Hadley woke up with a nasty cold on Wednesday. It's gotten worse as the week has gone on. I called the pediatrician's office this morning and she said to bring her in if she gets a fever over 100. She didn't have one until tonight before we put her to bed and it was 102. So I think we'll be making a trip to The Children's Hospital Urgent Care clinic in the morning if she's not any better. Her cough also sounds not as loose and more croupy to me. Poor thing. It's so hard to see her sick because she never is like this. She practically fell asleep at the dinner table so Adrian laid her down on the couch and then we finished dinner.
Her poor nose is so raw from all the kleenex's. Normally we don't let her bring her blankie and Patty (the platypus) downstairs, but since she's on the "sick couch" we made an exception. Abby is in there, too. She never goes anywhere without Abby.
I've been trying to be brave and fix Hadley's hair in a ponytail or pigtails, but her hair is so fine that it ends up falling out into her eyes and it DRIVES.ME.CRAZY. A friend told me that to get the hair to stay in better you should wet it first. So I sprayed her hair with de-tangler this morning and went for the ponytail. (That's a scratch under her eye where she clawed herself the other day.)
Yes, this kid knows how to give dirty looks and roll her eyes--already! I know we shouldn't, but we can't help but laugh at her when she rolls her eyes. It really is funny! I don't think she knows what she's doing when she does it.
Adrian started taking Hadley to gymanstics at the rec center on Monday's I think about a year ago now? I don't remember when she started. Sometimes if I have a Monday off I get to take her.
We start out by picking out a colored felt circle to sit on. We sing songs and do some floor "exercises."
Then after that everyone takes their turn on the gym apparatus around the room. The little slide always makes Hadley's hair static-y.
This trampoline is one of her favorites!
She doesn't really like to run on this trampoline (I do--it's fun!) but she'll tolerate it. At the other end there's a foam pit that some kids are brave enough to jump into, but Hadley won't. She'll sit down and then scoot her hiney down into it instead.
Hadley and I made some cookies in the heart-shaped pan for Adrian for Valentine's Day. Elmo was Hadley's valentine, as evidenced by her "I Love Elmo" t-shirt.
She has to do everything herself these days and doesn't want any help. So she was quite the "helper" while baking cookies. Funny how she refused to let ME help HER pick out pants to go with her Elmo shirt. I guess it wasn't a battle I was going to fight that day!
Peech Party of Four really didn't make sense to me anymore, so thought it was time to change the name of our blog. (I wonder if I need to email y'all or will your Google Reader somehow know I've changed the name?) I'm too tired right now and up way too late to change the header, but hope to also change the look of things around here. Stay tuned...we're still under construction.
Hadley's vocabulary has exploded the past couple months. She does seem to be a chatty kid! It's probably all kids at this age, but both of her daycare ladies have said that she sure does talk a lot. Wonder if they're trying to tell me something...
Adrian likes to teach Hadley to say funny things. Adrian is teaching her the Zimbabwean version of things. For example, a police car siren sounds like the European version, as in "beeee boughhhh, beeee boughhh" instead of the "woo woo woo" that we'd say. So when Hadley plays with her Elmo police car or if we pass one on the road, you hear her saying "beee boughhh" over and over. She also knows the Zimabwean version of motorcycle, which you'd have to hear Adrian say it to explain it. (Africans make up words by how the object sounds. Example: flip flops are called putter putters because that's the sound flip flops make. Funny, right?)
Grammy sent Hadley a book of Old McDonald stories and Hadley refers to the book as Donald. There are several different stories about animals but the one I always skipped over when I was reading it to her was the one about the fox and the rooster. I skipped over it because foxes don't make noises so I didn't think introducing her to foxes was important at this age. Sure, we've taught her about cows that say moo, sheep that say baa, etc. But why teach her about the fox? You see where this is going, don't you? Adrian, of course, is going to teach her about the fox to see how she says the word. And of course, Hadley can't say fox correctly. I'm sure you can guess how she says it.
So then Grammy comes for a visit and Hadley wants her to read her favorite book, Donald. Grammy indulges her. Grammy doesn't know the history of the fox and the rooster story. So there are different pictures of this fox and Grammy comes up with the mean fox and the sad fox. HILARITY ENSUES. Hadley walks around the house now talking about the mean fox. She repeats it over and over. We all die laughing!
I had to get it on video. Hadley wasn't in a very cooperative mood and really not very chatty (she has a heck of a cold right now) but I was able to catch a couple of her favorite words and phrases. Apparently she thinks she looks like her cousin Noah. She always says no when you ask her if her name is Hadley Mylinda Peech. Adrian was also the one to teach Hadley that Mama says "yak yak yak." In case you were wondering, Daddy says "blah blah blah." I think chats with Hadley are so fun! I look forward to what she'll say next.
