Hailey's First Pedicure

So, last night was a big night here in the Donahue household. Hailey decided that she was ready to get rid of the pull-ups and sleep in her big girl panties. A lot of this had to do with the fact that I had told her that once she was finished with her pull-ups, and sleeping in her big girl panties, I would take her to get her toenails painted. She was so excited about getting her toenails painted, and has been asking about it for weeks! I knew that she was ready, she has been dry in the morning for nearly two months. She usually wakes up once during the night and says "Mommy, I have to go potty!" I (or Dave) gets out of bed and takes her. So we knew that she could do it. It was a little bitter sweet for me, my baby was ready to move from that last stage of baby that I was holding on to! But, I knew that she could do it, and secretly, I also needed a pedicure, so what a great excuse to get one.

This morning was a little funny, because Dave's alarm went off, and we kind of looked at each other, knowing that neither of us had gotten up with her during the night. I think that we were both a little anxious, and neither of us wanted her to fail, because we both knew that she would be so disappointed. To make a long story short, she finally started to stir just before 7:00, Dave quickly went up to get her, and hooray... Hailey had done it. She was so excited, I could hear her through the monitor, "Daddy, I slept in my big girl panties all night!!" When she came downstairs, she was beaming, she told me the same thing, and added, that "she wanted to get her nails painted GREEN!!" Needless to say, an appointment was made, and yes, Hailey got her toenails painted green!!

Patiently waiting.

Trimming up her toenails just a bit.

Time for some filing, that tickled just a bit!

Her toes were too small for the normal toe spreaders,

so a little tissue will do the trick.

"Look Mommy!!"

Pretty green toenails!

So excited!

Let's get this tissue out from between my toes!

The finished product...