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!

Post Christmas Fun

After all the fun on Christmas day we had to keep going! We headed over to my old high school to watch my cousin Sara Beth play in a holiday tournament! She was incredible and of course they won...the girls loved watching her! Reese thought Sara Beth was so cool and Brynlee was mesmerized!

Did I say how cool Reese thought Sara Beth was?

We had a visit from Aunt B and Uncle Steve...and I think they slept pretty well that night after the wild times with the Beckner girls!

YOU know those Christmas wishes you have that you think won't come true? Well, Jason and I are wishing for a new car for Jason...one that we can fit in...well Santa delivered!

Just not the right size!

Vehicle number 1 - Bryn playing with Reese's Barbie bus

Vehicle number 2...the new Benz for the Beckner family...ok the only Benz we will ever see!

Aunt Ashley brought lots of fun with this car...the girls each got a turn to drive...I could not stop laughing at Reese...she looks like Stewart little in that car!

And now for the real fun...Trampoline Time at Bebe's house! We had a toe touch competition...which you can see now and a little later that both Hadley and Jonathan were disqualified!

Reese catching some air

Oh yeah...I still got it...my good ole cheer leading days paid off!

Go Ash!

Good height but no toes Jon!

Pretty sure that the New Mrs. Woodlief, Caitlin, wins for height!

Bebe wins for symmetry

Daddy wins for craziest jumping face!

Jason and I got to meet up with most of my high school friends...we had so much fun and Jason is always such a good sport as most of the night is spent rehashing stories from the good old days at Pope High School!

We loaded up the Beckner car with 5 little ones...the 3 Beckner girls and then Lindsay's two (Bryson and little Bella). Reese and Bryson were so funny back there together and Hadley was very confused as to why she got booted to the middle row!

Lindsay took us to a great kids place in Marietta called Catch Air! I loved it! So colorful, stuff for every age and pretty creative stuff too!

Brynlee loved crawling across this floor that would light up when pressure was on the tiles!

Hadley driving around on her elephant!

Reese and Bryson at the "dance party"

Reese and Bryson swinging from what looked like and upside down lollipop tree! It was Reese's favorite...she would take a running leap to grab one of the pops and then swing like a monkey!

We are home now...wiped out...Jason put Reese and Hadley down and we have not heard one peep! We had an incredible time seeing everyone and like I said earlier we are more grateful for the time and memories with people than anything else!

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Christmas Fun

Christmas Day was so much fun! Bebe had her house all decked out just for the girls and they loved it! Unfortunately not all of the decorations staying nice and in their spot...they were carried around by a few cute redheads! We had a busy day but it was Fun!

My favorite pictures...the girls "waiting" on the stairs to see if Santa came. As a child I remember that we would wait and my mom would run downstairs and then bells would start ringing...Santa had just flown away! So fun!

Reese dashed down the stairs first and we all had to tell her to wait on her sisters.

The pure joy and excitement over a princess flashlight...wow was that all we had to get? The girls loved all of their presents...but the best part is that Hadley calls them "Presidents".

We headed over to Myrl's house for Christmas lunch and lots more presents...we got a FEW stuffed animals...and you know who was buried in them.

Reese with her 2nd cousin Ryan...this picture cracks me up...I was trying to get their picture and Ryan did that face and Reese was giving me her "I'm too cool right now mom because I am playing with my older cousin face".

Little Bryn loving on her sweet Great Grandmother Myrl...you can tell Bryn is smiling because her cute big cheeks are lifted up!

We got to enjoy the Christmas story thanks to Uncle Jonathan...he once again got all of the younger grandchildren and great grandchildren to act out the story. Here Reese is as a shepherd...she did great...Hadley was a "missing sheep" and Bryn was baby Jesus!

After Myrl's house we headed over to my dad's where missy here got a Minnie outfit...she was not happy that I put her ears on...but she is so darn cute in them.

So, my pictures are skipping around a bit...here is Bryn eating up the Christmas Lunch at Myrl's.

Bebe and Aunt Ashley with the girls! The girls are set to be dressed to the "nines" with all the cute clothes that Aunt Ashley got them!

The girls and Pop

The Hansard Crew at Myrl's house

Bebe and her girls! We are so grateful for our Bebe she let these three wild girls take over her house and they kept her up late and got her up early! We rotated during the week who got to sleep in Bebe's room! We had a wonderful Christmas and more than any gift we or the girls got...we are blessed to be around friends and family and to take time to remember the reason we are all here and why it is we celebrate Christmas! Happy Birthday Jesus!

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