When Haidyn grows up.....

She wants to be "a worker. One that makes buildings and streets." How cute is she?! She told me this on the way to school this morning.

She's pretty darn cute as long as you're not trying to get her into a carseat. Ugh. It's the source of most of our "discussions." She hates it. I hope once she's big enough (40 lbs) to move into a booster seat, it won't be so bad. I don't know how we're going to do this until she's 8 years old.

On a bright side, she's not as afraid as water as she used to be. She can actually get her face wet without screaming. She won't stick her whole face in by herself, but when she showers, she asks to get sprayed in the face. Yay! I think swim classes have finally been paying off! Too bad she's done with them and back into gymnastics. Maybe over winter we'll get her back into swim.

First Day of School

Haidyn had her first day of preschool today. I can't believe she's old enough to even go off to school. I know it's only preschool, but still. She did great! She was very excited. And surprisingly, no tears from either of us at drop off. I didn't expect her to cry, but I thought I would. I guess 3 years of taking her to Jen's has broken me in. Plus it was only for 2 1/2 hours. That makes it a little easier. She's such a big girl now! She's looking forward to going back on Thursday.

Preschool!

Preschool starts in 2 weeks! I can't believe my little girl is off to school already. Granted, it's only 2 days a week from 8:15 to 10:45, but still. Where's the stop button? Or at least the pause? She wants to grow up even faster. It doesn't help that the girls at Jen's are older than her. She can't wait to be 5. She's so silly.

My crazy Haidyn is such a 3 year old girl!

Long gone is my little tomboy. She's a full blown princess now. With dancing shoes and everything. For the past month or so, she HAS to wear socks when she's dancing. I thought it was just because she can spin easier on the wood floor. But I learned something tonight. We bought her a new pair of black dress shoes last night because she had outgrown all her other pairs. Tonight we put on *Surprise!* Barbie and the 12 Dancing Princesses movie (which we've seen at least 400 times!) and she was so excited she could wear "dance shoes." She told me, "I don't have to pretend my socks are dancing shoes anymore!" What a nut.

Someone sent me a link today on why 3 year olds are worse than 2 year olds. I agree. I think you will too. :) http://www.rantsfrommommyland.com/2011/07/top-ten-reasons-why-3-is-worse-than-2.html?m=1

Haidyn is doing well. Growing like a weed. I swear every time I look at her, she's gotten taller. We're getting ready for preschool. Registration is August 4th and her first day is August 23rd. I think she'll do great and will love it!

I have to make sure I update this blog often in the next couple of months before it turns into Haidyn and (baby brother to be named at some point. Hopefully before we take him home from the hospital).

Concert

Haidyn had to put on her pretty "princess" dress tonight and told me to sit down for a concert. This was my show. I may be biased..... but I LOVED it! :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcJzC_Wa2MI

Yes, yes, I know... I've been slacking quite a bit with this blog. Haidyn is doing fantastic. She seems very excited about being a big sister. She's even ok with having a brother now. Although I did just find out that she's telling Jen that she's going to have a sister after her brother comes. Hmmmm.

She'll start preschool in the fall at St. Johns. We're all excited about that. I think it will be good for her to be around other kids and be exposed to some different things. And Haidyn loves her teacher and the fact they have a play kitchen in the room. :)

She still amazes us every day. She's so smart. There's no pulling a fast one on her, she figures it out. She's far smarter than me and her father. Which is scary, but I love the way she thinks. She's very logical and comes up with answers and/or questions that a three year old shouldn't.

We're taking a break from classes for the month. Gymnastics is on hold for awhile, not sure when we'll go back to that. Her next swim class starts July 19th. I think we'll put her in dance in the fall. She just loves to dance! We've asked her several times if she wants to take gymnastics again or a dance class and she always answers dance. I think we'll try it while I'm on maternity leave. Maybe we can squeeze a class in during the day so we're not jam packed with night classes. There's a dance academy in downtown Elgin that looks promising. They have a "creative movement's" class for her age group. It sounds perfect!

Our Haidybel is still very strong willed, but I think both Mike and I have done pretty good at adjusting to it. We've figured out that there are a lot of things we just have to drop and let go, but some things are important and we have to stand our ground. No matter how ugly it gets. I think Haidyn has realized that too. She still has her meltdowns occasionaly, but she's realized we're not going to give in. I thought girls weren't suppose to be difficult until they were teenagers?? I think God just needed to teach me patience. Thank you. I've learned my lesson. Now can it be easy??

I guess it's time to get a new picture on here seeing as how it's summer time now. :) Here's our little girl roller skating for the first time. She did really well! No falls or anything!

Blizzard!

Haidyn got to experience her first blizzard. It was a little spooking riding home from Jen's on Tuesday, February 1st. I left work early knowing that the storm was on it's way and I wanted to get Haidyn and be home before it yet. I apparently timed it wrong. The wind was blowing like crazy, making visibility very poor. Haidyn kept telling me, "I can't see out the window Mom." I assured her we didn't have far to go and that we would be fine. We were very close to home when we had to drive past a field. The wind picked up and blew the snow making it a complete whiteout. Haidyn yelled, "I can't see ANYTHING Mom!" I white knuckled the steering wheel, said a little prayer that we stayed on the road and as soon as the wind died a bit allowing me to see where the road was, I gunned it. Once we made it past the field it was ok. It continued to snow for quite a long time after that. The next day we ended up with 20" of snow. But the snow drifts were the worst. The driveway was over 5'. We did get outside for a little bit to go sledding and check out the tunnel that Daddy made for her.