Deep Thoughts by Haylee Hardy- "Getting Hurt"

     Everyone gets hurt sometimes.  I'll never forget the time I got hurt when I slipped and fell.
     I was running on the sidewalk there was dirt and I slipped.  I fell because when you slip you fall.  Nicole was the closest one to me so she helped me to line.
     When I slipped and fell I scraped my nee.  I walked with Nicole to line and she helped me a lot.  I cleaned my scrape at the classroom.
     When the scrape was cleaned I went to the office.  I got a bandade from Ms. Bowl.  And I went back to the classroom.
     Getting hurt wasn't very fun so next time I will not run on the sidewalk if there is dirt where I'm going to step.


     This time Haylee brought this to me and openly asked me to put it on the blog.  I asked, "You want me to?" and she answered with an emphatic, "YES!"  As usual, I typed it exactly how she wrote it, spelling mistakes and all.  My favorite is 'Ms. Bowl.'  Hahahaha!  I had no idea that's what she was calling Mrs. Bull!  I found it very amusing. (I've know Taci Bull for years because she used to be in our ward and was one of my YW leaders.)
     I guess since summer is here we won't be getting as many deep thoughts from Haylee, but maybe that school journal of hers will be a gold mine!

Rock Stars!

     Today was Rock Star Day at school.  So here are pictures of my little rock stars!

I crimped Natalee's and Mackenzie's hair.  Haylee woke up with perfect poofed out rock star hair (aka bed head) so I didn't use the crimper on her.  I then sprayed their hair with purple color and gold sparkles.



My Little Piranha

Look at this sweet, precious, innocent angel.  So adorable.

Now look again.  Still adorable, precious, etc.  But OUCH!

     This kid has a mouthful of teeth!  At the same age Natalee was getting her first tooth (about 10 1/2 months), Nate was getting his 7th!  He only has 6 in this picture but he has another bottom one now.  I may not have mentioned this in my blog, but Nathan has bit me (while nursing) at least twice as many times as all of the other kids combined!  Maybe even 3 times as much.  He has also bit me while not nursing. You have to watch your toes around our house.  They are like bait to this little guy.  In fact, whenever he bites me, or even sometimes when he gives me one of his huge toothy grins, I can't seem to get this picture and saying out of my head:

"I'm a Piranha"

Said, of course, with the proper Darla voice and everything.  Yep, can't get it out of my head tonight again.  I am also recommitting to weaning my little piranha.  We'll see if I actually do it this time.  I'm weak in the middle of the night when I don't feel like leaving my bed to make a bottle for him.  "I'm a piranha."  Aarrggh!

Thoughts on Friendship

     My kids have often faked horror when they find out that I put some of their school work or art on the blog.  But I was pretty sure that deep down they were flattered and happy that I did it.  A while ago, Haylee brought me something she wrote in school and said I could put it in the blog "if I wanted to".  I hadn't done it yet so she brought it to me again yesterday.  I knew they loved it!  So here it is:

Thoughts on Friendship

by Haylee Hardy

     My closest friend is the one I met the first day of school.  Can you keep a secret?  Okay her name is, GRACE!  We play the piano.  Me and Grace have been on an adventure to find Randi's house but we never found it.  The person in my family that is my best friend is Kelsey.  My second closest friend is Cheynne.  Cheyenne is a great friend.  She is kind, jeneros, and helpful.  She's never caused trouble with me.

I hope everyone enjoys Haylee's thoughts on friendship!  School is almost out and I will be getting Haylee's journal that she's been keeping at school.  I am looking forward to finding lots of gems in there to blog about.

I'm Welcome

I was thinking Kelsey wasn't pronouncing 'You're Welcome' the right way.  But this morning I realized she wasn't saying 'you're welcome' at all.  I thanked her for bringing a sippy cup to me while I was doing the dishes and she said, "I'm welcome."  I said, "You're welcome?"  And she repeated, "Yeah, I'm welcome."  :)

Beauty and the Beast

     This year during Spring Break, Natalee, Haylee, Mackenzie and I went to see the play Beauty and the Beast in Hollywood at the Pantages Theater.  It was so fun!  Our seats were pretty high up so that we didn't have to pay quite as much for the tickets.  It was really neat to do this with my girls.  Kelsey was too young to join us but I think it would have been too hard for her to sit still anyway.

     We went to Mike and Cindy's before the show and Daren, Kelsey, and Nathan stayed and played with Mike, Joshua, and Jacob.  My mom, Grandma Poetschlag, me and my girls, and Cindy and her girls all went to the play.  For the most part, it was the very similar to the movie.  There were a few different songs.  But my favorite change was the scene in the pub when they sing 'Gaston' after Belle rejects his marriage proposal.  They do this dance scene with beer mugs where they are holding one mug in each hand and clanking the mugs on either side, high, low, middle, etc.  They do it very fast and while dancing around and it is so cool!  It was definitely my favorite part.

     The show started at 7:00p.m. so it was pretty late for the kids.  Poor Audrey fell asleep.  But I'm so glad we did it.  It was a neat thing to do with my girls and extra fun to do it with other girls in the family.

We took some pictures before we left.

Kelsey wanted to get into the pictures too.  It was hard to leave her behind but I knew she was too young (and it was a rule).

All the cousins going to the show.

Cindy, Allyson, and Audrey

 It was very crowded!

      We took more pictures during the intermission.  I realized when I was uploading these that I didn't have any pictures of Grandma Poetschlag.  We weren't allowed to take any pictures inside the theater so we took the following pictures in the hallway.  Grandma Poetschlag didn't come out with us for intermission so sadly, we didn't get any pictures of her.  Unfortunately, we didn't think about taking any before the show.  We were kind of worried about being on time because it was very rainy and so it took us longer to get their than we had expected.  We shouldn't have worried.  They started 20 or 25 minutes late!  I guess a lot of people were slowed down by the rain.

Grandma and granddaughters

Walking With a Walker

     Nathan was pushing around the computer desk chair and using it like a walker this evening.  So we decided to pull out this old toy that I'm pretty sure we've had ever since Natalee was this size.  Daren set it up like a walker for him and he took off!  The girls were squealing with delight watching him zoom around the kitchen.  Then he brought it to the family room where we got some cute, cute, cute pictures.

     Walking is just around the corner.  It's interesting to be anxiously awaiting it and yet dreading it at the  exact same time.

     After walking for a bit he decided he needed to fiddle with some of the little toys that are all over this thing.  So he was trying to spin that green thing and walk at the same time.  Spinning and walking at the same time is actually pretty tricky Nathan found out.