Hailee definitely keeps us entertained at our house. She is quite the girl and is always fun to have around. She has been growing up so quickly and I sometimes miss my baby girl, but at the same time I am so proud of the little girl she is becoming. Here are just a few of our recent stories.
Since moving in we have been trying to decide how we wanted to set up the computers in our house. My old mac in particular has been hard to decided what to do with it. We originally thought of putting the desk in the kitchen, which once it was all set up we didn't really like. So we moved the desk, but the internet was already connected there so the computer was moved to the table, then the floor, then back to the table and after a while the chords were a mess and it was driving me crazy. One morning I finally went and got a smaller table from the garage and set it back up in the kitchen. I was feeling quite pleased with myself because it was so nice to have the chords cleaned up and out of the way. When Hailee got home she saw what I had done and exclaimed "I didn't know a mom could do that all by herself." She was quite proud of me too.
One day we were walking home from the bus stop and there were a few puddles. Hailee loves to jump in the puddles, but today she had a few questions for me. At school they have a rule that they can't jump in puddles. Hailee wanted to know why the rules were different. I let her jump in the puddles but at school they don't let her. She continued...
Hailee: I just have a bad habbit of jumping in puddles and I don't want to get in trouble.
Nicole: Hailee do you get in trouble for jumping in puddles at school?
Hailee: (quickly responded) Oh no mom, they don't catch me.
Sometimes I just don't know what to do with her.
Every night we go through the same thing with Todd and Hailee, it seems their turn for family prayers just seem to come around too often. It was during one of their conversations about whose turn it was to pray I got a little fed up and said, "I'll say it, I swear I'm the only one that is going to heaven in this family." To which Hailee quickly said "You?" Which led to all of us laughing so hard. After a good laugh we then had to decided who was going to pray. Hailee is looking forward to James being able to talk so he can join the rotation.
Yesterday I had the the Subway $5 footlong song in my head all day and it was driving me crazy. Hailee even got after me because it was driving her crazy. Later as we were driving to pick up Todd from work I caught Hailee singing the $5 footlong song. I teased her about it and told her we better stop singing it before we got dad because it drives him really crazy. The while waiting at the front of the building I accidentally started singing it again...Hailee said, "Mom, quiet dad is right there he might hear you." I just started laughing so hard to which Hailee quickly said "Oh no, don't blog about it." Which just made me laugh even harder. Hailee is growing up in a very different world than I did. A world of computers, internet and blogs.
Every day we try to do a little homework at our house. The night before last Hailee got to bed pretty late and she was tired and the next day she wasn't really into doing work. After doing a little math where she kept getting her numbers 2, 5, and 6 backwards. I decided to have her practice while I started dinner. A few minutes later Hailee handed me this page back and said, "There IIIIII'MMMMM done!" It cracked me up how she got around doing it all. She did great on the numbers 2 and 5, but the last of her fours she had a problem. Then I just realized today as I was scanning it in that she completely skipped the number #6. I can see we need to get her to bed on time.
