I know, I know...
But let's just pretend that it hasn't been for.ever since I last posted. Things have been just going around here. As usual, we've been traveling...going to classes and play dates galore. Hailey is my mini teenager these days. She says "no!" and runs away when she doesn't want to do something (luckily, I'm faster than she is...I always win). Sometimes she even pretends she's sleeping so she doesn't have to do something. But then she's helpful. She wants to put her dishes in the sink, throw trash away and put the rocks on the correct side of the driveway (I'm fairly certain she has my OCD).
She's talkative, as usual, which is overrated. Her vocab is in the hundreds. She can identify any common animal, what sound it makes, people's names (including her own: first, middle and last), every day objects, etc. She's even saying some 3 and 4 word sentences (the longer the sentence, the more likely she repeated it, though... something like "Hay-ee bwush your teef?") One of the mom's in her music class even asked if I did some sort of program with her to get her to talk. LOL...I just had this image of me sitting on the floor with her like massaging her jaw and then showing her flash cards, drawing out vowel sounds. In all honestly, I don't do anything special. She watches tv (albeit all really good shows for her), and I talk to her, but she's been verbal since before a year. She could say the alphabet in its entirety at 14 months, count to 10 by 15 months, and count to 20 by 16 months. Believe me, there are no secrets...that's not me...that's allllll Hailey.
But it can definitely be overrated. Seriously. At a wedding this past weekend, I made the decision to sit in the "quiet room" at the church so Hailey didn't ad-lib any part of the ceremony. Good thing, because the whole time she was saying "Hi, e'rybody!", asking for her daddy, who was the Best Man, commenting when people stood up and sat down, wanting to see the princess (bride), etc. I had my very own broadcaster as we watched from afar. About ready to pull my hair out by the tenth time the guests stood up ("e'rybody stand up??"), when the flower girl appeared in the "quiet room" not-so-quiet, I realized I didn't have it that bad, even if I only saw the vows from behind the glass. In fact, when the flower girl came in crying, Hailey looked at me and says, "Crying? Share book? Happy?" It was one of those Oh you're really not so bad after all realizations.
She does have her overly cute moments, too...the moments that overshadow the "NO!"s... Like when she says, "Bwess you mommy/daddy" when we sneeze, or sharing with that girl, saying "I yuv you", taking her toy dog, purse, and shoes and asking to go out...to name a few. Yeah, she's not so bad.
I am in slight denial that we are closer to the 2 year mark than we are the 1 year mark. I am excited, but it seems a little strange. I am ready, challenges and all, because with every challenge, there is a reward. Remember when I posted that she wasn't a good sharer? And then did you just read that she wanted to give the crying flower girl a book to make her feel better. Yeah, there are rewards with the challenges.
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