My Baby Turned 3

It's true, my teeny tiny baby is now 3. We had such a good day :)

We went to the zoo for the day and had so much fun.

It was different than it's even been before,

she was interested in all of the animals, she was able to say what each animal was,

and associate it with books and movies.

So much fun.

I cannot believe this sweet little girl is already 3.

Hadley's Room

A friend of mine was posting pictures of her new place on instagram, and I realized I haven't really done anything like that. I feel like I don't really love the place we live, and it doesn't feel like my own (because it isn't) so I haven't cared to really decorate and document it. However, I do want to remember Hadley's cute little room, so this is more for my own record than anything else. This was taken from the door starting on the left.

And the nice little heater and humidifier are not on at the same time... We typically just use the heater, but the wee one is sick right now so warm air humidifier it is!

Just Pictures

Here are some pictures, that I don't really have anything substantial to say about, but were too cute not to post.

 "Mommy look at my funny face!"

 "mommy take a picture, im stirring." (Glad she is finally asking for pictures instead of fighting me :)

 Hadley and daddy ready for some golf.

Just a picture of us in out stripes :)

Lucky Ducks

A few days ago Debbie invited Hadley and I to go feed the ducks at a nearby park. After so many months trapped inside, it was a nice change to be out in the sun, where we pretended like it was warm. Really it was about 40, but the sun was out so we went with it. The girls had a great time throwing small pieces entire slices of bread to those ducks. Luckily there was a little fence up so no one was mauled by attack ducks. The girls had a great time, and Debbie and I got some adult interaction. We had a so much fun, and now for the fun part, pictures of the cute kids.

Hadley loved the slides  

and the swings 

These girls always have so much fun together.

Montessori Corner

Ok no, chances are I will never really home school, but I am trying to bring Hadley's School home. She thrives with all of the structure at school, and gets bored at home. I am going to slowly start to make a collection of work that she can do on the mornings that she doesn't have school. I am going to try really heard to be a good Montessori mommy. Try and allow her some independence and let her learn by making her own mistakes instead of micromanaging her so that she does things perfectly. I hope this will also give me some structure and help our days together be a little more fun. We've wasted away too many days just sitting around.

My grandpa sent Hadley a beautiful little desk, so I made a little 'school' corner in her room. It has bins below to store her work, and she is loving it. She worked on beading her wooden beads for a while, and then decided to start her pouring work. And I did a good mommy job and had her clean up the beading (which she did no problem) before getting out the tea set. She has been good for about an hour now! When she spills and gets upset I've even been calm and not frustrated ( :D ). I've been trying to encourage her to think through things so when she does get upset I've just reassured her that it's ok, and asked her what we can use to clean it up. She then goes and grabs a towel, dishrag, or paper towel and soaks that spill right up. I'm so proud of my little independent girl.

The numbers and letters on the board are the ones she has gone over at school.
Pardon the poor lighting quality, I used my phone for this and we have insulation covering her window because they are the old school windows that you can feel a breeze through.

-Side note: We are excited to be moving within the year.

California! Here We Come!

(Please be sure to sing the title)

I guess by now it has become tradition that we celebrate Hadley's birthday in Fresno. Maybe it's that it is a time we like to be surrounded by family. Maybe its the fact that we just get our tax returns back, need a break, and its my spring break. Either way, it's what we do. This year will be no exception, and I cannot wait! Once again we will have a big get together with the people nearest and dearest to us, and eat some yummy cupcakes. And we will be able to spend a week do different things that California has to offer. 

The drive isn't something I'm all that excited about, but hopefully the break overnight in Vegas will be enough to help us make it through the second part of the trip. And hopefully our little care makes it through one more big trip!

18 DAYS and COUNTING

(But really, who's counting?) 

Valentine's Day

When I was younger my mom would always put a little something on the table for valentines day. I've tried to keep that tradition alive in my little family as well. This year Hadley woke up to a box of M&M's and a little Valentines dog, which she appropriately named "Dog". She was so excited for this little surprise, and all day she walked around and told us "Happy Valentines day!" And then would ask us to say it back. 

All I had at the moment was my phone, oops. She had school, so we had to quickly eat some breakfast and get ready. While she was at school, I had to go to Draper to take the NCLEX (which at this point I'm about 95% sure I didn't pass, but thats ok it was just the LPN and I didn't study for what I actually was tested on). I was so nervous and then was tested on medications I hadn't heard of, syndromes I didn't know exsisted, and then mom/baby & pediatric quesitons. Everyone had said to just know about PPE, and delegation so thats what I focused. Let it be known that I didn't have a single question on either of those things. At least now I know what to expect for when I take the NCLEX-RN. 

After the test I picked up Hadley from my sister's house (I wasn't sure how long I'd be testing, it can take up to 5 hours) and we went home for a little before it was time to get John from work. We went out to dinner and went to bed early. Nothing too exciting but Hadley had a fun day seeing friends at school and playing with her cousin, and that's all that's important.