She is still hilarious, getting more and more funny each day. Her personality is really coming out. We have learned she is very particular, she likes things to be a certain way. If she hands me her cup I can't place it on my knee I have to hold onto it, she likes to take her cereal out of her bowl and then place it back in one by one. I have to hold her blanket, it can't sit beside me touching me...etc. I could go on and on. She loves to laugh and daddy still gets the deepest, best laughs from her.
She is still enjoying reading and loves to come to the library with me to pick out books. She is so smart, we were driving into the library and she was trying to say "book". Recently she has been brining me books throughout the day to read and we sit in her chair and read for 20-30 min. The problem with that is her chair is in the sun in the afternoon, I'm rocking back and forth reading the same book over and over...the eyes are hard to keep open some times.
She gives me a new attitude face when she's not impressed with me or doesn't want something. She scrunches up her face and says no and shakes her head. One thing for sure is you are never guessing at what she is feeling, she's very obvious. I've said she's got her daddys dramatic personality and the McLaughlin facial expressions - that pair is a hilarious combination. We love it.
We traveled to Powell River this summer for a week to see Brad's family. I was scared out of my mind to fly with her. It was hard, I do not enjoy doing it but we made it. It was a great week with the family but she crashed the day before we left. I know now that we can't push her every day all day to be busy, she needs down time to play by herself or just me for some quiet time. Hailey will push herself and run on empty for as long as she can. She loves people and loves to be busy with new experiences but I've learned a good lesson from that trip.
Less then a week later we drove to Myrtle Beach to vacation with most of my family. We rented a house in Ocean Lakes Campground. It was a great time, very relaxing. Very stupid of us to book our vacations back to back. Lesson #2 from the summer! The ride down was good but I think she had heat stroke the day before we left on the way home so she was miserable that day and the way home. We were lucky to experience projectile vomit for the first time. I felt so bad for her and tried to hold down the puke myself. Ugh, so gross. I remember some one saying to me that puke and poop isn't that bad when it's your own kid. Nope. Still disgusting to me.
She loved the pool and the ocean but not the sand. She's a texture kid. That's my girl! If she doesn't like the look of something there is no chance she's going to touch it at all. You can't force her (stubborn like both of us).
Overall it was a great summer. Too much traveling but we enjoyed all the family time. It was hard to say goodbye and go back to the reality of living without our parents around for Hailey. It's not even about us anymore, we just want our parents to enjoy Hailey and have a relationship with her and her with them. We do oovoo which is like skype as much as we can with our parents and Hailey knows their names and faces when we see them. She actually says "nana" when oovoo starts up. I'll let the nana's decide who she's talking about (pretty sure she means both)
So there is a brief summary of our summer. We packed a lot of traveling and fun into it; it was a busy but fun. We are happy to be home adjusting to our new schedule that came with Brad's job change. We are aware once again of how blessed we are with our family's and our family here in Brownsburg. Traveling seems to make you aware of how good you have it :)
