Our busy bee!

Halle has been so busy lately!  I am so proud of how hard she works at school and balances all of her outside activities.  She always has funny things to say.  She made up a new joke...."What did the pickle say to the hamburger?"  "You're HAM-larious!".  :-)  Makes me giggle!!  She has been making up new dances to songs, working on her back handsprings, doing a lot of crafts, planning her birthday party, and bonding with her sister.  She had a decaf mocha the other day (like mother like daughter) and she said "I think this mocha is making me overreact!" because she was in a chatty mood. Then she said, "mom, I think your mocha is making you under-react."  :-)  So funny!  She is so dramatic and I wouldn't have it any other way. The other day she got dressed for school and looked in the mirror and said, "I'm smokin' hot!".  She keeps us all sane and everything in perspective.  I love her.

                                                                      SNOW DAY!!! 

Playing a clown fish in the school musical!!! The forced smile is the humiliation of mom taking a picture of her in her class room in front of her friends. :-)

National Qualifying Cheer Competition in Des Moines!  Placed 3rd and received a bid to Nationals!

Greg and Landri have maybe seen enough cheer this year. :-)

Peace to all for a safe and happy holiday!

"This is going pretty smoothly!!"

Halle is always full of one liners that keep everything in perspective for me.  The other night we watched my friend's two kids; one age 4 and one just 2 months older than Landri.  I looked around our living room to what seemed to be complete chaos with the four kids (one toddling everywhere ....like everywhere, everywhere and one crawling.... everywhere, another bouncing off the couch, and Halle practicing her cheer routine.  Halle perks up in the midst of it all after doing a round off in the living room and said "wow, this is going pretty smoothly!".  And really it was!  In the end we got to spend GREAT time with two kids that I adore and don't get to see often enough and we escaped with only two cuts and a slightly bruised nose.  Not bad - no trips to the ER and everyone was happy and speaking to each other at the end of the night!


Another "pretty smooth" moment....we went yesterday to an appointment at the UIHC with Landri thinking they were mostly just checking her ears for fluid.  Good news is that NO fluid in the left ear (the newbie, with no surgeries), but still some in the right (the ear that we already had surgery on). So TOMORROW on Greg's birthday they are going to implant Landri's left ear!  They then hope to finish the surgery on the right ear by the end of the year.  With this awesome news Landri should be hearing (in her left ear) by her first birthday - which is also Thanksgiving Day!  I will post more very soon on how AWESOME Landri did in surgery and also what our process is going to be from here.  I will also do my very best to get better at posting pics on here.


WOW - This IS all going pretty smoothly!  :-)  How blessed are we.