Haddy-isms & Carlie-isms

It's been a while since I've updated with the hilariously funny things that our girls have done and said over the past few months... ENJOY!

Carlie-isms

Me (while driving): I can't safely look back there and at the road

Carlie: Well, you could if you had two faces!

"I'm am" (as in, "I'm am pretending to be a cat," or "I'm am three years old")

After hearing a commercial on the TV: "Can you put 'Push it Real Good!' on my iPod?

"How in the whole wide world did that get in my ear?"

"You know why I don't like motorcycles? They're stinky & loud, that's why I don't like motorcycles!"

"I saw an echo on the TV; it was green."

After watching Daddy take Hadley out of the car through the window a 'la Daisy Duke: "Daddy! Can you lift me out the window like Donald Duke, too?"

Me: You really should start using the potty, Carlie.  You don't want to be the odd man out at preschool!
Carlie: I'm not a man! I'm a yay-dee (lady!)!

Carlie: I love you $8 to the moon and back! (this has always been her response, ever since I started asking '"how much" do you love me?')
Me: How much do you love Daddy?
Carlie: 101.1 MoreFM to the moon and back (I think we've been listening to the Christmas station on the radio a bit too much!)

That time Carlie cried for half an hour because Hadley drank all of her pretend chocolate milk!

Instead of 'with angelic hosts proclaim,' the girls sing, 'with the jelly lemonade!'

Haddy-isms

"Guess what? When I woke up, my eyes were already open!"

"Carlie, you're so freaking silly!"

While discussing how Riley felt while experiencing all of the different emotions on 'Inside Out': "Anger made Riley angry, Disgust made her disgusted, Joy made Riley happy, Sadness made her sad, and Fear made her fearious."

After teaching Hadley the meaning of the saying, "beating the dead horse,": Mommy.... Carlie won't leave me alone, she's eating the dead horse!

**fart** "yes, that really came out of my sweet little tushie!"

"God has the power!"

Me: UGH! This blanket needs to be washed, it smells like vomit!

Haddy (while handing the blanket to her daddy to be washed): Daddy, Mommy said this blanket needs to be washed; it smells like an omelet!

While explaining selfies to Carlie, Hadley told her that they're called 'selfies' because you take them on a self-phone.

Instead of 'with angelic hosts proclaim,' the girls sing, 'with the jelly lemonade!'

Hadley is F-I-V-E!

My eyes are even getting teary just typing this out, but our little (but not-so-little-anymore) first-born is really FIVE years old...FIVE...like going to kindergarten next year... *sniffle*  but Haddy told me I can't cry this year...not until she's six! I just can't believe it! Where has the time gone?

Hadley is now 42 and 3/4" tall and weighs 37 pounds.  She wears size 5-6 clothes and size 10-11 shoes.  At her well-visit this time, she took her eye test (no problems!) and received a booster for her MMRV.

Hadley LOVES school and from what I can tell is a really great friend to her classmates and a good helper to her teachers (we've never heard anything otherwise!)!  She continues to push every limit possible at home, but I guess we'll take it in exchange for super-good choices at school!  She loves everything Paw Patrol and is really a great big sister to Carlie.  They truly are BFFs (and they fight like them, too!).

Hadley still enjoys dance (though she's not sure yet if she'd like to continue next year or not, we will see) and is looking forward to swim lessons and soccer in the spring.  Her favorite foods are pizza, waffles, and quesadillas & she still wants to be a veterinarian when she grows up.  She also says she's going to marry Carlie and they're going to live together with 100 cats and dogs! :)

Whatever she does, wherever her dreams take her, we know that it will be with spunk, spirit, and joy!  Happy birthday, Hadley! Mommy & Daddy love you to the moon and back!

Carlie is TWO!

 

Our sweet, little Carlie is really two years old! I know I say this with each update, but it just never seems possible that so much time has passed in our lives! There really is SO much truth to what they say that kids just grow up so fast!

At her two-year well visit, Carlie was awesome!  She climbed right up on the big kid scale and only cried at the very end for her shot.  She weighed 27 pounds and measured 33.75" with a head circumference of 19", which put her in the 50th, 50th, and 75th percentiles, respectively (right in line with what she has been all along).  If we can go by the algorithm to predict their final adult height, Carlie could end up being about 5'6"!  That's pretty good for her genes!

Carlie is really a mover and a shaker these days!  She can be very mischievous and is into just about everything (which I'm sure, at least in part, is due to attempting to keep up with her sister!), but she is also a little lovey who loves to snuggle and cuddle and rock in the chair in her room at the end of the day.  She has been giving us some issues when it comes time for going to sleep, though, which is a new development with her!  Carlie still sleeps great, but she has learned some tricks from Haddy about how to avoid the dreaded bedtime!  She's also shown her true colors a few times with some epic tantrums - luckily they're still few and far between!

Currently, Carlie wears size 4 diapers, size 5 shoes, & size 2t clothes.  She loves to kick, throw, and catch balls and balloons.  She loves to go to the playground to swing on the swings and climb up the slides (probably more than sliding down them!)!  Carlie loves to go on stroller walks in the "pink stroller" and pick fuzzy dandelions to pull apart!  Now that the weather is warming up, Carlie can't get enough of playing at the water table and in the sprinkler with Haddy.

Carlie went to a practice dance class with Haddy!

 But more than anything, Carlie loves cats (or rawr-rawrs)!  She even had two kitty birthday cakes to celebrate!

 

Hadley is THREE!

I can't believe that our Hadley is REALLY three years old! It is so surreal that she has been a part of our home and our family for that long - it seems like only a moment ago, I was agonizing over her months upon months of sleepless nights...and now we're daily agonizing over giving her the freedom that she needs to grow and learn, but the structure and discipline she needs to be kind and loving.

At her 3-year-check up, Haddy did an awesome job!  She stood on the big kid scale and height stand and really liked having her blood pressure taken.  She answered all of the doctor's questions and was really such a super star (right up until the dreaded flu shot - but then she only cried for a second when Super-Nurse showed up with a Nemo sticker and saved the day!).  Hadley weighs 28.25lb (25th percentile) and is 36.75" tall (40th percentile), 25th percentile for BMI.  Haddy also made her first trip to the dentist about a week after her first birthday!  She was a rock-star and the hygienist loved how chatty Hadley was.

Hadley is our sassy and precious live wire.  She loves to dance and sing.  She loves to make up words to songs with whatever pops into her head at the moment (like her Daddy).  She loves to be with people.  She loves to swing, and jump, and climb.  She loves Nemo, Doc McStuffins, Daniel Tiger, and Monsters Inc.  She is so intelligent and loves to ask questions.  Haddy hates to have her hair fixed and doesn't really like to take naps (even though she needs them).  Haddy loves to go to swim class & splash with Carlie in the tub.  She is daily learning how to be a good and kind big sister.  She is a pro at using the potty (and almost diaper-free at night)!  Hadley loves to push the limits and test the waters.  She loves to be sassy and fresh, but she can also be an awesome snuggler.

We love you more than you will ever know, sweetheart.

Happy 3rd Birthday, Hadley Rebecca Scholl!!