Quick pic

I came home from band practice at about 9:40. Marci said Haley should be asleep as the last time she came out was about 9:15. I guess Hay had a tough time tonight.

When I went in her room, she was out, but I saw why she had stayed up so late.

Evidently Marci gave Haley a new dry-erase pen to use with her new whiteboard we brought home from C&A.

I thought it was pretty awesome. Click on the pic to enlarge.

Haley reading

A few posts ago I noted how cool it was that Haley was reading so well now. I finally got around to shooting a short little video of her reading and here it is.

Temptation...

Haley's school had a fundraiser tonight. The school's classes all created artwork for people to bid on. Some moms also did some desserts to put up for auction as well.

Marci made a fishbowl cake. It was pretty awesome. She spent about 3 hours on it and here's how it looked.


On my way home from work tonight, I got a call from Marci. Evidently after finishing the cake, she went in to take a shower. When she came out, all the Nerds candy on the bottom of the cake were gone.

She asked if Riley ate them. He said no. She asked if Haley ate them. No answer. She asked again and Haley gave her standard "I'm busted" response:

"I'M SORRRRRRRY!!!!" followed by tears and hysterics.

Marci, needless to say, was quite hurt by the whole thing. Here she'd spent all day creating this beautiful cake, only to have Haley come by and mess it up a little. Luckily, she had more Nerds and was able to finish it again, but I think the bigger issue was the disappointment in Haley as we all know that Haley knows better.

When I got home, I didn't say anything to Hay because I knew she'd just freak out, but when I tried to talk to her about it later, she would just say, "I don't want to talk about it."

All in all, it was kind of funny (to me, at least), and Haley didn't have a good reason as to why she munched on all the Nerds. Marci's cake was the hit of the fundraiser and sold for about $35, I think.

American Girl Fashion Show

Here are pictures!

Marci and Hay before the big day.

Erin, Katri and Haley and their pals.

Haley and her new friends. The little one in front of Lyla in the orange is Haley's American Girl, Molly.

Haley and Lyla, Erin's AG.

Erin was nice enough to let Hay borrow Lyla for the night. That doll has not left Haley's side all afternoon. It's pretty cute. Guess we know what Haley's getting for her birthday.

That was really cool

Haley had a rough time reading in the beginning of the year. She'd see a sentence like:

"The cow jumped over the moon."

and she'd read:

"The cat just orange the mouse."

In other words, she'd guess at the first letter. Tonight she read me a book about Jacques Cousteau (go figure) and about Mice making Lime Ice (who knew?).

It was awesome! She read sentences like, "Jacques Cousteau made something that could take pictures underwater." I was totally impressed!

This could be the start of something big!

Beware the eyes of March

Speaking of eyes, Haley stepped on her glasses last week. Her $400 glasses. That's $200/eye. As in, "eye eye eye!"

Get it?

So now her glasses are crooked and the lens pops out. The poor girl had them on for 10 minutes yesterday before she realized that the lens was gone. And she was wondering why her eyes hurt.

She may be the first child in history to need Lasik before age 10.

In other news, she is COMPLETELY GROWING UP BEFORE MY EYES and it is happening WAY TOO FAST. Her reading has gotten super good and better (as my grammar gets badder and worse) and she is just a barrel of monkeys to be around.

That is, until 5pm or so. That's when Little Ms. Jeckyl becomes Horrible Ms. Hyde. OMGWTF? If you blink too loud, she'll do a big dramatic sigh and stomp off into her room screaming, "Fine! Whatever! Nobody likes me!"

Then, after dinner at 6, she's back to nice ol' Haley. It's like she goes HULK SMASH for about 20 minutes.

I'm trying to work on her with it. I ask if there's anything I can do (the answer is always, "hug." Not "I need a hug," but simply, "hug."). I tell her she's in control. I ask if blinking too loud is something to BLOW HER STACK about.

I think she knows, but she just hasn't grasped control of those emotions yet.

It makes me fear for puberty. God help us all.