Hadleyisms

She is funny, really funny, so for a little humor for you all I have a few recent Hadleyisms!

1) Hadley calls her dress up shoes her "steppy steps"

2) When she is carrying a lot of stuff...she says "mommy I have too much baggage"! I swear she made that up on her own!

Classic Hadley...wearing someone else shoes and trying to keep it a secret.

3)When I am trying to get Bryn to do sign language, Hadley says, "mommy, she doesn't talk"...every time!

4) She calls lolly pops "wolly pops"

5) When she has to go to timeout, she says, "you are not being berry nice to me".

While Hadley and I were playing she loaded up the barbie car and told me...look they are going on a date night. Apparently, she is still not ok with the fact that Jason and I don't take her with us on date nights!

6) When I am telling her something she does not want to do she says, "I can not understand what you are saying"! Seriously, she does!

7) She calls her toy antelope a "cantaloupe".

8) My favorite...she calls shorts her "short pants".

She came into the kitchen like this and I said...oh my little Hadley ghost! She said, "no mommy, I am Mary and this is baby Jesus."

ELEVEN...only one month away

Bryn is 11 months old! Don't you just want to pick her up and squeeze her!

Bryn is still the sweetest little thing! She really is smiling almost all of the time! Bryn has 6 teeth now...3 on top...3 on the bottom...and she has a lot of hair! At least in our family at this stage she has tons of hair! Bryn loves to "dance" when any music comes on just like her sisters! She loves to clap...and gets a huge grin on her face when she claps (like in the above picture).

Bryn loves being with her sisters and she lights up when they come in the room. She loves to babble and she still LOVES to say "dada" we have had a few "mamas" recently but "dada" and "dog" and "hi" are the favorites! While we have been working on sign language like I did with the other girls for eating...Bryn will pretty much have nothing to do with it. Instead of signing or "saying" more or please when she is eating...she growls at me! It makes me laugh...and then she laughs! Speaking of eating...following her sisters she LOVES to eat...anything (except fish of course).
I had to include this picture...since Reese took it with my phone and I think she did a pretty good job! Bryn is such a joy for our family and she is moving all around! I don't think she will be walking too soon...but she loves to crawl and she will stand and hold on to things! What is really funny is that Reese and Hadley get down on the floor and crawl with Bryn!

Mother of the Year...2012

Just in case any of you were going to vote for me as

Mother of the Year for this spanking new 2012....

DON'T!

Why you ask? This is why...this dinner. I was so proud to actually cook black eyed peas for the Beckner family for New Years Day! Some really great Talapia that I cooked, spinach, rolls, black eyed peas....a yummy meal!

Yes, a yummy meal unless it does this to you!

So, apparently Brynlee is allergic to fish! I feel like a horrible mother! Truth be told...NO ONE in our family has a fish or any other "high risk" allergy, and she had Talapia about 4 weeks ago! But...literally it was about 60 seconds after she ate the fish that she started coughing and choking

and then had red welts all over her face and her lips were swelling. I freaked out at first...but then once she stopped coughing and began to "talk" I settled a little. I called the doc...while I was waiting to hear from them I called my childhood best friend who used to be a nurse at children's and she said to give Benedryl (which I really just needed someone to tell me because I get nervous about giving meds).

Then I rushed her to the children's emergency room downtown! Seriously...by the time we got there she had been given the Benedryl about 25 min before...but she looked so much worse! They did say that it was good I gave it to her because she would have been even worse! When we walked in...a nurse took one look at her and called another nurse and they immediately took us back! (now I was scared again). Fast forward 3 hours...after Bryn has thrown up a few times, continued to swell and get worse...then we had a Epipen shot! (so not fun...a forceful jab in the thigh and then held in place for 10 seconds). Thankfully it worked amazingly well...like within minutes...and we were able to go home...with our own Epipen and a warning to avoid fish! HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Luckily she is back to her sweet self like nothing ever happened...and hopefully we won't need the Epipen! Seriously, I think it may take me awhile longer to get over that!

On a happier note...we had a wonderful New Year's Eve! This is now our "annual tradition" since it is our 3rd year to celebrate at Concina Superior!

This year was even more fun since we celebrated with the Morrows!

How cute are they? Reese and Hadley love some Graham!

This little bit just loved hanging out across the table from Miss Ellie...I wish I had a picture of them looking at each other!

We got to check out the Morrow's new fire pit and roast marshmallows for S'mores! Seriously, the Beckner clan was excited...and the fire pit was amazing! In this picture I am pretty sure that Hadley's marshmallow is in the dirt!

Shelli, Graham, Mike and Ellie...so much fun!

The best party planner ever here, my dear friend Shelli of course had hats for us! I love this girl and we feel truly blessed to be doing life together with the Morrow family!

So, Happy 2012 to all...hopefully your first day of this year was not as eventful as ours!