Keyes to Happiness: Here Comes Peter Cottontail

Our playdough family-Miles, Hailey, me, Daddy

Hailey turns 2 months old!

It's been a bit since I've had time to write, so I'm going to try to get everything into this entry. Somehow my mind has turned to mush and I have a hard time remembering what has happened at when. I'm not sure if it's due to being off work or to having a new baby and subsequently 2 kids to care for, but I hope it starts working again soon!

Hailey's first trip to the zoo

Let's start with a few funny Miles thoughts. One day before his nap, he told me he wanted to go to work. I asked him what he was going to do at work and he said get some coins. And then he said he would drive my car. At the end of Mass, our church claps after the last hymn and then everyone gets ready to leave. After Palm Sunday celebration and the clapping ended, Miles proclaimed (in a not so quiet voice) "Yea! I can talk now!". When at my parents house visiting, Miles told me that when he gets bigger, he wants to use a walker like Grampie. Miles and Ahmad went to the high school state finals in basketball and Ahmad said that when they were walking in the corridor, a group of 4 young teenage girls passed them and Miles stopped and turned around and watched them. Miles had his first experience of peeing outside...we were at the park and the restrooms were locked, so I took him over to a wooded area and he said "mommy, where am I going to pee?" and I told him right there on the grass. I helped him and he laughed the whole time he was peeing and stated "I'm peeing on the grass, I'm peeing on the grass!". Later, he asked "mommy, where am I going to poop?" Uhhh, we have to go home if you have to poop. What do you know, he didn't have to anymore. Lol!

Miles at gymnastics

Snuggles with Grampie

Miles has begun the "Why?" phase and enjoys asking me all the time a series of why's until he feels he satisfied. It's pretty funny and I find it interesting what he finally accepts as the final answer. I realized the other day that I was halfway back home from dropping Miles off at school and I was jamming out to his Imagination Movers CD...is that a bad thing?

Miles is definitely asserting his independence these days. If you say up, he says down, if you say left, he says right. Now, don't get me wrong, he still has very sweet times and can listen well, if he chooses to do so. However, his new independence has led to a few tantrums and battles between us and him. It always amazes me that not long after an incident, he will be perfectly fine and act as if nothing has happened, loving on us and wanting to sit with us, etc. He's just so forgiving. Wouldn't it be awesome if we were all like that?

The past two weeks have been filled with playdough fun, a trip to New Albany to visit my parents, Miles' gymnastics class, Hailey's first trip to the zoo, visiting the park, Hailey turning 2 months old, visiting the Easter bunny, Easter, and playing outside. We're hoping for another exciting week! One side note about Easter...my family has a tradition of playing an egg cracking game-you each hold an egg and have to tap it against someone else's. Whoever's cracks first loses. The winner goes on to 'fight' someone else and so one until there's an ultimate winner. Miles beat me and I beat Ahmad! It was fun to try this out on Miles this year.