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We had Bridget's birthday party on Saturday at a place called Adventure Kids.  I had never been there before, but I bought one of those online coupon deals and figured we would give it a shot.  Luckily, it was a lot of fun!  The place had a couple of jumpy houses, some little bikes, a Wii Rock Band station, a trampoline and a huge indoor sandbox/playground.  We got there a little early to welcome guests and Bridget made a bee line to the sandbox.

One of her buddies from her old daycare came and after her friend warmed up to everyone, the two were attached at the hip - it was so cute! This is the two of them having a snack.

I forgot to get a picture of the Batman cake, but you can see it here.

Afterwards, the family all came to the house to watch Bridget open gifts.  The poor thing was so tired by the time everyone left but she had a great day!  Here is a link to the rest of the photos.
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For her birthday dinner yesterday, she requested "mac 'n cheese and chickens," so Andy brought KFC home.  What a fancy dinner!  After I put the girls to bed, I heard Bridget crying.  I went back to Audrey's room (where they sleep nowadays) and asked her what was wrong.  She is kind of hard to understand normally, but especially so when she is sobbing.  I asked Audrey if she could understand her.  In a sweet voice, she said "Bridgie, we can't understand you.  Your voice is too cute."  :)  (The crying fit was because I forgot to ask her what her best part of her day was. Bad Mommy!)

Last Week in Pictures

We have been busy lately.  First, here is a picture of Audrey from last Friday.  Last week was "Community Helpers" week and on Friday, they had a couple of firemen come with a fire truck.  The kids each got a Junior Firefighter helmet and got to sit in the truck!

We were not home much over the weekend.  On Saturday, we had to go straight from ballet to Chuck E. Cheese for the twins 6th birthday party.  That place is a mad house and the girls weren't too fond of old Chuck, but they had fun getting tickets and purchased some candy at the prize counter.  From there, we went to Tina's to watch the boys open presents, then Audrey and I had to leave for a hair appointment.  Her hair is so pretty but it was getting too long to manage.  She said that she wanted her hair short like mine, but I thought that would be too drastic of a change for her, so we kept it below the shoulders.

On Sunday, we went over to Grandma and Grandpa's for Grandma's birthday lunch.  After eating, the girls wanted to watch a movie.  Bridget climbed up into Grandma's chair and Audrey snuggled up next to her - they were so cute!

We had to get home that evening so Audrey could finish writing out her Valentine's for her class party on Tuesday.  On Monday, Audrey came home with her pre-K graduation proofs

and her teacher did her hair in a heart!  I need to learn to do stuff like this!

The girls and I stopped at the store to get Valentine's dinner after work on Tuesday.  When we got back to the car, it wouldn't start.  We ended up waiting almost an hour for Andy to rescue us and then neither of us had jumper cables.  At this point, it was getting late, so we went home to eat dinner really quick so we could then grab the jumper cables and go get my car from the Kroger parking lot.  The girls and I had planned on decorating the table for dinner, so we had Andy help make dinner so we could decorate.

The rest of the week has been spent getting ready for Bridget's birthday party this weekend.  I ordered her a Batman cake per her request, and when the party place called today to see what color tableware I wanted, I told them to make it blue, yellow and silver to go with the Batman theme - who would have thought I would be planning a Batman party?? :)

Catch Up Post

The most important update is that Audrey lost her first tooth today!  When I picked her up from school, she walked up with tears in her eyes and said "I swallowed my tooth.  Is Daddy going to be mad?  Is the tooth fairy going to be sad?  Now she won't bring me any coins!"  I didn't realize her tooth was that loose, but it came out while she was eating lunch and she swallowed it.  She was so upset!  I assured her that this happens all the time and we will stick a note under her pillow for the tooth fairy.  Transcript of the note that she dictated: "Dear Tooth Fairy, I lost my tooth on accident.  And I lost it on the bottom.  Could you please read my note?  Are you going to give me money while I am asleep?  Is my tooth going to grow?  Is my cousin Jack going to be upset?"  Jack really wants to lose a tooth too but does not have any loose teeth.  Apparently Audrey was concerned about his feelings!

Also, to get some crappy news out of the way, we got Avalanche's blood work back last week and he has cancer with a poor prognosis.  The vet called while I was at the beach, which put a damper on my weekend, so Andy texted me this photo to show me that the kitty was getting lots of love while I was gone.

