First Day of Preschool

Haley's first day of preschool was today. She will be going in the mornings Tuesday thru Friday. It is official Haley loves school. Her teacher said she did great the only problem was during sit down time... when she sat down her pants ripped. She could have cared less. They have you bring in a pair of clothes for the class room so she had an extra pair of pants that she put on and all was well.
First day picture

When we were parked at the school she kept saying "That's my school, that's my school" it goes without mentioning that she was very excited to be there.

once Hannah and I got back in the car Hannah was looking everywhere for Haley and holding up her hands like where's Haley. Sad for Hannah she loves being with Haley all the time. Haley is Hannah's idol and Haley is Hannah's favorite person to pick on.

The Outlets

All Haley has been talking about is going to Grandma's and Santa coming for weeks now and yesterday we went to the outlets and they had their big Christmas Tree (it is suppose to be the largest of it's kind in Arizona) and they also had a santa with his sleigh set up so the kids could get on it. Haley loved it. Yes, it is bright we are in Arizona after all.

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Great Grandma and Grandpa Hekking

The girls know that Great Grandma and Grandpa always have the good stuff.
Snacks at the snack bar

Loving her M&Ms

It looks like it is a malt shoppe picture right but she is drinking some pink lemonade.

John always sporting his Hekking shirt!

Happy Halloween!

Daddy and the girls trick or treating. Haley thought the cat was scary (so innocent, I love it).

Hannah enjoying her candy once we got home.

Haley enjoying her candy.

I really think that the girls favorite part of the night was handing out candy to the other kids. They would answer the door and give the kids hands full of candy and then yell HAPPY HALLOWEEN as they left. Haley couldn't wait until the next bunch knocked on the door she kept saying "I think some more kids are here get the candy get the candy". Seriously I think Halloween is so much better when you have kids. They remind you have how exciting it all is.

Trunk or Treat

Our ward had their trunk or treat last night. The girls had so much fun dressing up and seeing everyone else dressed up.
This is the best family photo that we got but here we are. Haley is Snow White, Hannah is Dopey, John is the Handsome Prince, and I am the evil queen.

Haley was so excited she was just running from car to car and in between she was saying "this is so much fun" or "mommy I want more candy".

Hannah was so happy and so sweet she was saying "tick teat" to everyone and then she would say "tank you".

The girls loved sitting in the back of the van eating all their candy after they were done. So cute!

The girls and I went to a Halloween Carnival (one of the ward members threw it for the stay at home crowd). Of course the girls had fun.
This is what Hannah did most of the time but Haley jumped in and played with her a few times.

and they had little games for them to play. Haley loved the games but Hannah was just looking for the next thing to do.


Hannah was people watching a lot too. She was probably wondering what everyone was doing wear crazy clothes.

Haley was jumping and running around on the trampoline singing her sleeping beauty song.

They also had a little area set up so people could take some cute pictures but my girls just wanted to go so these are the best I could get.

Pumpkin Carving

The girls had a blast gutting the pumpkins. Haley thought she was making a pumpkin cake! Hannah just threw everything.

The Park

The girls desperately needed to get out the house and be kids after being locked up while they were sick so we took them to the park on Saturday and they loved it. Hannah was crazy and just climbed on everything and went down all of the slides. She had a ball. Haley was all over the place just running from the swings to the slide to everything in between. She found this little stand underneath one of the slides and kept asking everyone that walked by if they wanted to buy some ice cream then she proceeded to reach down and scoop up "ice cream" and put it on a "cone". It was really fun.

My poor girls :(

This is how the girls have been acting for the last week or so. I am sure it is from them being sick, getting in teeth, and just being three but seriously it has been horrible. There is not much that we can do but be patient and consistent. Yikes though!

Sick Sick Family

For the last two and a half weeks our family has been sick. It is seriously getting old. We still sound raspy and are coughing way to much. Anyways, this afternoon when Haley woke up she was tip toeing around the house because Hannah was still asleep. Totally sweet and finally she asked me if she could go lay down by Hannah because she was worried about her. I said that it was fine because Hannah had already been asleep for 3 hours. So we went into my room and laid on the bed next to Hannah for a half an hour before she woke up. Then when we went out into the living room Haley wanted to sit on the couch next to Hannah under Haley's new blanket. What a wonderful big sister!!!

YAY

This is what Hannah does anytime food is about to be on the table. She finds a chair that is semi pulled out and sits there and waits for us to sit down and eat. She loves to eat. She is so sweet.

Happy girls

I had to put some good with the bad so here are some pictures of the girls playing and being silly.
Happy girls


Playful girls


Pulling silly faces (Hannah is trying anyways)

WARNING HORRIBLY SAD

Haley lost her best friend (her pacifier) a few days ago. Well, we have been wanting to take it away but didn't want her to revert in the potty training area so we didn't do it and one day she was just not minding and being really mean to Hannah so we sent her to her room a million times that day. Nothing seemed to work to get her to behave and so finally we took her over to the trash can and cut the nipple off of her pacifier. After that we told her to be nice and to listen. John said that the look on her face after he cut it was heart wrenching. We cuddled with her the rest of the night as she cried for losing her pacifier forever. She went to bed alright that night mostly just cried herself to sleep but the next day she asked for it once and quickly remembered what happened the night before and a few times she told us that her awesome grandpa was going to buy her another one (we quickly assured her that wasn't going to happen maybe he will send her a blanket or a toy) and she hasn't mentioned it since.

The deed is done!

Haley is fully potty trained (during the day)! She is totally amazing. Once she finally did #2 on the toilet (it scared her a little bit) she said "that is was easy like mommy and daddy" and she does it everyday sometimes twice. She is not totally ready for night time freedom but we are going to go buy a bed cover asap and see how she does. Anyways, we told her that we would go get her a new toy when she learned how to go #2 on the potty and this is what we got for her. A new princess dress and new shoes. Great job Haley you are sweet and adorable.