Hannahisms: edited to make more sense

I swear, four years old is definitely one of the funnest ages. There are no inhibitions and the cutest things come out of their mouths..Here's some of Hannah's recents....

she calls a statue a statua...Brandon explains the difference between spatula and statue, she could care less.

and her prayers are priceless, here are a couple
"please let Heavenly Father care about things that are funny and laugh at things that are funny and not things that are sad and bad". :)

"please help those people that don't have houses and help us to give our house to them and then we can get a house with stairs"

she was in our bed the other morning after a particularly cranky day for her and we sent her to bed early (read I layed down with her to make sure she was alseep before 8), when I woke her up she yawned and said "see mom I yawned, that means I need more sleep so I'm not cranky"

the day before this same particular morning..it was a school night and the kids asked Brandon if they could sleep outside and of course he said no..

so a few minutes after Hannah's cranky comment..she very seriously said. "Mom when daddy is your child and he's in your tummy and you're in charge, you let us sleep outside and there will be no more school days". I'm sure it was funnier coming from her, but not something I wanted to forget.

She calls McDonald's, Old McDonald's...she tries to remember the right thing, but always falls back on this. For the past few weeks she's been begging to go to Old McDonald's and I kept putting her off and last Friday they were going to my mom's so we got McDonald's before they headed out. Today we went to Sonic's happy hour and she's sipping her watermelon slushy and she says "Mommy, thank you for getting me Old McDonald's. It was SUPER sweet.

She calls me mama more often than anything else and it's kind of weird b/c I don't recall either of the other kids calling me that this late in the game. It's sweet and so Hannah.

She likes to look at books and very loudly tell the story as she sees it. It's really cute to watch.

I'm sure there are a million others and I'll try to keep better track of them. I watch her and see the "fourness" slipping away and it's pretty sad. I'd sure like to just bottle it up along an 8 and 10 year old I know. Parenting....hard, wonderful stuff.

A Decade

Cole is a decade old. How did that happen? Furthermore how is it that in another decade he'll be somewhere in the world on a mission? Actually we can fast forward to that part. As I understand it it's all up hill from here till then :( :( :(. Cole is a treasure, he's honest, can remember so well, particularly things he reads. He has the best sense of humor (which really just means he finds me funny and I really like that). He loves animals. He's a great writer..sample to come...and he still snuggles with me on occasion.in between video games, legos, heroscape, nerf and his greatest hero his dad---I'll take the in betweens. We had a low key bday because we had his friend party for his 10th during the summer. I"m sure we ate pigs in blankets, roasted potatoes, strawberry shortcakes and had a great time. Looking forward to seeing my little boy turn into a young man. I have no doubts that I will be astounded by who he becomes in the next decade.

Christmas 3 and final! :)

Christmas pics, Laura with the spinny wheel thingee and her red hair predecessor.
Cole with Halo legos that we heard about forever!
Cole with Santa hat and a weird look, but I like the pic
Laura...not sure what she's screaming and finally Hannah proving that it doesn't matter what you give them (at least four year olds)...she's holding a brush and she HATES getting her hair brushed!

Christmas 2

Christmas Eve we went to Mary's to celebrate her bday and eat, scrumptious food, play fun game (Farkle), back at home we read the Christmas story, opened the traditional one present and scooted kiddies off to bed,. Well, one kiddie then we had two helpers. I think Laura enjoyed it. We didn't don our kerchief and cap until 2:00 am and of course the kids were up at 6:00, I'm proud to say we were right there with them.

I have no idea why we're hugging (maybe the Christmas pjs), but I love the picture :)

feigning sleep (can you see the giggles coming forth?)

They're ready for Christmas morning...bring it on (if only mommy and daddy were)

After Santa came...Hannah calls these the "set ups"

Santa doesn't wraps, but names are necessary, cause great goodness if he didn't

and I happen to know this little house gave Santa some trouble in more ways than one

Christmas 1

We pretty much failed on taking pics during the month of december

The Sunday before Christmas at my mom's

Christmas Eve in Florida...short sleeves and pillow pets from pa paw (that's mountainese for Grandpa/daddy).

and...Batting

talking over wood and planning to organize it all, we did that new year's day woohoo

running

biking

swinging



pa paw :)

Our cat snuggled up under the Christmas tree :)..I forgot he was there and was tossing presents on him. apparently he didn't mind.

More Christmas to come :) :) :)...where is the dislike button for uploading pics to blogger????

Kidnapped!

These two children were taken from their school with a surprise visit to the library (to kill time). Also wondering why their little sister got to stay at GRandma's and they didn't. Then they were blindfolded and told no secrets could be revealed of their destination(s). As the evidence above proves they were miserable, begging, giddy, itchy (Laura), restless, dying to know their location. They are finally able to exit the van and hear a familiar sound and ask if it's daddy (the hard to disguise sound of the yoda) and I tell them it's a motorcyle. We enter a door and they smell smells and ask them to guess, they're not sure and it's ....Wendy's! One of their favorite places to eat AND yes their daddy is there (bad timing on my part). We all enjoy a meal together and we ask them if it was worth being kidnapped and they're ho hum.

We leave Wendy's and tell them they have to put on the blindfolds....again!!! dun dun dun dun (or however that goes). By the way, Cole guesses within the first few guesses of where we're going, but me knowing Cole tell them right off I will not tell them even if they guess right (ruin my fun.. I don't think so). So they're giddy, restless and such again and we end up at the movies. Not something we do especially new releases. You have lay down some serious dough for that business. But I happened upon some cheapish cereal boxes with movie passes for every two you bought. I cut them out and tucked away the boxes so they wouldn't be suspicious. We went to see the third Narnia movie. It was really good. C.S. Lewis = awesomeness.

And then it was over, although of course we teased them about putting on the blindfolds again. They said they enjoyed being kidnapped. I love to surprise them...so much fun! Have to start working on my next one ;)

Oh and Hannah nanna had a great time at mom's. We certainly would've kidnapped her too, but she's pretty much scared of her own shadow, which is fine, but Narnia and she would not mix. She got her own surprise with starting the morning thinking she was going to school when she didn't want to and ended up going to Grandma's so it was good for her too.

Rewind

We actually started December with a Carnegie Hall performance at the Ricks Hall. Cole and Laura have done really well with piano...says I, but I'm just their mom, I suppose. Laura played Up on the House Top and Cole played Joy to the World and did a duet with Brandon of Away in a Manger. They both can play their numbers well and know them by heart. Everytime they pass the piano they have to play them. Laura has learned Away in a Manger and has somehow managed to learn to play the first part of the Olympics song, we assume by ear. Brandon thinks it's from hearing him hum it...go figure...Julliard here we come :).

awesome piano teacher, Nicole and Cole and Laura


us...

and making it's debut on the Porter Point of View ;)

is video..

expect lots more, mostly for blood kin, don't bore yourself with our home videos

cause it's usually only interesting if there's some close relation

Laura Porter

Up on the House Top

Cole Porter and Brandon Porter

Away in a Manger

and Cole Porter

Joy to the World