January 14...Day 353

Look at the mess Audrey made today...pulling everything out of the trash! The good news is that she likes to put everything back into the trash as much as she likes pulling everything out. The bad news is that this is not the only mess she made today. The real mess was upstairs in our bedroom and it involved a bottle of liquid foundation. Somehow, while I was standing right next to her, Audrey managed to find the makeup, get the lid off and spill it all over herself and the carpet before I noticed. I really don't understand how all of those things lined up just right to create such a perfect mess. My first instinct was to take a picture (what a great picture of the day that would have been!), but I thought better of it and grabbed a rag to wipe Audrey's hands off instead (but not before she left two handprints on our bedspread!).

P.S. Does anyone know how to get liquid foundation out of carpet?????

P.S.S. To keep you informed of my Oscar movie watch progress, I saw Precious tonight. Wow, what a movie. It was not entertaining and it's not a movie for everyone, but it was definitely worth watching and was very well done...a movie that will stick with me for a long, long time. And now I'm pretty sure I've seen at least 2 of the 10 movies that will be nominated for Best Picture.

January 13...Day 352

I introduced Audrey to her toothbrush tonight. (I know, you're supposed to brush their gums even before their teeth come in, and we should have started brushing her teeth a long time ago...we're horrible parents for waiting so long to start! But Audrey HATES when you touch her mouth/nose/face, so I've been putting off brushing her teeth because I know she's going to hate it).

The cutest thing happened when I gave her the tooth brush. I said, "Audrey here's your tooth brush. We're going to brush your teeth now." And she took the tooth brush and started to brush her hair! (she loves to brush her hair with her hair brush!). Fortunately I didn't put any toothpaste on tonight. I thought it would be best to get oriented with the toothbrush first before we added anything else...and I think I was right!

I'm sad that I didn't get a picture of her brushing her hair with her toothbrush. By the time I got my camera, Audrey managed to find a pacifier, and the toothbrush wasn't so interesting anymore. I did manage to get her to put her toothbrush in her mouth and I brushed her teeth just the tinest bit to show her what it is for. That was all we attempted tonight...it did not end in screaming, so I consider it a succes.

January 12...Day 351

I got this new camera bag this week with some Christmas money. I'm pretty excited to have a new bag; one big enough to hold my camera, an extra lens, and an external flash and still with room for a few more odds and ends. It's not a huge bag, but it's just the right size for the stuff I have to carry right now.

January 11...Day 350

Last week I noticed that one of Audrey's sleepers was missing. I looked and looked and couldn't find it. I hate losing things, and it was driving me nuts. Then I couldn't find 2 pairs of my sweatpants. Then Daniel couldn't find a pair of sweatpants. And then I couldn't find a sweatshirt. It was like a whole load of laundry just disappeared from our house...how could that happen??

Well, tonight we found that load of clothes. In our dryer. The old dryer. The one that has been sitting out in our backyard for the past 10 days. I guess we were so excited about using our new dryer that we forgot to empty the old one before dumping it in the backyard. At least, we hadn't gotten rid of the dryer yet!

January 10...Day 349

I couldn't get her to stand still long enough to get a cute picture, but Audrey was looking super cute in this little outfit today!

January 9...Day 348

Tonight we rented (500) Days of Summer. I'd say it is very doubtful that this movie will be nominated for an Academy Award (though it is nominated for a Golden Globe), so watching it didn't help me make any progress towards my goal from yesterday's post. But it was a cute little movie; I liked it a lot!

January 8...Day 347

Tonight Daniel and I found a babysitter at the last minute (thanks so much Mike and Breanne!) and decideed to go to a movie. We saw Invictus; it was pretty good. I'm on a mission to see all the Oscar nominated movies this year before our big Oscars party on March 7. The only problem is that 10 movies are nominated this year (instead of the usual 5). The nominees haven't been announced yet, but from what is projected to be nominated--Invictus may be the only one I have seen. How am I going to find the time and the money and the babysitters to see all 10 movies before they leave the theater? Yeah, it's probably not going to happen...but I'm still going to try my best to see as many as possible!