Peek-a-Boo 2011!

Hailey being silly!

So I'm a week late on wishing everyone a happy new year...sorry about that! It's been a busy time since Christmas, but wonderful nonetheless. I was off work from 2 days before Christmas until the 4th, so I had a very nice holiday! I kept the kids home almost that whole time and we got to just hang out and have fun, it was so nice. My very dear friend, Shannon (aka Bubba!) also was able to stop in on her trip back to Iowa from visiting her parents in WV. I look forward to her visits every year! We had a nice time playing with the kids, going to the Children's Museum, and just talking. I still forgot to get a picture of us together...maybe in April when she's back in town! Oh, and it was very fun to beat her in Phase 10! :)



Hailey did have a bump in the road that week though. She began having diarrhea on Monday of that week and kept it up, getting worse and worse. Then on Thursday, she spiked a 102-103 fever and it stayed for 24 hours. We were supposed to go to my parents on Friday and spend the weekend, but called the doc in the morning when one reading said 105! We took her in and they wanted to take samples of her stool and take it to a lab. So...we didn't go to my parents, but instead were on poop watch. We had to collect enough for 4 different samples, so we weren't done until the middle of the night on Friday (of course when you want her to go, she didn't!). What a fabulous New Year's Eve! lol! It was fine though, the kids were in bed and Ahmad and I made it til midnight. Then I hit the sack. Since Hailey's fever was gone on Sat and our samples were taken to the lab, we decided to go ahead and head to my parents for a short visit. We had a great time of course! It was great to see them and spend some time. It turned out as well that Hailey didn't have anything odd and they think it was just a virus. She's still having some diarrhea here and there, but her appetite is back and no fever, so hopefully she'll be all better soon!

Messy mashed potatoes and mac & cheese!

I forgot to tell this story in my last post...on Christmas Eve, we were at mass and we always give Miles a $1 to put in the collection. That night, he looked at it and asked me if that was baby Jesus! I told him no, it was George Washington and he replied, Oh, I learned about him at school! It was quite comical!

I also wanted to post this story on my last post, but didn't want my mom to read it here first. But now that she has her gift, here it is: I wanted to get her a necklace I'd seen online and was looking for it in a store since it was going to take a month to come in. I had Miles with me and he was going here and there exclaiming "Oh mom! Look! Get this one!" or "This one is so pretty!". I was trying decide on what I was getting because they didn't have the exact one I wanted when Miles said "Oh Mommy, you have to get this one. It's Nana's heart when I'm not there." How sweet! I melted, but continued to look around. He came back to it again later and said "Mommy, get this one, it's Nana's heart!" What could I do? I had to get it (it was a red heart coral necklace). Such a sweetie!



Hailey has been into writing lately, trying to copy what she sees us doing I guess. She loves to have a pen or pencil in her hand and will attempt to write on some paper! It's cute! She imitates so much we do, even speech. It really seems she tries to say words, so I won't be surprised if she gets one soon! She also loves to play with her shoes. She has for a long time now and I think I keep forgetting to post about it. We keep her shoes in a basket in the living room (we try not to wear shoes in the house, so it's easier if they are out there) and she constantly plays with them and chews on the straps or carries them around. She sometimes leaves the house with 3 shoes (2 on and 1 in hand!) because she insists on having one in her hand! She's also funny in that she always takes at least one sock off (and usually puts it in her mouth and crawls around) and often takes off her shoes too. If she's in the car, she does the same thing. Today when I went to get her out of the car, she didn't have any socks of shoes on. Funny girl!


Hailey also loves her bath time! She loves to take a bath and gets so excited when I ask her if she wants to take one. If she hears me running the water first, she takes off for the bathroom. If we are in the bathroom, she wanders in and tries to play with the toys in the tub. She splashes and splashes and tries to eat the bubbles and just has so much fun! Miles also still loves his bath and now loves to take one with Hailey. If I don't do theirs together, which I usually do, they are both sad!

Being silly!

Miles has begun coloring and drawing pretty good. He's close to staying the lines when he tries hard and his drawings have turned from scribbles to real pictures! It's so amazing to watch this transformation. He makes mostly faces or monsters. He'll call one a "lemon face" or a "moon face" or something comparable if the shape of the head reminds him of something.


If Hailey is awake when either I wake up Miles from the night or from a nap or when I am putting him down for a nap, she usually comes with me to do whatever needs to be done. She loves to play on his bed! It's so cute! She will crawl around and try to bounce on the bed. She'll throw herself onto a pillow or just fall backwards and laugh. It's terrible cute and a good reason why she doesn't have a big girl bed yet!

Miles and Hailey have really begun to try and play together lately too. Hailey is initiating play and affection to Miles and Miles eats it up. If he does something and she laughs, he just eats it up and continues to do whatever it was and she just cracks up! Lately it's been peek-a-boo, either in the bath with Miles putting his head in the water and then coming up and roaring at her, or running from around the corner at her. She just squeals and laughs! It's delightful!

Hailey's first time using a spoon!

We had a slight change of events this week too. Ahmad's job was a temporary job, but we thought he had 2 more months and he was pretty confident they were going to hire him on after the temp position was up. Well, he got a call Wednesday night that Thursday was going to be his last day! Luckily and fortunately, he'd been in touch with the temp agency who hired him throughout his employment there as they had expressed interest in him being a recruiter. He had an interview for it Thursday evening and was hired! So blessed! I told him he was getting really good at finding jobs and I wasn't sure if that was good or bad! But we really are very blessed at this quick turnaround. Thank you Lord!

I don't think I posted about this before, but something in my mind made me want to sign up to run the Indianapolis Mini Marathon in May. I had thought about it, but didn't think I would actually do it, but I did. I signed up the end of November. I've never ever ever been a runner, so I'm not sure why I wanted to do it. It just seemed that as I lost weight this summer, I began to feel good! When I was playing with Miles, we would run around or run the last leg of walk and for once, I didn't feel like I was going to die! That's what got the wheels turning. So anyway, I started training today. And I survived day 1. :) I'm glad I have a long time til the race though because I am horribly out of shape!

Up up and away!!! Here's to a blessed 2011 for everyone!