Haley hates dogs, Emily loves them

WEDNESDAY we got up early because we had Bible study.  Haley woke up on her own but I had to wake Emily up to leave.  She had only taken medicine once but she was already sounding a lot better.  It’s amazing how fast that stuff works.  I left Haley in a pull-up since she went in her panties at MOPS the day before but it was dry when I picked her up. 

After Bible study a bunch of girls from MOPS that also do BSF were going to McCalister’s Deli for lunch.  I normally would have not gone but Dave was still gone, I had a free cookie from there, and they said they sit in an outside room so the kids can run around.  Well we were one of the last people to arrive (we had to run home to get the free cookie coupon J) and when we got there they were not sitting in the adjoining room that they had mentioned.  I’m still not sure why they weren’t, maybe it was already full.  Anyways, instead the moms sat at a long table and all of the kids sat across the aisle from us at a booth table.  It was Haley’s first time sitting at a kid’s table and she actually did pretty well.  Some of the kids were climbing around under the table but she sat there and just watched them for most of the time.

Emily was asleep when we got there and she stayed sleeping through most of lunch.  However, when she woke up, it was pretty much time to go.  She was hungry and our table was pretty cramped so I didn’t really see breastfeeding as a viable option.  We packed up and headed to the van where I breastfed Emily and then we headed home.  Both girls went straight down for a nap and I worked on my Bible study.

While they were sleeping I got a text from a lady from church letting me know that another girl from church’s water had just broken and she was on the way to the hospital to have her baby!  Her baby was breach so they had to do a c-section but Suleidy (the mom) knew that it was breach so she was prepared for that.  Anyways, more on that later.  Meg, the lady texting, asked me to pick up her oldest daughter on the way to church because she was going to go to the hospital. 

We ended up leaving a little early for church so that we could help Bonnie Mason set up.  Haley wore panties to church and did really well, she didn’t have any accidents and she always told me when she had to go.  Emily usually sleeps during the meeting part of Wednesday church but tonight she was wide awake.  I asked the baby-sitter college students if they would be okay if Emily was in there and they said they were.  Afterwards they said Emily was super easy.  She sat in her infant seat and held stuff most of the time. 

Suliedy delivered her baby just before 6pm!  She had a little boy, his name is Santiago and he was 6lbs. 9oz.  Suleidy and her husband are from Puerto Rico so that is why it is a Spanish name, they are going to call him Thiago for short.  One of the needs they had was someone to care for their little dog Pretzel.  Haley has been acting scared of dogs lately so I volunteered in the hopes that having Pretzel would help Haley get used to dogs.  He is probably the best behaved dog I have ever seen, especially for being so young.  He has been trained to never go on carpet so I knew it would be a pretty easy.

The girls and I went to the Cortez’s house right after church to pick up Pretzel.  I had to jump the fence to get into their backyard to get their spare key but other than that it wasn’t too bad.  Pretzel did not want to come to me but he had a little kennel and I coaxed him in there.  I basically kidnapped him.  Haley was pretty excited about the whole puppy dog adventure until we got home.  After that she was pretty much terrified of him.  I put Emily on the floor with him so that Haley could see that she wasn’t scared but that didn’t seem to help.  Emily loves Pretzel, she thinks he’s hilarious.  I put Emily to bed and pretty much had to hold Haley the res t of the evening until David got home.  I needed to put her to bed but David really wanted to see her so I let her stay up.  Her words for pretzel were crazy, yucky, and gross, haha.  She went right to sleep once David got home and put her down.

THURSDAY David had a morning flight so he left super early.  The girls and I got up a little later and headed out to Bible study.  Haley was pretty excited to play with Lucy and Evelyn and she wore panties the whole time without any accidents.  She had a big boo at the Mason’s house, haha.  Emily did well in the beginning but soon she began acting tired and she didn’t seem to want to fall asleep in my arms.  I took her to the guest bedroom and laid her on the bed and left and she went to sleep.  That baby loves to sleep. 

After Bible study the Caldwells came to our house for lunch.  Haley was happy to see them but it ended up being kind of a bad idea because both of those girls are also terrified of dogs.  After lunch the girls went down for naps.  We ended up having to wake Haley up because she was sleeping so long, Emily didn’t even sleep two hours.  I guess she doesn’t always love sleep.  We got Haley up and then left for a Birthday party for Kinsley Smith.  On the way we stopped by Wal-mart to pick out a gift.  I had been planning on doing that earlier but Haley just kept sleeping the day away! 

Kinsley’s party was doubling as a Duck Dynasty party as well.  Duck Dynasty is a show about some duck hunting people from Monroe Louisiana which is pretty close by.  Meagan had gumbo as the main course, a Louisiana specialty.  Haley had so much fun playing with all of the kids.  Leeland has an older cousin who is probably close to six or seven and I think Haley followed her around most of the night.  Emily just kind of hung out and then fell asleep in my arms towards the end.  The best part of the night was when they put Kinsley in a high chair and gave her a baby cake to eat.  She stuck her finger in a couple of times but other than that did not really eat it.  It was hilarious.  Everyone had their cameras and video cameras all pointed on her for the big mess she was supposed to be making so maybe she was a bit distracted.  It was so funny.  After the party we came home and I read Haley some books and then she went to bed.

Haleyism:

Haley saw some black ladies and their babies today at Wal-mart and David told her to say hi to the babies.  She yelled out ‘Hi baby Daniel!’ over and over, haha.

Emilyism:

Emily likes to tease us by rolling over most of the way, literally teetering on the edge of making it, and then quickly rolling back the other way.  David thinks she does it on purpose to bug us, I’m not sure that she’s quite that smart.  

Emily playing on her mat

That's about as far up as her feet get, haha

This was the girl's reaction to Pretzel.  Haley is not usually that scared, I think Evelyn and Lucy made her more scared.  I know this is kind of sad but I think it is hilarious!