Talents, byes and baby carriers!

While I was straightening Ella Kate's hair in my bathroom the other day, she was talking to me through the bathroom mirror, " mom, did you know that this hand has TWO talents?" She is raising her right hand at me. "Oh, yeah?" I ask. "Yes, ma'am. I can write and snap with It. But, THIS hand (raising her left) doesn't have any talents."



Adalyn loves our cell phones. She calls them a "bye". She is a sneaky little booger and grabs the "bye" and scurries off before we snatch it back. Just last night, I saw where she had taken a self portrait on my phone. Hilarious. She isn't even two yet! The times, they are a changing!


While unloading groceries the other night, I asked bill where Levi was. The other kids were helping unload all of the bags from the car, but I didn't see Levi anywhere. Just then, bill turns around and shows me how he stuffed Levi in his sweatshirt. When you run out of hands, you get creative:)

Update

I decided to make a conscious effort this weekend and feed Levi baby food/ rice cereal 3 times a day and would you know, he slept over 10 hours that night! Poor little guy WAS hungry! You would think that after 5 kids, I wouldn't hate the baby food phase as much as I do... But I guess I better suck it up! Especially if I am wanting to sleep at night again:) sweet boy! He never fusses or seems hungry during the day, but after all of these sleepless nights out of nowhere, I knew it had to be something!


I also wanted to remember a conversation Ella Kate told me she had with her teacher a few weeks ago: "momma, mrs. Kroger didn't even know I had another baby brother! She said, 'wow! You have 5 children in your family? Your mom sure is a GREAT mom to stay home with all of those children.' But i just smiled at her and said, yeah... she tries her best!" :)





Here is a picture from my birthday this weekend!


Having small kids sure does make birthdays super special! Bill took them to the dollar store and let them pick me out a few surprises including: a pizza cutter, Gatorade, a back scratcher, Heath bar, Cheetos to share with them:), Tupperware, hair clippies and a pink sweatshirt! They were so excited and so proud of their gifts!


Bill wanted to take me to the movies and out to eat, but I couldn't do it. First of all, I am so cheap. It is a total rip off to go to the theaters now, and I could not enjoy myself knowing that we wasted that much money. Besides, everything eventually comes to redbox and we can rent it for a dollar. Secondly, you don't really have people begging to watch your kids for you when you have 5 of them so small:) we only have a couple of people that we feel could handle them all without it being overwhelming or stressful. They are GREAT kids, (don't get me wrong) but there are a bunch of them, which makes it hard to get a sitter. Splitting them up and finding a couple of people to watch them, didn't sound appealing either. And besides.. We never leave them. Like, ever! We will have plenty of time for date nights when they are older and don't need us as much. We enjoy spending time with them, and miss them the second that we are apart. So we just ordered Olive Garden to-go and had a fun family night playing board games:) I loved every minute of it!


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It has been 7 weeks..

It has been SO long since my last post, and I don't even know where to start! I will share that this sweet little fella is already 7 months old! He is pure delight!! sweet levi is about 17 lb, and 29in long. In the 75%for weight and 85% for height. He wears 6 months clothes and size 3 diapers. He is SUCH a happy baby! Still nursing and tries to eat rice cereal twice a day (sometimes i forget) Still not my best sleeper. We have been off and on sick for the past 2 months and ever since then, he has stopped sleeping his 12 hours.. Now, it is almost guaranteed that he will wake up at some point between midnight and 2am, every night. ((Yawn)) but he is so easy and happy during the day, that I don't mind feeding him in the wee hours of the morning.. I mean, look at this sweet face:)

The other kids still adore Levi and he is beginning to giggle and laugh at them more and more. Makes my heart smile:)

Oh, Miley! She is STILL a hot mess:) a beautiful mess.. But, a mess nonetheless! She brings so much laughter to our family! She has a certain sass and bluntness about her, that it catches you off guard. She is not afraid to tell you how it is, and is also not afraid to hurt your feelings in the process:) she loves her daddy and cries every.single.morning when he goes to work. She loves dancing shoes, tutus, barbies, headbands, and lip gloss. She is also quick to tell the others when they are not being nice, "God don't like ugly!!"

