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Saw this commercial on Nightline tonight. I could watch it over and over!

Chattin' with Hadley

Hadley's vocabulary has exploded the past couple months. She does seem to be a chatty kid! It's probably all kids at this age, but both of her daycare ladies have said that she sure does talk a lot. Wonder if they're trying to tell me something...

Adrian likes to teach Hadley to say funny things. Adrian is teaching her the Zimbabwean version of things. For example, a police car siren sounds like the European version, as in "beeee boughhhh, beeee boughhh" instead of the "woo woo woo" that we'd say. So when Hadley plays with her Elmo police car or if we pass one on the road, you hear her saying "beee boughhh" over and over. She also knows the Zimabwean version of motorcycle, which you'd have to hear Adrian say it to explain it. (Africans make up words by how the object sounds. Example: flip flops are called putter putters because that's the sound flip flops make. Funny, right?)

Grammy sent Hadley a book of Old McDonald stories and Hadley refers to the book as Donald. There are several different stories about animals but the one I always skipped over when I was reading it to her was the one about the fox and the rooster. I skipped over it because foxes don't make noises so I didn't think introducing her to foxes was important at this age. Sure, we've taught her about cows that say moo, sheep that say baa, etc. But why teach her about the fox? You see where this is going, don't you? Adrian, of course, is going to teach her about the fox to see how she says the word. And of course, Hadley can't say fox correctly. I'm sure you can guess how she says it.

So then Grammy comes for a visit and Hadley wants her to read her favorite book, Donald. Grammy indulges her. Grammy doesn't know the history of the fox and the rooster story. So there are different pictures of this fox and Grammy comes up with the mean fox and the sad fox. HILARITY ENSUES. Hadley walks around the house now talking about the mean fox. She repeats it over and over. We all die laughing!

I had to get it on video. Hadley wasn't in a very cooperative mood and really not very chatty (she has a heck of a cold right now) but I was able to catch a couple of her favorite words and phrases. Apparently she thinks she looks like her cousin Noah. She always says no when you ask her if her name is Hadley Mylinda Peech. Adrian was also the one to teach Hadley that Mama says "yak yak yak." In case you were wondering, Daddy says "blah blah blah." I think chats with Hadley are so fun! I look forward to what she'll say next.

Ch...ch...ch...changes

I've been working on updating this blog for the past 3 hours. (Thanks, Jamie, for the Scrapblog tip!) I've finally gotten it back to where it's somewhat readable, but it still isn't the greatest. It's a work in progress so bear with me.

I've had VH1 on in the background (you don't wanna know what awful show is on) and every other commercial is about Rob Thomas' new cd that comes out in two weeks. Sirius is already overplaying "Her Diamonds" but I can't help but crank it up every time it comes on. Video's kinda weird, but here it is. Do you recognize the actress?

1st Pair of Converse Shoes

Hadley has needed a pair of new brown shoes for a while now so I took advantage of a 30% off coupon at Baby Gap. Hadley is the proud new owner of a pair of brown Converse shoes. Yay! She really wasn't in the mood to take pictures before going to daycare this morning, but I had to try.

Not sure what why she's pushing her butt out in this picture. Is that some new modeling pose I'm not aware of?

Easter Pics

Way too many posts I need to catch up on, but too tired to do so. So here are a few of the very few Easter pictures we took.

Here's Hadley not wanting her picture to be taken. She ran to the stove and refused to turn around. Stinker!

Trying to get a self-portrait of the 2 of us. Apparently the orange glow of the camera is too bright for Miss Thang's sensitive eyes and we end up with the cheesy face.

Once again, it must be the orange light on the camera that caused this picture to turn out this way. I do believe the year is 2009 and not 1979!

Hadley the ham. She was probably singing "Kinkle Kinkle" to me, which when translated means "Twinkle Twinkle." That song, the Itsy Bitsy Spider, and Head&ShouldersKnees&Toes are her favorites lately.

Blizzard

Due to the blizzard outside this morning, when I called my boss to tell him I was going to be extremely late, he told me to turn around and work from home today. WOOHOO!

It looked like this outside...



But inside, Hadley and I were wishing it was more like Spring in TX and she could finally wear some of her cute Spring clothes! So we changed her out of her turtleneck, sweater and warm jeans and played dress up.

She's looking at the "no" outside. She can say words that start with 's', but for some reason she won't say snow. I think she thinks it's another good excuse for her to say her word of the month, "no!" (It's either "no" or "mine" lately. Ugh.)

She still has her cold. We brought out the old-school booger sucker hoping that would help. We'll see. She's so stuffed up that "Mama" sounds like "Bama!"

Hadley's Got a Cold

Just look at this pitiful face...poor thing has a cold! Her eyes are all puffy and it's almost amazing how far the snot flies when she sneezes. She feels a little warm, but no fever yet. We'll see how she is when she wakes up in the morning.

Adrian was headed out the door for work and decided to show a little "pitiful face" support for his Hadley Bean.

Then I tried to get them both to smile for the camera and all I got from Hadley was the stink eye. Poor baby...