Today Hailey held her own...

We attended an open play at Hailey's gym today. I am sort of split with this time because on one hand it gives us a chance to get out of the house and give her something to do. On the other hand, it allows mixed age groups to be in the same room and that can be dangerous.


I always let Hailey do her thing, whatever that may be. She ran straight for a ball this afternoon. Whatever. I see this cute little blonde girl (3) talking to her. Hailey actually looked like she was responding (I could see her head moving back and forth). She's kind of smitten with older kids so I kind of laughed, but I quickly stopped when cute little blonde girl took my girl's ball from her hands. Still, whatever. Hailey didn't seemed phased by this and went on her way.

Maybe 10 minutes later, I was a little closer to the girls and this time blondy holds her hand up. Not really sure where she was going with this, I stepped closer. Hailey said to her, "Nice! Niiiice!"
Wow, so many things to say about that. Maybe she was just mimicking me. But, no, it was more than that. She knew what she was doing. She was telling the other girl to be nice to her in the only way she could. Blondy didn't listen though and legitimately pushed her down. Hailey fell to the floor, stood up, and yelled at her "No, no NO! Nice!" Obviously I stepped in at that point and told the other girl that Hailey was little and she needs to be careful (where was her mother?!) and this woman...sitting right in front of me... says "Oh, what happened?" Yep, there was her mother. Not watching her kid push mine down. Then she proceeded to yell at her daughter. Whatever. Her mother, sitting right there, was just as much of a problem in my mind.

But more than anything else, I'm proud of my girl. Not just talking to talk. But talking with a purpose. Standing up for herself. Being independent and strong. And entirely appropriate. I'm going to ignore the fact that she had a major attitude all the while and focus on the fact that I'm raising a strong girl who is not afraid to handle her own business. YA! Momma win!