Hadley Happenings

Old sayings collected over the past few years. Better late than never!

• Sneaks food into places. LaCroix into restaurant, LaCroix and oatmeal pie into Wed night church!
• Now what’s the point of them moving? (Maddie and Courtney)
• Told me she wants a light blue robe for her bday. Then said, “Tell the whole family.”
• “I’m not putting it on, I’m just gonna wear it like a beard.” (Face mask)
• Pushed the “on” button on the flat iron and said, “That little red light just came alive.”
• My feet are just clouding on it (hovering over it)
• You know what you can say if someone tells you a compliment that’s not nice? (an insult!)
• Told me, “I love you and I’m not afraid to admit it”!
• Grizzles! (Gristle)
• I’m a fierce woman; I fight for my kingdom.
• “Yawning leads to yawning and laughing leads to laughing”
• Why do we have to dress up? I don’t even do drugs…(referring to dress up days during red ribbon week; the point is about drug awareness!)
• Song lyrics: bring your heartaches, bring your burdens. H heard: bring your heartaches, bring your butt in…
• Told Jake about her math at school (he tried to encourage her to work hard/pay attention): “It’s hard math…like, you probably wouldn’t be able to do it.”
• Had great time at OCC party, but wanted me at dinner. Not fun. “Then, it just stopped being boring!”
• Didn’t know how to spell her middle name. Told Jake, “I don’t know! Mama forgot to tell me!”
• “There’s no mud at extended day. Except for this little dip…a little chip dip…it gets real dippy” (ditch!)
• Wrote in devotion journal her goal about how often to do quiet time: every day, non stop.
• “Agh! Collins! There’s a rock coach on your backpack, crawling!”
• Danced to “open the door, get on the floor” and I asked how she knew that. “I don’t know, I just learned it from hippies.”
• “Beast your eyes…” (feast)
• “I like it at first but at the end it hits you down low” (about black coffee)
• Calls the woods the forest 
• Told her some people don’t like cotton candy and that I don’t love it because it’s sticky. She gasped and said, “Don’t judge it!”
• Referred to a memory foam pillow as slow rising.
• Tasted a wedding cookie: “It’s good, but the pecans are taking advantage.”
• “It’s kinda overwhelming if you think about it.” About Christmas candlelight service 💗
• “Oh muck fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh”
• Woke me up saying there was a wasp in the room looking right at her: We were cooking and it has a wasp recipe and we opened up the box and it came right out (convinced it was real!)
• Beffridge (beverage)
• “Did you know that pickles were really cucumbers back in the old days?”
• I promised myself I’d win (about the UA baseball game)
• I told Hadley that Haylee had to give blood three times to try to find out if the baby’s a boy or girl. She was concerned and said, “She’s gonna get drunk…”
• She said her Sunday School lesson was about Moses…I asked, what about him? “He baptized Jesus and a duck landed on his head; not a duck, a swan.” (John the Baptist/dove!)
• We got ice cream at DQ: “Happy Tastes Good” (their commercial)
• “I threw my shirt on there but then I took it off and put it on a hook (hanger) to keep it clean.”
• “We like your cooking we just don’t like the food.” As gentle as she could manage!
• “I heard the tires screech and I heard my heart sink.” (when a car almost hit us)
• I was scratching H’s back and she was telling me exactly where to go/scratch. Finally she said, “Now, just…freestyle.”
• About Christmas pjs: “I notice two things wrong…Santa Claus has a red nose and the snowman has a yellow beak.” 🤣 I laughed and she said, “Add that to your funny list!” (So I am!)
• Watching Swiss Family Robinson: “Right between the buttered buns!”
• Tells me to, “Search up (x)” on my phone. 
• Thought sautéed meant too much salt (when she had swollen fingers after a beach trip)
• Legit thought/told Grammy she thought the King of Rock-n-Roll was Snoop Dog!
• “I’m glad God made boys to propose because I would never find the time and I am NOT kneeling.”
• Accidentally called hay bales “hill barrels.”
• Saw an old beat up truck and said, “That truck has…tried its best”!
• “I’m so confuzzled.”
• Likes the Watsons or Thomases (Waltons) and Little Prairie on the Hill (Little House on the Prairie”)
• “God, please help me understand what weed is.” (Hopefully to avoid it!)
• Told her I think she has a black head on her nose: “Why do you call it a black kid?” (Sounds like that when you say it fast!)
• “Cindy Hulu” (Cindy Loo Hoo from The Grinch)
• Calls a blood pressure cuff a “pig pumper” (bc of the sound it makes!
• Kissed my foot and told me my toes taste smoky. 
• Ront Mose (Mont Rose)
• Reading a show’s cast, pronounced Phoebe as “Poboy.”
• “I am the cold bark tree” really-“I am the cold hard truth” (George Jones song)
• ESPN said: odds to win the division. H: who would want to do that?!
• Gave me a pedicure and said: “I love helping people in need like you.”
• “I just got the best news for my brain.”
• “Did y’all know I know how to get to five places: day camp, home, school, church, TCBY?” (The essentials!)
• June 2023: found out about Santa, etc. 
• Heard something squeak and said it needed ADHD-40 (WD-40)
• “Daddy said you’re a water nerd.” (she meant water snob because I am picky about the taste!)
• “There’s a little bit of summer left on that tree.” 
• “Hand waist” (wrist)
• “I’m getting my lawyer - Maw.” 
• “Hildan has a fever temper.” (fever virus)

