, then once she is up why not come to mommy and daddy's room. So tonight I need to be firm and bring her back to bed even if it means less sleep for me :-)

bust a move

Happy Birthday Kailee!

I love these two pix! Can you tell she is tired though?!

Today we drove north to celebrate Kailee's 4th birthday! They had the party at Jokers and Hailey had the time of her life. I couldn't keep her still enough to even sit for a moment. Needless to say she is TIRED tonight!

The train below was the highlight of her time. It took a lot of persuasion to even get her off to go on another ride.

pix

Are you looking at me?!

singing and watching herself on the tv

Superbowl XLII

Well I am overwhelmingly disappointed about the game, but here are a few pix to show that some team spirit was being displayed tonight in spite of the bad ending ...