Audrey was so cute today! She looked cute in her pink dress and silver shoes. And she let me put a bow in her hair for the first time in a long time, then kept it in all day, even during her nap!! Plus she was in the best mood and kept cracking us up all day long. Her newest thing is to say her name. It is just so adorable to hear her say "Au-dee"! I wish I had a better picture, but here she is giving someone at church a high five.
Today we went to KidFest at our convention center here in Springfield. I would best describe it as a crazy, crowded, loud mass of kids, strollers, parents, booths, bounce houses, candy, and chaos!! Basically it was a bunch of local businesses who set up booths with activities for kids (and brochures for parents). Anyway, there were so many people there that you could barely walk around. Our church had a booth, so I was there for a couple of hours this afternoon to help man the booth. Daniel and Audrey stopped by for a few minutes, but quickly decided that Audrey was a bit too young and the place was a bit too crazy for them to stay very long. Audrey did get to meet her first costumed characters--a giant dog and a big kangaroo. I didn't get any pictures, but she did pretty good when we took her up to them. She told them both "hi" and didn't act too scared!
Here is Maggie, getting ready to go to sleep in our bed. She has slept in our bed for pretty much her whole life. Normally, it's not a big deal...I like cuddling with her, and she is a good little heater! But lately, I have not been sleeping well. And Maggie is not making it any easier for me to sleep. She seems to be more restless than usual at night, or maybe I just notice her restlessness more because I am so restless myself. She starts out under the covers, then she gets too hot and climbs out on top of the covers. Then I think she gets cold and goes back under the covers, and then back on top again. And this seems to go on all night. All the while I am trying to sleep, and every movement she makes seems to be amplified more and more. Plus, we have a double bed...so there's not much space for moving around!
Thursday morning is Sprouts morning! Sprouts is a playgroup that we started at our church (I posted a picture about a month ago when our group first started). Audrey had fun pushing around the shopping cart and collecting groceries this morning at Sprouts (before she had a major melt down at the end...She's back to taking morning naps again, and missing her nap this morning was ROUGH!). Today was our 4th week of Sprouts, and we had 42 kids there this morning! I didn't count the moms, but I'm guessing there were about 25-30 moms there as well. So that's almost 70 people in our play area. The area seemed nice and roomy when we first started, but at week 4 we are already looking into ways that we can expand our space!
I babysat Simon and Elliot this morning, so obviously I had to take some pictures! Especially of Elliot, who is one of my favorite photography subjects because he is so cooperative. Even though he is mobile now and always on the move, all I had to do was say "Elliot, say cheese," and he would stop and look straight at me and smile.
This is what time it is as I am getting ready for bed tonight, and I am hoping to fall asleep very soon. Last night I also went to bed at about this time, and 7 hours later, I finally fell asleep! It was 7 hours of absolute misery and exhaustion...tossing and turning and thinking about how miserable the morning was going to be. There was no reason for it; I just couldn't fall asleep. Then finally, sometime after 4:30 am, I fell asleep. Only to be woken up by Audrey at 6:30 am! Daniel went into work late so that I could try to get a little more asleep, but I was still very restless until I finally gave up at about 9:30 am.
Today I got to cross another movie off of my Oscar nominated movies to watch list. I actually really liked this movie, which was surprising because I wasn't sure what I was going to think of it. It is quite unique (and quite bloody, I had to turn my head away a few times). And it's definitely not based on a true story!
Tonight, Audrey and I were looking through some of my old books from when I was a kid. And we found this! It cracked me up!! I was 12 years old when I wrote this check. I'm assuming that my parents gave us some old checks to play with, because I don't think I would have stolen one of their real checks to use as play money. Still, it made me laugh. And it made me feel old when I realized that I wrote this 17 years ago!!
Tonight, Joni and I made a bunch of these cake pops for Breanne's baby shower tomorrow. Bakerella makes these pops look so easy on her blog, but they are a bit more difficult (and time-consuming) in real life! Oh well, we got them done and they look pretty cute (and they taste really good!).
I don't have any pictures from today. Audrey is still running a fever and not feeling well, and I don't really feel like we did much of anything today.
Poor Audrey..she had a fever all day today and did not seem to be feeling well at all. She actually just laid on the couch like this (watching Yo Gabba Gabba) for almost 15 minutes. On a normal day, she wouldn't lay still on the couch for 15 seconds, so I knew something was definitely wrong! She is getting some teeth, so I don' t know if that is causing this or if it is something else. I just hope she feels better tomorrow (and that she sleeps well tonight!).
Today both Audrey and I were wearing purple shirts. I tend to do that a lot--dress us both in the same color, but it's never on purpose. People have commented several times how cute it is to see us both in the same color. I don't think it's all that cute but kind of cheesy really. So I never purposely dress us a like. I guess that somewhere in my subconscious mind I am in the mood for certain colors on certain days. And since I pick out Audrey's clothes as well as my own they often end up being the same color!
These light switches are in our living room. One turns on the front porch light; the other one controls the power to an outlet in our dining room, which is also the outlet that I use to charge our camera battery. The problem here is that I never can remember which switch does what.
Happy Valentine's Day! Audrey was looking cute today in her little lovebug Valentine shirt and pink leg warmers. She was also having a lot of fun playing on the stairs at church this morning. Because she was so focused on playing on the stairs, I was actually able to get a couple of pictures without her noticing the camera!
I watched the Winter Olympics opening ceremony tonight. There was a technical difficulty when it came time to light the Olympic torch. The cauldron was supposed to come up out of the ground, but it didn't! There was definitely a long, awkward moment as everyone tried to figure out what to do! It finally came up, but it was definitely missing a leg!
When my mom was here yesterday, she brought some clothes for Audrey, including this sweater. She looked super adorable wearing it today!!
I hate snow! When I was in school and then again when I was a teacher, I got so excited every time it snowed, hoping for a snow day. But without snow days, snow is just not fun! While I admit it is pretty as it is falling from the sky tonight, the prettiness will wear off quickly when I want to get out of the house tomorrow morning!
I think crying pictures are so cute! And this one gives you a good look at her cute little teeth! Audrey has really been quite happy and so much fun lately, so this picture isn't a good description of our day. Most of my pictures of Audrey recently have been very close up, because she is very interested in the camera. As soon as I pull it out, she runs straight to it. She likes to look at the pictures on the back of the camera. Today I was trying to show her how I could take a picture, and then she could look at herself. But she didn't understand and got very impatient waiting for me to take a picture, which is why she is crying in this picture.
