Things she does that make me grin.

Hailey has been discovering burps lately. If anyone burps she excitedly points it out, "Mama burp! Hailey burp! Dad burp!" (Dad can burp on command so you can imagine how popular that trick is right now.) The other day Hailey was trying hard to burp, "Uuugh. . . uuugh . . ." It wasn't working out very well so she asked for assistance, "Help you?" ("You" of course meaning "me.") She seemed disappointed to learn that there wasn't anything I could do about it.

After giving Hailey a bath one day, I let the water drain out to let her know it was time to get out. She heard the water gurgle down the drain and instinctively pointed and said, "Burp?"

"Yeah, I guess the bath tub is burping."

Hailey was still playing absentmindedly after all the water was gone. I asked her, "Hailey, where's the water?" She looked at me and patted what she expected to be the water only to find the bath tub; looked around and shrugging said, "Water aw gone. B-bye water!"

As part of Hailey's bedtime routine we read to her from The Book of Mormon while she drinks her milk. We were heading to bead tonight with blankie, bear, and a sippy of milk when Hailey kept telling me "Good morning." I kept replying, "No, it's night time. Good night." I didn't realize where the mix up came from until I pulled out The Book of Mormon and she called it "Good morning!" I guess well work on that one.

It has warmed up around here so we are already driving around with our windows down. Hailey loves it "windy!" Last week we were stopped at a light and the guy next to us happened to have his windows down too. He was lined up with Hailey's open window so she leaned over and yelled, "HI!" She turned to me and said, "Makin' friends," then turned back to her new friend to say, "HI! HI! HI!"

"Break it."

This year was Hailey's first Easter egg dying experience and she chose two simple words to describe it, "Break it." Every time her little hands touched an egg she said, "Break it. Break it." Whether dropping her egg into the dye or using her bare hands to pull it out, her motives were the same, "Break it." She helped us discover that mom hadn't cooked the eggs long enough. Thanks Hailey.