Party Pictures

Last weekend was Ian's 4th birthday party, which gave me an opportunity to play with my new camera some.  The girls had a blast in the jumpy house and were happy that Ian's other cousins were there so that there were some other girls to play with!

The rest of the party pictures are here: http://share.shutterfly.com/share/received/welcome.sfly?fid=040ec60fe73e7d8b&sid=8AZM3DRozaNGm0

Audrey is obssessed with my Dad's new puppy, Gretchen.  Whenever the girls are at their house, Audrey spends the entire time following Gretchen around so she can pick her up and carry her.  When the poor pup tries to sleep, Audrey is right there trying to pick her up and put her on her lap.  I don't know what she is going to do in a couple of weeks when the puppy grows!

I overheard her tell Bridget "We need to get our own little dog to carry around.  Then we can take it to Grandma and Papa's."

Bridget has made friends with Mom's new kitten, Otis.  She follows him around with her arms outstreched asking "May I hold kitten?"  Then he gets a little too excited, scratches her and she doesn't like him anymore.  It's a love/hate relationship.

And, I leave you with this gem.  Audrey walked up to me like this and said "Take my picture and send it to Daddy."  He was so proud.

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: