Ten on Ten

Ten on Ten: 10 pictures on the 10th day of the month!

(Document a snapshot of your life & find beauty among the ordinary things in your day!)

We had a boring day, and it was lovely!  One of us was recovering from the stomach flu, I am adjusting to 6am wake ups, and O is a bit fussy still since his shots. A boring day was just what we needed.

I wake up at 6am, hours before the kids do now to get some peace before the day begins. It has given me a lot more patience! I had coffee with this beautiful sunflower this morning in my backyard.

 Watching a movie at lunchtime with the recovering boy. Hes feeling much better today.

Smiles! Can you believe he starts THIRD grade tomorrow? I remember everything about third grade! 

Mr. O has been learning facial expressions lately, so very funny!

I especially love his duck face...or bitter beer face... I love having boys!

I was laying on the floor really tired when these walked into view, oh how I love baby feet.

And some more feet from my view on the ground.

Hailey was doing "zumba" and she struck a pose like this, ha!

My beautiful little Stella wondering when I am ever going to fill her bowl again. Such a good puppy!

Haileys hair after bath time. She has the most amazing curls! Lucky girl...although I am sure she will hate them at some point. 

So there ya have it, a very beautiful yet boring day.

Ten on Ten:

Hailey Hailey Hailey

HAILEY! What happened to you?

Somewhere between May and July you became a BIG KID.

Oh, maybe it was when you became a big sister?

you sure love being a big sister.

One day I looked over at you, and your baby face had disappeared...So I scooped you in my arms and said "HAILEY what have you done? you grew!"

you responded "yes because I ate all your yogurt"

You are so very silly and you and Sheemee get in lots of predicaments.

Sheemee your imaginary friend used to be a good kid, but lately he's been making all the messes and making YOU do bad things you shouldn't do.

We put Sheemee in time out a lot.

You told me that Sheemee is 2 inches tall, with black curly hair, his body is green and he is 3 years old.

Right now one of your favorite games to play is steal Max' collar and put it on your giant rubber duck.

You then put the leash on the collar and drag your duck all over the house.

Silly silly girl.

These pictures were taken at the 36th Army bands concert. You were so patriotic during the songs you stood on a podium and saluted. You also already know just what to do when the National Anthem plays.

  You are super excited to move to Colorado. You think Santa is going to live with us because I showed you that Santas Workshop is in Colorado. You tell me everyday how you cant wait to give Santa a hug every morning during breakfast.

I love you, you brilliant three year old princess...

Can you please stop growing now?

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.

We call her Curly Sue....

Do you see why?




When she was born, she had NO hair at all....it stayed that way for a few months when this happened....

Do you see it?

She grew a little curl right in the middle of her forehead! That is the only hair she rocked on her head until after her 1st birthday. The lone curl got more and more prominent,
until one day POOF, our lil Curly head grew her mop.


We loved the poem

There was a little girl,
Who had a little curl,
Right in the middle of her forehead,
When she was good she was very very good,
but when she was bad she was horrid.

Very fitting.

EVERYWHERE I take her people ask me "Where did she get her curls from?" To answer that, it came from both grandmas, both great grandmas and me. My curls were not as great as Hailey, they were weak curls who lost the fight. I think Haileys will be in for the long run.

Sometimes when people ask me "Where did she get her curls?!" I will say "Oh at Target!" :)
I know if her curls stick around until shes a teen- grownup she will probably hate them.
But I absolutely LOVE that my little girl has curls.