So I’ve been getting an itch to blog. Possibly because it’s been 4 months and I have yet to write my daughter a 1 year letter. Possibly because Thomas will be 5 in exactly 2 weeks and I think I’m going to have an issue there. Or maybe because I just miss bragging about my kids in a forum that allows me to ramble. Maybe because Hailey is the most charming person that God has ever put on this planet and I want to remember it. I want to remember it all. Or possibly because Thomas is the funniest, kindest, most compassionate child I have ever had the honor to know and I also want to remember that. When they are teenagers and making me crazy I want to come back to this blog and remember. Remember that Hailey waves and blows kisses to every single person she comes into contact with. Remember that she makes people feel loved in a way that most children her age do not. Remember that she thinks her family are the most wonderful beings ever. Second to dogs. To remember that Thomas uses scientific words and has my math brain. To remember that he calls patters “padu-ens.” Remember that he’ll sometimes tell his sister he needs one of her real hugs. Remember that he loves Jenna and Hailey with every fiber of his being. Remember that he cherishes his friends and has true friends and not just a bunch of acquaintances. Remember that he is a good judge of character and so far has done a good job of choosing friends. I want to remember it all.
It’s easy to think now that I will. I have a good memory. I will remember, right? Well, just in case I don’t, I need to write it down. Because more than anything. I want to remember these two children whose lives God has given to me. I want to remember it all!
So, I have been 30 all of one day so I can’t judge what it’s really like, but I do have an observation. Hailey woke up pretty early this morning. I got her a bottle and went back to my bed hoping she might fall back to sleep so that I could also lay there for a little while longer. As I was laying in bed next to my sleeping baby girl listening to my boy and my husband in the living room my thought was, 30 or any other age, this is a pretty good life.
More on Hailey being 10 months and me being 30 later.
I’m tired. I want to go to bed but realized that I’ve already gone two days without posting and need to put something up. I would like to at least have over half the days of August with a post. So tonight. I will just add more pictures. Who doesn’t love pictures?
So I know that my mother has probably been coming here everyday waiting for this post. A post full of pictures. Enough to make your eyes bleed. And if it’s not enough, well come back tomorrow. There will be more!
Hailey really does love all things water. So when Thomas was playing on the Slip ‘n Slide she wanted none of the swing, she wanted the water!!
I am pretty sure that when I take a picture, I make the exact same face that Thomas makes. It cracks me up!!
Well, so I missed posting yesterday. I would like to come up with some fabulous excuse, but the only one I have is that I was tired. I think that getting back on a schedule is making us all a little tired. Thomas is having a great week at school so far. He is very excited to go each morning. Hailey is having to get used to taking her morning nap a little later. No matter what time she wakes up she is usually ready to go back down between 8 & 9. I drop him off at 9 so she can’t go down until after we get home. And I am trying to use the time while she’s napping to get some control of my house. And Tyler’s schedule is always tiring. So this has made for a tired house this week. I know that we’ll have it all under control in a week or two.
I have been enjoying my mornings with Hailey. She is really at a fun stage and I am so thankful that I’ll get some one on one time with her. I think that it will be a great time for the both of us. And of course, it’s a lot easier to get things done with just one child running through the house and not two. Luckily, she can’t make quite as big a mess yet as her brother. Although I know it is coming soon.
Also, 10 days until I kiss my 20’s good-bye. I think that I’ll miss them. They have been fun. More on that later though.
So, Hailey has been saying “Da-da” for quite some time. She says it a lot, but it also definitely means Tyler. She will sometimes scream it when he comes in th door or whisper it when she wants to get his attention. This doesn’t bother me so much since I know it’s most babies first word. But usually Ma-ma follows. Not for Hailey. She refuses to even make the “m” sounds. Again this wouldn’t bother me so much if she hadn’t just started saying dog “do-do” It is clearly different than da-da and is said when she sees real dogs or dogs on tv. It is even said toward cats, but we’ll work on that later. I am just wondering at what point should I be offended. I think maybe she is doing it on purpose. Just to make me a little crazy!!
I took Thomas shopping today for a new outfit to wear to his first day of school. I had been meaning to do this, but it had gotten away from me. After talking to my mom this morning she went through the check-list of everything a kid needs before their first day of school and it was revealed that I DID NOT have something new for him to wear. She told me to go buy him something on her dime to which I quickly agreed.
So this afternoon the kids and I loaded into the car and headed to the mall. I headed straight for Old Navy knowing they would have exactly what I wanted and I could be done fast. For the first time ever, they totally let me down. There was not one pair of shorts to be found in Thomas’ size with the exception of a red plaid pair. Not being a person who loves red, I dismissed them. There were plenty of jeans, khaki pants, SWEAT PANTS!!! But not one pair of shorts. I understand that the weather is getting cooler in some parts of the country, but COME ON, this is FLORIDA!!! It is still blazing hot.
It would seem that retailers would understand that sometimes people still need temperature appropriate clothing while it is that temperature. Not everyone buys their wardrobe a season ahead of time. I don’t know anyone who buys their clothes a season ahead of time.
We did end up finding something at Gymboree so all wasn’t lost.
Thomas starts Pre-K on Monday. As in the “grade” before he starts kindergarten. As any mother can attest to, this seems completely mind blowing. I look at him and I know that he is older, but I am just not really sure how it happened. I have gotten where I enjoy him so much in a way that is new. He is becoming such a real little person that has his own thoughts, ideas, likes, dislikes, and sense of humor.
The other day we were in Target and he picked up a snack pack of mandarin oranges. I was checking out and he held them up and asked me if we could buy them. I told him “no,” and he looked at me and said, “but mom, I loved these when I was a kid. I’d really like to get them.” The check out girl and I totally cracked up. I still didn’t buy them because he doesn’t actually like them. Then the next day he told me about something that he did when he was a kid and then said “because I’m not really a kid anymore, I am a big boy.”
He went with my mom up to Cedar Key for a couple of days and on the drive up he looked out the window and said, “Yep, we’re in the middle of nowhere, we’re almost to Meme and Papa’s house.” Not sure where he got that from, but he IS right.
It’s the things like these that keep me going on the days when he is acting like a boy trying to figure out who he is. Those days when I think about wanting to sell him I just remember the times when he keeps me laughing and I choose not to put him on e-bay.