2021 Christmas Card

 

Hadley Happenings

• "How long did it take me to get down here?" (She meant, what time did I wake up?)
• Said the corona virus came from, "China or like a goat or something."
• Said a (real) tiger on YouTube had Down Syndrome she thinks.
• Told her I couldn’t get the pic MawMaw sent to download. “Just download the free app...today.”
• "I don’t know if God’s skinny or not...bc he doesn’t have to work out."
• "They don’t like furry animals, but they’re furry!" (referencing men)
• Calls the bumps on the back of her knee "pearls" and her leg bending was like the clam shutting!
• Wants to make a place for kids to leave and go to when they have bad parents; like a shelter and there will be signs for kids to follow.
• Talks about adopting kids one day. A pretty good many of them!
• “I’m so glad I’m your mama” (corrected herself) “That would be chaos!”
• Said, “I asked Courtney and Ellie if they were Christians and they both said yes, so I can go to the creek with them, right?"
• I told her I didn’t like doughnuts that much any more, but I did when I was a kid. “Will that happened to me??”
• “Are you home?” When I didn’t answer her question because I was washing my face!
• I asked why we’re watching a YouTube show about a baby having a procedure and may have cancer. “Well, they read lots of books and they’re good people.”
• “It’s in a white bottle that’s green.” (has green on the bottle)
• Thought the man at the creek (7/7/20) said, “Have you ever heard of the coyote?” (He was really referencing the boy who cried wolf! This is when she got the police involved by screaming "Ellie!" over and over and the neighbor though she was saying "Help me!" Good gravy.)
• *Meant* “I have a song stuck in my head”...but she *said* “It’s so hard to give up a song”!
• "Oooh!! Take cover! China! Corona!" (When sitting outside and a bat flew over us!)
• We were given a bag of clothes from Ellie...me: ”I thought you were gonna wear the yellow and blue outfit?” H: “I am, I just wanted you to see my work.”
• Still refers to toenails as “shells”!
• “Oh, that’s a pretty backsplash!” (monogram decal on someone’s car)
• It took her a minute to realize Jake’s not a lumber jack. I asked why she thought that. “Well, he’s a wood man...” (he sells lumber!)
• Playing babies...”I haven’t fed Caroline in a long time...like since Georgia!”
• “Landon (another one of her babies) has a medical addition”(his eyelashes had to be glued back on)
• "I’m having personal difficulties."
• "Did they have chocolate milk when you were little?"
• "A different waterfall, not Fall Guns." (Dunn’s Falls)
• "Aww, it’s in a little bundle!" (when cookies are stacked)
• "Ellie has one like this (cardigan), but it’s white and it’s sewed." (I asked if she meant crocheted) "Yes, like, holes in it."
• "I’m really good at reading bacteria for some reason...and that’s like the second hardest word on the planet!"
• “All the kids were telling me happy birthday and I just felt joyful!”
• “This is a room for bacon, this room is for eggs, and there’s a little room over here for cookie cake!” She has multiple 'rooms' in her tummy. Not one big space, but a specific room for dessert. If no dessert yet, that room is vacant!
• "Ellie’s grandparents arrived." (Uses “arrived” all the time!)
• One day she had a bit of a tummy ache. So she says, “Am I drunk? Is that why it’s hurting?” We dealt with that. Later, “I think I have a baby in here.” So she was drunk and pregnant.
• Calls spit “mouth juice” and says the reason for that term is, “It’s part of my culture!”
• I was showering and knew she was looking at me, so I held my breath/asked if she had any questions. “About what?” “A grown up lady’s body.” “No ma’am...you’re not weird!” Good to know she didn't have weird on her mind. 
• About a cheesy, stringy omelet...”I tackled it with my tongue”!
• “I’m thinking about quittin’ my job and bein’ a hip hop person.” (prompted by the music at the flag football field...and who knows what else!)
• Jake and I took an anniversary trip to the beach-told her no kids because it's a romantic trip. “Are you saying Collins and I aren’t romantic?” Followed by, "What is romantic?"
• They were having popcorn for snack. I picked up H’s bowl so she could get situated and she thought I was taking it into the kitchen. She said, "That would be bad and I would act ‘dramatic.’" (in air quotes)
• Before I gave a beach souvenir to them, she got C’s attention and said, “Collins! We have an opportunity here!”
• "I had another successful day!" (What she told Jake when he came home from work!)
• "Aaron Judge...I’ve heard of him. Is he good?"
• "Why is there paper news in there?" (Newspaper...actually insulation in Grammy’s walls!)
•  Looking for shows to watch and saw Veggie Tales. Asked H if she’s ever watched that...if she liked it. “I didn’t like it when I was four and I don’t like it now.” And somehow that didn’t even come across sassy!
• On Trolls World Tour, called a coffin/casket “a dyin’ box”!
• Jake shaved his beard and H shamed him: “You’re almost 40 years old and you don’t have a beard...” She LOVES them!
• I asked, "Did you have a dream?" H: “No, but I know I did.”
• She thinks I drive a Tesla (sounds the same as Toyota!)
• Refers to the two freckles on her collarbone as her jewels!
• "That is so memorizing!" (mesmerizing)
• I asked, "Are you too hot or too cold?" H: "I’m too perfect."
• Her dolls are NOT dolls...they’re babies. Please don't mess this up.
• Said baby Stella Taylor’s hair is so “fragile”!
• I told her she needed to get rid of some babies in the bed and make more room...suggested Maggie go...”Are you calling her chunky??”
• “Mama...did you just cut in?” (When I switched lanes while driving...like cutting in line!)
• “He almost jumped!” When a bird flew close to the trampoline!
• She sat in her daddy’s lap crying and when asked what’s wrong said, “I feel like Mama is a little bit bossy to me.”
• "I can’t read fancy." (cursive)
• Trying to talk while I dried her hair: “Can you pause that? It makes me stop thinking.”
• "This is smooth as baby butt skin!"
• I asked how her spelling test went. "Good... I think I did beautiful."
• "I can’t find my jackpot..." (jewelry box)
• "I put these socks on and it’s a whole different world...like in a bad way!" (talking about the new socks that she, obviously, doesn't care for)
• She says some men are like a "hairy-potomous."

