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.

ER Visit

I'm a little late getting this on the blog. Ooops. Haidyn had an ER visit in the beginning of January. We had just gotten home and Mike was home already so Haidyn was excited. She ran into the living room for Mike to chase her and we heard. Thump! SCREAM! We ran in there and blood was squirting from her head. We got the bleeding to slow down quite a bit, but there was a pretty big chunk of her forehead missing, so off to the ER we went. She was such a good girl. We had to wait a while, but she did just fine. She fussed a bit when they cleaned it out, but she was still amazing. They used glue to put it back together. Even though it's been several weeks now and just about healed, Haidyn insists on wearing a bandaid. I think the look of it in the mirror freaks her out. We followed up with our pediatrician and it's healing just fine and there is no harm in Haidyn keeping a bandaid on it. I have a feeling it's going to be a long time before we can go without one.

Christmas 2010

We all had a wonderful Christmas this year! We got to spend it with Grandma W, Grandpa S, Grandma S and Aunt Linda. I think Haidyn may have gotten too many presents though. She had three left to open, and she didn't want to. She just wanted to play with her toys. Either she's a really sweet girl that was happy with what she received, or she just got way too much. :) Santa was listening and got her the Buzz Lightyear she wanted. Yay! But she is also happy with all her other presents too. She's the only girl I know that can get excited over a pair of underwear. :) Mommy and Daddy got her Woody and Rex action figures and put them in an old pull-ups box. She unwrapped up and exclaims, "Pull-Ups!" hahaha... could saved some money this year, I think. :)

Jingle Bells

Haidyn is quite the singer. She sings everything. She's also a dancer, but we'll get to that in another post. Her favorite Christmas song is Jingle Bells (even though she'll tell you whatever Christmas song is currently playing is her favorite). Here is her rendition.