I absolutely love this age and Hailey’s personality.  She says things daily that make me laugh.  I decided I wanted to do a post of a few things that she says at this age that I want to remember.

Anytime something hurts her feelings she said, “That made my feelings sad.”

Hailey uses the word “actually” all of the time.  Like when she is telling me something that she clearly thinks I should have known, “Well, actually Mom…”

Another thing she says all the time is “hardly barely.”   She’ll say things like “There’s hardly barely any left.”  Or “I hardly barely had any time to play.”

She is always telling me she needs just a moment.  One time she told her soccer coach, “Can I just have a moment please?”  Every time I tell her it’s time to get out of the bathtub she says, “But I haven’t even had a moment to play!”

This is definitely my favorite age- I absolutely love Hailey at 4!  (She would say, “Actually Mom, I’m 4 1/2!”)

Hailey has been playing soccer for the last couple of months through a great program that goes to her prek program.  This week was her last week.  There is another session starting up at the end of this month- but we haven’t decided yet if she’ll do it again.  She loved it, but she’s going to be playing t-ball 2 nights per week and has dance once  a week.  So, soccer might be a bit much.

Hailey (smiling up at her coach) and the other kids who were in her group (the little boy on the left end was a younger sibling who came for the last day).

Hailey is “squashing the bug.”

Doing some more practicing.

Playing a scrimmage

Hailey with her certificate and bag that she got for participating.

I can’t believe March is already over and I never posted any pictures.  So, here are a few from the month of March.

After Hailey put this headband on Dottie and looked at the picture I took she said, “Hmmmm, I wonder why she’s not smiling.”

Hailey decided she wanted to learn all about horses.  We did some crafts and learned about horses.  She read one of her horse books from the library to her dolls.

We went to a small maple farm so Hailey could see how maple syrup is made:

Pa holding Hailey up so she could take a picture.

There were horses at the farm.  Hailey was pretty excited!

Hailey was more excited about the animals than the maple syrup.

Quite happy to go her first horse ride.

She had to ride again later so she could try out the brown horse.

Checking out some more animals.

Hailey got herself dressed and then put on a show for me using her “fancies.”

She’s quite the dancer!

My little miss

We went to an indoor bike riding/roller skating party with Hailey’s UPK:

Hailey got to ride her bike in a nice big open space instead of our dining room.  We live on a pretty steep hill so she usually doesn’t get to ride her bike unless we take her somewhere to ride it.

She had to try going around on skates a few times.  Then she remembered that she does not like skating.

Doesn’t Rich look nice with a princess helmet on?  Hailey did not think so.

The helmet back where it belongs.

A few more rides around on her bike.

Hailey and me.  Then we went home where Hailey slept soundly all night long

Hailey and Dottie

One more shot of Hailey and Dottie.

As much as I am sick of the snow, I did think this particular snow looked pretty.  Here’s a view of our back yard from our deck: