Terrible Twos

I should start by saying that she really isn't terrible.

She can be challenging at times, hence the name Hailey Monster, but it is all in good fun.

Lately she has been throwing temper tantrums.  Today she was drinking a glass of iced tea without a lid on it.  She was stumbling around and while watching her I could see that there was a good chance that the drink was going to end up on the carpet.  I asked her to sit on the step and stay still until her drink was done and she responded with a loud 'No".  We had a little discussion about how she is not going to be walking around so if she won't sit then she needs to give me her drink.  Thsi time the 'No' got louder and was accompanied with a swat.  I wrestled the drink away from her- without spilling a drop I might add- and she was so mad she went storming off.  She was feverishly turning in circles as if she were looking for something she had dropped and then it hit me- we aren't at home so there is no second step to lay on to throw a fit.  She settled on this corner but only after she knocked down those cardboard boxes that were in her way.

This one is going to be trouble....

The many sides of Me

Hailey has been starting to talk more and more lately.  Every so often she will pull a full sentence out that you can understand perfectly.  "Here you go"  "I go" "I do"  "I wanna go" "I did it!". 

Other times it sounds like she is speaking in Chinease.

She has plenty of words that she can say: Mom, Ma, Mommy, Dada, Hannah, Bruce (from daycare), Jackie, Nol (Nolan), Yeah, Yay!, ball, broke, stuck, No (she's real good with this one!), more, baby, some sort of Thank You (too hard to try to spell but it is clear that that is what she means), she makes animal sounds, Poo (yes- what you think she means...but it's fun because she is starting to use the toliet), and me.

'Me' is by far the most universal of the words.

Point to a shoe and say 'Me' = I would like to wear these, help me get them on?

Point to what you are eating and say 'Me' = I would like to eat some of that too

Point to your sister playing with something and say 'Me' = Hey, I want that!

Point to the buckles on your carseat, say 'Me', point to the person trying to buckle you in = Hands off- I wanna do this myself!

Point to your baby while she is sitting on your lap and say 'Me' = This is mine

Point to your crib after rocking for a few minutes and bedtime and say 'Me' = I am ready for bed now

Point to the outfit you picked out and say 'Me' = Daddy, look at me!  I'm cute!

When in the bath, point to the soap, point to your belly and say 'Me' = My turn to get washed up and get out

Carry books over to the couch, climb up and say 'Me' = Let's read these, please

Point to Hannah and while crying, cry the word 'Me' = Hannah took that from me and I want it back

Choose your freezie, run to the 'cutting-counter', point to the scissors and say 'Me' = Cut mine first!

Point to a picture of yourself and say 'Me' = probably doesn't need a translation

Watch mommy and daddy hug or kiss, point to us while running over to get in the middle, shouting 'Me' =  I want some too!!

Badonkadonk

What do you get when you mix a toddler, a diaper, and a swimming pool?

A badonkadonk booty!

Summer lovin' happened so fast

Jackie was closed today.  Her dad passed away this past weekend and today was the funeral.

I took the day off to stay home with the girls.

I texted Karri Schnur this morning to see what her, Courtney, and Greta were up to.  I was feeling a need to be outside doing something.  Lunch?  Shopping?  Zoo?  MOA?  Just hanging out around home?

We decided to head to Snuffy's for lunch and follow it up with a trip to the Como Zoo.

We pulled into the parking lot- literally turned off of Lexington to the road that would lead us to the parking lot and my little baby genius in the back seat yells out "Mom! Remember Jennie brought us here last year when you were working!  Her friend and Maddie came with! Member that?"

Umm, yes I did but how in the heck did she?!

Entered the zoo, turned to the right and saw this building.

This building brings back so many memories for me.  Remember when we were little and this was pretty much the zoo?  Inside there were exhibits and the information center.  Later through years you would find the gift store within these walls.

Still can remember when there were actual animals in these cages. 

We walked around and looked at all of the animals and you KNOW I had to get a picture of this guy!

We ended our trip to the zoo in Como Town. 

It was 90 degrees outside today and when we pulled in the driveway we saw that daddy filled the pool when he got home from work and there is was, calling our names.

She isn't terrified, she truly loves this!

Heading in for a checkup

Today is Hailey's 15 mo WCC appt.  The appt was at 8:30 this morning but we started packing up to leave around 7:00 am.  It's a 27 mile drive into Maplewood so it should only take us about 40 minutes to get there, right?  Right.

Then why did we leave so early?

Well, that was because when Hannah found out that we were going to Dr Prall's before Jackie's she ran off to tell Baby Emersons that we were going to the doctor!  I knew what that was going to mean for me.

They were coming with.

Since I bought them some jammies a few days back, Hannah has been changing them into their clothes during the day and their jammies at night.  They were currently in their jammies and I knew that she would need to change them, diapers and all, before we left.

Don't worry, the double stroller is folded up in the trunk so she won't have to carry them both.  She thought of that ahead of time.

Hannah was starting to get tired on the way there so she didn't want to smile for the picture.  Apparently Emerson ('the hippo shirt one') was already fast asleep.

You can't think that I was going to get out of the house with just Hannah's babies.  Hailey needed hers too (which is the same as one of the Emerson's but Hannah can tell them apart somehow).

Hailey feeding her baby while we were waiting for her appt.

During the exam, Dr Prall was amazing.  He would check out Hailey's ears and then turn to Hannah and ask her to hold Emerson still so he could check her out as well.  She got the same check up as Hailey did.

Hailey got 4 injections today but Emerson was the luckiest- she only got one.