Tea Party with Mom

A Blog from H-J

Monday, Tuesday and Thursday nights Daddy has to go to this place called school so Mommy and I get to play and have some special alone time.  Well for Valentines Day before I was even born my Great Aunt Mer got me this really cool tea pot set that sings and plays sounds and it so much fun.  Well I am now old enough to play with it and so mom and I spent 45 min playing tea party and having so much fun. 

Sitting on my own waiting for mom to open my Tea Party Box

Hmmmmm what is this?  Sure is pretty!

I needed a closer look so I rolled onto my tummy for a better look!

Man with all that playing I needed dinner and Mom needed a few moments of relaxation. 

Love Hannah-Joy

 (with a little help from Mom)

Sometimes We Just Need Mom!!!

So as many of you know Mom  always has time to stop her to day to pray with us kids and to calm us down when we have our days of trials and tribulations.

This last Sunday we got up and got ready for church and everything was going great. I fed H-J and she is now eating solids 3 times a day so she was full of yummy oatmeal and was laughing and playing and having a great time. We get to church and Bev signs Micah in and Brian signs H-J into the nursery and they hand us the pager and away we go to service. About 10 min into the sermon the pager goes off. I immediately jump up to go see what is going on. I get through the church doors and before I even get to the second set of doors I hear H-J screaming….as a mom you know your babies cry and you know what type of cry and usually know what they need. This was a cry that I have never heard before, I get through the doors and the head nursery lady was walking with H-J trying to calm her down and she was not having it. The very sweet nursery lady was explaining that they tried everything to calm her down and she just was not calming down. I scooped her up in my arms and she started to do the big breath after a hard sob, she snuggled into me and just held on for dear life after a moment she smiles and let out a giggle and seemed to be ok. Turns out she needed her mommy and no one else; I must say I had a little bit of a proud moment as this was the first time that she truly wanted mommy and no one else.

God has blessed us with a very special little girl and I look forward to many more moments of being mom and her needing me as she gets older.

It also made me think about my mom and how important she is in my life. Almost every day on my way home I call my mom to see how her day is going and to talk. This is a special time for me as it is the end of the day and I am usually on my way home to Hannah-Joy. The day I had H-J I remember waiting for my Mom to get to the hospital and the moment she arrived there was a sense of peace and I knew that everything was going to be ok. So even at 28 years old I have moments where I need my mommy and no one else with do.

Mom I know I don’t say this enough but I love you and thank you for always taking care of me. I know that if I ever truly need you that you would do everything in your power to get to me because I am your daughter and we all need our moms.

H-J and Mommy

My Mommy and I

H-J has always had a love hate relationship with her swing. When she was really little the only way we could get her to sleep was in her swing, there were nights when Mom would walk out and see Brian or I asleep on the couch with Hannah-Joy wrapped up and snuggled in her swing asleep. Well when she got to be about 2 months old she hated her swing every time we would put her in it she would get frustrated and scream and cry so we put it away. This weekend we rearranged the house and made a little play room for H-J and all of her stuff since we had baby toys and dog toys scattered around the house and it was not working well we put her swing in the playroom and now all of a sudden she loves her swing again.


The best part is she can take little naps and I know she is safe while I am making dinner or cleaning up a mess. Yesterday evening after a busy afternoon playing with Aunt Bevie and her cousin Micah she needed a nap so of course Mom had to be right there with the camera.

What we  like to call power napping!

Our Sweet Little Sleeping Beauty!

Peek-A-Boo

It has been a very long week in the Berthon household....

H-J has been teething and she is beyond cranky and I am tired from the lack of sleep.  With Grandma (GG) being on the mend, H-J has been staying with her Aunt Bevie while mommy and daddy are at work.  Aunt Bevie has done a great job with alos taking care of Micah her 2 year old as well as H-J.

Nana plays the ear game with Micah so he decided it would be fun to play the ear game with H-J and needless to say she was having fun and so was he....

