For the love of mac!

Audra and her daddy share a mutual love of Trader Joes mac & cheese. It is by far Andrews favorite comfort food. Usually when he makes some he makes enough to share with Audra. One night he was doing just this and she was sitting on the floor in the dinning room talking to him and watching him cook. Andrew asked her, "Audra how much do you love mac?" she threw her head back and kicked her legs in the air and said, "Thank you Lord for mac!!"

Mother's day with my girl who made me a mommy!

Getting ready for brother

Audra is starting to really get excited to have a little brother! I think partially because we have been reading this book called Baby on the Way. (http://www.amazon.com/Baby-Way-Sears-Children-Library/dp/0316787671)
It is the sweetest book about a family getting ready for a new baby. The first time I read it to her when we read the page about making a place for the baby to sleep she popped up and said, "yeah! In the basket in mommy's room!" I loved that she had already put that together. There is also a page about going to the doctor's or midwife's office and hearing the baby's heartbeat and she always says "boom boom boom!" They talk about how as an older brother or sister you can see if you have and clothes or toys to share. So sometimes when she is saying hi to her brother and talking to my tummy she will say "brother? You need toys?" I think the real reason she is excited about her baby brother though is because the book talks about how when your baby is born you get to have a Birth Day party to celebrate and I told her she can make him a card and we will make cupcakes! (or someone will make them with her.) :) Lately she has been hugging my stomach and saying "uh oh mommy brother is stuck!" she just wants him to be born already! I hope she is just as excited when he actually gets here!

Sunday school

Audra has never been a big fan of the nursery at church and we never liked the idea of leaving her if she was hysterical.
Other friends have told us their kids did better once they were in the two year old class because it is more structured than the nursery.
Needless to say we were excited for her to get to experience that! And we were excited to get to do church together again! Believe it or not she has stayed the last two weeks and Andrew and I have been able to stay in the sanctuary the whole time! Yay!!!
Here is her first Sunday school activity she brought home. So cute!!

Funny new words

A couple of Audra's favorite new words that she likes to incorporate wherever she can are actually and probably.

Last night I asked Audra if she wanted to pick her pjs and she said "no, I'm probably ok without my jammies."

If I ask her a question she will usually answer by saying, "actually..."
For example if I ask her if she wants pretzels she will say, "actually, I need an apple."

Last night after I read her a pile of books she pretended to keep reading them herself and every time she would set one down she said, "that's a great story!"

I don't know where she gets these things!

Castles for his princess

Audra and her daddy. Her number one thing she asks him to draw is a castle. A castle for his princess! We have castles on white boards and chalk boards and outside with sidewalk chalk. :)

Snuggles and story time with daddy