Now that Hayden is getting bigger (14 months) her hair is getting longer. I have started to get the itch to be more creative with it. Those that know me, know that it goes against my instinctive nature to be "girly" so it's not a natural thing for me to try and do Hayden's hair. I am doing the best I can and hope to keep learning fun and different things.
A few weeks ago, I learned how to do a new hair do and last Sunday we practiced again to get it right. Her little curls were being co-operative as well and looked so cute.
Today (Sunday) it was time for bath time. Hayden isn't a huge fan of the bath. She usually stands and clings on to the side of the tub as if her life depended on it. Today, after swimming in an indoor pool during the week I got her to sit in a very shallow tub. Since this is the first time she has sat in the tub in probably a couple months I thought I better try and get a couple bath pictures.
After bath, it's time to get dressed and do hair. I was inspired by her curls last week and wanted to try to bring out her natural curls more. Usually, her hair will only stay curly for just a little bit out of the bath so I got some product recommended by Aunt Meagan and "amped" her curls up quite a bit.
Since yesterday afternoon was so beautiful we decided to venture out to our neighborhood's playground. This is the first time we have been to the playground since the weather has started to turn. Thus, it was Hayden's first chance she's had to explore a playground. Last season she was still being held in my arms or confined to a stroller. She had a great time!
She loved climbing up and down the stairs. She's not the most adventurous child so she kept to where she was comfortable.
At our Pittsburgh neighborhood playground we always found these tiny balls so when Carter found this little green one (his favorite color) he was ecstatic and very obsessed with keeping it safe.
My beautiful blue-eyed girl!!
Quite the focused face.
My little goof ball. I can see so much growth in him as of late. He is really coming into himself.
I know to the average person it will look like I put a bunch of the same, exact pictures on this post. But to me, I love to see each little unique and different facial expression that shows the many sides of this little girl that I am lucky enough to have in my life.
I know that title may seem so Odd and somewhat wrong for me to write seeing as our household is die hard BYU, but we have a new boy in town that is even getting us to start swinging towels around and yelling, "Go Aggies!"
Everyone around here is totally smitten by our cutie putootie cousin that is now practically a neighbor. He has Carter turned into an Aggie fan. He broke the news to Dad the other night and Dad took it very well, I mean really who could blame him after hanging out with our little friend so much!
Here are some of the things that have made my beauties so sleepy:
Lots of snow storms that have been closing school. So we are either sleepy because we get dressed up and play out in the cold for about 5 minutes before we bail (it takes longer to get dressed properly than the time he actual plays in his snow outfit). Or we are sleepy from the boredom that sets in from being stuck in the house once again!! I tell you what I am getting fed up with all these wimpy school closings!! Carter was a doll on our first big snow storm and helped me to shovel our 3 car garage driveway. This driveway is a heck of a lot more work than shoveling my one car driveway in PGH!!
Can you tell we are getting some major cabin fever and desperately playing with anything we can get our hands on?!? In this particular picture above, I was upstairs long enough to sort and put away all the laundry I had folded that day. I came downstairs to see: Hayden eating glue stick, Carter got his hands on some scissors and cutting everything he could get his hands on, and all the markers had their lids off and were strewn everywhere (and Hayden must have been eating the markers too because she had a very colorful mouth mixed in with the glue stick). And as I look at this picture, I can't believe that i am actually posting this picture for the world to see the whirlwind that was my house at this moment. But Marie, this one is for you: just keeping it real!
Hayden is really into feeding her babies now days. And after getting all woozy from the glue stick she can't keep all the facial parts differentiated, thus she is feeding her baby through her eyeball. But hey, most stoned mothers don't even bother to feed their babies.
Her latest word: "Ba ba" - "Bottle."
Another way we've been working ourselves to the point of exhaustion is by playing "Playground" every single day, multiple times a day. I tell you that Dance Party really helps ya work it out. (Playground is a Cranium game and I highly recommend it.)
