Everyone says it....However, time moves forward, Hailey is growing up and there are things to be shared again. She is so BIG now, not just taller with bigger feet...so much more independent, so much her own person. She is all attitude and mischief with a dash of sweetness. If she thinks something is funny, good luck trying to get her to stop doing it, no matter how dangerous or (more often) annoying it might be.
She is certainly funny...Holy God is she funny! She will just say things that make Nate and I just look at each other and bust out laughing. It can be the most common of things too, but out of the mouth of a 3 year old...it's just a riot. For example: she loves playing this Lego Batman game on her handheld Nintendo DS (we did not buy a toddler a DS... it's mine that she confiscated) and she is alarmingly good at it. However, she doesn't have all the problem solving skills she needs for such a complex game, so she asks for a LOT of help to get Batman and 'Robert' unstuck. Last night she asked me (yet again) for help and after I helped save Robert, she walked back to her chair, looked me in the eye and said "I'm just so sick of this"....so ordinary....yet so dang funny coming out of that face.
In terms of things that have happened lately, she has taken more swim classes and is getting fairly good for a kid who can't float. She loves the water and we had to pry her out of her aunt and uncle's pool on the fourth of July. She made my heart race on more then one occasion where she slipped out of her floaty - I didn't get more than 8 inches away from her the entire time.
Her attention span has really increased and we have been able to take her to see some movies in the theater. Her first film was 'How to Train Your Dragon' she went to that with daycare. Nate then took her to see 'Toy Story 3' last month. I finally got my chance this past weekend when the three of us went to see 'Despicable Me'...she was really good and barely asked any questions during the movie, but I think at the end she was more interested in the popcorn
The biggest thing in Hailey's life this past summer has been the arrival of Aunt Angie from Georgia. Nathan's sister moved back home this spring and Hailey absolutely adores her! Whenever Angie is around, mom and dad totally drop off the radar. Forget it, stick a fork in us we are done, yesterday's news. Hailey won't let Angie out of her sight, she threw a royal hissy fit when Angie left to go get more food without her at the Chinese buffet. Hailey loves Angie so much that she climbed up into Angie's lap and told her "You're my girlfriend". As much as it takes mom down a peg or two...it has been amazing to have Angie back home and I am so glad she and Hailey have such a good relationship.
Speaking of things like 'girlfriends'...my 3 year old daughter is absolutely obsessed with BOYS! Hailey calls them 'handsomes' and the obsession seems to spike after watching one too many Disney Princess movies - the ones where the princess always kisses her prince in the end. Hailey has her own version of Prince Charming....he's 15....seriously...15 - he can almost drive! Conner is the son of our really close friends Park and Emmy... and Hailey thinks the sun rises and sets in his eyes ("He's so handsome"). She constantly wants me to draw him on her Etch-A-Sketch. If Conner isn't home, then their other son Evan fits the bill just as well (Hailey apparently has a thing for blondes). Yes, it's cute...yes it's funny...but it's also a little disturbing. O.K....granted.....she's got great taste in boys, but at this rate, poor Nathan is going to be totally grey before she is even 5 years old.
Lastly, and I am sure this will be the subject of a 'soon to be blog entry'....we are looking in to different pre-schools for Hailey to attend this fall. I know it will be good for her, and she'll probably really enjoy it, but for whatever reason, it is giving me a case of the stress-shakes. She's going to learn so much in pre-school, she'll socialize with a lot of different kids....but ugh...I have been totally dragging my feet on it. Next week, I have appointments to visit two places then the decision process will begin. Something totally overprotective keeps popping into my head to tell me that she's just too little for all of this. I don't know them...how can I even think of dropping her off to someone I don't know... when my whole world seems to revolve around her?
Life moves so fast.
She is so big....she is so independent...
she is, and always will be, my little girl!
1 comment:
She is so adorable, M!!!! Don't worry, you'll find the right preschool (maybe a good Montessori?) and she will THRIVE and you'll look back and say, "Why did I worry so much?"
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