This is going to be Hailey's costume for her dance recital. She put her it on backwards at first (in first picture). We still have to add the big bow in the back and a flower in the front and the yellow ribbon on the hat. It's going to be very cute when it's all done.

Bruce got Hailey ready and took her to school this morning. I got the boys up and got them ready and fed them breakfast. Then we left to go to the outlet malls again, so we could go to a couple of the ones we didn't have time for yesterday. We shopped until it was time to pick Hailey up from school. When we picked her up, her teacher said that she has really opened up this week and is talking alot and coming out of her shell. That's pretty much the same thing her Sunday school teacher said yesterday. When we got home from school, it only took about ten minutes for the kids to have a huge pile on the couch again. They played in thier pile most of the day. Hailey even picked Jack up off the floor and put him up on the couch with them. When I went over to see what she was doing, she had him propped up on some blankets and he was smiling at her. She said "Mommy, you can go away. He's ok. He just wants to play with us." Max and Hailey were really sweet with each other today. Hailey gave Max a toy that he really wanted to play with even though she had it first. Then he said "You nice Haywee. I wuv you." I loved listening to their conversations while sitting in their huge pile on the couch. Hailey was so sweet wtih him too telling him he was doing a good job and stuff. This afternoon, when Max woke up from his nap, he brought out a whole bunch of socks from his drawer. Then he sat down and practiced putting them on. He would put them on and take them off over and over. Then he tried putting many pairs on at the same time. He got about five on and then took them all off and thought it was neat the way they all stuck together, with each sock still inside the other like they were stacked. He sat there putting socks on and off for a good twenty minutes. After dinner, I had Hailey try on her recital dance costume. She was excited to put it on. She asked me to take pictures of her in it. She ran over to the rocking horse and started posing for the camera. The song they are singing for her recital goes "Give me a horse, a great big horse..." As soon as she was done posing for pictures, she decided she wanted to dance in it. She set up a stage at the end of the living room and set up chairs for Jack, Max, and I. She had her rocking horse next to her as she sang and danced to her song. She included the horse while doing her dance. It was really cute how she did the whole thing. Then she turned on the stereo and danced to the music. Max asked for a drink so Hailey pointed to the kitchen and said "You can buy drinks over there." I went and got him his milk and me a water. Then I gave him a pretend bag of popcorn (with Cheerios in it). I also decided to sneak in Hailey's room and get the flowers out of her toy box to give to her afterwards. (She really liked getting flowers at her last recital and always talks about how she's going to get flowers again at her next one.) I held one behind my back and gave one to Max and told him not to show Hailey until after she was done with her show. He copied me and hid his behind his back too. After Hailey did her dance again and took a bow, we handed her the flowers. She really loved that. She had the biggest smile on her face as Max and I pulled out the flowers to give to her. Tonight while I was rocking Jack and Max before bed (Max often climbs up to rock with Jack), Hailey came in also and climbed on my lap. We all rocked and sang songs. Jack's favorite song is "Twinkle twinkle Little Star". He smiles so big whenever we sing it to him. And lately he's been "singing" along with us. It's so cute. As soon as we start singing that song, he'll start saying "Ahh" the whole time we are singing it and sometimes he even says "Uppa" at the part "up above the world so high". Tonight he was really getting loud cause we were all singing loud. Hailey and Max both thought it was so funny to hear Jack "singing" so loud.