23 Months and Feeling Sassy

I was happy to see that it was only a month and a half since my last posting. I've been feeling like a slacker on keeping up with your milestones but keeping up with you is such a big job that who has time to blog too?!  My email just sent me a reminder that you are 22 months and entering week 4 this week, which means I am going to blink and you'll be 2.

To give you an update this is what's been going on with you:

• When mommy asks if you are a big girl or her baby you still tell me that you're my baby :)
• Have discovered the iPad has really fun games and you never want to put it down.  You're favorite game is Wheels on the Bus, you love to hear that song over and over and over.
• You can sing the ABC's up to "H" on your own
• You can sing Twinkle Twinkle but your version goes a little like this "twinkle twinkle star....<insert babble>....are.....<insert babble>...high.....star"
• You can recognize most of the animals and objects on your flash cards.  You even know the sounds a lot of the animals make
• You're favorite TV show is Daniel Tiger. You cannot get ENOUGH of him.
• Are such a model for the camera
• Love to work on cars with Daddy and play with the tools. You also like to hand him every tool you can find even if he doesn't need it
• Went to your first Tractor Pull in Lynnville
• Come home saying new words every day.  You are quite the talker.
• Love to play fetch with Daisy and you belly laugh so hard when she runs after the ball. You think its so funny that she chases it
• Are potty training yourself practically.  Even though we don't have it down you only go when you want to and not when anyone else tells you to sit on the potty. I think you only do it for the jellybeans.

21 is the new 24

Hadley Hadley Hadley, what are we going to do with you?!  You're only 21 months and are starting your terrible 2's early!  When people ask how Ms. Hadley is doing mommy says "one word: attitude!"  You are coming into your own, you're favorite word is "NO!" followed by "MINE!" and only one person can hold you, MOMMY.

This is what you have been up to:

• You went to Disney World for the first time but were only so-so about it. Except for the Musicals. Beauty and the Beast the Musical you had such a good time dancing to the music!

 

• Favorite Book: The Mine-O-Saur (other favorites: Llama Llama Red Pajama and Tea Party Rules)
• Favorite Song: ABC's (followed by: If you're happy and you know it).  Mommy can ask you "should we sing?" and you will say "uh huh" and I'll ask "what song?" and you will tell me "A....B....more more" You also like to really dance to the ABC's
• Talk a lot and are putting together sentences. "more please mommy" "i love mommy" "daddy boo boo"
• You like us to kiss your boo boo's before nap and bed time
• Every night before bed we say a little rhyme that you love "Goodnight mommy, goodnight daddy, goodnight bubba and goodnight Hadley. Goodnight fork, goodnight sppon, goodnight bottle, goodnight moon. Goodnight puppies whom we love, goodnight Father up above."
• You can show us that you are 1 by putting up your index finger
• Love working with tools and love watching Daddy work with tools
• Are OBSESSED with bubbles
• Love to FaceTime Grammy and Grampy and have figured out how to dial them all on your own
• Make the best "cheese!" face for photos. CRACKS ME UP.
  

Hadley is 18 months!

Sweet sweet girl! 18 months has snuck up on me and it's making mommy all too sad that you're no longer a baby!  You have developed into your own little independent person with sass and dramatics (sometimes too much sass and too much drama!).  You're communicating with us all the time and it's so fun to hear all the new words you say and finally be able to understand you and all the things you want :)  Each day you come home from school and have learned a new word or tell us a new word.  Before you know it, you and Bubba will be sneaking into each others room late at night to gab gab gab.

This Month You......

• LOVE to dance. You have the music inside you girlfriend!  You're favorite song is "What does the Fox say?" but you really will drop it likes its hot to anything that has a big bass beat!  Hip hop music definitely gets you going!
• Started walking up and down stairs (2 or 3 at a time).  You definitely have some trouble with it because of your ONH and depth perception issues, but you try and you're getting it! Mom still has fun watching your face as you go down stairs and your foot drops to the next step.  You reaction is as if you are surprised the drop happened! "Hey! Where did that come from?!" Makes me giggle :)
•  Have had quite the naked streak.  You like to take off your clothes often and it doesn't matter where.  At home...at daycare...in the middle of Target!
  
