Hide and seek is a favorite game around here lately. It started by teaching the farm animals how to play, now it has moved on to us doing the playing. Hailey is still figuring out the concept though. Sometimes after counting to 10 and saying “Ready or not, here I come,” she comes racing out of her hiding spot saying, “Here I am!” When I’m hiding, sometimes after she finds me she waits for me to get out of the way so she can use my hiding spot while I go count. She’s hard to hide from though. She doesn’t really close her eyes until about 3 and opens them by 8 and the numbers in the middle are rattled off so quickly that I’m always proud of myself when I am able to hide without her seeing where. But my absolute favorite thing about playing hide and seek with Hailey is after I say, “Ready or not, here I come,” then I hear her little voice saying, “Getting closer. Getting closer . . .”
One morning Hailey saw the drawstrings of my pajama pants hanging down. She grabbed both of them with her little fist and started to sing, “Ohhh, ohhh, ohhh, Let’s go fly a kite . . .” She then proceeded to pull me around the room singing for the next couple of minutes.
Hailey holds a grudge. Brandon has been gone a lot lately due to school so when he is around she gives him a bit of a cold shoulder. If she didn’t get to see him the night before then she refuses to say goodbye to him in the morning when he goes back to school. There were a few nights last week, however, that Brandon was home for bedtime. But as we were saying our “Good night’s” and “I love you’s” Hailey made it a point to only say, “Good night Mommy. I love you Mommy.” We couldn’t help laughing once we were out of ear shot! Don’t get me wrong, Hailey still warms up to Daddy if she knows she’ll have time to play with him – he’s lots of fun!
Hailey was a purple dragon for Halloween this year. (Some of you may remember Jeremiah sporting the same costume last year – thanks Record fam!) Hailey does a mean dragon roar, complete with stomping and claws bared! This was her first year trick-or-treating and like most kids with candy, she caught on quick and loved it! Now we’re learning about all the different kinds of candy and how much mom and dad limit the intake of the wonderful creation. Some candy even helps us learn, like m&m’s have the letter “m” on them and skittles all have the letter “s” on them. It’s almost as good as Sesame Street.
Memphis got snow! But not very much and most of it melted by the afternoon. It sure was fun for Brandon to have the day off of school though! I don't know who was more excited -- Brandon or me! Our western roots sure make us laugh when the entire city shuts down because of a little white stuff, but hey -- we'll take it! Hailey was pretty exctied about the snow too. It was all we could do to get her to sit down and eat some breakfast before going out to play. Her favorite thing was trying to throw snow at Daddy, even though half of it ended up in her own face most of the time.
