A Day in the Life

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Little Nephites

Our ward had an Easter activity that was themed from the Book of Mormon when Jesus came to visit the Americas. My friend had brought some cute dress-ups to church one day for the kids to act out Bible stories so I asked her for the pattern. I made these adorable little head pieces from scraps. Matt's t-shirts made perfect robes. It was so fun and the kids looked adorable!

Note: for anyone that wants really casual instructions, check my comments on this post. I put them there so they wouldn't take up so much room here.

Friday, April 3, 2009

Baby Mine

It's already obvious from the "Happy Dreams Song" singing previously posted that I've had so much fun with Hailey's new love of singing. Matt is equally, if not more, excited as I am. He plays with her on the piano and has her match notes, etc. She picked up this "Baby Mine" simply because I sing it to her so often. Matt taught her "You Are My Sunshine," but when I tried to get it on a clip today she was doing a rendition that included half "Good Night Hailey." You can tell we always end the night of singing with "Good Night Hailey" because she starts to sing it after then end of other songs - you'll see here.

ABC's

So this video is kind of long (2 minutes), but I finally got all of her ABC's on one clip and wanted to show grandparents. She can see herself on the computer and gets embarrassed at first. My favorite is "w" - we're still working on pronunciation.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Baking Time

Hailey was wanting my attention while I was making dinner so I decided to include her in the process. She had lots of fun and her favorite part was her first introduction to licking the beaters. Matt gave her a great demonstration. Oh yeah - and the shades....with Matt being in school and learning all the dangers of the sun to the eye, we've got Hailey in shades. She LOVES them. Obviously she doesn't know the real purpose of them - she wears them indoors sometimes too. I'm so impressed at how well she leaves them on. Oh yeah, and note the adorable apron in the last photo. Thanks Heather - she loves it!

Dangers of Optometry School

Matt came home from school with a battle wound. I asked him how bad the other guy was and he said about the same. I'm sure glad I don't have to practice injections in the eye.

Christmas from Grandpa & Grandma

My parents sent out a HUGE box of Christmas gifts for us a couple months ago. Hailey got a beautiful handmade rocking horse and rocking chair. She LOVES them both! I don't have a photo of her on the horse, but you can see it in the second photo. Although she loves them, one of her favorite parts about the gift is the house we made for her out of the box they sent everything in. She crawls into it when she's running away from a diaper change (note the crazy hair before bedtime) and it's a big hit when friends come over. Thanks Grandpa & Grandma!

Memphis Zoo

Hailey and I had a chance to go to the zoo with some friends. We had a great time. There were baby giraffes, a fake cow we could ride (she didn't like it much), and her favorite, the polar bears. The one polar bear had a route it would follow that included a swim right by the window where Hailey was standing. She'd squeal and get so excited. Occasionally he'd come right up to the glass so they were nose to nose. She'd step back a little, but it was so precious.

Haileyisms

I always love reading the funny things kids say or do and I don't want to forget the things that Hailey does. So, I'm going to start a list - hopefully I'll come back to add to it more often than I have been. :)

4-18-10

In her bed yelling out to me (even though she's aware of the rule that once her door is closed we don't come back until morning...)"MOOOOOOOOM.....MOOOOOMMMMMYYYY.....DO YOU HEAR ME? I CAN'T HEAR YOU. YOU NEED TO SPEAK LOUDER. DO YOU HEAR ME? "

Every morning when Matt is leaving she stands in the doorway and says the cutest things like, "I love you, Daddy. Have a good day. Seed ya waiter. Be safe." She always reminds him, "Kisses, hugs."

Unfortunately Hailey has learned lately (by watching other kids) to be afraid of bugs. We keep telling her that bugs are nice and wont hurt her, but she persists in SCREAMING every time she sees one, or hears one (bees and grasshoppers, especially). And I'm not being sarcastic on the scream - it turns heads from neighbors. One day she got so upset she even threw up. It's so sad. Anyway, she says, "buggies go inside." This is her solution - because that's what makes the neighbors scary barking dog go away. What a thinker. :)

3-11-10

Hailey loves to do the same things Levi is doing. I was practicing sitting up with Levi and put my hand behind him as support while he was getting his balance. Hailey said, "you help me sit, Mommy?" She sat down and pretended to fall back. I was amused by her observations.

A few weeks ago during FHE we decided to teach Hailey to play hide-and-seek. She LOVES, LOVES, LOVES to play. Several times a day she'll say, "count to 20 and come find me." or "I count to twenty, you hide, and I come find you." It's so fun. She'll even play with Sandy, her bear. She even looks in a few places before finding Sandy, even though she's the one that hid her. It makes me laugh.

"Daddy, I don't want you to go to school. I just want you to stay with me."

"I sure love you mommy/daddy."

We've been potty training the last few days and Hailey has done incredibly! She has had a few accidents, but she definitely gets the idea and is doing very well. One of the fun things is that she loves the shapes/colors of her panties. Yesterday I had to laugh when she said, "hurry, I gotta pee in the potty. I don't wanna pee on my apples."

1-27-10

Hailey has really been into making up songs lately. Sometimes she does different words to tunes she already knows (Twinkle, Twinkle is a favorite tune) or most recently she's tried making up the tune and the words. So, today after church she's sitting in her chair at the table singing, "Jesus for me....Jesus for me..Jesus for me," over and over - higher pitched then lower. Later Matt told her to sing it for me so she ran through the living room (pigtails and hands flying) singing, "Jesus for Mommy, Jesus for Mommy."

Sitting in church today Hailey was looking at her Gospel Art Book from Grandma Stevens. She would turn to a picture, hold it up for me to see and say "what's this?" (Can you tell that's how she learns at nursery and FHE). One of the pictures was of Jesus when He was 12 and teaching in the temple. When she asked "what's this?" I told her it was Jesus when He was young. She said "no," and pointing at the man behind Jesus with a long white beard, "it's Santa."

"Maybe later" is one of Hailey's favorite phrases as of late. When I tell her it's nap or bedtime she says "maybe later nap" or "maybe later bed." I had to laugh when we were discussing in the car on the way home that we were going to have spaghetti for dinner and she replied, "maybe morrow spaghetti. We have macacheese for dinner."

If Hailey was older I couldn't tell this one - so thank goodness for sweet innocence of toddlers. We haven't 'officially' started potty training, but she knows when she needs to go poop. This morning she and Matt were enjoying cold cereal for breakfast when she started making her poopy face and moaning. She said, "I can't poop"...moan..."I can't poop. It's stuck." Matt grinned and they finished. A few minutes later she was running around with her little stroller and found Matt and exclaimed with great excitement "Daddy, I got it!"

Matt was walking out the door for school, and Hailey sent him off with, "Love your guts!!" (Yes, Matt says that to her.)

When Hailey first started going to nursery we'd chat with her in the car on the way home about nursery. One Sunday I was busy chatting with Matt instead of following the normal ritual. I heard her announce in the back seat, "Bubbles, fish, Addie (her friend), learn about Jesus."

A Day in the Life

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Little Nephites

Friday, April 3, 2009

Baby Mine

ABC's

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Baking Time

Dangers of Optometry School

Christmas from Grandpa & Grandma

Memphis Zoo

Our Sweet Baby

The Whole Family

Our Little Lady

Our Little Man

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Link to the website selling Matt's "Best Seller" choral piece!

Haileyisms