Lessons in Motherhood

Let the era of competitive parenting begin. It started on Thursday at Hailey’s pre-k graduation. First of all, it’s pre-k graduation, not college graduation, so why did all of the parents have flowers and balloons and gifts? Pre-k, people. Pre-k!!!
Anyway, I got to the room about 15 minutes before it [...]

Hailey: Daddy, I need a horse.
Daddy: How will you feed the horse? Do you know what horses eat?
Hailey: We can just feed the grass.
Daddy: Where are we going to keep the horse?
Hailey: Downstairs.
Daddy: Don’t you think that a horse is a little too big for downstairs? I don’t think we [...]

I could have called her Little Miss Peer Pressure, but either way, I got a big fat taste of my oldest daughter’s style yesterday. We went to a birthday party where they had an inflatable water slide. Unfortunately, the birthday boy was afraid to go down it. For the entire party, Hailey [...]

Hailey learned a new trick this past week at school. When I told Luke about it, he said, “this is a momentous occasion, she’s learned how to make fart noises with her arm.” I’m sure you can guess how proud I am of her new found talent. Actually, I thought that [...]

Hailey had her best boy friend over for dinner on Thursday. It was his first time visiting her new house, so she gave him the full tour. While they were investigating her room, he took a liking to one of her stuffed animals (a stuffed cat). Hailey has a million stuffed animals [...]

Hailey: Mommy, the Indians don’t have TVs.
Mommy: What Indians don’t have TVs? The Native Americans? They don’t have TVs now or a long time ago?
Hailey: A long time ago.
Mommy: That’s right. No one had TVs a long time ago. They didn’t have TVs or radios or iPads. They couldn’t listen [...]

Hailey made her first trip to a nail salon today. The new one in our neighborhood has little kid chairs so she took full advantage. For some reason, she insisted on calling it a Barbie Shop which I think means Barber Shop but for all I know, it could just mean Barbie Shop. [...]

Oh no! We are going to Disney in just a few weeks. Ok. Not until the beginning of April, but still. Not enough time to plan. Ugh…what will we do? How horrible will the crowds be? Oh and the lines? Crazy.
Yet, can you imagine Hailey’s face when [...]

When I was little, I ate like a cow. I know this because I distinctly remember people saying “where does all that food go? You must have a hollow leg.” Well, now I know first hand what they were talking about because my oldest child is about as big as a stick [...]

Where did I leave off on the saga of Hailey’s ear infection? I can’t remember if I told the whole story or if I just mentioned it in the context of me sitting by myself watching a movie. So, here’s the 411 on that situation…
Thursday Hailey said that her ear would not pop. [...]