• Went pee pee in your potty all on your own!!! You pointed to your diaper, got undressed and sat on your potty!  We were SOOOO proud of you.  But, it hasn't stuck yet.  Soon we hope!
• Love love love sweets! Just like your mommy.
• Are starting to throw tantrums. Big time!  If we don't give you want you want, you physically fall to the floor and won't move.  
• Are testing your boundaries.  You know what "No" means but you don't always follow the direction.  The other day you were trying to unplug all of the TV/DVD plugs and mommy yelled "Hadley! No no!" You stopped, turned around and looked at me, but kept your hand on the plugs.  You had this look of "how serious are you right now?"
• Climb EVERYTHING!  Right now you have figured out how to climb on the kitchen table chair and then onto the kitchen table.  Even falling off and hurting yourself doesn't stop you from doing it!
• Like to watch mommy and daddy cook.  You will drag a chair into the kitchen and then climb on it to watch as we make things on the stove.
• Have such a sense of amazement with everything.  Everything is new and exciting to you!  It's so fun sitting and watching you explore.
• Smile with all your teeth and scrunch your nose! Just like mommy does :)

Holiday's with the Hewitt's (2013)

The Holiday's always make life crazy and in our household this means out of control crazy, because we are in a constant state of crazy 365 days out of the year. But, the holiday's also means participating in old & new family traditions!  This year was no exception.

We went and picked out our 12.5 foot LIVE Christmas tree at Hewitt Garden Center and brought it home on top of the Vibe (A Christmas Vacation sight indeed!).

Santa sent his elf to come and live with us this year.  Her name is Tinsee and she was quite destructive!

Hanging Wilkes' and Hadley's underwear instead of our stockings!

Toilet Papered Wilkes' room

We also wanted to go visit Santa to tell him what we wished for this year, but only one of us got to get our wish list in.  The other desperately tried to get away from the man behind the white beard.

This year we all really enjoyed decorating the tree together.  Hadley especially enjoyed attempting to climb the ladder to hang ornaments and all the glitter that was on the ornaments.

This was also our 1st year of instituting our family tradition of "Jammie Cocoa Christmas"!  This is where we pick one night before Christmas to open up 1 gift from Mom & Dad (our matching Christmas Jammies), make hot cocoa, and gather in the car to go find houses with the best Christmas lights.  We had a lot of fun this year, except Hadley fell asleep pretty early on.

Another Hewitt Family tradition is that the entire family (on Will's Dad's side) gets together to watch Christmas Vacation.  This year we themed it as an Ugly Christmas Sweater/Christmas Vacation party.
We came dressed to impress!

 And finally, we get to Christmas morning.  Santa sure did deliver this year!

Opening all of gifts sure did make for some tired kiddos. It's hard work being spoiled!

Can't wait for next year, it's sure to be even bigger and better! (At least as far as Christmas lights are concerned)

The Hewitt's Go To a Wedding

Hard to believe it's been almost a few months now since John and Kirstyn were married! This group of Hewitt's brought their A-game to the wedding (as you can obviously see in the above picture).  Wilkes was asked to be the ring bearer and Will an usher.  What was Wilkes' favorite part of being a ring bearer you ask?  Well, for starters he will tell you he was a "ring barrier".  Second, he will tell you that he fell in love with a beautiful flower girl named Olivia.  Third, he will say all of his dance battles!  He sure did rock the dance floor.  Hadley, well, she slept through most of it!

Hadley is 1!

What a great 1st birthday you had Doodle! Not that you had any idea what was going on, or that any of it was for you, the rest of us in attendance had a blast!  You and Wilkes shared a joint birthday party but each of you had your own individual mom and dad celebrations on your actual day.  The birthday theme was CAMOFLAUGE (thanks to big brother for choosing that).  But, it sure was fitting seeing as you celebrated in your new home in TN.  You're a southern girl now :)

This Month You

• began walking on your own unassisted and could take about 15 steps before falling down (First Steps: July 23)
• added your 3rd official word to your vocabulary, you got "dog" out in its entirety
• started your new daycare and LOVE it and love your new friends
• brought home your first piece of art
  
• hated opening your birthday presents (maybe at Christmas you'll finally enjoying unwrapping gifts)
  
• were diagnosed with a eye problem called optic nerve hypoplasia. Mommy and Daddy's heart broke when we heard the news, but you act as if you know no difference.  You're such a trooper!
• love your picnic table that Pops and Bebe gave you for your birthday.  You and Bubba eat afternoon snack together at your table
  
• are such a diva with your purse! you carry it everywhere
• love to draw. Another Hewitt artist in the mix!
• finally have a ponytail!
  
