We're Home Already!

It's 10 am and we've already been home from surgery for a half an hour. I couldn't believe how fast it was. I made Daddy go back with her while they put her under and I had only read two paragraphs in my book when he came back. We were in the waiting room long enough for me to go to the bathroom and read two pages before Dr. Bauer was out telling us that she was done.

She was a little fussy waking up, but other than that, she's been fine ever since! The outpatient clinic has bottles, so they gave her some apple juice while she was waking up and she chugged the whole bottle. She was groggy the whole ride home, but now she's running around playing. They said she was supposed to take it easy today - easier said than done!

Dare Devil

Yesterday, when Andy picked up Audrey at daycare, Miss Tammy said that Audrey has been causing her to have mini heart attacks all day. Apparently her new game is to climb on top of toys (castles, rocking chairs, whatever is around) and jumping off!

She sent Audrey down to the 1-2 yr old room to see how she'd do, and I guess she didn't like it very much. I thought she would since there are new, big kids to watch and new toys, but she's just so used to the people and stuff in the baby room.

She has learned the word "no" and will answer any question you ask with a little "no." I can't wait until she really knows what it means! Daddy has also taught her how to answer "What does Mommy say" with "Blah, blah, blah!"

We have surgery at 8 am tomorrow, so keep Miss Audrey in your thoughts and prayers that everything goes smoothly and she doesn't have much discomfort afterwards.

Busy Girl

We've had a busy week this past week. Audrey spent Sunday night with Grandma H and they went over and played with the cousins on Monday while I was at work. There is a rumor going around that Audrey was a bully to Jack - she took his pacifier out of his mouth and made him cry. She just walked around the house with it while he followed her, crying all the way. He's too much of a gentleman to take it back from her!

You know how on the commercials, the Maytag repair man doesn't have anything to do? Well, he had to come here on Tuesday because our convection oven wasn't cooking properly and the fan was really loud. The fan motor ended up being bad; he said it's the first convection fan unit he's ever had to replace. It figures that it happens to us. Right after we bought our refrigerator, the thermostat broke and it froze all of our food. We have bad luck with appliances.

Papa was in town last night, so I put some beef stew in the crock pot and had everyone up for dinner. Audrey insisted on sitting at the counter with the twins. Notice who the cheese ball is who is always looking at the camera and smiling!

We think Audrey has been saying random words here and there. She'll say something that sounds like a word, but she won't repeat it on command. Among the words we think she says are ball, doggie, duck, baby, Hazel, which sounds like "ah-dah", fish, peek-a-boo or just boo, and of course, Da Da.

She also loves to spin in circles. I have her trained now to start spinning when I sing the cheesy 80's song "You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)." She's kind of like Pavlov's dog! (That's my nerdy science reference for Aunt Tina!) I have a video of it, but it keeps posting sideways. I'll try again another day.

We finally got around to purchasing and installing her big girl car seat. When Andy put her in it, she got a big grin and kicked her legs around. The poor little thing has to scrunch her legs up in the infant seat. This seat is nice and roomy and it has a cup holder!

We have her tube surgery on Wednesday, so I'll let you know how things go that night.

Little Snowflake Part 2

Here are our obligatory "child playing in the snow" pictures. Audrey wasn't super impressed. I set her down on the sidewalk and she stepped into the snow, looked down at her shoes, then stepped back onto the sidewalk. She's my girl! Surprisingly, she didn't try to eat the snow. She put one little finger in some slush on the driveway.

We didn't stay out very long because I didn't have any mittens on her and her nose and cheeks were starting to get pink. She cried when we came back in - maybe she's not my girl!

When we got up this morning (after sleeping in the Lazy Boy), it was 4 degrees outside with the windchill. We are going to try to make it out today to buy her big girl car seat. I'm hoping it will be easier to get her in and out of that than her infant seat, plus she may enjoy facing forward in the car.

Our Little Snowflake

We are in the midst of the second snow fall of the week. I was a bad mommy and didn't get any pictures of Audrey in the snow on Wednesday (mostly because I didn't take her out to play in it - it was too cold and dark). We had about an inch and a half on the ground. I planned on taking her outside to play Thursday morning, but the snow turned to slush and melted pretty quickly.

It started snowing this morning around 9 am and we took Audrey out to see it before her nap. We are supposed to get up to a couple of inches by tonight, so I should have some cute pictures to post tomorrow. And I'll be sure to have her in a coat and hat!

Here is a video of Audrey pointing at the snowflakes. She was also talking to them.

The top photo is the yard at about 12:30 and it's still snowing. :)

More Evidence

Uncle Ronny sent this picture of me when I was about Audrey's age. He thinks it shows that she looks like me, I think that it proves that she looks more like Andy. What do you think?

Baby Niki:

Baby Audrey:

Here is Grandma H. when she was about 2. I can see some Audrey in this photo:

Cute, Happy Stuff!

The past two posts have been all about Audrey's various illnesses, so I figured I'd do a happy post about all of the cute, new stuff she does.

- She will blow two quick puffs of air on her food when you stick it on her tray. You never know when Mommy is going to stick something scalding hot on your plate!

- Last night she picked up her dirty diaper and stuck it in her diaper pail all on her own. Of course she also sticks her hair brush and various toys in there.

- Speaking of hair brush, she tries to brush her hair and also holds the phone up to her head. If there is someone actually on the phone, she wants nothing to do with it though.

- When I got home from work yesterday, I was greeted with a very enthusiastic "Hi Da Da!" She also said "Hi Da Da" to the lobsters in the tank at Red Lobster later, so I don't know if that makes me feel better or worse.

- When she wants up on something (the couch or the bed), she stands next to it and makes a grunting noise like she's trying to pull herself up. But she's not actually trying to pull up, she's just making the appropriate noise.

It was beautiful outside today, so we went out and played in the yard after a whirl wind trip to McDonalds with the cousins.

I tried to get a picture of Audrey and Roscoe, but the best I could get was them walking near each other.

This is Roscoe pretending to point at something.