Quick Audrey Quote

"If you are going to dress me in plaid, you might as well give me a fiddle and some cowboy boots!"  (said angrily after being dressed in plaid)

I hope to get the Christmas pictures up soon!

Catch Up Part 2: Birthday

Audrey turned SIX this month - hard to believe!  The same week she turned 6, I got a notice that it was time to reserve Bridget's spot for Pre-K next fall.  Talk about being punched in the gut twice in one week - quit growing up so fast kids!

Audrey was telling me early in the month about a conversation that she had with a classmate that cracked me up.  Her friend said "I only know one person with a birthday in December."  Audrey "Yeah... me!"  Friend: "Uh... I was talking about Jesus."  Audrey learned that December isn't all about her! ;)

She ended up having a 3 day long birthday celebration.  Her class did their holiday party on her birthday, so Andy brought in doughnuts for the class in the morning and I went at noon for her holiday party, where the kids sang and we decorated gingerbread (graham cracker) houses.

Out of the blue on the week of her birthday, she mentioned that she wanted an American Girl doll.  As much as I didn't want her getting into AG stuff, I didn't have any great ideas for her birthday gift, so after work, we all headed down to the mall so she could pick out her very first AG doll, who she named Britney.

On Saturday, we had to hurry from ballet, to Tyler's 9th (!) birthday party at Sky Zone, back home for Audrey's party.  Here is Bridget at Sky Zone - the place is pretty cool - it's an indoor trampoline place, but it was packed so it was a little overwhelming for the girls.  They were only brave enough to venture out on the big trampoline and skipped the foam pit and dodge ball (I don't blame them for that one - they were the only girls at the party and would have been clobbered!).

Audrey wanted a sleepover for her birthday, but she is a little to young for that, so we decided to do a pajama party.  We invited her BFFs over to watch a movie in their jammies and it turned out to be so much fun!

They didn't actually do a lot of movie watching, but that's ok!  At one point, they were trying to sneak up on Andy and were crawling on the floor under the desk giggling - pretty sneaky!  Here are the rest of the party pictures:
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Her 3rd birthday celebration was the family party on Sunday since the cousins couldn't come to her girls only jammie party!  I was a little tired of celebrating her birthday at that point! ;)

Last Friday, Bridget had her Christmas party at school where they sang and did a book exchange.  Bridget ended up with the book we brought in, but she didn't know any better, so that's ok!

A couple of weeks ago, Audrey came up to me and in a sing-songy voice, said "You need to tell me congratulations!"  She had lose tooth #3!  It was one of her upper front teeth.  Since then we have discovered that she has 3 more loose teeth - I don't know how she's going to eat soon!  That first upper tooth hung on for dear life and finally, last night, she got brave enough to let Andy pull it.  She looks so cute and talks funny without that tooth!

And finally, I have some cutesies instead of funnies today!

Bridget was singing and Audrey told her to be quiet because she was hurting her ears.  B got real sad and said "Audrey, you hurt my heart." :(

Audrey was being sweet with Bridget and I heard her say "I feel like I could just hug you all day.  You have been infected with cuteness!"

We hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas!

Catch Up Part 1: November

OK, so I am way behind on the blog!  Let's start back at Thanksgiving....

The holiday started with Audrey's class program.  The entire kindergarten was in the cafeteria and put on a little play and sang a couple of songs.

Her class has 2nd grade reader buddies who helped them type up "How to Make a Turkey."  There were Audrey's instructions.

And her drawings of what she is thankful for:

Her class learned about the Mayflower and had to draw it and write something that they learned.  She wrote: "It was dirty.  No bathrooms."  :)

Bridget's class didn't really do anything, but here is a little B brag - I am so proud of her letters!  Audrey couldn't do most of her letters until after she was 4 (and her handwriting is still pretty bad), but Bridget is doing so well with her penmanship!

We decided to host Thanksgiving this year because I have never roasted a turkey before and wanted to try it.  It turned out pretty good it I do say so myself!  I forgot to get a picture of it, so here is an adorable picture of the kids table instead!

On the last day of November, we heard the door bell ring and when we answered it, Kevin had arrived from the North Pole!

Santa Store

I still have to do a Thanksgiving post, but I wanted to get this on too...

Audrey got to shop in the Santa Store at school. I gave her money to pick out presents for me, Andy and Bridget. Just as I suspected, she was SO excited by her gifts that we had to open them tonight. She picked out a stuffed walrus for B, a tape measure/level for Andy, and some gorgeous earrings for me!

The Artist

You've gotta love an almost 6 year old with an iPod touch!

The Write In Candidate

Audrey: "I'm voting for Mitt Romney on Tuesday."

Bridget: "I'm voting for McDonald's!"

Happy Election Day!

Fall Fun

We had a busy October!  We decided to try a different pumpkin farm this year because we didn't have the time to drive all the way to the mountains to go to Bert's.  We went to a local farm called the Kinsey Family Farm.  There were some animals to feed and pet, a hayride (which we didn't do) and of course, pumpkins.  They didn't have any of the cool big pumpkins like Bert's does, but we got our pumpkin and some yummy local honey.

I helped Audrey decorate a cutout as Rapunzel and then went and painted pumpkins with her class one Friday (personal brag - I drew that Pascal on Rapunzel's shoulder). :)

Bridget also brought home adorable Halloween artwork:

She had her last soccer practice last week.  After loving the first week, she cried every other week and was very happy that it was her last practice.  They played a 3 on 3 game during the practice (B's first and last soccer game!) and then got little medals for participating.  When I asked her if she wanted me to sign her back up next season, she yelled "NO!"

She started taking ballet at the daycare and is loving that, so we now have 2 little ballerinas in the family. This is a picture that the daycare director took for me - what a sassy ballerina!

Last weekend we had a neighborhood Halloween party and hayride, and then Andy and I went to a Halloween party in downtown Roswell.

I drug Andy and a few other folks to the Roswell Founders Cemetery at midnight, but we didn't see any ghosts!

The girls raked it in while trick or treating.  Poor Bridget came home from daycare with a slight fever that day, so I gave her some Tylenol and had Andy bring the wagon.  Sure enough, she ended up getting in the wagon about half way around the neighborhood.  Audrey's bag got heavy towards the end and she told Andy that she was done and was just going to go up to the doors and tell people "Hello."  He told her that she can tell the neighbors "Hello" any time but this is the one day that they will give her candy!

Last but not least, Amos got to go trick or treating for the first time.  He was the official wagon-puller for the night!