There was a little girl

There was a little girl who

who had a little curl

right in the middle of her forehead

and when she was good

she was very very good

but when she was bad she was horrid.

When Hailey was 3 months old, she had very little hair. She did however have a curl, right in the middle of her forehead!

Heres the curl at 4 months

and at 6 months

and at Christmas time, 11 months.

In January, at her first birthday her hair started to get a little longer.

Here she is at 14 months, Not a great picture of the curl but this picture totally cracks me up.

In June at 17months, some more hair started to join in on the curly fun.

and in August at 19 months....

This is in November of 2008, she is 22 months old.

This is sadly the last picture I have before the crash of 2009. My computer hard drive crashed and I lost my pictures from December, January, February and March :(

BACKUP!

Then we skip along to April of 2009

July 2009

and still July 2009

Shes got the mega curl look going on in this one.

November 2009

And Here we are Curly sue, current day...

I love her hair, what mom wouldnt want a girl with curly hair?

However, dont let these pictures fool you....This girl can pull out the most wicked bed head youve ever seen in your life.

You know this guy?

Sideshow bob, sometimes she wakes up and her hair looks like that.

or sometimes she resembles him

Good morning Hailey head.

hahaha

It wouldnt be such a problem...if she wasn't ANTI brush, you come near her with a brush and its a chase, then a scream fest.

We have TONS of hair products in the bathtub to calm her madness. This girl has more products than I have ever had.

We have probably tried every leave in conditioner and detangler out there and let me tell you, most of them DO NOT work.

If you look HERE, you will see that one time she tried to outsmart me...hilarious

My Mother in law recently saved the day with AQUAGE, now that stuff kicks tangles in the butt! I love that stuff.

Having a daughter with curly hair grabs tons of attention, and tons of very interesting remarks from strangers. I cant tell you how many times I've been asked "where did she get her curls from!"

I honestly dont know where she got them...but I hear Target was having a sale on curls. JUST kidding!

My older brother had super curl head too....so somewhere along the line is a curly gene.

We also have been asked....

"Is her hair Naturally curly?"

Now this was asked by someone who sees us ALL THE TIME.

I really wanted to say "Nope we sit with hot curlers in her hair every single morning!" But I refrained.

One time someone asked "Are you sure shes your daughter? because your hair is very straight"

Yes, I am sure shes my spawn...thanks for the rude question though!

We also get a ton of older ladies who will just walk up and tap her hair, and a ton of OH SHES SO CUTE! I LOVE HER CURLS!

I hope you like the attention Hailey, because I am pretty sure your curls are here to stay.

Belly Update.

24weeks 5 days

25 weeks 5 days

26 weeks 5 days

Mommy, I was taking a SHOWAH!

I was sitting on the couch reading someone elses blog and being jealous of their ccreativity. I wanted to show Hailey a picture of the little girl in the story....

"Hailey! come here"

"NO!"

"but Hailey I need to show you something!"

"Ughhh FINE" here come the stomp stomp stomp of her barefoot feet on the tile and in walks Hailey, with a dead serious why are you bothering me look on her face and says

"Mommy, I was taking a SHOWAH!"

Complete in my dish towel ensemble.

Transformers

Okay, so this post is NOT about the Autobots and decepticons...it is about my awesome son Hunter.

In January, he went through a tough time....he was suddenly afraid of sleeping in his room and he was getting in tons of trouble at school. It was a rough time for us, getting referrals from the school because your darling son was being a bully is NOT something you want to happen.

He was getting "red" everyday in class which meant he was basically being a hooligan and I really just didnt know what to do with him.

Fast forward to March...nothing really changed and then one week he got ALL green! the whole 5 days! We celebrated and woo-hooed the heck out of him! Then magically the next week GREEN every single day! what is going on???I dont know but I like it!

Since the day after spring break he has not gotten a yellow or a red! Wooot Hunter!

Today im standing outside the school with my friends for pickup and up comes HUnter holding his teachers hand...his teacher NEVER walks him up to me unless she has something to say. We all said a little uh oh and I walked up expecting some horrible news.

