hartleyisms (November - February)

Hopefully these Hartleyisms will tide you over for another 4 months. :)

Hartley always asks Marshall about having to go to work. At night as he tucks her into bed, "Do you have to go to work tomorrow?" And in the morning, "Please don't leave my house..." Or "I don't want you to do, I want you to stay here with me." [Cue pitiful lip pout] 

Marshall makes her breakfast in the morning (while I'm sleeping in!!). One morning she requested celery. But we didn't have any, so Marshall made her eggs. After a few bites, "Daddy, are you sure these aren't old eggs?" No, I JUST made them! "They look like old eggs.. can I have some 'tella (Nutella) bread?"

Always modeling a new outfit... or Momma's clothes!

She's very opinionated about clothes, mostly about what she's wearing.. but also what I wear! After I showered one day she said, "What are you wearing???" A robe..? "Well you better take it off and put on different clothes so we can go somewhere." And she probably requested Sonic or Lowe's.

Another time I was dressed for a GSU game. She asked me, "Does that look ok?" She made me feel paranoid. Does it?? "Noooooooo. Shoooweee, what's the smell??" So, apparently my outfit didn't look ok AND I smelled.

Hartley goes through phases where she complains she can't do things because her "legs are tired." She'll ask me to hoooold her. Why? "Because my legs are tiiiiiiired." Apparently everything is "a lot of work" for her!

She also went through a brief period where she didn't want to nap. She would tell me, "Sleeping is haaaaard."

"There's a crab in my room! Come shoo it, Momma!"

TitleMax is her favorite commercial. "I don't have to sell my car!" While running errands one day, she waved her monies around saying, "I got my TitleMax with title backs!"

"I want some cereal. Goldfish cereal. I just want goldfishes."

She got a gift card for her birthday! I told her, "It's a gift card! You get to buy whatever you want!" She excitedly responded, "I get to do it like this [swiiiiiipe]!"

Christmas 2012 at Grandmommie's

We're still working on potty training during the night. Unfortunately she still goes poopoo in her pull-up if they're still on in the morning. I felt like a horrible mother one morning when I finally got out of bed and found her in a stinky pull-up. I reminded her that she could go poopoo in the potty. "But you were sleeping and couldn't wipe me..." She's a really good reasoner.

Marshall got up one morning and she was laying on the couch with the remote. "I got up too early," she told him. Then go back to bed! "No, that's ok.."

She made herself an egg for breakfast..

She prayed one night, "Thank you, Je-jus, for [insert everything in her room] the princess in the pink dress, the brown princess in the green dress (her nightlight), my pillow, my blanket so I can cover my head and hide from the animals."

"Old MacDonald had a schicken in your bed! E-I-E-I-O!"

There's a clear, plastic bag that we store Hartley's blocks in. She prefers to wear it over her head and go on "space adventures!"

Hillbilly eating raisins

We have to remind her about not touching breakables. "Why is everything breakable??"

Sometimes she cuddles in bed with me in the mornings. "I'm hiding under the covers!" What are you hiding from? "Your breath."

Other mornings I hear her in our BACKYARD! chasing squirrels. "Come back, come back! I just want to hold you!" She was probably wearing just a tank top.

Daddy Daughter Dance 2013

Hartley is THREE!

[A few months ago Blogger wasn't letting me upload pictures.. hence the hiatus from blogging. Boy do we have a lot of catching up to do!]

Hartley turned THREE!! last Sunday. We celebrated the Saturday before with a "small" family party. Marshall and I had a difficult time deciding if we wanted to do family and friends, or just family. I'm so glad we just did family. There were 18 of us total. After church on Sunday, we met all our church family at Mellow Mushroom for pizza. Hartley loved having everyone sing to her!

She is one of 9 grandkids! Second youngest (for now). We let the kids play on Rebecca's jump-jump and had Hartley's favorite snacks- goldfish and a veggie tray! We also had hotdogs and chili.

For weeks, Hartley wanted a blue birthday cake with green and white polka dots. A week before her party she decided she wanted a Daniel Tiger birthday cake. I worked really hard the day before with my first frozen buttercream transfer (something I saw on pinterest). It did.not.transfer. The icing was just supposed to peel off the parchment paper onto the cake but it didn't! Luckily my Aunt Linda, who always made our cakes growing up, arrived about 15 minutes before the party started and freehanded it for me! Hartley was thrilled!

Hartley is in a diva stage these days. She's always singing and dancing, interviewing, throwing a tantrum. She can make us laugh so much, but she also drives us crazy in this terrible 3 stage!

She had her 3-year check-up last week and did great! She took a vision test and was so funny. The nurse would point to a shape and ask her to identify it. "That's a star, that's a circle. That's another circle. That's a tiny star." It was funny to me how she described them instead of just what shape they were. She also asked her pediatrician a lot of questions!

We've been horrible about keeping up with her development and all the things she says, but she's pretty advanced with everything! She loves to mother her babies, kick her soccer ball, help Daddy in the garage, wake up early! This morning she came to me at 6:45 and asked "is the sun up yet? I want some breakfast!" I told her not yet! She left me in bed for a little bit and came back telling me that sun was up and she wanted a 'tella sandwich (nutella). Later I walked by her bedroom and noticed her blinds pulled up and her chair directed towards the window. I think she was watching for the sun!!

Hopefully Blogger will continue to allow me to upload pictures and we'll catch y'all up with November through December!