Crying. Ahhhh i even hate the word. Why is that children cry when my 3 year old can very easily tell me whats wrong, is that not why i taught him to talk? As of lately all Hayden does is cry when things don't go his way. At first i thought it was not sleeping, then i thought maybe he didn't feel well, but now i just don't know. Something is not right. I googled my thoughts and came up with some good tips for Mom and Dad. Be Consistent, Don't Give In, Don't Bribe(i love bribery!), ignore until he stops, punish him until done. But i don't know. The first 3 i will try. But i can't ignore him, something is obviously wrong, and punishing him doesn't seem right to me. But we'll see. Jason was Super Dad last night. Hayden cried when i went into Target, all the way home, and another half hour when we got home. He likes to take off his seatbelt now in the car when crying or mad. This doesn't work. We pull that car over so fast and put that back on him. But when we got home Jason held Hayden until he stopped crying and took a few deep calming breathes. I kind of laughed it sounded like they were doing yoga! Hayden didn't like the holding but Jason just kept telling him to calm down, he didn't once give up. Go Jason!
On Monday night we left Jason's parent's house and he cried all the way home and for about 2 hours when we got home. He finally stopped crying when he was naked and lying on the kitchen floor with a mound of pillows and the, Buffy. Jason did it not me. But he just kind of held it to his chest and it comforted him just having it. After crying and a bath we were all in bed around midnight. Have i said anything about not sleeping? My child doesn't sleep. Not nearly enough. We have let him sleep in bed with us the last 2 nights, only because we fall asleep before we can move him. He is still a baby really, he needs lots of sleep and not getting enough. Poor Guy. So hopefully we can find our issue and nix it. We want peace restored in the Smith house.
Going on walks to the park, and baths seem to help. Mommy going to work, getting dressed, laying down with fringes, and Barney DO NOT HELP! Mommy going to work has been an issue this week too. Crying and clinging on to me. He wakes up in the morning and tells me he wants me to stay home and watch him all day. I feel bad of course but work is my peace this week. Oh wait it is only Wednesday isn't. Wish us luck for the rest of the week, as Jason has him both days, all day!

Hmmmm. Here is a night in the life of Hayden.

Mommy and Daddy are busy in the living room. They told me to go play. And on the way to my room to play i saw the Tupperware full of pizza sauce. And then i had this great idea to finger paint with it. Glass is always a great canvas, don't you think?

Okay. After they made ME clean it up, they again told me to go play in my room. They think i should just play with all my toys, i am THREE i don't like to play toys, i like to do things i am not suppose to. Here is where i compromise with them. Naked Army. Apparently my mom edited this photo.

See after i was a stinker all night long i get what i wanted in the first place. To go play outside. Anyone up for a walk to the park?

This last week was tough for us! We wanted to go back on vacation. But Hayden had a great time playing and relaxing. Some interesting things happened this week/end:

• Hayden is polka dotted. He has bug bites up and down his arms and a couple on his face. They are not going away. We think their Chigger bites, i don't' know anything about them! It happened in the sand in Mississippi.
  
• Counting to 3 really works with Hayden. I tell him to do something he doesn't do it, so then i tell him i am going to count to 3 and then he will take a timeout. So by 2 he is really moving! I hope this lasts a while!
  
• Jason was watching Rocky(The whole set was out, i think he watched all of them while we were gone!) and Hayden found the case and came running over to me "Look Mom its Elvis" SO cute! He talks about Elvis all the time. About his house, his airplanes, and how we rode a bus over to his house.
  
• Hayden does NOT want to wear his jacket. He thinks it should be warm out and he should be able to wear his crocs with no jacket. But we brought out his spring jacket and cute gap hat, that Mommy loves so much
  
• On Friday night/Saturday morning Hayden woke up yelling my name.(not unusual he usually just wants me to get him milk) but i went in there and he was shaking. He was afraid of something. We don't know what it was but he is still talking about it. He keeps saying a Blue Train made a storm. But there wasn't a train outside that morning, they wake me up every time they go by at night. So i don't know if he had a dream or if something was outside his window. Hopefully he can get him to go in there again.
  
  Okay have a great week. I am going to try and put the rest of my vacation pictures on here too!
  

Today Jason is 25! A whole quarter of a century! What an old man. We celebrated with a party on Saturday. We gave him his gift which was a very nice laptop, if i do say so myself. My mom and dad and Jason's mom and dad all went in with me to buy it for him. He is VERY excited about it. It has XP professional on it, which means Microsoft Office. For those who have big deal but those who don't have it you may know our excitement about it. My mom made a homemade cake that Hayden couldn't wait to get his fingers into! Happy Birthday Jason! We Love You Lots!

Kasie and Hayden

Okay i am redoing my pictures from the trip into two categories. Hayden pics and others. The first i am doing is Hayden. I hope everyone had a nice Easter, we sure did. Its really nice to be home and now we are cleaning, doing laundry and going grocery shopping, we have nothing! I did caption some of the pictures, but if you have any questions or thoughts please share!

Today was depressing. It didn't get above 40 and we have snow! Yuck. We want to go back to the South. I would love to live down there. We stayed the night in Litchfield, IL last night and then drove to Springfield to Abraham Lincoln's house and tomb. Its werid to think how old it is! Its very grand actually. The national park service has taken it over and has 4 square blocks of park. Is house he lived in before moving to the White house is what we toured. They even have real Lincoln family artifacts. He actually has no living descents. ITs free too! The tomb is HUGE and his family is all buried there or honored there. I have pictures i'll post tomorrow i am sure. It doesn't feel like it really is Easter tomorrow. But i am sure the Easter Bunny will leave Hayden a very generous basket at home. We are in Madison staying at a Waterpark tonight and leaving early tomorrow morning and coming home. We are celebrating Easter at my cousin James tomorrow at 3, so we'll get home and quckly change and head over there. Hayden is having a ball in the waterpark. I brought him up after an hour and half down swimming and then Emily took him back down to sit in the Hot Tub. Well they are back i better go! Have a great Easter.