I had an awesome time at Girls Getaway Weekend!  We started out Thursday night with a catered dinner at Jan's house followed by a concert by some Nashville songwriters. We went back to Jan's for cocktails afterwards and at about midnight, I told Tina that I was not going to go to bed without seeing the ocean first, so we went down to the beach and got our toes in the sand! (All of my beach pictures are from my phone, so excuse the quality!)

I was awoken at 7:30 on Friday by a call from the vet, which put a damper on my day.  Since I was the only one up, I took advantage of my alone time and sat on the balcony off of my bedroom and read for 2 hours until the other girls got up.

Now that I am writing this, I can't remember what we did on Friday! It involved brunch, shopping, walking the beach and then dinner at the square.  After dinner, Jan had them set up a bonfire on the beach.  That is the first time I have ever done that and it was awesome!

 On Saturday, we had breakfast at Jan's and then walked the beach for a while and then went to a painting class.  At the last class I went to, the instructor walked us through how to paint the picture.  At this one, she put up a picture of Van Gogh's Starry Nights and said "The paint dries fast, so keep the brush moving in swirly strokes."  That was about it.  I finished mine way before every else, but I kind of liked it simple and didn't want to keep going and ruin it.

Saturday night was a delicious catered dinner followed by another concert by some Nashville songwriters.  The couple that was there that night came and hung out with us afterwards - they were really cool!  We had even more catered food for breakfast and then it was time for the long journey home.  As much as I enjoyed my mommy time, it was nice to come home to hugs (mostly from Amos) and to know that I was missed!

I have a lot more pictures to share, but I must get the girls to bed.  I hear that the Tooth Fairy can't stay up very late anymore. ;)

Girls Weekend

I am getting ready to leave for a long weekend at the beach with Tina and some of her friends, but I thought I'd pop in and post real quick.  This is the first time I've left Bridget (2nd time for Audrey) and the first time Andy has been in charge by himself!  He gets to see what it's like to get everyone up, dressed, fed, off to school (don't forget the pets), then pick everyone up, fed, bathed and ready for bed.  Plus Audrey has ballet on Saturday.  I got him out of going to a birthday party on Sunday, mostly because it was at a roller rink and I think it would be hard to help Audrey skate while holding B.  Good luck Andy!

The girls continue to do well at school.  One of Bridget's little friends started on Monday.  She was already there, playing by herself, when we got there.  She looked up, got the biggest grin and yelled "HI BRIDGET!!" and ran over to her.  Bridget loved seeing her too - that night when I asked her what the best part of her day was, she said "Playing with Olive."  When I asked her what she was going to dream about, she said "I going to dream about Olive.  I love Olive!"  :)

I finally took Avalanche to the vet this morning.  The vet said that he was borderline emaciated and he was so anemic that his gums and third eyelid were white instead of pink.  :(  She said that she could tell how big he used to be because there was a lot of extra skin when she was feeling his belly, and she told me not to feel bad because it was probably hard to tell just how skinny he had gotten because he's so fluffy.  His belly and lymph nodes felt OK, so they took him back to get some blood and urine and will send those off for a full panel.  They will call me by noon tomorrow to let me know what they find.

Bridget has been obsessed with Batman ever since Andy stuck a ski mask on her head and told her she was Batman a couple of weeks ago.

She runs around the house saying that she's Batman and Daddy's the Joker and they play fight.  One day, Audrey asked me "What do you want to be when you grow up, Mommy?  A teacher?"

Me: "No, not really."

Audrey: "Yes, you want to be a teacher."

Me: "OK then.  What do you want to be?"

Audrey : "A cheerleader.  What about you Bridget?"

Bridget: "I want to be Batman!"

Audrey; "You can't be Batman unless you are an actress."  Smart girl!

Bridget also picked out Batman Valentines at the store and now wants a Batman birthday cake.  Whatever she wants!

Andy taught the girls how to eat shelled peanuts the other night.  It was messy but they enjoyed it!

Well, it's almost time to go.  It's supposed to be kind of rainy at the beach, but I'd rather be at the beach in the rain then at home!  Time for some Mommy time - I get to sleep as long as I want, eat whenever I want and not have to worry about anything for 4 days! :)