I got a text from my friend Vanessa last week saying she got flowers from her husband for their anniversary. While Jax was at the flower shop with his dad, he asked to buy Hanley a flower. So he picked out a single pink rose. They brought it over and it was the sweetest thing ever. Vanessa asked Jax why he wanted to give Hanley a flower and he said "because she's a pretty girl!" 💗
I can't believe I took this long to write this down...
Back in March, March 10, 2016 to be exact, a solid 6 months ago, we were running late somewhere (imagine that!). It was me and just the 2 kids and I was rushing around, trying to finish up getting ready to go. We had been listening to Pandora upstairs while we were getting dressed and ready. We finally made our way downstairs and Hanley kept bugging about having my phone and wanting to re-listen to a song that just came on Pandora that ended. Well I tried explaining to her that I couldn't 'go back' on Pandora but I figured I could find the song on YouTube. So I quickly found it, Selena Gomez' new one at the time, "Hands to Myself" handed the phone off to Hanley and I shooed her away so I could concentrate on getting ready to leave. A few minutes later Hanley reappears wearing nothing but a pair of undies. I thought this to be particularly weird, then she asks me "mommy, who was she rolling around on her bed with?! Was that her daddy?" and at that very moment I thought 'what did I do?!' and she started demonstrating what Selena was doing in the video by rubbing on her chest... Oh my God, never again will I do that. I've learned my lesson, thank you very much; in an effort to get 3 minutes of peace to finish a task I have corrupted my precious girl.
I laugh fiercely at that story, and might have chuckled a bit through the horror the day it happened as well.
During the second week of preschool for Hanley, Conrad and I rode my bike down to pick her up like normal. Out comes Hanley, and as she is climbing into her side or the bike carrier, she casually tells me that when her and Jay are grownups, they're going to get married.
"Oh really?! Who's idea was this" I asked her. She informed me it was Jay's idea. Then comes walking over their teacher and she also informed me that the topic around breakfast that morning, was Jay and Hanley getting married. Eeeeek... Not ready for all this...
I don't even think Hanley is interested, I feel like it was all that boys idea and she's just like "oh married? OK I guess" just by the way she as talking about it. I said to the teacher "I think her dad might have something to say about this" and she said "well, he's an older boy, he's almost 5". He also runs over to me and my bike every time school is out lol
I still can't believe it. She's been in preschool for about 3 weeks now and she loves it! She goes to the early learning program through our local elementary school. It's 5 days a week for 2.5 hours long and just the perfect amount of time for me. I didn't even want her to go, to be honest. It makes me uncomfortable and nervous but she kept asking to go to school so I figured I shouldn't deprive her any longer for my own selfish reasons.
We typically drive to school, takes 2 minutes, and I drop her off using the drop off line. It gives Conrad and I a good little one on one time together. Typically when I pick her up, Conrad and I will ride down on my bike and that's fun!
She had started resisting me at home any time I would try to do any type of learning and that's another reason why I decided it was time for her to go. She has known now to spell her first and last name for awhile now, and has mastered writing out her H. She's been working on the A at home but since she's been in school, she's getting help writing out her whole first name every single day.
These photos actually turned out pretty well for as big of a task it was. Conrad was just very, very busy and into everything possible and barely stayed still long enough to snap some decent ones! Whewww