NOPE! not today! 

Hunter in the midst of his amazing transformation has landed STUDENT OF THE WEEK!!!!! 

Which means he has exhibited good behaviors, responsibility, excelled in class work and been a great example of a GOOD student!

Im buying him a pony I am so thrilled and proud of him!

Little guy has come a long way, and been on more adventures than most adults. He has has 10 different addresses in 4 states and has already been to 4 different schools ALL before 2nd grade.

(Just for fun im adding an old skool picture of my baby boy)

We are so stinking proud of him and hope this is the beginning of a beautiful relationship with him and education.

Readers Theatre

Tonight at Hunters school his class held a "Readers Theatre."

All the kids had written two stories and got up in front of all the parents and read them out loud.

Some of them were absolutely hilarious!

I got Hunters on video, it was about the Transformers and all the new names of the autobots, who were also now dinosaurs. He had a word in his story like "Parasalyhpicuscon" and read it without any trouble. Impressive!

I am proud of Hunter. He loves to read books and does a darn good job at it. He was tested recently and is reading at the same level as a 3rd grader in their 9th month of school!

Reading is very important to me, I love to sit down with a good book, it beats any TV show! I hope to pass on the love of reading to my kids. Video games sadly are conquering with "coolness" but I still throw in a good 2-3 books a day and he seems to enjoy them just as much.

Blogging.

I went to a get together at my friends church tonight, it was all about Journaling.

The speaker brought in tons and tons of pictures OLD pictures of her great great grandmas and grandpas and their children. Some of them had written stories that she had somehow gotten ahold of, or her great grandmas journals.

The point of the evening was that things we say out loud get lost in time, but if we write that stays on Earth for a long time after we are gone.

It was totally inspiring to write a journal and try and keep up with it, luckily I've already sort of done that with this blog. Someday perhaps I will go through and print all my entries and put them into a 3 ring binder. Im way beyond writing with a pen, Im too technology driven. So I type, because I can type a lot faster than I write.

I know my grandmother kept a scrapbook, I remember when she showed it to me I was fascinated at all the things she decided to keep in it. IT got me wondering where that scrapbook is now? I surely dont have it but I would LOVE to. My grandma im sure had tons of stories she never got to tell me and I wish I had her journal or something to keep the stories going. My grandma still alive and well in ARgentina has billions of stories I have never heard, there is a language barrier and we rarely get to talk which is sad. It would be nice to someday have something of hers that told me more about who she was.

I hope my mom and Russ' mom and grandma keep a documentation of their journeys, so that we can one day go back and remember them and share them with our children *hint hint*

I hope Ive been inspired enough to come onto blogger.com more often, even with short entries...there is so much that happens day to day I would love to remember forever but sadly it easily slips away.

WRITE WRITE WRITE. That is my advice to anyone who decided to read this far. Your children and your childrens, children will appreciate the chance to get to know you.

2 Easter posts in one day

Since I love to document the fantastic mouth of a 3 year old, I am giving this photo its very own post.

Hailey tried to grab an egg near a cactus and her dress got caught.

She turned around and GLARED at the cactus and said, "DONT YOU GRAB MY DRESS YOU MEAN CACTUS I AM HUNTING!!!!'

I snapped this photo as she was lecturing the cactus.

Gotta love 3 year olds.

The Easter Egg Hunt.

We spent out Easter in Prescott with the family this year, the kids had a great time finding Easter Eggs out in the "woods." The weather was awesome and perfect for our little hunt!


The easter Bunny showed up while we were at Mass, we came back and found their Baskets.



Shortly after, we sent them outside to find the eggs!

Haileys first egg

                                                           Hailey scouting out a bush

Mean mom making hunter stop to pose. but this is what I got from him

Hunter claimed himself the "Egg Hunter" saying he was the best at it.

Thats because your name is Hunter!

                                      Hunter grabbing a few from inside a bush, sneaky rabbit!

Russ helping Juli find some of the eggs, she needs an ATV for the terrain!

                                           The Easter Bunny left Hailey a surprise outside!

Hope everyone had a "hoppy" Easter!