Lets start this Hailey post once again by saying- 18 MONTHS ALREADY?! Time really does fly when you have kids and you don’t notice it until you look back on how far you have come.
The randomness of this post just shows how tired I am lately, there seems to be no order, so get ready for some random tidbits about Hailey at 18 months!

Hailey is both a lot of fun these days, and quite a handful as well. She says and does things that make us laugh and laugh. Her favourite saying is “OH NO!” While out for dinner last week she was in a highchair eating and making a mess (which apparently she didn’t realize). After eating we pulled her chair back to get her out and she looked down and kept repeating “Oh No, Oh No” over and over while waving her hands at the mess on the floor. So she grabbed a napkin and once we took her out she began to clean up the floor. Such a funny girl. She loves to clean, wiping up messes and trying to sweep up the floor.

While she loves her little sister, it’s also causing stress as the meltdowns occur when she realizes I don’t have the hands to pick her up all the time or give her what she wants. Lets just say me at Week 1 as a mom of 2 had no idea what was coming- Week 2 and on is a lot harder and tiring.

Hailey is saying lots of words these days, and while I’d love to write it out here, I know it won’t mean anything to people reading this so I’ll save it for the baby book. Up, mommy, daddy and baby are her favourite words. Help please (sounds like “hea pease”) was her first sentence, it sounds like she is saying happy over and over.

She can understand SO MUCH. Today we were asking her what she was taller then and she kept raising her arms in the air when we said tall. I don’t even think we say the word tall to her very much, so it surprised me that she knew that. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I love that she can understand us and I love finding out new things that she understands.

Hailey has 8 teeth and one molar starting to poke through, which so far has not caused us much grief. She loves to brush her teeth and gets mad when we tell her that she has brushed them long enough. She enjoys running around the house with her toothbrush, sitting down, brushing some more and getting up running to a new place and brushing again. Hailey takes one nap a day at around 1pm until 3pm (or earlier if she wakes up crying) still not the best napper.

Now that Brianna has arrived, Hailey looks so much bigger (see photo below for proof). When I change Hailey’s diaper I find myself repeating to her, you are too big for diapers! We are working slowly on potty training,we had a few weeks when a couple times a day she would go but once Brianna arrived Hailey decided she did not want to sit on the potty and over the past few days decided it might be okay again. The one drawback to that is she loves to sit on the potty and read book after book, so we end up sitting there forever with no results and that is frustrating!

Hailey loves to dance these days. She plays on her leapster laptop and mainly presses the music button over trying out her moves. Her favourites are the arm swing and a move where she puts her head on the ground (see photo) I don’t have a name for that move yet. She also changes up that last move by either kicking one leg up in the air or putting her arms up.

Playing outside is where Hailey would love to spend all her time. It’s harder now that we have Brianna too, trying to keep her out of the heat, which has been extreme here these days. Hailey has recently discovered sidewalk chalk, however we seem to be doing the colouring as Hailey bosses us around. Same goes inside with the crayons. These days the crayons must stay on the coffee table for easy access to colouring at all times. Scott and I are perfecting our colouring techniques.

Hailey loves to drink out of a big girl cup and does really well without spilling.  She loves milk and would drink it all day if we let her. She loves to watch and help me cook. We baked cookies the other day, which was a mess, but fun as well.

Looking forward to each and every milestone we come across! Happy 18 Months Hailey!

These days I’m loving testing Hailey’s knowledge. I’m told she’s pretty smart, but what mom doesn’t think that about their child?

I ask Hailey where is dada, where is the kitty, where are the flowers, where is the puzzle and so on. She points to each thing and never seems to get annoyed. Also cute is when she doesn’t know where the thing is and puts her hands up and almost seems to shrug her shoulders.

Here are photos (taken on webcam) of Hailey showing me where things are on her head…

Mouth:

Hair:

Nose:

Ears:

What a cutie!

Remember when she was small?? Wow time flies.

Also note: Chase is in all (but 1) of the photos. What a photo hog.