Then there's our crazy and wild Family Home Evenings:
We've also been shakin our Money Makers. Hayden has started dancing to music and she knows how to get her hips a goin (and she doesn't even need to be high on her glue stick to do it):
And here, Hayden is so tired that she can fall asleep not only mid-meal, but also mid-laugh!
And with that I say, Buenos Noches I'm going to bed!
There's an indoor play area around where we live where we go sometimes to get out of the house. It is part of an outdoor mall. So I do a little shopping and bribing - if you are good you get to play afterwards. And then the kids go play. It's good for both of them because everything is "small" and soft so Hayden can do a little climbing and Carter is still small enough that he can have fun, too. Plus, there's usually a bunch of kids there around his age that he can pal around with.
Gotta love the Jeggings!! (Jeans/Leggings combined)
Carter loves to make sure that everyone knows that Hayden is his little sister when we go to play.
Carter looks huge compared to the frog and then the Frog looks huge next to Hayden. Our own version of the Princess and the Frog.
I was taking video of Hayden earlier this month and Carter wanted some video loving as well. So he decided it was a perfect time to show off some of his "moves." I get a kick out of his facial expressions in these:
This was a gorgeous, beautiful day! The high temp was 68 degrees!! So you better believe we took advantage of these crazy, rare temperatures! The kids and I played out back and while Hayden napped Carter and I played out front.
Yes, Hayden has bare tootsies and for those of you that gasped at this I will just point out a few things: 1. It was 68 degrees (not nearly warm enough for my Grandma Ione to be satisfied I know). 2. She can't move around well with socks and shoes on. 3. She pulls off her socks and shoes in less than a minute of them being on.
At this point, I needed to go inside to change Hayden's diaper. During that time, Carter grabbed my camera (for the first time) turned it on and started taking pictures. I was so intrigued by the angles and perspectives of his pictures:
I thought it was impressive that he was able to get our whole house in the picture.
This is me coming out of the house, shocked that Carter had my camera and what the heck was he doing with it!
But then I thought, you know that is probably fun for a kid to take pictures so I let him keep going, after all they're just digital so I could erase when he was done and no harm done. Little did I realize that most of them were really good.
Is this really how he sees me?!?
The sea of suburbia as my friend Marie likes to put it.
Such cool perspective, right?
And with Carter behind the camera, I am actually in front of it. A rare thing.
Carter riding his Hummer, pretty much for the first time, in the front yard:
We hadn't really charged the battery, and not thinking of that I told Carter to drive it with me to the mailbox that is down the street. It died once we got to the mailbox and I had to push it all the way back home with several of the neighbors giving me a hard time along the way. All their kids have Power Wheels and had all been there before and was glad it was me and not them.
I love to see the art work that comes home from Carter's preschool. He is naturally not an art project kind of guy so it's fun to see his preschool try to bring that out of him. BUT there is always that issue of deciding what to keep and what to throw away. I have come up with a great system that works for me that I am very happy with. I hate the guilt of throwing away his precious work, but I also know that we can't hang on to everything because then I would turn into one of those Hoarders you see on TV. So I hang up his stuff on the wall for the month/season that we are in, enjoy it, then take a picture of it to be able to go back and look at his cute stuff and then lovingly dispose of it.
This is his Christmas month. A lot of his items were ornaments that went on the tree.
A few weeks ago, I learned how to do a new hair do and last Sunday we practiced again to get it right. Her little curls were being co-operative as well and looked so cute.
Today (Sunday) it was time for bath time. Hayden isn't a huge fan of the bath. She usually stands and clings on to the side of the tub as if her life depended on it. Today, after swimming in an indoor pool during the week I got her to sit in a very shallow tub. Since this is the first time she has sat in the tub in probably a couple months I thought I better try and get a couple bath pictures.
After bath, it's time to get dressed and do hair. I was inspired by her curls last week and wanted to try to bring out her natural curls more. Usually, her hair will only stay curly for just a little bit out of the bath so I got some product recommended by Aunt Meagan and "amped" her curls up quite a bit. 
I think she liked them as well. :)
