I cannot believe Hayley was born 5 years ago. I love this girl so much! She has been the perfect big sister and I am so grateful she made me a Mom.
Hayley has a little heart of gold. She is often thinking of others and ways she can make someone else happy. She loves to draw and color pictures to give away, especially if it involves mailing them. She is a great helper with her sisters and to me.
I am in denial that she is starting kindergarten in a couple months and everything that comes with that. She absolutely loved preschool, which was no surprise, and I have no doubt she will love kindergarten too. She really enjoys learning and being with her teachers and classmates. She has learned to write and identify almost all her letters. We are still working on some but I am amazed at how much she learned in one year only going twice a week for a few hours, which ended up getting cut short because of COVID. (The letters she isn't super good with are the ones she was supposed to be learning after school got canceled and I was not very good at the whole home school thing.) Her teacher would deliver packets every two weeks and we usually just did the crafts.
Hayley loves watching movies and is extra happy if she gets to have popcorn or treats with her movies or watch them in the tent. She enjoys playing Wii and Super Smash Brothers with her Dad. She is getting pretty good at both. Her favorite thing on the Wii is creating new people and then playing as all of them. She rarely ever uses her own Mii when she plays.
Hayley enjoys being outside and playing sports with Dan and is fairly good at all of them. She really enjoys swimming and has gotten so brave. I am so proud of her for wanting to go under water and learn how to hold her breath. She like having water balloons to play with when we swim at home and running through the sprinkler.
Dan's med school has rubbed off on Hayley and she has a new fascination with the human body and learning all about it. She likes to look through his med school books and listen to glycolysis bed time stories. She is a fairly good eater. She is usually open to trying to new things. She likes pizza, mac n cheese, chocolate milk, and any sort of treat/dessert. She doesn't like mashed potatoes.
Hayley still takes naps but they are usually only an hour long these days. On days she doesn't nap, which is rare, she still does quiet time. She is really good about making her bed. She occasionally ends up in our room during the night on the floor still.
Hayley really likes to make things, be it cookies or some sort of craft she asks me about once a day if we can make something. She likes coloring, playing with play-doh, drawing with chalk outside, dressing up, playing with stuffed animals and Barbies.
Hayley grew two inches during the school year and I feel like I am constantly having to buy her bigger clothes because she is constantly growing. She really likes to wear skirts. Even though she is young in the school year, she is not behind in height or in academics. She often says she wants to be as big as her Dad and it will be fun to see if she ever is.
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| Unicorn face paint. |
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| Prairie Dog Town. |
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| She drew a picture of me with a baby in my belly. |
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| Running around at Dan's flag football game. |
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| Pumpkin walk at the arboretum. |
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| Meeting baby sister! |
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