Hailey will be 14 months on the 30th and it seems that she is learning so much so quickly now. She took forever to crawl and now is walking very well. She walks around the house with her hands up by her face just in case she falls. When she does she cries for a few seconds then she's ready to be released and is on the move again. She is a very active little girl and you can tell she is so happy to have the freedom.
She is now obsessed with Thomas the Train, she still enjoys The Wiggles but nothing compares to Thomas at the moment. If I ask her "do you want to watch Thomas" (we watch an episode close to bed time) she starts walking towards her little seat I created (our pillows) with her mouth wide open making a funny noise. She plops down and waits for me to turn on Thomas. She starts dancing when ever the show starts. She's so funny. I love that she makes us laugh as much and as often as she does.
Her love of music and dance seems to continue. I got the new Michael Buble CD and she was dancing to him, she dances almost every time I put on music or even sing. I'm still thankful no one sees me dancing or singing...oh what we do for our kids :)
She says momma and daddy, we are working on nana and papa but B words are her favorite. Blanket, Bible, book etc. She loves them all. Most mornings she wakes us up with "mom mom mom" I'm not sure if she wants me or just likes saying it :) The other morning she gave up calling for me and started calling for her daddy. Even though I don't enjoy the 6:30am wake up call it's still cute. A little more cute while I'm awake though.
I went to get her up from her nap and when I went in she was wanting her blanket since she was calling for "b" so I gave her that. She was still whining...she was pointing to her Bible that was on the table. So as soon as I gave her that she was happy. She held onto it for 20 min. It's so nice to see her enjoying it.
She loves to read. She will walk into her room, grab a book and bring it to us and try to get onto our legs. If we sit cross legged she reverses and drops down onto our legs. We love this. We are so thankful that she loves us to read to her this much. She likes to just carry them around too, she even held onto her Thomas the Train book the whole time we were walking - 40 min walk. We were in the car the other day and she had her book, it was upside down and she knew this so she turned it the right way and it looked like she was actually reading. Brad said she looks like she needs a coffee she was that into her book. She even turned the pages one by one.
She likes to hold onto a book, kosmo's leash and even cotton balls while we walk. Before we went walking the other morning and she went into our bathroom, found the cotton balls and grabbed a bunch. She held onto the cotton balls the whole time we walked, it was so humid out but she didn't let go of those cotton balls until we got home. She had little fuzz everywhere.
She will walk into her room if we tell her it's time to change her diaper and she seems so aware of so many more things now. I tell her it's time to go work with mommy and she walks into my office with me and plays most of the time on her own. She likes to go into her room, shut the door and play for a bit but not long after she'll call out and make sure we are still here and she'll open her door back up. She's playing a lot more on her own and I love it.
She still loves to chase poor Kosmo around the house, she has taken over all of this "spots" around the house except for under the bed, she gets on her hands and knees and tries to look at him under there. He is still so good with her, I really couldn't ask him to be any better. He even tries to bring her his toys for her to throw. She loves to play with him. Kosmo will bring me his toy, I'll take it give it to her and she'll throw it. Now she tries to say "throw" when ever she is near him. I think it's throw, it's either that or "go". I can't tell yet.
This past week I eliminated her morning nap. She was waking up just after 6:00 and she was sleeping well in the mornings but not in the afternoon so we decided to try. So now she's awake around 6:30am but we have a rule that we won't get her before 7:00am. So she goes back down around 1:00 for 2 hours. I feel like I''m in another learning curve right now with her sleeping and even her eating. I guess being a parent your constantly in a learning curve.
She is signing "more" and at times "eat". Maybe it's because she wants to eat all the time. We are working on "please" but for some reason she's not picking that one up as quickly :)
So she is growing, learning, changing so fast. We love her so much and she brings so much fun and joy to our lives. She is such a blessing and I thank God for her every day. We continue to pray and lean on the Lord for wisdom, I just want so badly for her to know the Lord and experience a relationship with him. I pray one day she will.
