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AAAAAAH! My Creative Writing teacher wants everyone in my class to submit a piece of work to a literary magazine! YIKES! If you have the time to kill and want help me out please go to my other blog here and read "Red Shoes" and "The Forgettable Life of Patrick Sullivan" and tell me which one you think is better. Keep in mind that I am still working on my rewrite of the Patrick Sullivan story. THANKS!

Our little artist!

Kisses for Mommy and Daddy

Hello Everyone!

I have tried numerous times to post a video of Harliegh saying some animal sounds butit just won't load, but if you are a Facebook friend you can go to my profile, click on videos and watch it there.

Not much is happening here at the Hay house. Harliegh recently had her 18m appt and doing great! She was a little on the skinny side so we are trying to load her up on healthy fats, but we are not stressing about it too much! She has gotten really good at animal sounds and is now starting to show a lot of interest in art and the alphabet! She loves to flip through a book pointing out letters (A...P....T....O) though she can't really recognize the correct letters, at least she is recognizing the fact that there are letters on the page! She also learned two new words this week, cracker and cookie. Ironically, she doesn't even like cookies...she just learned Cookie for her undying love of Cookie Monster and anything Sesame Street related! She has also started sitting longer for me to read her stories. I can finally move past the simple board books to longer picture books, which is nice because some of the board books are getting annoying!
We are both excited to start going back to Story Time at the Library next month!

Winter term is almost over for me! I also just met with my adviser and declared to graduate next year! The end is in sight! I am very excited to finally be done with that part of my education. Then I will decide whether I should continue to get my Master's or work for awhile first.

Pretty soon we will be putting away our coats and pulling out the flip-flops and we couldn't be more ready. Since it has gotten a little warmer outside, Harliegh and I have started taking short walks but it would be nice to not have to dodge the snow and ice!

Have a great day!

January 2010

Hello Everyone!
It seems about time for another blog. How is everyone enjoying 2010? We have been staying busy. Earlier this month Tyler was in a car accident, he is okay but the car, unfortunately, was totaled. Luckily, it wasn't his fault so we didn't have to pay the deductible and we ended up getting a newer, better car.
Tyler has been pretty busy at work and he is looking into taking some online classes next fall. I have been pretty busy with my classes. I am taking Creative Writing and there is a TON of reading and writing homework, a lot more than I expected, but thankfully the other class I am taking, Graphic Design, has very little homework. I was looking at my degree progress yesterday and I think I may have about 8-10 more classes to take, which means I should be done by next June! Yay! Then I am considering getting my Master's in Library Sciences...if I am not sick of school by then!
Harliegh is doing great, as usual. I can't believe she will be 18 months old in just a few weeks. Time sure does fly! We bought a potty chair and decorated it with Sesame Street stickers. She wasn't too excited about sitting on it, though. I plan on just showing it to her and talking to her about it once a day until she shows interest, then we will start potty training. I am not going to push it, she's still young! She loves animals and seems to learn a new animal sound or two every week. We decided we are going to wait to introduce the bed until she is 2, we thought that would make a great Birthday present.


Well, I hope you all are surviving the winter. I am already counting down the days until Spring!