It's been 6 1/2 weeks

I know I know...It's been 6 1/2 weeks since I posted. We have been so busy, I just have not made it a priority to blog or download pictures from my camera. You may want to sit down for this. So what have we been doing for the last month and a half. Overall, life has been wonderful.

On April 17th, my friends and I ran our second 5k. It is so exciting to know that I finally achieved a life long goal of becoming a runner. It is kind of crazy that I can say I am now a runner. It feels so good to take time for me. It is a stress releaser and it makes me feel like such a better person. Since the beginning of the year, I have lost almost 20 lbs....I am so excited and plan to keep obtaining more goals. Thanks A and S for helping me achieve such an amazing goal.
We love spending time as a family, most of the time doing nothing but watching Hailey play, learn new things and interact with us. She is learning so many more words that I can't even begin to list. A few new words are No No, please, shoes, and cat. We really could not ask for more.

Paul built her a little play area. She has two swings, a play house, a picnic table and a sand box. She will be able to enjoy it with her friends and cousins.

She love Elmo ( "Mo Mo") right now. We are actually taking her to see Elmo in a few weeks with 2 other families. We are so excited and can't wait to see the look on her face. The show is only 90 minutes long, so hopefully it won't be too difficult to keep her still but I guess we will see.

She went for her 16 month check up at the beginning of May and she is doing great. She is still above the 95% percentile for height and weight. Stay tuned for exact numbers....they are downstairs and I really dont want to get out of bed right now.

The stress right now is that we are having some trouble with daycare. Since April 7th, she has been bit 7 times...yes 7 times. Her class can have 12 children but currently only has 6, which is a wonderful thing most of the time. The problem with having only 6 kids in a class is that if you have 3 biters, the same kids keep getting bit. They have a biting policy, which is "5 severe bites in a month and the child is "kicked out". Well the policy has a flaw, if at week 3 the child has bit 4 times and the parents pull the kid out the last week of the month....the child doesn't have the opportunity to bit 5 times in a month and the bit count starts over the 1st of every month. Frustrating but that it the down fall of daycare. We know that biting happens at this age because they can't communicate very well but it is frustrating. We don't want Hailey bit this much and we don't want her to start biting. So, we are pulling her out for the summer and my sister-in-law is going to watch her. Hopefully the biting that is currently going on will pass, maybe some kids will move to the 2 year old class and other will grow out of the biting phase. We can only hope.