Since H-J has been teething she is very unhappy but she decided to take a short nap yesterday and this is how we found her. 

Oc course we had to move the blanket to get the perfect picture of our little princess.  One of the very vew pics we have of her sleeping.

Loves and hugs from all of us

Brian, Amanda and H-J

Why Women Cry...

Why Women Cry...

A little boy asked his mother, "Why are you crying?" "Because I'm a woman," she told him.

"I don't understand," he said. His Mom just hugged him and said, "And you never will."

Later the little boy asked his father, "Why does mother seem to cry for no reason?"

"All women cry for no reason," was all his dad could say.

The little boy grew up and became a man, still wondering why women cry.

Finally he put in a call to God. When God got on the phone, he asked, "God, why do women cry so easily?"

God said: "When I made the woman she had to be special. I made her shoulders strong enough to carry the weight of the world, yet gentle enough to give comfort. I gave her an inner strength to endure childbirth and the rejection that many times comes from her children. I gave her a hardness that allows her to keep going when everyone else gives up, and take care of her family through sickness and fatigue without complaining. I gave her the sensitivity to love her children under any and all circumstances, even when her child has hurt her very badly. I gave her strength to carry her husband through his faults and fashioned her from his rib to protect his heart. I gave her wisdom to know that a good husband never hurts his wife, but sometimes tests her strengths and her resolve to stand beside him unfalteringly. And finally, I gave her a tear to shed. This is hers exclusively to use whenever it is needed." "You see my son," said God, "the beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair.

The beauty of a woman must be seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart - the place where love resides."

Daddy's Little Girl

Happy Monday Everyone!!!




It is no secret that all little girls adore there daddy’s my daddy and I have an amazing relationship and he has always been one of my best friends, well H-J is no exception. Watch out daddy I think someone has you wrapped around her little finger

My Daddy and I

H-J and her Daddy

Our Weekend

This past week has been a crazy week to say the least, Great Grandma (GG) went into the hospital lastWednesday with horrible stomach pain, the doctors orrignially thought that it was her gaul bladder but found out later that due to her taking an asprin for her heart every day she has the start of 4 ulcers.  The good news is with the help of new meds she will be ok.  One of the other things that we found out is her blood presure (bp) has been extreamly high and they are working very hard to get that under control. None the less she was finally realeased after 4 days in the hospital and is feeling weak but she is a fighter and will be just fine for the time being. Thank good ness because H-J loves being at GG's house while mommy and daddy are at work.

With all the stress of GG being in the hospital, mommy decided that this weekend would be a great time to get into shape, so we decided to start walking every night to help her get healthy and daddy is always along for the fun since we need a photographer.

Mommy and Daddy bought me a New Jeep for walking!

Playing in my new Jeep!

Mommy and I look how happy Mommy is since she is walking and getting healthy.  She also loves my new Jeep since the walk around Town Lake is all gravel having the new jogger makes life eiser on mommy.

One of the exciting things to do in Austin is to see the bats that live under the Congress Street Bridge.  Mommy and Daddy decided that last night would be a great night to see the bats, along with a ton of other people. 

Look at all these people and no bathrooms!

Not enough room on the grass so people lined up on the bridge! 

Seeing the bats truly is the one cool thing that we have in Austin. 

on our walk home Daddy took the time to take a beautiful picture of the Austin sky line.  What a wonderful evening that we had as a family just the 3 of us.

Morning Time w/ Daddy

Yesterday morning right before I left for work, H-J and daddy were having some bonding time so of course me being the sentimental mom I had to get some pictures of my beautiful baby girl with her wonderful daddy.


It’s times like this that truly make my heart melt and know that I am very lucky to be married to the man that God gave me, a man who is a great father and a wonderful husband.

Daddy and H-J playing before work

Since mommy leaves for work so early, daddy gets to give me my morning cuddles as well as my morning bottle.

One of my favorite things to do is eat but I am always a lady even while I eat.