Happy Birthday Amos!

It's hard to believe it, but our baby is 1 today!  Happy birthday to my big boy!

Last weekend, Audrey's homework was to draw a family tree.  I tried to explain to her that she was supposed to draw in the circle stickers, but she had a different interpretation.  It's hard to see, but she took an orange crayon and drew arms, legs and a head using the sticker as the body.  You can kind of see the eyes above the stickers.

This weekend she had to decorate a letter "M" for Me.  I made her sit with me and pick out some pictures of stuff that she loved.  This is what we ended up with.

I think Audrey likes school because yesterday she told me "Mommy, I am SO good at pre-K!"

The girls are no longer scared to hold Charlie.  Now they hardly leave the poor little guy alone!

We had two birthday parties to go to in the neighborhood yesterday.  The first one was a kids party and I had to snap this shot of the two tiniest water balloon toss players - they were so cute!  Needless to say, they did not win, but Bridget did win the dance competition!

And for some more cute Audrey-isms:

I bought the girls a mylar balloon at the dollar store, and as she was whacking me in the head with it, she said "Man, I'm sure going to miss this balloon when it pops."

"How come you can close your mouth and your eyes, but not your nose?"

While Bridget was giving her a big bear hug "You're my best sister in the whole world! OK, now let go 'cause someones gonna get hurt."

"Why does Daddy sleep in your room?  Can he not get a girlfriend?"

School Days

Audrey had a great first two days of school!  I tried to get some pictures of her in the house with my good camera, but she wouldn't cooperate.  I made her put her back pack on and pose outside so I could snap some shots with my phone.

Bridget saw us and said "Where my backpack?"  She ran to my car, grabbed her backpack and came over to get her picture taken with big sis.

When I got to the daycare to pick Audrey up, one of her teachers said "I wish all of the kids in the class were like Audrey.  She is so sweet!"  That is always nice to hear!  I asked Audrey what she did in class and she said "I colored, danced, builded (her word, not mine), took a nap and played outside."  Sounds like a great day to me!  She was very excited yesterday because the class made Friendship Cake and then got to eat it when it was done.  She brought home her first homework over the weekend - she has to draw a family tree for Monday.

While Andy was mowing the lawn this afternoon, B and I went to the garden to pick tomatoes and peppers.

Andy called us over because he found this little guy.

Audrey has already named him Charlie (which is what she named her caterpillar this spring).  We figured we would let them keep him for a few days, then we will put him back in our back yard.  I don't remember if I mentioned here that we found a turtle laying eggs in our yard this summer.  This turtle isn't one of those, but we are still keeping an eye on the nest - no activity yet!

Audrey wouldn't hold the baby turtle in her hand, but she would hold him in the little water dish.

The girls are at the pet store with Daddy right now getting some stuff for Charlie.

Work went great although working full time is very tiring!  We get home a little before 5:30 and I have to start dinner right away, throw some laundry in, fold and put away laundry from the day before, etc, etc and then it's bath and bedtime.  Some nights, I think Andy and I are probably asleep before the girls!  I'm sure once I get into some routines things will be better!

What We've Been Up To

First of all, I really like the new job so far.  It's a 4.9 mile commute and the company has policies, procedures, different job functions, management who cares - everything my old company didn't have!

We checked out the new local dog park last weekend and were not impressed.  There was one bench in the entire park and no dog agility equipment for the dogs to play on.  The sign outside the park said that no kids under 12 were allowed in, but we went on a drizzly day so there was no one there to kick us out.

The girls thought it was cool that there was a little fountain for the dogs.  We had to force Amos to get a drink so we could get a picture.  :)

We discovered that Amos like lollipops.

The girls play so well together now (Audrey just said "I really love you" to Bridget as I'm typing this!).  On this day, they got out Audrey's old Ariel costumes from Halloweens past and were Mommy Ariel and Baby Ariel.  Audrey is so much taller than B - it cracks me up!

Here, Daddy put these on them and they and were running around the house calling themselves the Ninja Sisters.

And this one I like to call "Sister Pillow."

A couple of weeks ago, on a rare occasion where they weren't sleeping together, I was waking Audrey up for daycare when I felt a tap on my back.  I turned around and Bridget was standing there and said "I done shleeping."  :)

Tomorrow is Audrey's first day of pre-K!

Picture Post

Bridget wanted to go outside and blow some bubbles that she got at a class birthday party today, so I brought my camera out to play with it some more. 

Then she had to play peek a boo in the doorway.

Big sis walked out and into the action

Then she had to pose

Isn't she pretty? :)

I'm pretty sure Amos has some eyeballs in there somewhere...

Last but not least, Miss Spot never gets her picture on the blog because she's usually not around long enough to have her picture taken.