Goodbye Green Socks

Hailey is growing so fast, it's hard to keep up now.

I asked her to do something this week and she responded with "Yes Mother". Is she going to be 3 this month.... or 16?

Last month we took the side off her crib and made it into a toddler bed which she can get into all by herself. She did great with it for several weeks - then one night she realized she could get out of bed, and its been downhill from that point on. Sure... it's cute when she peeks around the corner of the door then runs down the hall like the wind....a giggly, naughty wind. It's really hard not to crack a smile. That is, until it's 11:30 pm and she has been doing that for two hours - at that point, not smiling is really, really easy.

Potty training has been going so remarkably well, that last week we decided it was time...time to inspire our girl to greater bathroom success with the magic of.... panties! We bought a 3 pack of Hello Kitty undies and she LOVED them. When we unwrapped them, Hailey grabbed a wad of cotton bliss in her little fist and ran around the house singing "Panties, panties". It went great for several days, until she had her first accident - no big deal, we expected that. Then she started hiding out in corners and having an accident a day. Eww. Now Hello Kitty goes on over the pull-up.

*editorial note - Hailey still is pull-up free at daycare - it's only at home where she runs around like a wild animal*

I saved the best story for last. A little over a week ago, I came home from band camp to spend the evening with Nathan and Hailey. They got home from daycare and Hailey (as she does every day) took her shoes and socks off. She struggled with the socks because she tried pulling them from the toe - and they were a little suctioned to her feet. She called for our help and her dad told her to pull them off from the top. Which she did, and it worked! However, she must have been really mad at those socks... because when we turned our backs for a second, the next sound we heard was the toilet flushing. Yep. She flushed her socks. Her green socks. Both of them. Her only pair of green socks. Right...down...the....toilet. I guess I'm glad she flushed both because if she just did one, then I would be left with a one sock reminder of the suction power of our toilet.

I'm thinking about starting a new website... "Will it Flush?" where I just flush random objects to see if they get stuck. 1 pair of toddler socks = flushes like butter. 1 large pine cone = not so much.

Nothing is left unexplored in this house, no stone is left unturned.

For example, as I am typing this...I hear Nathan is the other room telling an obviously grossed out Hailey..."Well don't lick that if its yucky."

Awesome. You have to have a great sense of humor to live in this house!