Well, the cat is finally out outta the bag! It’s officially public knowledge that you are going to be a big sister!

Everyone is super excited for us….especially the daycare girls! We decided to tell them by sending you to school in your Big Sister shirt – they were all completely caught off guard and very happy! Especially Catrina – she just can’t get enough babies to love in that infant room!

I am guessing your shirt got you a lot of attention that day because the first thing you said both Saturday and Sunday mornings was “Big Sister shirt”. 🙂

Well Hailey, you’ve had your first right of passage as a toddler. A right of passage that every toddler most go through…the obligatory item up the nose.

I had just come back from a business trip and mom picked me up from the airport. We headed straight to daycare to pick you up. When we arrived, Ms. Amanda informed us you had decided to put Play-Doh in your nose earlier that day. At just over 2 years old you don’t exactly understand how blow your nose yet. What does that mean? Manual intervention. Ms. Amanda and team had to hold you down and try to extract the Doh. That didn’t go so well. You were not happy about being held down…and two-year-olds are freakishly strong. After several failed attempts you let out a big scream. Somehow along with the scream was a snort and out flew the Play-Doh.

I hope the trauma of this event was enough to teach you not to stick things up your nose…but for some reason I doubt it. Don’t worry, not need to be embarrassed…all toddlers do it. For me it was raisins dislodged with a little help from some black pepper.

Love you,
Daddy

You’ve about mastered the potty training thing. You still wear a diaper at night and for some naps but other than that you are enjoying your panty collection. You got over your fear of pooping and took to the toilet about 20 times that day. After that you were good to go! You still get a bit spooked by the auto-flusher so the public restroom experience can be somewhat difficult at times. But there’s no doubt about it – you are doing great!

You had your first dance class of this season on Thursday. You got to wear your cute little tutu dress, tights, and dance shoes. You’d been asking to wear that dress since Saturday when you saw it hanging in the closet.

You are learning to act out for attention and are starting to test your boundaries. But even on a bad day you are still seriously a SUPER great kid with an extremely happy disposition.

Your hair is soooo ridiculously long. On top of that it’s stunning – you somehow ended up with natural highlights. If you can just hang on to that it’ll save you a ton of money when you’re older. 🙂

You love to sing! Your current favorites are Happy Birthday, ABC’s, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and Rock-a-bye Baby.