Oh my how quickly life is flying past me! My babies are all growing up so quickly and I don't want them to.Wish I could find a magic potion to puase them growing up. I say pause because I may one day want to let them grow up so Ican see graduations and weddings and grandbabies. Well, let's start with our thanksgivings! We went to Daddy's cousin Sherry's for thankgsgiving day and had a really nice dinner with Daddy's side of the family. They all looked adorable in their little outfits. Addie was shy at first, but warmed right up with all the toys and family who wanted to hold her! Hayden was on a mad dash to fit in as much playing as possible from the moment we got there. He and cousin Brayden were little buddies. He made Brayden push him around in a stroller for a good while. They were having a blast. He didn't even want to stop long enough to eat. This was the first year they could eat food at thanksgiving and they even got to sit at their own little table! Miss Trinitywas so tuckered out, she slept away most of the dinner, and cuddled with Great Grandma Hempen when she was awake. Then we had Mommy's side of the family at our house for dinner that Saturday. When Grandpa Mike got in town he took us Christmas shopping and said to pick whatever the kids wanted for Christmas! We filled almost 3 carts! We got back and hid the presents in our closet to wrap later and finished getting ready for the rest of the family to arrive. We had a really good turnout and the kids had such a good time playing with all the kids around, especially cousin Jake. When it came time to eat, we put the twins in their highchairs and let them pig out on their own plates. It was quite a mess, but so adorable! They seemed to like everything, but they both ate pumpkin pie like it was going out of style! Miss Trinity slept most of this dinner too,but made an appearance right at the end. What a princess!!
We decided one day last week that we wanted to switch everyone's rooms around since we had the bigger room. We decided it would make more sense to give Hayden the small room all to himself, and give the girls the big room, so they could share all their girl toys and have a pretty room. So we moved everyone all around and turned Hayden's crib into a big boy bed! He would always throw such a fit when you put him to bed in his crib, but listens so well when told to sit somewhere until he is told he may get up, so we thought maybe he would stay in hisbed better if he knew he could get up, but wasn't allowed to. It was a wonderful idea because now when he crawls in bed, he only fusses for a minute, then falls asleep. Instead of crying in the morning, he gets out of bed and plays in his room. When he wants to come out, he stands in his doorway and says 'Mama!' My smart little boy. The girls love their room too because they are both still in cribs and since Hayden was the noisy one at night, they can both sleep peacefully without him to wake them up. After Christmas, we are going to paint their room a pretty pink and green and make it fit for the princesses! Thinking about doing blue for Hayden's room.
With Daddy's deployment coming up, his unitdecided to have a Christmas party at the armory last weekend and answer our questions about their deployment and things. They told us mainly that they will be leaving late next summer for a year and that their mobilization station before they go overseas will most likely be in Mississippi. We will most likely be outofcontact for over a month when he first leaves, which is scary. But they did have one nice surprise.....SANTA! Santa came to see the kids and they got tosit on his lap and get pictures and he gave them a goody bag and an ornament frame to hang their pictures on the tree. Our polaroids with Santa didn't turn out very well, but a friend took pictures on her camera for us (my stinking batteries in mine died RIGHT when we got there, although they were fine when i checked them at home). They turned out so cute.Trinity loved sitting on Santa and even played with his beard. Hayden wasn't sure what he thought and wouldn't sit on Santa's lap, but smiled at him for a picture while sitting on Mommy's lap next to him! Adriana wasn't having any of it. She screamed bloody murder when we sat her on Santa and she lunged for me. I think poor Santa almost dropped her! We tried sitting her on my lap next to Santa like we did with Hayden, but she still wasn't convinced. We finally distracted her enough with her goody bag to get a picture of her not screaming, but I don't think we ever managed to get one of her looking at the camera or smiling! Maybe next year?
Hayden has this new word that he started saying. He calls me and Daddy "Honey." He says it clear as day and it's so hilarious! He must hear us call eachother that enough that he now thinks it's our names instead of Mommy and Daddy. How cute, right? He's been talking so much more, I can't even believe it. He was playing on the computer and Daddy said, "Hayden get away from the computer." Hayden looked at him. Daddy said, "Get away from it now." Hayden smiled at him. Daddy said "ONE!" and hayden says "TWO!" It was so funny but we had to try so hard not to laugh since he was in trouble for not listening but I was so proud! I practice counting with them everyday and today he was running around saying "One, twoooo, teee!" I can't believe how smart he is! He will pull the chairs out from the table, climb up on them and play on the table and if you tell him to get down, he will get down and push the chair back in all by himself!
Thank God my Addie still wants to be a baby! She finds Trinity's binkies all around and will put them in her mouth and climb into the swing or the walker. It's so stinking cute. She's all about being my cuddle bug. But she's smart too! She's starting to say the sounds to animals when we play with our flash cards. She will "EEE EEE" like a monkey or pant like a puppy. Oh how I love that little girl. She knows how to melt your heart with a hug and her little kisses. She will drag her dollies out and rock them in Trinity's swing, or feed them their baba. She tries to give trinity her binkie or pick her up off the floor. She's going to be such a good mommy one day, but she's already a great big sister!
Trinity is growing so fast, too. We went to the doctor a couple weeks ago for her check up and she is 14lbs 4 oz! Last night on the floor she was wiggling around like she was trying to figure out if she could crawl around. In another month or so, I'd bet she'll be cruising along! She grabs toys and flings them around so happy! Her favorite is the linkadoos and this teeny tiny baby doll my dad got. She's getting super close to sitting up too. She'll balance for a second, then just slowly fall to the side. If you prop her arms on her legs, she can balance like that for a lot longer! I put her in her swing this morning that has a tray on the front. She likes it because she can sit up and see everyone and have toys on her tray. The twins always go over and play with her so I didn't think anything of it when they did today. A few moments later, the tray just falls off and she falls foward onto the ground on top of the tray. That poor baby only cried for a minute, but she now has a big red mark on her chest and chin and cheek,which i'm almost positive will turn into bruises! I felt so bad for her, but she sure took it like a champ!
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