we're in trouble now

hayden has been such a good big brother to talan. and that hasn't changed. however, his interest in talan has changed. the other morning i put talan down on my bed so i could go and brush my teeth. i was gone for about 20 seconds when hayden came in and said "i picked up his head." not quite sure what that meant, he told me to come and watch. he jumped up on the bed and proceeded to pick talan up with his head over his shoulder. the whole time making sure he was supporting talan's head. i found it a little cute and didn't make too big of an issue out of it. i guess i should have.
the next day, i laid talan down on the couch while i finished getting ready as i was about to head into dave's work to help out. i came out about a minute later and talan wasn't on the couch anymore. i looked around and spotted him on the chair across the room with hayden playing next to him. talan was as happy as could be. i realized i really needed to explain that hayden was not allowed to pick his brother up unless he asked someone first. but he was just so proud of himself. with my supervision, i asked hayden to show me how he picked him up. and let me tell you, i'm quite impressed. the entire time, he supports his head....even if his face is buried in hayden's armpit.
i'm not quite sure when hayden decided he wanted to start doing things like this. he never used to care. he'd come over, give him a pat and be on his way. now he's been "playing jokes on talan" which means covering his mouth when talan is screaming, or "making talan have a silly face" by squishing his cheeks together so it looks like talan has fish lips. none of it is done in a mean or malicious manner. just not necessarily the way you should play with a baby. i guess i'll be putting talan in his crib a bit more when i walk out of the room.

field day

remember field day in elementary school? well, with hayden's last day of school being today, they held a field day last friday. it was supposed to be outside with different "stations" the kids could play at. we get there and about 5 minutes later, it starts to rain. so we're moved inside to the gym. i can't even begin to tell you the mad chaos field day became. a gym filled with "special" kids riding bikes trying to dodge adults and other kids playing at other stations in the gym. not to mention that it was about 90 degrees in there. while outside, hayden basically just wanted to play on the play structure. once we were inside, he decided he only wanted to ride bikes and then occasionally play at the water station where he would dump water over his head. he ate popsicles and cookies and then we went home. the funniest moment of the day was when i watched as an adult set up all of the bowling pins in a perfectly straight line for some kids and hayden zoomed by on his bike and took out the last 5 pins or so, on purpose of course, and rode away pumping his fist yelling "YES!." i had to tell him no, but man did i just want to sit back, laugh, and watch him do it over and over again.
here's some photos of our fun:

hayden hoping that vivian would stay at the bottom so he could run into her:
julianna and hayden:
one of the rare moments he wasn't dumping the water on his head:
riding on the line as he does so often:
hayden and almost 3 year old brendan. this kid is one of the only kids i've seen that can keep up with hayden. and he's a year and a half younger than him. sorry the photo is blurry, i don't have a "hayden" setting on my camera and the sports setting just isn't fast enough: