Story Time

Kyren reading to Ben. He had to tell Ben to just sound it out. Ben is almost up to a third grade reading level, You go babe!

Mission Impossible

It was next to impossible to get a good photo of the three of them. They were all tired from a long Thanksgiving day in addition to them not wanting to sit still so we need to have a retake day like they do in school.

this is a picture of the Berry side of the Grand-girls. they sat Clememtine on Charleigh's lap so all you see is the back of her head. I was working with amateur's, a bunch of rookies! We will try for more.

The theme of this picture is scared of family. Get it?

She had to go see ya-ya as soon as we got there.

Clementine is 8 months old.

This is Kyren and his friends/neighbors. They stayed with us over Thanksgiving b/c their uncle died suddenly and their mom had to fly home. They were such great kids. Charleigh LOVES Juliana and spent just about every waking second with her.

Everyone home for Thanksgiving

This is the table Charleigh loved! It kept her entertained for long periods of time. When she saw it in the trunk of the car she cried for me to get it out but she doesn't love it like she used to so it was time to give it to someone who could give it the love it deserved. Charity called and said Clementine loves it too. The night before Thanksgiving we had three kids and two babies so they wasn't a dull moment.

Mom said that she "took it back" and Charleigh though she said she took a bath so she said"bath! bath!" She still loves her bath time, she has since she was like 4 or five months old. Sometimes I cringe when she wants her bath because I know I will be in there for at least an hour.

Clean girls after their baths with grandpa.

Giving Thanks.....

I tried to get everyone in the picture, but it was impossible. There were about 30 people so I decided that this was as good as it was going to get. We had a great Thanksgiving despite the freezing cold weather.

The day revolved around babies and kids.

We tried to get a few pictures of the babies and some families(I will post them later) This one had to go up now, because it was too funny not to share. Rick is holding Kyren still while Clementine rips his hair out, and he keeps a smirk on his face the whole time.
This is one of the many babies born to our family and friends. This is my cousin Tasha, and her baby Chyeanne, she is 3 months old.

Sweet November....

Anytime Charleigh goes outside the neighbor lady gives her a cookie. Which Charleigh usually takes a bite out of and then brings them to me, unless they are the wafer cookies then she eats every last crumb. Charleigh will go to the fence and show Carol her toys and play peek-a-boo with her anytime she is in the front yard. In the top picture she is being a little shy and hiding behind her cookies.

Getting ready to swing!

Running to get Dora so she can swing too!

Making the most of a nice day.

In between raking leaves she had to swing. She likes to give her Dora doll a turn. She pushes her and sings and talks to her. She is really into playing mommy with her dolls.

Her cute lil ponytail!

The day after Halloween I bought Charleigh this Elmo costume for her to play in. She treated it just her shark costume she thought she would run around and scare everyone. Who knew Elmo was so scary?

GOSH!!!!

Charleigh wearing Ben's Napolean Dynomite wig. She even had on the brown blazer to go with it.

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Are you drinking 1% because you think you're fat?"

Sittting in the kitchen eating rasins with Grandma

Showing off her cowgirl boots

One of her favorite pastimes is looking at pictures. She has to look at every picture. We need to work on her fashion sense she likes to wear her cowgirl hat with her pajamas, well she likes to wear her cowgirl hat with anything.

This is her new face, her frown which she doesn't give very often. Sometimes when she is confused she does it. Sometimes when she is trying really hard to be mad she breaks it out and it always makes me laugh.

Her new favorite place to sit is under a table in the living room on a wicker box. This time I think she is frowning, wondering why I am taking her picture.