Pets we didn't know we had

This past week Hayden is branching out to act like animals. This week we have had a pet frog named Hermit and today he is now a dog named Herpson. (Herpson is his last name but we can call him by that) We have one silly boy on our hands.
I believe you all have heard Hayden mention his girlfriend Ashley. Well we had her and her husband over for dinner. We did not tell Hayden that they were coming. First he hid and finally when I got him out of his room (me holding him), he was holding on to me so tight that I could put my arms to the side of me and he was still holding on. About 15-20 minutes later he was running alllll over the places. Not sure if you are aware but if we see any of our friends that are in shows from Dollywood Hayden acts soooo shy and won't even look at them. Hopefully we will be growing out of that but its also so funny that he acts like that. Ha!

Just wanted to add a couple of things on here that Hayden said today.....The first you may needed to have been there but this morning Hayden came in our room as Joey and I were still in bed and opened up the blinds. I said, "Hayden does it look like its going to rain?" He responded with, "Probably so." That is a big word (to me) for him to say so to hear him say that was really cute.
The next thing was we were at ChickfilA this evening for dinner. On the kids meals you can give back the toy in exchange for ice cream. So we got the ice cream for Hayden. We had to put a napkin tucked into his shirt and it kept falling and we would fix it. Hayden responded with, "when I become a big brother I will put this (napkin)on the baby. " We responded with that would be a very good big brother. Such a sweet kid!
Katy

Long Time No Talk

Wow has it really been about 2 months since I last posted. Well some of that excuse is we have been doing lots of going and going. In January we had a 3 week vacation. Oh it was soo fun. However by the end of it we were exhausted and ready to sleep in our own home. We thank each of you for being available to see us, feed us, love us, "play" with us.....etc. It was definitely a trip worth remembering. Here are a few pics to recap our trip!!!

Big Texas at SFA campus with Hayden

Uncle Philly

Mason and Hayden....sweet Cousins!

Grandaddy Buck and Hayden

Flor and Chloe with Hayden and me

One thing else I would like to start doing on this blog is posting the fun and cute things Hayden has done or said. I will start off with this story.
This past week Hayden came in after naptime and asked me....get ready for this, "Can we cuddle?" My answer was well of course!!! How do I pass that up. So once we got him, Max, Bear, and Clifford all settled in, I hugged Hayden and gave him a kiss on the back of his head. He then in response turned around to give me a kiss on my cheek. These are the moments I live for. Hayden also today on his "My Day" sheet from Mother's Day Out said he was wonderful and that he has great manners. That tells me we are doing something right; he is doing well at applying what we are teaching him outside the home.
As I am writing this it is about 9:40. We laid Hayden down at 9. He just came out of the room and told us we were being too loud while he was trying to sleep. (shh....I blame it on Joey; he kept talking and walking and doing things; I was just sitting here with the computer)

Katy