Adventures in Hofeling land

I had quite the exciting weekend, and since I know that you all are dying to know what Becky does with herself....

Here it is....

Friday, looks like it will be a normal weekend, until my beautiful sister calls and asks if I will take Teigan and Daisha overnight. Huh? Come again? Over what? You must be crazy!! OK I'll do it.

So as soon as Jessica drops the kids off Teigan is a little upset about his mom leaving, he was crying and kept pulling the chair to the window to look out. It was very sad, I wish I would have taken a picture of this, your hearts would be breaking for this little sweet pea. Now what? Bath time, yes bath time. So I proceed to the bathtub, 3 kids in tow, get TT and Hadlee undressed get them in the tub, (light bulb) I should put Daisha in also. So I get the 3 kids in the tub, place Daisha in the toy basket so that I can take some pictures (I definitely smelt a scrapbook/myspace/blog opportunity!) Hey at least Teigan is happy now. Wash them down, get 'em in their PJ's, yes making excellent time!!

I tell TT and Hadlee they can watch barney before bed, so I can give Daisha a bottle. check check, off to bed, we all pile in my bed, I rock Daisha and put her in hers, she is asleep, 1 down 2 to go!! TT's a little sad, I rub his head, tell him it's bed time, and off he goes, 2 down 1 to go (mine). I do this every night it should be easy, my lovely daughter, snuggles up to TT, puts her arm around him and pinches him, yep that's right I said pinches him, he wakes up, (owie)crying, 1 down 2 to go. After a little love, and a Hadlee be nice to TT, he falls back asleep. 2 down 1 to go. Hadlee proceeds to lay down almost falling asleep, then decides, hey this is a slumber party!! Nobody falls asleep at her slumber parties (she gets this from me, I must admit), she kicks Teigan, he wakes up. Well you get the idea, I finally get TT back to sleep, getting a little mad at Hadlee at this point, I make Sam go put her to bed! Daddy, must have the touch because she finally went to sleep.

The next day, it was a battle to get anything done, but I did manage, wondering the whole time, how people have more than one kid, let alone 3 very young ones. Crazy!

But I did manage to do Daisha's hair in some really cute pig tails.

Saturday, I had Daisha and TT until about 4pm! Sam, Hadlee, Jaedyn, Kobe, Bobbie and I went out to eat at Chili's which to our suprise there was no wait at all, amazing. A girl I worked with in H.S. was serving us. Yay, I look like I am straight off the farm, gosh I love running into old people, especially when I look so great. I know your wondering, so I will tell you, no I didn't get a discount, what crap!! Jaedyn wanted to spend the night, both she and Hadlee fell asleep in the car around 7pm and slept the whole night through.

This morning I woke up, got Hadlee in the tub, put her in a dress and told her to go tell Grandma she was ready for church. Grandpa saw her in her dress and said "we should take her with us!" Yes, score!! So this is how it happened that my daughter went to church for the first time! (besides when she was blessed, but she was only 2 months old then). Grandma said she slept through most of sacrament, but only took one piece of bread and one water. Folded her arms for the prayer, and when everyone started singing, my lovely daughter was singing with them, even though she doesn't know the words, she is very good at the whole "fake it, till you make it" routine. She looked at Grandpa and said, "Grandpa dance", and grandpa being the good sport that he is danced to the hymns. She shared (forced) her fish crackers on the little boy in front of her, and fell asleep. She loved the nursery, had a snack, sang some songs, and colored! Grandma said everyone was in love with her, and that she was very good. And momma got a 3 hour break. One 3 hour break in 2 years isn't to bad. Ha ha, OK OK I exaggerate, but not that much!!

So now here it is 10pm and Hadlee is asleep (in her bed) and you all can sleep well knowing what I did with my weekend.

So long, fair well, god bless you each and everyone.

yes, I am losing my mind!!

What's new

I know you all have been dying to know what is new with my daughter…
Well here it is.
Plain and Simple
all about Hadlee.

Well after a month of potty training boot camp, millions of dollars in pull-ups, and one pee-pee and two poo-poo's I have packed in the ol' whip and put Hadlee back in diapers. So now that she has been back in diapers for a couple weeks she has started asking to use the potty again, so maybe we will give it another shot….After we get her to stay in her own bed all night…




Yup Hadlee got a new bed, after pulling the old "I think I will throw myself out of my crib head first" stunt. I let her pick out her own sheets, and comforter for it. She of course chose The Little Mermaid. I really wanted the one with the cute little monkeys on it, she wanted The Little Mermaid more, I thought that if I let her pick them she would be more inclined to sleep in there. So let me tell you, bed time is HELL TIME around my house!! We have gotten her to go to bed in her room, however every night she ends up in our bed. At first I was really stressed about this, but as I have told some of you, I was way to overwhelmed with all of it, and decided to take it one thing at a time, so maybe next week I will start working on getting her to stay in her bed.
Hadlee just turned 2 on April 6th. And, Aunt Bobbie being the lovely Aunt that she is, gave Hadlee a Kitten. The first few days were very trying, He wasn't eating, or using the bathroom, and quite frankly I was thinking this cat was going to either die of starvation, or be murdered by my 2 year old. Although, I think she would have gotten the lesser charge of involuntary kitty slaughter. But I got the kitten to eat, and it took me very little time to get him to use the litter box, I am still a little worried about my 2 y/o being on a kitty hunt, but over all this little guy is doing really good. Hadlee, despite the fact that she smothers him absolutely adores him, and he adores her. It is funny cause every time she gets around him he starts purring like crazy. I let Hadlee name him, and what does she decide to call him? YELLOW. Yup, Yellow!!