My hair is messy

I came into Audrey's room this morning she woke up sobbing. I comforted her. When I finally got her to settle down and asked her what was wrong she said over and over 'mommy it's my hair...my hair it's SO messy!' Haha oh dear me! She cried and held her hair until I brushed and did her hair. Oh the giggles she gives me even first thing in the morning.

Favourite Song

Audrey for as long as I can remember likes to sing songs together before bed. I don't have a musical bone in my body, my family also never did singing of any kind so it for sure doesn't come naturally. The only kids song I knew was 'you are my sunshine' which was a song my grandma sang to me millions of times. It holds such a beautiful place in my heart. My grandma often confessed that I was her favourite *grin* she was also my favourite-we kept it a good secret from the other grandchildren haha. Anyways I never felt super comfortable singing it to my children because I didn't want to 'play favourites. I sincerely love both my beautiful babies equally. So silly I know-but the verse 'my only sunshine' isn't true I have two sunshine!

Audrey made this a very easy transition.
Audrey started BEGGING me to sing her a princess song. (She's obsessed with princesses). I googled, I scoured iTunes...I searched. There is NO princess song!

So I changed it.

You are my princess
My only princess
You make me happy when skies are grey
You'll never know dear how much I love you so please don't take my princess away.

Now I can guilt free sing the 'sunshine' version to Beckham and the 'princess' version to my sweet little Princess.

Corny corny I know.
I love my little nuggets-they are getting big way to fast.

Brent's heart

Brent loves food
I love cooking
I love healthy
Brent loves 'ignorance is bliss'

We love having popcorn together in the evening.

Brent likes to have 1/2 a cup of butter on his bowl-gag. For real 1/2 cup! We have separate bowls. I'm more of a dry/plain popcorn type of girl...

Little does he know that I actually don't use all butter...he likes the wet taste so I one day added half water to the butter...voila...he's never been the wiser.

Some days I wonder if I could slowly ween him off butter like I have weened our kids off bottles. If I can potty train a 17m old surely I can ween my husbands butter addiction...to just water on his popcorn lol

Saving my husbands heart one bowl of popcorn at a time.

*giggle*

#60moreyearstogether
#60moreyearsoftrickery

PS-he doesn't read my blog so don't tell him about my trickery!

'A' for Audrey

Audrey has been working on the alphabet-lately when we are coloring she will do a 'A for Audrey'. Here is a picture of this mornings chalk 'A's not so shabby for a 2 year old in my opinion-proud mama moment.

Painting

Oh man
Today Audrey and I did some painting for Christmas with some little friends. (I can't really get into specifics because well Christmas is around the corner)

It got a little intense.
I may have sweat through an entire sweater.

We both in the end landed up covered in paint-fits of giggles and had a blast. I like to pretend I'm artsy fartsy---I'm not but love it! Thrilled I have someone to enjoy the little things like artsy fartsy stuff (at least until she decides I'm not cool).

I came home and could have gone straight to bed---bed was a long ways away.

It was a blast and an awesome time-love the memory of doing crafts and painting with her. Can't wait to bring Beckham next year-I don't think I could handle a 1&2 year old in the Mayham of where we were. Lets just say the amount of paint and fragile items outweighed the living people in the room. Not a good combo for my little Mr.Destructor!

Sleepy cuddles

Beckham hasn't woken up in the night for oh-man 6-9 months and before that rarellllly. Anyways he woke up crying the other night.

I got excited thinking if I time it right I might get a sleepy baby cuddle. I ran up the stairs, brought him to the couch. Cuddled him and cried a little as he fell back to sleep on me. Is he a baby still? Could this be my LAST sleepy baby cuddle for the rest of my life?

(Insert aching womb)

I just held him for an hour as he slept on me. Not because he needed me to but more because I needed to be able to look back and remember this moment. Perhaps one of the last moments were it feels like I have a baby.

He is just so sweet.
I so wish I could just have more sleepy baby cuddles- they warm my heart like nothing else.

