Anti-Vampire Tacos

Before I move on to the subject of Hailey's pre-school conference, I thought I might lighten my mood a bit with a few of the more recent Hailey stories.

No Vampire Halloween

Let's start with Halloween. I completely forgot in my last post to mention what Hailey wore this year for a Halloween costume. For a long time, she was insistent on being a vampire...until she sat on my lap while I was surfing the web for kids costumes. That is when we ran into this beauty of an outfit....

Spider Girl!

It was the essential blend of kick-butt action hero mixed with sweet pink girliness that defines my daughter perfectly *note the black shoes which I believe are on the wrong feet*. This was the first year she really understood what Halloween was about...candy. In fact, one of the first houses we went to, she didn't yell "Trick-or Treat"...she jumped up and down and said "Candy, Candy, Candy". Yep, that's my girl...gets right to the heart of things. It has been decided that her favorite types of candy are: suckers, (and if they have gum inside them...all the better), red licorice and "Eh-Ems" (M&M's in Hailey-speak).

Vampire Boyfriend

Shortly after Halloween, our next story took place. This involves her continuing obsession with our friend's' 15 year old son...Conner. One evening, Hailey and I were relaxing on the couch with her magnetic drawing board. As she so often does...she asked me to draw a picture of her and Conner. This time, Conner was dressed as a vampire and Hailey as Spider Girl....with hearts all around them. As she took over possession of the board - in order to color in Conner's vampire cape - she announced to me that Conner is her boyfriend. I laughed a little at that statement. She paid no attention to me and again told herself that Conner was indeed her boyfriend. When I continued to laugh...she stopped drawing, looked me square in the eye and with the most serious expression I have seen on her face said to me.... "OH...he WILL be mine!" I almost fell off the couch I was laughing so hard. I suppose it is good to have goals in life.

Our last story...oddly enough...also involves vampires. Hmmm...

Anti-Vampire Taco
I mentioned in my last post that our former daycare provider, Jamie, just had her own baby. After her birth, I signed up to deliver a meal to them for their first week. I decided to make a chicken broccoli braid (a la Pampered Chef). Nathan and I were making 2 of them (one for us as well) when Hailey pulled up a stool to help. She didn't quite understand the braiding of the bread, so she asked if we were making a taco...sure...rather than try to explain what we were really doing, we went with it and told her - "Yep its a taco".

She leaned in for a closer look... then announced that it 'was stinky'. I told her "Oh, that's the garlic you smell"... to which Nathan responded "Hailey, garlic keeps away vampires!" This made Hailey very happy and she declared the meal was now a "No Vampire Taco!" ...thus, the Anti-Vampire Taco was born!

Once we finished the braid for Seth and Jamie, I put a note with cooking instructions on it and put it in the freezer. After the second one was done being braided, Hailey decided she needed to put a note on our taco as well. I found a post-it-note and pencil and Hailey dictated the words as she was 'writing'....

"Dear Family -
This is a no vampire taco.

Which is good.

Mom, I love you.

Dad, have a good day.

-Love Hailey.

The vampires are running away now."

Take THAT vampires!! There will be NO vampires in our house - except for Conner of course.