Guest Blogger- Elliott

 Berkley was a little to crazy well we where there.

On Christmas eve we all ways go to my grandparents house.And then in the morning first we open are prezents from santa and then we eat are breakfast.And then we open prezents from are family.Well this year i  got  a  little gokart thingie it does not have a gas peddle it has a gas button.And here are some pictures from thursday when we where celabreating christmas with my dads side of the family.

Christmas Part One

Thursday we went to East Texas to celebrate an early Christmas with Nanny, PawPaw, Aunt Brandy, Uncle Greg and the big cousins.  It was a quick trip and I am SO mad at myself for not getting any pictures of all the cousins together.  So we'll have to make do with my papparazzi shots while they are opening gifts.

Dillon and Dakota

 Brittany

 Dustin

 Madison Mae- She has gotten so old?! She just turned 10- seems like yesterday she was Berkley's age.

My sweet girls

 Patton "opening" his very first present at his very first Christmas. He looks impressed doesn't he?

 Poor boy. He hadn't taken a very good nap and was super whiny. Totally grating on our nerves, then we realized he was hot- took his temp and he had 102.1! Needless to say our attitude changed dramatically toward him and he was snuggled and catered to the rest of the evening.  We got him some medicine and he lost the fever but he's still just not quite himself.  Unfortunately since we didn't get back until tonight I didn't get him in to the Dr.  My sister called today to say both her kids have ear infections and Eli has croup! We haven't seen them all week, so I'm really hoping that he isn't totally sick for the rest of our Christmas celebrating.

 He's trying to rally and be excited about his cool new toy. 

The cutest!

 A rare pic of all 3 kids

 E was so excited to get this game. Its super fun!

 Another barbie for our ever growing collection. You never can have too many you know.....

 P got lots of boy toys that are lots of fun to play with.  He's pretty pumped up about them as you can see here

 Nanny made him this adorable penguin hat- now to just be able to keep it on his head.....I always said he was going to wear hats all the time since I couldn't do bows, it hasn't worked out too well for me though.

The crew with Nanny and PawPaw- the choices for this picture were either Berkley with her head turned or her tongue stuck out....nice.'

 Today the girls enjoyed baking some sugar cookies with Nanny- they all made handprints in their cookies and some little mouse cookies.

 Berk loves her new headbands that Nanny made, she thought they would also make nice sleeping masks. I told her how cute she looked and that we'd have to take a picture to show Nanny.  She insisted that I go get the camera right then to take a picture because she wanted to be sure Nanny saw their many uses. Notice Bunny has one on too.

 Last Sunday we went to the square to watch the light show- it is so cool and flashes in time to music. We met Uncle J and Aunt Ray at Matitos for dinner beforehand. Another classic Berkley picture.....

 Patton is mad that his BFF (Daddy) isn't holding him.  I've never been shunned by one of my babies as I have by him.  When Chris is holding him and I try to get him he turns his head and puts his nose in the air like he's too cool for me.  We'll see about that.

Mae Mae

Yeah that's right. 4 posts in 2 days. Make sure you read through all my random thoughts.

So My Berkley Mae- aka Mae Mae, Taser, Tasee, Berk, B Bop, tester of my patience.

She is every bit as wonderful as her sister and brother.  She keeps us on our toes.  She makes us take a second to think before we tell her no.  Think about how committed we are to that no because she sure isn't going to take it for an answer on anything- without going to time out or getting yelled at.  She gets that from her Aunt Amanda.

She is sweet as sweet can be.  Always telling us she loves us.  (Although at least 25% of the time she tells me she hates me....but its cool- 5 min later she loves me again)

She is a Daddy's girl.  I was telling her and Elliott how much I love them and how glad I am that they are my girls.  She informed me that she is not my girl. She is daddy's.  I told her we share her. Nope- not Berk. She is just daddy's.

She is super smart too.  She is very interested in why questions.  She asks them about everything. Right now she always wants to know where everything is made.  Last night when I looked at the tag to her duck and told her it was made in China she said "Why is EVERYTHING made in China?"

She has a wonderful imagination. She can play on her own for hours.  She loves princesses, barbies, ponies, kitchen stuff, tea parties.   

She loves to be funny. All our kids do. She is so silly- her favorite phrases right now are "You're a Beach Angel" and "Pizza" we're not sure if they beach angel thing is an insult or a compliment and "pizza" is an appropriate answer to any question.

She is a girly girl. Always has to be in a dress. Very fancy with her make up. Loves to wear dress up clothes.

She loves playing beauty shop with the neighbors when we play outside.

She loves acting like she is way older than Rylee and bossing her around.  They get along so well....most of the time.

She loves to read stories- and asks plenty of questions along the way.