Sneaky girl?

Ok-so I use this Blog mostly as a means to capture all my memories of this busy and special season of having young children. I have a APP on my phone so it's super easy for my to post a 'blurb' with a couple pictures. I'm planning to print it off soon so it's really almost been a journal for me during this season of babies and pregnancies. I don't want people to get the wrong impression of Audrey. The funny stories are just SO fun though!

I had someone ask (a follower) 'is Audrey really that sneaky of a child?' It made me sad-like I wasn't portraying Audrey as well as I should be. If you just hear all the wild things a child does you get a totally different perspective of a child not the whole picture...

I post most of the time after something I think was funny/hilarious/fun/crazy happens. I just don't want to forget all the funny things.

Audrey is spicy and FULL of fire, a real zest for life and living it to the fullest. I don't like to brag because as a parent it's a pretty big 'faux pas' since there are lots of 'crazy Audrey stories I'm going to have a brag about Audrey post.

-She is 2 1/2
-She is THE most obedient 2 year old I have ever met. She does wild things but once she knows she is not allowed then she almost never will ever do it again!
-She is SO smart! She almost always hit milestones 6-10 months ahead of 'the books' I think part of the reason she is mischievous is because she is so smart
-She talks in absolute full sentences and is able to follow complicated instruction VERY well for a two year old!
-She has such a sensitive spirit-sometimes Brent and I will bug each other and she will cry and hold our faces and tell us it's ok (We won't be arguing or fighting just teasing and her heart gets so sensitive)
-She is so coordinated. She crawled at 4 months, walked at 7months and the things she is able to do now is amazing
*jumping
*climbing
*summersaults
*twirling
*balance beam walking
*sports coordination (kicking balls, throwing, hockey stick holding etc.)
I get giddy inside thinking she will love sports like I did...then I release her from the dreams I have for her and really want her to dream and be able to grow in the things that she loves
-she can count and name all her numbers up to 12
-she says her ABCs (mixes some up but when she is being serious she does so good)
-she can write a 'A' for Audrey so good. Like seriously kinda freaks me out. She once and awhile will play dumb and just Fo squiggles and lines but if you here her say 'A for Audrey' while she's Coloring you'll almost always see a perfect 'A' just drawn.
-she will tell you what 'comes from all the animals'
*cows make milk and yogurt
*chickens make eggs and....dinner mommy chickens make chicken dinner
*Pigs make breakfast and meat mommy
*Bears make ouchie we don't eat them, they go RAWR
-She can name most animals and tell you what sound they make
-She can ride a trike and we don't even own one...she just saw one in a store and took off hahaha

She is such a bright bright young girl. As a young mom life gets busy and I just blog about the silly things in life that I really don't want to forget. I personally can't wait to tell her all the hilarious things she did as a child.

I was the same as Audrey-I wouldn't have it any other way. I had that same fire in my heart as a kid-still get glimmers of it now that I'm old ;) mostly I just love seeing it in her. She makes every day bright and colourful and full of surprises. Some mayhem but honestly she has been the best daughter I could have ever dreamed of. I honestly think if I was a mom to any other kids I would be so SO SoOo bored!

Have I mentioned sleep?
If you are currently a sleep deprived mom stop reading

From 5 weeks she slept 9-12hrs at night
Now her current schedule

8:30-9am wake up
11am nap
1pm lunch
3:30 nap
5:30 dinner
7pm bed

Our babysitter constantly raves about how great our kids are (best babysitting gig ever when the kids sleep SO much!)

Anyways I know know know its a mega faux pas to brag about your kid but I love my daughter and chat about her wild antics often so thought if we can chat crazy I can brag a little bit.

Quote of the day:

Audrey-'Mommy I'm your favourite daughter?'
Mommy-'yes your my favourite daughter'
Audrey-'I'm your favourite princess?'
Mommy-'you're the best princess'
Audrey-'lets do lipstick?'
Mommy-'how about a snack?'