"I am riding around the neighborhood."

I don't even know. She assembled me.

Is that the cutest little runner you've ever seen or what?

Making a sign for the Pufahls!

We find handprints at the top of the stairs!

At Front Porch almost every Sunday!

While at a store she saw this oil painting and thought she recognized the artist. “Bob Ross...no...Lisa Frank.”

Maddie and Courtney used temporary dye on her hair!

Last time at All Fired Up before they closed :(

"So this is what it feels like!"

Happy 2nd Birthday to Maggie!

"H snack bag."

At gymnastics!

Spring picture day.

The best baseball sister!

When Adleigh and Madelyn came to visit!

During a tornado warning. 

Rex gets looped in to this at the ball field sometimes!

Off to the creek!

A note she made for Ms. Mary Helen, our children's director at church :) MH took her to get ice cream and talk about getting baptized (at H's prompting). 

She was playing with my hair at a baseball tournament and this is one of the styles she created. Ha!

Mary Helen!

Ellie came with me to pick up H from school one day :)

"Please! Can I bring Maggie to the creek? There is a way not to get her wet." I get these kinds of urgent messages when I'm on Zoom calls with students. 

Happy Birthday to Courtney!

I took this picture and H captioned it...she says it reads, 'flying'!

Getting ready to paint!

Maggie helping her mom cook breakfast for supper. The hats are off the ends of a rug I ordered! haha!

Celebrating after a good play! (softball)

Snow cone!

She made me this as part of my spa day outside on the patio. She also gave me pretzels with a flower in them and put a warm wash cloth over my face. 

More from the spa...here we have grass with a generous coating of bathroom air freshener sprayed on it.

How Hadley hunts.

Back right after we first moved in. These are all out of order!

Had and Ad! Just like in Mrs. Fanning's class :)

Practicing having shorter hair!

Heading to the creek with neighbors! I love how she runs :)

Waiting at the salon.

Pretty baby!

Playing at the Olivers'...this is one of their neighbors.

Hank sitting :(

Just the other day Hadley told us, "People think I'm a sweet little girl...which I am...but I'm also feisty on the inside." She truly can be feisty, like when there's even a perceived joke of a threat, but she's mostly sweet. Really, really sweet! And SO funny! She wears a size 2 in shoes and 7/8 in clothes. I think she's 60 lbs. In sum, she's perfect :)