The end of my random Friday post.

Tidbits of Hailey at 15 months of age.

Words:

hi
dada
mama
kitty
doggy
up
that
door
uh oh
Casey (apparently Hailey said Casey at church while sitting with Mic, I didn’t hear it but believe it, Hailey loves her cousin)

(not all these words are used consistently, but we have heard them all used in the correct context).

Sleeping:

Night 7:30pm – 7am
Nap: 12pm – 1:30/2pm

Eating:

Hailey eats what we eat (minus the junk food).
She loves to use a fork and spoon and refuses to let me feed her anything. She is a very independent eater.

Behaviour:

Bossy at times and stubborn
She knows what she wants and will stop at nothing to get it.
She is VERY curious.
Hailey loves to give kisses and hugs. Sharing kisses with Casey below!

Toys loved this month:

Mega Blocks
Dolls
Books (especially her orange & purple books)
Plastic eggs
Wooden puzzles (over and over again)

Sizes:

12-18 month clothes
Size 5 shoes
Size 4 diapers

Hailey has 7 teeth, 4 on top and 3 on the bottom.

Hailey’s adorable toes in her Easter Shoes, she was very excited for these. And I was worried that they would be too big (size 5) she could even use a 6, it looks like these won’t fit long!

Life is so fun with a toddler. Hailey’s personality is really showing, and even though her daycare providor says she is a bit of a bully (she’s just stubborn) I still love every little thing about her (as a mom should).

The cutest thing she  is doing lately is hugging and kissing my belly. She lifts my shirt over my belly kisses, hugs it and pulls my shirt back down. I don’t think she really understands what she is doing though… she did the same to Scott’s belly yesterday. hahaha

Hailey has her 15 month appointment on Monday, she gets needles and then starts a new daycare. I don’t think she will be too happy of a girl that day.

It’s amazing how much Hailey understands what we say. I love being able to ask her to get things and she does. She is also good at pointing to her eyes, nose, mouth and most recently her ears. Before I put her in her crib last night she saw my ears and started wiggling them one by one. She’s always very excited to learn new things.

Here’s to the next months!

Hailey is such a little toddler now.

Getting grumpy when she doesn’t get what she wants, running around flinging toys, always wanting to be held to see what I’m doing and generally being adorable. In the evenings Scott and I love to just sit and watch her flit from toy to couch to cat to whatever else grabs her attention with the occasional twirl added in here and there. She’s just so cute to watch. I’m amazed at the changes every day.

Her favourite toys right now are stacking toys, blocks that Scott got for her for Christmas and mega blocks from Jeff & Michelle for her birthday. She loves to stack them, take them apart, stack them up again and run over to show us what she made. She’s such a smartie pants.

Right now she likes to test her limits at home with all the construction going on. There are a few holes in the wall at her level and she always tries to put her hand in it, so we have to pull her away and its like a magnet is pulling her back there.

No new words at all lately, everything is dadadadada. She loves to mimic us with clicking our tongues or blowing air though our lips making the brrrr sound. She’s a pro at that. I’m excited for when she will start to talk more, but I’m really not sure when that will happen. I love how much she can understand us. If we ask her to bring us a certain toy she will and her favourite action right now is to twirl, so we ask her to twirl and she will go in circles until she falls over then gets up and does it again.

Shes becoming a bit of a picky eater. If she doesn’t’ like something for dinner it goes over the edge of her tray. We try to get her to give it to us but she prefers the floor. She does not like cheese, she loves fruit especially bananas and loves goldfish crackers and raisins. Pretty sure she would live on raisins if she could… mostly they just go right through her so pretty sure she could not survive on just raisins.

Mommy points- She’s still napping twice a day, around 10am and 3pm. For an hour each time. Gets a morning cup of milk, one at lunch and a big one before bed which she loves. She also drinks lots of water throughout the day.

So that’s a little 13 month update on Hailey! I’m 21 weeks pregnant today so I’ll have to do an update tomorrow.