B-A-B-Y Spells Hailey!

Hannah and I talk about letters, look at letters, and she loves to watch SuperWhy (which is a show about letters and reading) but I didn't think it had really sunk in yet. Today I was standing in Hailey's nursery, changing her diaper, and Hannah wandered in. She walked over to a little 2 peg coat hanger that says "baby" on it. She then proceded to say "B-A-B-Y" as she pointed to each of the letters. Yay, what a big girl! It's the first time that I have seen her correctly identify all the letters of a word on her own without me telling her what they were first. Of course, then she smile proudly after naming the letters and said "that spells Hailey!". Hehe, we'll work on reading later. :)

2 Months

Hailey had her 2 month appointment last week. She is now 12lbs 15oz and 23.5 inches, which is the 90th percentile for both. She wears 3-6 month clothing. She is smiling, cooing, swinging closed fists at toys, tracking as you walk across a room, and grasping things when they get close to her hand. She is not a fan of tummy time but is pushing up and lifting her head off the ground well when she is in a good enough mood to tolerate it. She is having issues with her left neck muscle. It is tight and causing her to hold her head to the right, which is flattening one side of her head. She will be receiving physical therapy to help correct this so she doesn't end up in one of those awful helmets until age 1. The doctor said this happens a lot to babies who sleep well (go figure) but my mother-in-law brought up a good point about it possibly relating to the shoulder dystocia. Definitely something to ask since this problem was actually originally brought to our attention at her 1 month appointment, meaning she has probably had it since birth. It has just gotten worse since then. :( Anyways, everything else about the appointment went well. She got 2 shots and an oral vaccine and she only cried for about 3 seconds. We will see the pediatrician back in a month to reevaluate the back of her head.

Our Beautiful Girls

Mare took some amazing pictures the other day of Hannah & Hailey - I just had to share!

Hannah:

Hailey:

Our girls:

Five Things

Five things you will find if you open my purse:
1. Wallet
2. Diapers
3. Hand sanitizer
4. Cell phone
5. Lipstick

Five things in my bedroom:
1. Bassinet
2. Pictures of family
3. TV, VCR, and DVD player (and Gilmore Girls DVDs)
4. Alarm clock
5. My big comfy bed

Five things I have always wanted to do in my life:
1. Go back to Europe
2. Have 2-4 children
3. Visit as many states as possible
4. Teach
5. Learn how to play the piano

Five things that make me very happy:
1. Kissing chubby cheeks on cute babies
2. Hearing "I love you so much" from my preschooler
3. Cuddling with my hubby or my girls
4. Seeing friends
5. Weather that is condusive to flip flops and tank tops

Five things I am currently into:
1. Facebook
2. How I Met Your Mother
3. Naps
4. Breastfeeding Support Group
5. Playdates

Five things on my To-Do list:
1. Relax and enjoy spending time with Dustyn & Emily
2. Grade papers
3. Go to the store
4. Fold laundry (when we get home)
5. Post materials to my online classroom

Five things some people may or may not know about you:
1. I have a master's degree in analytical chemistry and enjoy environmental chemistry but quit my job because I've always wanted to stay home with my children when they were young
2. I love playing board games and card games
3. I like always being on the go - there's nothing worse than sitting at home doing nothing
4. I don't really enjoy cooking. Most of my friends do, but I have always just cooked because it was necessary, not because I like it.
5. I love to walk around at garage sales during the summer. Not only do I love to find a good bargain, but I just like walking around early in the morning alone. It's very serene.

Five most important moments of the last year:
1. Finding out we were pregnant
2. Having Hailey
3. Finding out Hailey was a girl
4. Hannah's 3rd birthday
5. Going to Kentucky Kingdom to celebrate our 5 year anniversary (that was almost a year ago!)

Five things you enjoy doing during your free time:
1. Playing on Facebook
2. Having tea parties with Hannah
3. Kissing Hailey's cute cheeks
4. Reading chick lit
5. Reading Soap Opera Digest (yes it's dumb, I know) or People

Zoo Fun!

We went to the zoo a few weeks ago with my friend Amy and her daughter Abby and had a blast. I took a ton of pictures but I'll just include a few of my favorites.

Here is Hannah right before she touched a shark. I let her try (thinking for sure she wouldn't be able to reach far enough to actually pet one) and not only did she pet the shark but if I hadn't pulled her arm back, she would have actually grabbed it. This is the perfect example of how fearless our preschooler has recently become - I was a little freaked out by touching the sharks but she just stuck her arm right in. Glad I was there to pull it back or that may have hurt!


Here we are looking at giraffes. Hannah wanted to feed them her goldfish crackers - don't worry, I didn't let her. She sure does love to share these days (sometimes ;))!

Hailey had a great time too (sleeping, that is). I don't think she opened her eyes even once.

Since I bought Hannah a stuffed animal from the zoo the first time that she ever went, I bought Hailey one since it was her first time. Of course, Hannah was over a year old before we went to the zoo for the first time, so she was able to help pick out the animal that was her favorite. This time, we went with a cute pink penguin because the penguins were really giving us a show when we saw them. They were diving and hopping out of the water and there were even some cute baby penguins. I got it in pink because it was cute - a cute stuffed penguin for a cute baby.