ethan laughing.

32 Months

My baby girl is 32 months old- I wish I would do these post every month so I could look back and keep track of all of this stuff. I'm going to try. Audrey has grown up so much lately, being so helpful and listening some of the time. This is what is going on lately:

• You are sleeping so much better, maybe once a week you get up and come into our room at 5am, we pull you into the bed and you sleep the rest of the morning in between us, I love it. We still have to leave the light on and the door open, but we have been able to turn the rain/waves sound on and we close the door when we go up to bed.
• You eat great, starting to get picky about some things you used to eat though. You still don't like onions. your favorite right now is macaroni and cheese and pizza- so healthy :)
• You are such a repeator, You told ethan the other day 'do not crumple that paper, ethan I am not going to tell you again, do not crumple that paper.' Something I know I have told you :)
• We have to spell so many words now, you are too smart
• You are terrified of the dogs again, getting in hysteria sometimes over it. I have no idea what happened recently to prompt this.
• You are in timeout mostly for hitting ethan and us. but you go to time out and then apologize.
• You were 100% potty trained for a while and now all of the sudden you are having accidents again. You still sleep in a diaper for naps and nighttime.
• Dressing you is near impossible, you won't wear anything we pick out, I just open the drawer now and let you pick your own outfits out.
• You hate socks and usually have them off before we even get to school. Summer will be so much easier for that.
• You have been refusing to wear a coat now too.

You make us smile everyday and make us very frustrated most days too :) Its all worth it.

13 Months

I can't believe Ethan is 13 months old already and we still haven't gotten his '1 year' picture taken, well I've tried a few times myself but can't seem to get a good one.  Here are some things you are up to now:

• You have a great appetite lately, you may be 20 lbs by now, you are a little thing thats for sure
• You are the pukiest thing I have ever seen. At least 2 times a week you throw up. Today you did twice. You get all worked up crying and then start coughing and end up puking, its just lovely.
• You love it outside and get terribly upset when we bring you inside (then throw up)
• You are walking like a champ, you have even attempted running a few times too.
• you eat all foods now
• You are drinking your whole milk out of a sippy for everything except your last bottle
• You are in size 3 diapers
• You wear 6-9 month pants and 12 month shirts
• But you still fit some 6 month onesies.
• You get up in the night pretty regularly, not every night, but when you do it doesn't surprise me.
• You have two teeth on the bottom and 3-4 on the top, one popped out but its like it went back up in your gums now.
• You hate to be changed.
• You can say ball and if I tell you to go get your ball you know what I mean and go get a ball.
• You adore Audrey but are starting to get annoyed that she constantly steals your toys and pushes you out of the way. You like to chase her and try to get your toys back though.
• You like to pull hair, especially Audreys.
• You put your hands up in the air real tight against your head when you want us to pick you up, its so cute.
• You still prefer Mommy most of the time, but sometimes its Daddy now.
• You love to play in Murphys cage
• Everyone tells us you are 'all boy' you take a lickin and just keep going- and you are climbing everything

He is such a joy and change to the household, I can't wait to see whats ahead with him, I'm hoping its not the ER :)

Survivor: Redemption Island

After week one, I'm afraid Junior got the bad draw...but who knows it could change. I can't believe Rob and Russell are back AGAIN, they MUST be getting paid for this, like guaranteed $100k or something- cause its probably for ratings (which I guess were horrible) but still. I HATE Russell, can't wait to see him GO!

Becky - Andrea & Sarita
Carrie - Natalie & Phillip
Cath - Krista & Matt
Dave - Steve & Russell
Emily - Ralph & David
Faye - Rob & Mike
Junior - Kristina & Francesca
Mike - Ashley & Stephanie
Ryan - Grant & Julie

Dressing yourself

Audrey now insists on what she is going to wear, if i pick something out, she starts crying no! i want another shirt/pants. so i now open the draw and say what do you want to wear. she has boycotted her jeans and i think its because she need help when going the bathroom in jeans. but it makes me sad because she looks so cute in jeans, but i understand. she thinks it's summer too with the short sleeve shirts. its not worth fighting this fight. but i am going to document this so she knows she choose these outfits, not me :)

Princesses and Pirates...

Today we went to another birthday party for one of audreys classmates, when we walked into the place the birthday girl ran up to Audrey gave her a hug and then another little boy bombarded her with another hug and she burst into tears...i was like 'here we go again...' shes not the most social person so I feel like we need to go to these events to get her used to these situations. but I'll admit at the moment I was worried maybe we shouldn't have come.
There was open play time in the slide room and she wouldn't go in, Ethan was more than willing to roam in. She eventually warmed up and had a blast and didn't want to go home. Pheew, I made the right choice.  There were two little boys who were dressed as pirates, it was so adorable, i think Ethan should be a pirate this coming Halloween now. they gave all the girls pink crowns, bracelets and star wands and the boys got eye patches, pirate hats and swords. they were very nice and even gave Ethan a sword and hat. he also LOVED the cupcake as did Audrey. It was an awesome place in the little eclectic museum part of Richmond. 5 stars to this place so sure.

We first got there audrey was pretty timid, notice ethan was NOT

This was the slide area

Musical Instrument time..audrey was sitting on the couch with me, she can be shy sometimes

She warmed up though

Ahoy Mate!

The pirates eating their cupcakes

The princess eating their cupcakes

Ethan loved it :)