Nothing’s stopping Hailey.

My determined child walked right by her big sister to get to the living room.

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This week Vanessa cut some of her own hair. I wouldn’t have notice on her except I found the locks on my clothing. She told me her hair was too long and she wanted it cut like her boyfriend at school. Her hair gets tangled and isn’t fun to brush. She won’t let me tie it up so I suggested we go to the hair dresser.

She was so excited. When we got there, I told the hair dresser to cut it really short. She gave me a nervous look and asked me to find an example in a book because she didn’t want to be responsible for getting it wrong on such beautiful hair.

Vanessa loves it. It’s so easy to take care of and it’s really cute and suites her personality.

Don’t let the pout fool you she loves the cut. What she didn’t love was being told she had to wait for my undivided attention. Ohh and she loves to pose for pictures.

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Hailey’s growing by the second. She’s signing the words; more, all done, milk and eat. She knows what’s important. Her first word is bapffffff. (she says while blowing raspberries) and now she’s saying done but you’ve got to know. She talks to you like your suppose to know what she’s saying. She has a few favourite toys. The stacking cups, school bus with weebles, and a pop-up toy.

Most recently she’s been trying to walk. I’ve seen her take 10 steps but she’s still really cautious. It’s fun to watch because she loves to walk back and forth between people and her last step is always a giggle and pitch herself at the receiver.

Hailey loves the backyard. She can sit in the swing for ages and let me sing to her. She can push the doll stroller around the grass. She climbs up the stair case and stands at the top of the slide but is still too chicken to slide down. She’ll go down with Vanessa holding her.

My poor sweet child has finally doubled her birth weight at 18 1/2lbs. She’s strong and active but still loves both her naps. We could do without the ear aches. She’s being followed by an ENT  but I’m hoping she’ll grow out of them soon. Over the winter months she was getting 1 to 2 a month. Although she’s a trooper it’s rough on her.

She’s been diagnosed with an egg and nut allergy. I’ve settled down since the news but it’s still frightening. I’m now carrying an epi-pen which I hope to never use but that’s unlikely. The egg allergy she will likely grow out of. does not include things that are baked with eggs in them. It’s with things like mayonnaise, scrambled/fried/poached eggs and some pancakes since they’re not brought up to the same temperature. Right now we’re staying away from all nuts but this week she’ll go for blood tests to be more specific. 

This loving child will crawl up to perfect strangers to hang out with them or sit on their laps usually for much longer than she’ll sit with me. She crawls around our Mothergoose group making friends. I’m thrilled she’s so sociable.

I’ll take a current picture when she’s better from her vaccinations…

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In March both of my girls had a birthday. Hailey turned 1 and Vanessa is 4 whole years old. It was over a week of celebrating for Vanessa starting off with a party with her friends. She had two friends from school and two family friends. We made pizzas and ice cream sundaes. The kids had a great time. It was low key. Just the way I like things. Every couple of days there was another birthday surprise. She had cupcakes at school, they sang to her at the cabane-a-sucre with school, there were cards and surprises in the mail.

The Saturday after we had a large family party for both girls. My girls are spoiled rotten with love, adoration, attention and that week with gifts. I know they return it all to me two folds and I hope the same holds true for the rest of their family.

We were thrilled their great-grandmother was there and met Hailey and my nephews. The living room has never felt so full. Hailey received a few gifts of clothing and toys and Vanessa had the year of the dresses. She was excited to open up 5 dresses. She’s a little hard to buy clothes for but she’s into dresses and they’re easy to fit. She also got her first bike!