HEAT WAVE

We went to check out another house today. Gorgeous but waaay out of our price range. I'm really liking the idea of the one in colchester.

We went for a bike ride and I'm probably going to regret it in the morning. not only am i out of shape...but we haven't gone in at least two weeks. mama will be feeling it, thats for sure.

hayden went on the potty twice today. both times was pee. he called me into the bathroom one of the times and i found him on the "beeeg people" toilet. So great!!!! we bought pull-ups this morning. I think that the underwear are intimidating to hayden, he got upset when it was suggested this morning... so we'll start slow with the pull-ups...they have that familiar diaper feel with the undies look. Totally taking his lead [as i do with most things] i don't want potty learning to be viewed as a bad thing.

Classic 2 year old behavior is on the rise. Full-on hitting going on. I'm reading up on gentle discipline so i know a good way to approach the situation.

We are working on phasing out the need/want for the pacifier. This has been going on for about two weeks now. It's been difficult. He has had the "need" for it a lot in the last 4-5 months, more than ever so it's been challenging. Hayden was without it all day today and only asked for it 3-4 times. Each of those times i was able to get him interested in something else. I think I'm going to try to do the phasing out gradually rather than cold turkey. Allowed only at bedtime...and nap time if he ever took one! Then we'll go from there...

Underpants!

We started our morning with a nice long walk and came back to make a breakfast smoothie. Hayden put all of the fruit[blueberries, strawberries & banana] in the vita-mix, as well as pouring a bit of coconut milk and apple juice in. It was delicious. Hayden chose to drink out of a big cup with a straw and promised "hayden no spill"

We then returned bottles. We made $3.25, which hayden promptly put in his pocket. Off to buy big boy undies. Hayden picked out a Disney 6 pack. Nemo, Buzz Light year, etc.They are too big :( Kmart only had size 4s but once you promise the mister something you gotta follow thru. So i'll just have to pick up a smaller package somewhere else.

We then went to look at a house in Colchester. The home itself was pretty rad, but there was no yard and that's something we really want/need.

We met up with Cameron and Christine at the playground to discuss further employment. Not the greatest news. I hope it ends up working out. We were there a good 20 mins before they showed up. In the meantime, Hayden played with two 3 yr old boys. Monkey see-monkey do. Every little thing those boys did hayden was right beside them doing them too. Climbing and sitting on a rock. Running around playing "TAG", every noise, word, whatever the boys expressed Hayden did too. It was pretty awesome to see.

2-3 word sentences are being made more often. You can see the wheels turning inside hayden'shead...he is in such deep though ALL the time.

We are starting to do 123's and ABC's and he is pretty good at them. Whenever i say ABC today, Hayden will pause[wheels turning] and say "a...b...ups" :) :) :)

Book Mobile!

We spent the entire day with Cameron. We had breakfast and then went for a long walk. The humidity was out of control today. After our walk Hayden and Cameron ran around in the "common area". That where they are in the photo. They are sitting on a cut up tree trunk and pretending it's a horse. Complete with squeals from Cam and "giddddup" from Hayden. They spent a lot of time exploring and discovering pine-cones, rocks, leaves. We have quite the assortment of random roughage in our apt now.

After dropping Cam off this afternoon we came home and Hayden immediately noticed that the library's BOOK MOBILE was in the neighborhood. Hayden was so excited. We see this bus parked at the library every sunday morning when we go to Healthy Living. He kept saying "book.....bobeeel" as we made our way over. The second he stepped foot on the bus he said "whoooaaaaa". We spent a good 20 mins looking at books. Hayden was in complete awe of the situation. The bus is painted with children reading books on the outside and inside the ceiling is painted with clouds. Hayden kept pointing to the ceiling and saying "cyouds, airplane, kyle" He picked out an Eric Carle colors book, 5 little monkeys, and a Animal barn book all by himself. The librarian even let him hold the stamper to stamp the date on the books. He couldn't wait to call Papa and tell him all about it. and after our dinner, that is what he did :)

Will visited tonight.

Good Life Things

i excused myself from the bed this afternoon. during our nap once the mama milkies were no longer needed and came downstairs to clean up a bit. our apt is in constant disarray. i can hardly keep up with it. i put something away and as i'm moving away from it, hayden is taking it right back out. he's quite the helper!
anyway...
after just 4 minutes of being downstairs i thought i could hear some stirring upstairs so i quietly made my way up the stairs and as i made the corner i saw hayden eating a book. he sneakily eats so many book pieces that i'm certain one day he is going to shit out a fabulous story.

Moving on up!

Hayden and I got an apartment. It's really nice and I'm excited to move. A new beginning for us! We move in on June 14th!

Packing has been quite the adventure. Hayden is sooo helpful with taking out what i just put in the box :) I'm getting it done though, i've always been a great multi-tasker :)

Things are starting to look up. Up is the only way we can go from here! Hayden will finally have the happy mama that he deserves. Now, if we could secure a long term job we'd be good to go!!!

First Word

Hayden has been babbling like crazy for months, but he said 'ma maaa' yesterday multiple times AT me, not just experimenting with sounds. pretty much made my life. cue the tears and laughter. he's amazing.

hayden has also been scooting around on his biscuits for the past month which is really cute. can get to his tummy from a sitting position and can get on all fours....but he doesn't know what to do from there other than scream and grunt and since yesterday say "maaaa maaam" in a cute but whinysad voice. it's really too cute for words.

he has been doing the "milk" sign for about 3 weeks...and gets hysterical when i do it to him. sometimes it's a YAAAY hysterical and other times it's a bawling his face off hysterical b/c i'm teasing him.
he loves drinking out of cups but has no idea what to do with a sippy other than chew on it.

he would eat an entire magazine/book if i'd let him.

i knew that motherhood would be incredible and life changing...but i didn't know to what extent. i am so grateful and will never take this for granted.

Happy Valentine's Day

Hayden is all over the place. He's sitting, rolling over, standing while holding onto things with a little added assistance. It's so amazing to watch him learn these things.

This monday he had his first bite of food...AVOCADO and he seemed to really like it. I wanted to wait until he was 8 months or so...but when i was eating it the other day he literally had a little tantrum over not having any. so i shared :)


needless to say..he keeps me busy. It can be tiresome..especially since i'm on my own, but it's so worth it. He is so amazing...every little smile, giggle, hair pull, nose grab..whatever...it is just incredible. And i always think to myself "today was so good, it can't get any better than this"...but it does...every day it just gets better and better. being a mother is the best gift. Hayden Michael, my little blessing!