Being quiet is NEVER a good sign...

So you would have thought by now with Hailey being 2 1/2 that I would have learned that her being quiet should set off alarms and bells and all kinds of red flags....but it doesn't...still!!!!

So last night, I'm in my room working on some stuff and Hailey is out in the living room and in my head I'm thinking she is playing with the cat or playing by herself. Continuing to do my work and I yell for her and ask what she is doing....no response....

A little while later I walk up to the room and I look around and I don't see her and I look down and she is hiding underneath my island under the bar stool with my PURSE, all contents out and with gum wrappers in her hand!!!! Made her spit it out and I took my stuff back and told her that mommy's purse is not a toy and that needs to stay out of it.

So I got back to my room again, working on the computer and again....I hear nothing for a while....yell for her again and she doesn't come....hmmmm??? Walk back out there and she is now under the END TABLE with my purse and all its contents out and now 3 peices of gum in her mouth!?!?!?!?!?

Needless to say, she was put in timeout....but man was it hard to not laugh at her hiding in the spots she chose....ahhh 2 year olds

Moving away from daycare...

So next week is Hailey's last week at KinderCare. My cousin Becky, who has always been my back up sitter and who I really get along with out of the blue offered to watch Hailey full-time if I wasn't really happy with daycare. This totally through me for a loop and had to really make me think.
I've never not been happy with daycare, Hailey's only been there for 2 1/2 months and so I didn't know if we gave it enough time. But after some consideration and talking over things with Becky we're going to do it. It'll save me some money, which will be great and I think Hailey will love going to Becky's every day.

Hailey has never complained about going to school (daycare) but she is always ready to leave, has never fought me on staying, which that makes me wonder because she has always fought me to leave a sitters that she has enjoyed. So this will be a good move...Becky is so active with her kids, going to the pool, library, parks and picinics with her kids. It'll be great for Hailey and I'll love her being with Becky.

With me working so much, I want someone who is going to care for her like I would and give her the attention she needs and yet allows her to be a kid too. So we'll see...

Hailey before her first dance class & Mya

2008 Trick or Treat

Hailey's first dance class

Hailey had her first dance class this week on Tuesday. All I can say is, it was the cutest most adorable thing i've ever seen!!! I think I had the biggest goofiest smile on my face the entire 30 minutes.

At first i was worried because it all happens so fast, the door opens and the previous students come out and then the next class goes in. But Hailey did well, she followed everyone and put her book bag along the back wall and then stood with everyone else. She at first was kind of off in the corner and then she eventually went in line with everyone and started doing what the teacher was doing. She's behind since the classes started in September but I think she'll catch on quickly.

She absolutely loved it though and cried when we left. :o)

I did take pictures but have been so bad about uploading them and getting them developed its terrible!

New family member

Well....this may come as a shock to some of you but last week we got a kitten! I know I so not a cat person but I've really been wanting a pet and I knew Hailey would love it. No pictures yet, I know I don't know why I haven't done this yet...I'm slacking! Her name is Mya and she is a gray, tailess kitten. I guess that there is a bread of cats that don't have tails, so she has a little fur ball where her tail would normally be, pretty cute actually.

Surprisingly though she is really into us. The first night she hide under the couch all night, mostly I think because Hailey was laying on the floor staring at her...can't say I blame her either. However she has since warmed up. She is actually really good with Hailey. Mya lets Hailey carry her around, in which every way Hailey feels like carrying her, from the neck, butt up in the air, etc. and she just takes it all in. I thought for sure Hailey was going to get scratched or bite but not yet. Hailey will sit on the couch and Mya will come up and sit on her lap or beside Hailey.

So for now it seems like this was a good move....Mya is here to stay! Will try to post pictures soon!

Ballet here we come!!!!

I am so excited!!! I have wanted to find a place where Hailey could take dance classes just for fun because she is so into dancing/singing right now that I know she would love it. Plus with it getting cold out it'll give her something to do in the winter so she doesn't get bored.

Well this past Friday night I was having a jewelry show and the hostess was telling me that she was busy with her girls dance classes. I was like AH! Where do they do that at and she is like oh my aunt owns a dance studio in Troy!! Oh my gosh I was so excited to here this. This lady has a daughter who is 3 and loves it and she said her aunt would probably take Hailey since she is over 2 1/2 years old!

So hopefully they will have classes at a decent time that H can go and it'll work in our schedule! I asked Hailey last night if she wanted to take dance classes and she said YES!!!! So hopefully it all works out!