Audrey as.... Rapunzel

I finally caught a video of Audrey acting along with Tangled.  For those of you who haven't seen the movie, this is the scene where Flynn Rider (the love interest) hurt his hand.  Rapunzel wraps her hair around it, closes her eyes, and sings the song that makes her hair glow and gives it a healing power.

The songs starts out "Flower gleam and glow" but Audrey sings "Flower cream and glow..."

The girls and I went to the pool again yesterday and I was proud of what a sweet girl Audrey is.  She and Bridget were playing with a little girl and another girl came and was playing by herself on the stairs.  Audrey went over to her and said "That's a cute Dora bathing suit.  What's your name?" The girl told her and Audrey said "It's nice to meet you" and started playing with her too.
And, just to document it, today was the first time that Audrey has ever helped me clean her room without fighting about it the whole time.  She make her bed without me asking, asked how to use the vacuum, and then went and cleaned Bridget's room!  I hope this cleaning thing isn't just a phase.  If only I could get her to mop - that's my least favorite chore!

Father's Day

After years of semi-neglect, Andy is finally taking interest in the yard again, so for Father's Day, the girls and I took him to Pike's and let him pick out some new plants for the yard.  While there, I bought some flowers for my long neglected front porch pots and a cute little garden flag.

While at the nursery, Audrey came up and said "I'm going to go stand next to those big flowers.  You take a picture and send it to Aunt Tina."

After Pike's, we took Daddy out to lunch where Bridget really enjoyed the queso dip!

When it's not too hot, we hook Amos up to the wagon and have him pull the girls around the block so he will sleep at night and not wander the house eating Barbies.  Audrey has decided that she is big enough to walk Hazel.  Hazel pretty much pulls Audrey around the block while she yells "See, I'm doing good!"

I took the girls to the pool by myself for the first time this summer and it was SO much easier than it was last year.  Audrey is tall enough to stand in the shallow end now, so she will splash around there while I hold Bridget.  On Saturday, she had her hands up on the wall and was letting her feet float out and she announced "See, I can make my legs float.  I'm ready for swim lessons but you keep forgetting to sign me up for them!"  So... guess what I will be looking into this week?

She has been cracking us up with her Rapunzel obsession lately.  She wears her wig and reenacts the movie while watching it.  Poor Bridget has to be Pascal, the chameleon and for some reason, I end up being Flynn.  I guess that is better than being the "evil witch mother," as Audrey calls her.

Here are some cute Audrey quotes from the past few days:

A: "You know who my favorite guy is? Daddy is my favorite guy!"
B: "Amos my favorite guy!"
A: "Amos is a dog, silly!"

"Oh man, Bridget.  Mommy is going to have to put some oxiclean on that." (I still never figured out what she was talking about when I overheard that)

"Bridget, you have the cutest little toenails!"

Nothing

Not much going on around here, so I thought I'd post a couple of pictures that I took last weekend.

Picture Post

Well, not photographs, but drawings.  Audrey has been a drawing fool lately, and I think little kid drawings are adorable, so I have been taking pictures of them to preserve them on the blog.

This first one is Aunt Steph, Bridget holding a stuffed giraffe, Ian, some bugs, Dylan, Mommy, Daddy and Uncle Alex:

Andy asked her to draw a picture of him cutting down a tree for him to hang in his office.  See the little saw cutting the tree?

This is the solar system.  I know the bottom blue and green one is Earth...

This is Little Red Riding Hood carrying her basket through the forsest.  She started to draw a wolf hiding behind the bush on the right, but she couldn't get it right.  The scribbles on top are Bridget's contribution and the clouds were my contribution!

A cute little lion:

Mommy holding a rose.  Grandma Carol thought that Audrey was drawing the trees horizontally until she realized that those were the branches - most kids just draw the trunk with leaves on top, but not our little scientist.  I have this one hanging in my office!

Audrey wanted to draw a picture of Grandma knitting, so she had Grandma draw the chair and she added the rest.  I love the needles and whatever the round thing is that Grandma is making!

Family Picture

Audrey drew a cute family picture, although she made me finish myself after she accidentally drew my body as an oval and freaked out that it was wrong.  Now it looks like I'm knocked up (I'm not, I swear!).

New Camera Pics

Here are some shots that I took while goofing around with my new camera.

Eating popsicles on the back porch:

Testing the portrait setting:

My basil and other herbs in the background:

And my two year old who took off her clothes to sit in the dogs water dish:

Miscellaneous

I found some pictures on my phone that I meant to post but totally forgot about.  This is part of the Mother's Day gift that Audrey brought home from daycare.  I bet y'all didn't know that I was such a good lunch maker AND that I'm smart enough to drive a car!

This is another of my Mother's Day gifts - I have some test shots from it on my computer at home so I will have to post those another time.  I will soon have high quality photos to post on the blog, especially after I find a class so I can learn about all of the features!

Audrey has been really into coloring lately.  This is from school - they had to imagine themselves doing something and draw it.  She imagined herself sitting on the sun.

She colors in rainbows in her Color Wonder coloring book and I think it looks pretty cool!

I forgot to share her beautiful recital portrait:

In Bridget news, she is a ROCK STAR will the potty training.  She went Sunday and Monday with no accidents, so I decided to test her out at daycare in undies on Tuesday.  I filled up her backpack with extra clothes, extra undies and Pull Ups and was a little surprised to find her in her original clothes when I picked her up!  No accidents!!  She even woke up dry the past couple of mornings. 

The great thing about potty training her (besides the fact that she took to it so darn fast) is that she doesn't require rewards.  We used to give Audrey candy when she went, but Bridget is just as happy to get the praise.  In fact, is she has an audience, she will go and sit until she squeezes something out so she can get the hoorays!

She has a hard time getting her pants up and down still, but she is at that age where she wants to try it herself.  If we try to help her, she will yell "No!  I don't need help.  Leave me lone."  After taking about 10 minutes to pull her undies on the other day, she made a point to go over to Andy and say "I don't need help!" and walk away!

Bridget's love of baby dolls has turned into a love of Barbies and the Barbie-sized Disney Princess dolls.  She can usually be found toting 2-4 of them around and makes me play dolls with her all the time.  The conversations usually go "Hi.  What your name?  My name Bahbie.  May I hold you?"  Then I have to place my doll in her doll's arms.  Very exciting after the tenth time!
After being forced to watch The Little Mermaid by big sis, she finally has her own favorite Disney Princess.  She always requests Snow White and walks around the house singing "Oh ho, oh ho" instead of "Hi ho, hi ho."  Whenever we start any Disney movie and she sees Cinderella's castle, she says "Yay!  It Happy Ever After!"