Since I have been working and Joel has been staying home, I've missed out on a few things. Joel will usually call and tell me in frustration something that just happened. I usually end up laughing. Being home more he's the one who's had to deal with the problems, the issues, the drama, but in return he gets some awesome memories and laughs out of it.
"Emi, Emi, Emi. Whack! WAHHHAAA." This was what Joel told me at work one day. He had just gotten Emi to sleep when Hailey came in with her singing baby doll and wanted to play.
Hailey is learning how to dance and she loves it.
She loves to jump, but usually needs a little help if she really wants to get some air. Hailey loves circles. She'll spin spin spin and "all fall down." She also likes "pop goes the weasel" because she can jump.
We call it flying, Hailey calls it "swing." She Hailey is usually in some kinds of upward position and will swing down between our legs and then back up again. When both of us are walking with her she has to grab our hands and then she just picks her feet up. This is our cue that she wants to swing.
Hailey is starting to watch movies. Her favorites are:wreck it Ralph. How to Train Your Dragon--apparently after watching this one she goes, RAAWR to everything. Yes her hands are up by her face in roaring position. She also enjoys Jungle Book. She likes to dance to the jazz music with Baloo.
She's trying to sing.
Joel says she's started to get an attitude. I think she's always had one, but now she has a strut to go with the pout.
She is starting to play games with us and start them. Peek a boo. Tickle fights. Where's Hailey? There she is. Chase.
When folding laundry, she has to have her own piece of laundry or pile of clothes to fold. She makes sure to lay them out all nice and flat, one of top of the other.
Emi is getting more aware of her surroundings. She's curious. She has this pull and vibrate monkey that hangs from her play dome. If a 5 month old can have a favorite toy, this would be it. It makes Joel wonder how fast Hailey grew up, or if it's just that I can't pay attention solely to her, that it only seems like she's growing up faster.
Hailey is picking up vocabulary words super fast!
Hailey enjoys crawling into the dome mat when Emi is in there. They talk to each other in the dome.
Hailey is addicted to being outside. It should be interested to see what happens when it's warm enough and she can go in the pool Right now, she stays away from it.
When I go to get Hailey up in the morning I'll open the blinds to her window. Her crib is right by the window. A little while ago I pointed out trees, flowers, and birds. Now when she gets up she points out the window, "Tees. Flowey."
Emi is almost to a point that she'll actually laugh. When you tickle under her chin by her collar bones, she scrunches her face and tries to laugh.
Emi loves naked time. She enjoys total naked time but that can be disastrous. So when she is cranky, Joel will strip her down to just her diaper and let her play. Usually it's with her feet.
Hailey loves showers. She has her own towel with a hood and she'll hold everything around her herself. BUT she doesn't want to be naked for long. If we leave her for too long she tries to put some type of clothing on.
Hailey is obsessed with socks and shoes. She is always trying to put on socks. So far, the only ones that she can get on by herself are mine. They go up to her calves.
Emi sucks on her fingers. You'd think they were covered in sugar the way she goes at them.
Joel has had to teach Hailey not to throw rocks in the pool.
Potty training continues. She'll use the potty if we put her on it but she still uses the diaper as well. Joel decided that in order to help her poop she needed to grunt. It's quite the sight and sound listening to them. Oddly enough every once in a while it actually works and it's one less poopy diaper to change for the day.
It's surprising how much Hailey likes to be a helper. If Joel's outside cleaning out the pool, she has to be right there. She'll try and grab the cleaning rake if he puts it down. She gets mad at him if he pulls the filter bucket and doesn't let her empty the leaves into the trash bucket. Pictures are in the previous post.
It's an art trying to get both kids down at the same time so that Joel can have "kids are asleep" peace. I think he's starting to understand why I like not having "background noise." Because I have it all day when I'm home.
Hailey could survive on fruit and yogurt packs and animal crackers. If you give in and give her crackers to "hold her over till we can get lunch or dinner made" she fills up on crackers and won't eat her meal. Joel is now cracker training her... she can only pick up two crackers at a time. One for eat hand. When those are done, she can go grab more.
Hailey has stash corners, apparently in each room.
hailey is learning how to use a cup. We'll give her a little bit of whatever in a cup and give it to her. She does really good at drinking it as long there aren't any other bowls or cups that she can pour it into.
Joel learned the hard way not to give Hailey Sunkist. Sugar and caffeine. Not smart. Causes toddler to have a massive sugar crash. "But I watered it down!!!" Yeah...
I didn't know that Hailey had learned how to click a clicker pen. Usually I get let her play with a pen...my mistake. I was sewing and she was playing. She had finished drawing and got down. Next thing I here is scratch scratch scratch... Now keep in mind that I'm sewing in the dining room. The chairs are ivory linen covered. Well, now one of them is ivory with "blue pin striping." I about freaked. Ok, maybe no about about it. Furnished house. Not our stuff. Blue pen. PEN is ridiculous to get out of anything let alone an upholstered ivory colored chair. No worries. Brother came with his cleaner and cleaning chemicals and all is well again. Probably looks even better than before.
She has graduated from string cheese to regular sharp or cheddar cheese. You go to the fridge and open it and she points at it. She also likes the little baby bel cheeses. They are just her size.
Joel used to let her sit on the tall chairs, but she likes to rock and all it took was one fall and bonk. No more chairs.
Although she knows that she has her kitchen food chair. When it's time to eat she goes to her chair, waits for us to pick her up, then she waits for her bib.
Hailey still wants lap time. She says she's done eating but sometimes that just means, she's done eating in her own chair. This usually is the case when I'm holding Emi at the dinner table.
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