The Hills

Tooth #8 broke threw her gums yesterday (July 19, 2010)

I am pretty sure tooth #8 is going to pop in any day. She’s a trooper

Miss B already has multiple holes in her, but yesterday on July 3, 2010, We took her to get her ears pierced at the mall.

The lady who pierced them did a great job!  She was super funny.  As we were getting ready, I busted out my wallet, opened it up and I had some money fall right out of my wallet.  This lady, in a oh-so funny way says-  ” Don’t be dropping my tip on the floor just yet, honey!!”  I busted out laughing!   It was funny.  I am glad she did say that because I wouldn’t have tipped her.  Tipping her didn’t even cross my mind at all.  But as I thought about it through out the rest the day, it made perfect sense to me.   I am glad I did.  It’s wasn’t a huge tip because she really didn’t have any issues but it was a top none the less.

We took her just before her nappy time.  She is a happy baby so we knew she wouldn’t be too cranky.  She also had a quick cat-nap on the way and remain asleep in the stroller until we got into the store. She woke up happy.  Daniel decided to hold her while I filled out the paper work. I was able to get some pretty good photos.

Did she cry?  Yes she did.  But it wasn’t bad at all.  We pierced, she cried. We took pictures, she cried.  We put her back into the stroller, gave her a bottle, and all crying stopped.

Since we were at the mall, we decided to let the kids go into a few stores.  Total last minute, we ran to Sears to see if there were any openings to get her 6 month pictures taken.  I had a $7.99 coupon in my wallet, so that was a plus!!  We  rode the elevator, escalator, and bought gum balls from the gumball machine.  Zoey and Jack found t-shirts for $5 at Aeropostle.

It was a great day.  I am so glad I decided to walk away from my messy house and have fun with the kids.  Thanks Tamara for reminding me whats important in life!!

Oh yeah,  her 7th tooth is in..  (july 7, 2010)

Berkley Senta Hill

6 months old

Weight- 15lbs. 8oz.

Height- 25 inches

Berkley has four teeth with number five and six coming in as we speak.  I am pretty confident by the end of our 4th of July weekend, she will have six in total.  Four on top and two on the bottom.  This little nugget is wanting to eat everything-  rice cereal, stage 1 baby foods like green beans, peas, applesauce, squash.  She seems to like everything and is always putting things into her mouth.  Just this week I fed her cheerios and she seemed to love it.  Drew helped me out by dumping the entire box onto her tray, she was very excited about that. I was not.

She laughs and talks all the time.  All of the other children can get her to laugh! Just the other day, Lucas had her laughing so hard, I wanted to pee my pants.   She does have a scream on her.  A few different people this past week even commented to me that they thought and/or assumed it was Drew who was doing the yelling, but I had to tell them it was her.  Maybe God gave her a set of lungs to be a professional singer one day..

She sleeps all night but I haven’t had sleeping issues with my children. I guess I have been one lucky duck!  She loves bath time.  She crawls, not on all fours, just yet, but she does army crawl.  If she wants something, she doesn’t have any problems finding her way over to it.  She is at the beginning stages of sitting up.  I was able to get a few snapshots of this momentous event this week.

When her daddy gets home, her little face just lights up.  She loves to jump in the jumper and be in the saucer any chance she can get.   Most of the time she plays and jumps and talks away until she falls asleep in them. She is a very happy, relaxed baby who doesn’t cry all to often. However, when she does cry it’s so dang cute I usually take the camera out and try to get a few photos.

She is our little perfect baby!  I love her death, and could not imagine my life without her in it.

This is the conversation I was woken up with this morning-

Jacob: Daniel, there’s soap in the toilet

Daniel:  What?   Drew!

pitter-patter,  pitter patter of little feet run across the kitchen floor

Jacob:  Look at what you did Drew

Brooklyn: eeewww, someone peed in the toilet!

Drew:  EEEEEWWWWW!!!

Jacob: Yeah, eeewww….

Some of you may remember that when Drew was about 6 months old, his legs would also get stuck in his crib. Daniel or I would always have to go into his room and get them unstuck.  It was a nightmare.

Well now Miss Berkley is doing the same thing, pretty much every time she sleeps.Her chunky little legs gets stuck and she tries to turn and roll over, getting her all twisted. I come into the room and have to pull them out from between the bars.  Sometimes I have to give a good pull and I always think, I hope I don’t break anything.

The story gets better—

The last 2 nights Drew has started this up again. He get’s his legs, yes both of them, totally stuck. He screams because they are hanging out the crib.  It’s crazy!  Crazy awful!

Two babies doing this to me on a daily basis.  What is my life coming too?

It’s definitely an “Are you for real?” moment!!

Drew tried to feed Berkley a tortilla chip this evening.

So NOT good!  Sorry no pictures.. I decided to scream instead of pull out the camera.

Earlier the same day, my sweet 18 month old,  took my water bottle opened up the cap and dumped it right on the carpet.  He had no intention of even trying to drink it.  He wanted to put his feet in water or something, who knows?

Oh yeah just the other day, Drew  patiently waited for everyone to leave their speedway Slurpee’s on the table and then went for them.

I did catch him and took  a few photos of it.

What am I going to do with this kid?

sleeping on daddy's legs

Berkley can fall asleep just about anywhere.   I think it has a ton to do with being child #6.

I was talking to the kids the other day about Zoey and being so skinny.  I then proclaimed, that I too, was that skinny growing up and even a skinny-mini into my 20′s.

What did they do?  They  laughed (and laughed, and laughed, and laughed).   I thought some might pee their pants with the way they were laughing.

What did I do?  I laughed right along with them.

I guess they don’t believe, do they?

This year both Nolan and Lucas are on the same baseball team.  At first I was a little worried because this is Lucas’s first year to play and I wasn’t sure how he would do.  He is the youngest on his team.  But he’s able to hold his own and that has been great!

The games have just started and the weather has been great thus far.  I know it’s going to get super hot soon.  The season goes until the end of July.  It’s crazy.  I wish they would start earlier and end earlier but I know they can’t because it’s Michigan and there could be snow on the ground in late April!  You gotta love this state!

My boys are doing great and love it!