• want to do everything by yourself!

Hadley's 10th & 11th Month

Hadley, I did it again.  We were so busy these past two months that mommy didn't have time to write individual updates.  One day mommy is going to get things organized and get better at this!

10th Month

• Had your first pedicure.  Daddy painted them for you for vacation! They were such a hit!
  
• Have figured out how to crawl into things, like the moving boxes!
  
• You went to your brother's and my adoption ceremony! We were so happy to be officially family according to the law!
  
• Went on your 2nd big car trip to TN to drop off a few trailer loads of our things into our new house!  We got to see your Pops, Bebe, Aunts & Uncles, and you go to met your cousin Hattie for the first time!  You two will be the best of friends once she gets a little older :)
  

  

  You LOVE your Pops

  
  

  

  With Aunt Caity and cousin Hattie

• We had our first Mother's Day together! This was the best one I will probably have as you were here to celebrate with us!  I love you so much my Doodle! 

  

  Mommy's loot! You and Wilkes got her a locket with your photos :)

  
  
  
• Laugh so hard.  Daddy is the best are making you laugh.  He just tickles you or makes funny faces and you crack up!
  
• Have discovered you have dogs.  You like Jax and he gives you kisses and you just laugh!

  

  Jaxon was sleeping and just let you bother him

• Are getting around in your own creative ways!  You like to pull your supposedly STATIONARY activity table behind you to get to things.  And you cause lots of messes for mommy b/c you have figured out you can do this!

  

  Baby proofing needed to happen soon!

11th Month 

•  Had your first father's day with daddy!

  

  Daddy's fatherly gifts of joy

• Took your second airplane ride and this one we didn't fair as well.  Thank goodness Daddy was there to help mommy.  You were such a wiggle worm and did not want to sit still.  Longest 2.5 hrs of mommy and daddy's life!

  

  Don't let your smile fool you, you weren't happy!

• Went on your first family vacation to Florida!  We went to Jensen Beach where Nana and Daddy Don vacation every year.  We were thinking you'd enjoy the ocean and the sand, but as it turned out you hated both!  You screamed and cried when we put your toes in either, but it sure did lull you to sleep.  So, nap time was spent on the beach chair under the umbrella with Nana.  
  

  

  Nap time!

• You went in the pool for the first time on vacation!  That on the other hand was a completely different story.  You loved it!  You splashed so much and went under water (briefly) with Daddy's help and smiled so big when you came up!  You are like a fish in the pool Doodle, you didn't want us to hold on to you to help you swim, you wanted to go go go and if you could've you would've!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  

  We spent most of our time in the pool together

• Took your first trip to the zoo!
  
  
  
  
• Are moving all over the place! We can't keep up with you.  You crawl like a big girl (no more military crawl). Now you can get anywhere in the house you please.  You can pull yourself up onto things and use them to walk around a room too!  Almost walking without help and mommy is not ready to see you get so big!
• You moved!  We moved from your very first home in Chicago back to TN where Daddy is from.  It was bittersweet for mommy, but you handled it like a champ! And love that your new room actually has a closet for all your clothes!

  

  This is how we slept our last night in our old house.  Mattress in the living room and was the only bed for all 4 of us!

  

  Chicago Home!

  
  

  

  New Home (what an upgrade, huh?!)

• You love love LOVE LOVE your bubba (big brother).  You two have gotten so much closer now that your interactive and more fun to play with!  You just adore him and sometimes crawl on top of him when he is sleeping to wake him up to play with you!
  
  
  

  

  This is how you sit and watch TV together

  
  
  
  
  

  

  Say, "wake up Bubba!!"

• Give kisses on command and we love it! Mommy can't get enough of those sloppy kisses. 
• Are trying to get your first real word out.  Dog.  You get "doooo" with a long o...not quite catching on to the G, but its right there I can tell!