She is not a good eater at all.  She asks for breakfast then takes 2 bites and wanders off.  If its cereal she likes to come back to it about 10 minutes later and ask for more since its soggy. Then wander off again.

Love my sweet funny girl!

E Bop

I thought since I did such a long detailed post about Patton I should update about how funny my girls are too.

Elliott is 6 1/2 going on 40.  She is too smart for any one's own good.  I can't wait until she starts going through my blog pointing out all my grammar errors.

She doesn't play with toys. Never really has that much.  She much prefers to be playing video games or on the computer reading my blog and everyone elses blog. She looks through the archives and stays totally up to date on what everyone is up to.  She also quite enjoyed spending time on Facebook until I put the kabosh on that.  She was posting comments as me- not cool.  Plus there is a lot that goes on facebook that she doesn't need to be reading.  She also likes to read through my texts. I told her to go ahead and enjoy herself that I will most definitely be returning the favor someday.

She is incredibly kind.  She is very considerate of people and nice to everyone....as far as I know.

That being said she does LOVE to aggravate. Especially Berkley. But who doesn't?  One day they were arguing about anything and everything and Chris asked if they just have to disagree- I told him that's just what sisters do.  They could both agree on that.

She loves getting Berkley in trouble. Loves.

She loves to play outside with her friends.  Running around and riding bikes and toys, playing ball and whatever else it is that they do.

She has a sweet tooth that rivals mine. And that is saying a lot.  We have never met a dessert that we'll turn down.

She loves being comfy. Jeans and jammies are her favorites.

She has a high self esteem- she's not afraid to tell you how smart and wonderful she is. Are you Bell?

She loves taking care of Patton.  If he starts crying she's first on her feet to run to him and pick him up- even if he is half her size.  Her love for him has been rewarded- "Eeeot" has been one of his first words.  He uses it more than mama.....

I know I have lots of things she's done that crack me up but telling stories on her embarrasses her sometimes.  So I try not to.

Love you bunches my sweet girl!

Tea Party MaDNeSs

Last year Elliott had her first Annual Christmas Tea Party.  This year I decided that Berkley should start hosting hers too.  Midway into the preparations I decided that if they both got to have tea parties, I should get to have one  too!  So it was a busy day- Berkley's at 11- Elliott's right after school at 3 and mine at 7.

We started our preparations on Wednesday- setting Elliott's table and started making treats.  I wanted them to have lots of little things to pick from so I pinned a bunch of stuff on pinterest then showed the girls and they picked a few things to make.

Here is the table for Berkley's tea.  She was SO excited.  Makes it all worth it.  We brought down her little kids table so that it would be easier for her to serve everyone. She was very concerned that her friends would think that they were the chef- when clearly she was the chef.  I explained that she would be the hostess and serve them their treats, that we were already did the chef part before the party so she would be safe.  Kurt brought them a Christmas apron for being hostesses.  She was so excited to wear it!

 Here she is serving her guests.  She kept reminding everyone in her best big kid talking down to little kids voice "Now remember, I am the hostess"

 How cute is her little face?!

 Sugar cubes are big business at tea parties. Don't try to host one without them.  She loved showing all her friends how to properly put sugar in their tea.  (We went through the whole container of sugar before it was all said and done).

 They had snowman sandwiches then Berkley passed out treats

 Here they are doing cheers. 

 Next they did an art project.

 Cousin Rylee, Berkley, Madison (our neighbor), and Emily Kate (shes known EK since they were babies- they are 2 weeks apart.)  I love that these 4 girls will probably be at every annual Berkley Tea party. It will be so fun to watch them grow!

 This is Patton with his future wife Allie- Emily Kate's little sister. Isn't she the cutest?! I say Allie is his future wife- although Katie and I have plans for him and Palmer as well- They sound like a country club couple Patton and Palmer Pomeroy. Ha ha!

 Showing off their artwork

 Next up Elliott's party! Last year she wanted to invite her whole class of girls and we ended up with 16 kids. This year I was smart and said we could only have the amount of kids that would fit at the table. Much more fun and manageable for me!

 Here's some pictures of all the treats. They were the same for all the parties.

 The girls decorated cookies too

 Here's Ebop handing out treats

 The best news of the day was that Elliott's teacher stopped by with her little girl. Elliott was thrilled!

 The whole group-

 The craft for E's party was Grinch Ornaments

 Now for the fun part....Mama's "Tea" Party.  I thought we should have a picture of me pouring tea as well....

 My sister came and spent the night with the kids- Berkley and Rylee didn't go to bed until 11.....

 2 of my neighbors- I love them because they make me look short!

 Mom and her friend Karen came too

 My friends Suzanne, Kelly and Brenna