Sweet, sweet jos! My easy, quiet, camera shy little helper boy! Tender and gentle and quick to obey! He loves his babies, and loves mommas new iPhone! If I would let him, he would play video games everyday. He has turned into my pickiest eater. Textures now bother him, and will gag at the slightest thing on his plate. However, he doesnt want to hurt my feelings, so he is always quick to thank me for making the food, even though he is gagging while he chews:) This boy is forever thirsty and can clean his room, as well as the whole house, in a jiffy!

A typical look for Miley:)

Jos loves sleeping in his daddy's t-shirts. This particular night, he tucked his teddy bear into his shirt by his neck to keep it warm:)

We went to lights of the south with my family one night and the kids loved the Christmas lights!

Here are all of the bigger cousins with Santa:)

A sweet friend made my girls these precious dresses for Christmas! I love them!

Adalyn, Adalyn, Adalyn! She is a mini version of Miley and to be honest, I am a little bit scared:) the fridge is her favorite "hang out". Just her size:) she is 21 months old and still only saying a handful of words. She is wearing 18-24mo size clothes, size 6 shoes and a size 5 diaper. She LOVES dancing shoes, babies, and snacks:) she calls Miley, "mi", Josiah, "si", Levi, "wise" and Ella Kate, "momma". She can also say daddy, no, shoes, juice, holdoo (hold you), baby cwyin (someone is crying), sissy, yaya, yesh (yes) chiz (cheese), side (outside), doggy, yay, more, ha bow (hair bow), ect.. She loves to sing the itsy, bitsy spider and Justin Bieber's song Baby. She also loves to dance and spin herself around and around until she gets dizzy and falls into furniture. She is attached to my hip 24/7 and is still SUPER shy around other people. She loves to cheese for the camera.

Miley tucks her nightgown into a skirt or tutu every night

It took Levi forever to find our Christmas tree.. But he did, and he enjoyed taking off all of the bows:)

Miley and Eve.. Christmas Day.

Ella Kate... Our little momma. She loves to help me in the kitchen or with the babies. She thrives on making us happy! She caters to Adalyn and dotes on her often. If she wants to be held, or to eat a snack or play with a certain toy, Ella Kate is the one she wants:) she is super crafty and creative. Always making us masterpieces and taping them to the walls or fridge. She wants her hair in a ponytail everyday and insists on wearing blue jeans... Nothing else! With the help of Poppa on Christmas Day, she worked up the courage to pull her first tooth! She was so excited.. And looks SO big, now!

Ready to put it under her pillow:)

Daddy caught the tooth fairy in her bed that night!

Christmas 2012

Adalyn on Christmas Eve at Nana Nan's. she loved that baby and sat here so sweetly for the longest time:)

Our lights on our Christmas tree went out after a week or so of being up.. I am so glad I took some pics of it before hand..

My little sunshine..

Loves his daddy!!

Miney moe on picture day at preschool!

More Christmas pictures..

Look at how similar Josiah and Levi look at 6 months old... Crazy! I love it!

The davis family on Christmas Eve 2012.

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Our life through photos

..........................COULD HE BE ANY CUTER????..........................








We enjoyed a fun market downtown one cool morning.











Halloween 2012 (4,5,18mo, 6, 5mo)


Behind the scenes of the decorating:)





Dopey has found out he likes to suck his toes!


Each of our kids sponsored less fortunate children for Christmas. We were provided with a book bag, and the kids were each given the chance to buy things that they thought their little boy or girls would like. It was so fun! We even laid hands on the bag and each kid said a special prayer for that specific child. This will be a tradition we continue forever!


Sweet Hilley cousin babies. Levi 5 months, Coleman 10 months. Sweet, sweet!


All of the Hilley cousins.
Ellie, Miley, Levi, Eve, Coleman, Josiah, Adalyn, Ella Kate, Clara Bet.
Pure madness with 9 cousins born in 5 years.. But they will always have a buddy.. Or an enemy:)





Our mornings still involve sweet Bristol. She and Levi will be getting into trouble together in no time!


And we were "spotted" at the fair? The first family portrait in a long time:)