Where's Audrey?

Where's Audrey Claire????

There she is!!!
Audrey Claire's new thing to do is hide somewhere in the house (mostly in this cabinet or under the table) and "scare" you. She wants you to say "Audrey Claire, where are you?" and if you don't, she starts yelling "Ah-jee" which is how she says her name. When she decides it's time to come out, she says "Boo" in the sweetest, least scary tone I've ever heard. Seth loves to scare people too so I guess she gets it from him.

Lydia

Earlier this week Audrey Claire and I had some girl time with Lydia. Audrey Claire enjoyed showing off all her new tricks as well as learning a new one. Lydia had some beads that Athey were playing with. She (Lydia) would count them as she put them in a box. Audrey Claire started mumbling along with her but got stuck on 5 and 6. Except it sounded a little like "fie, si". She wouldn't say 1,2,3 or 4 but it was cute anyway. It's never too early to start learning numbers right?

Audrey Claire also had to show Lydia how to "cuh-cuh". Thankfully, she kept it on the paper this time.
It's so nice to be blessed with people like Lydia who love Audrey Claire and want to spend time with her (and me!). Our summer has been so crazy that we really haven't had much time with friends. Hopefully things will start to calm down soon.

Wordless Wednesday

Little Michaelangelo

I knew the day would come- the day when Audrey Claire drew on the walls. It has officially happened! For the past week, all she wants to do is "cuh-cuh" (color). All day long that's what I hear. If I get out a pen to write something down, she thinks it's for her to color with. I've been meaning to take pictures of her coloring to blog about so I guess this was her way of making sure I did just that. I heard Seth say, "Uh-oh. Mommy, come here." I immediately knew what had happened. I walked into the hall and found this~

and this~
I couldn't get too mad at her because one, I gave her the crayon and two, I let her roam freely around the house with it. So, we stood by the artwork and I firmly but calmly explained to her that we do not draw on the wall. She just kept saying "Uh-oh" and pointing at it. She knew exactly what she did was wrong. I told her if she did it again she would get a spanking. Right after the talk, Seth took her to change her diaper. In the process of that, she asked for a wipe-a real common thing for her to ask for. She loves to play with them. It wasn't one minute after he put her down that I hear "Mommy, come here" again. Immediately I thought she was coloring the wall again. I was pleasantly surprised to find this~

She took her wipe was trying to clean up her mess. Even though the crayon didn't come off, I must say I was very proud of my big girl! I just wish disciplining her was this easy all the time.

Supper Club

Last night our Sunday School class got together for Supper Club. Since the couple that hosted it have a baby, Audrey Claire got to go with us. She had fun playing with him but mostly enjoyed playing with his toys. She found his exersaucer and just had to get in it. She jumped and played in this thing for at least 30 minutes!

Where's Audrey Claire?
There she is!
Our friend Pavel really likes kids and wanted Audrey Claire to like him too. Toward the end of the night, she finally started to like him.
Here she is "cheesing" for the camera.

We let her stay up way past her bedtime but it was well worth it. She had tons of fun and we all took a wonderful Sunday afternoon nap!

Water Day

Yesterday we had Water Day at church. Audrey Claire had a blast playing in the baby pools and the splash mat! I took quite a few pictures but here are my favorites~

Going in for a drink...

It was a blast getting to watch her play with her friends. She is growing up entirely too fast!

Our Little Visitor

Let me just warn you, this is kinda long and there are no pictures of Audrey Claire but it's definitely worth reading!

Monday night as we were unpacking the car, I heard Seth yelling. I immediately knew what was going on without even looking. You see, earlier last week, there was a rather large spider in one of the corners on our front porch. I wanted to kill it but surprisingly, Seth said "No, it's eating all the little bugs. Leave it alone." And being the good wife that I am, I submitted and we left it ;) For several days it stayed in it's little corner not bothering us.

You can probably guess where this is going...

When I heard Seth yell, without looking up I said "I hope that spider got you so good." Boy was I right! You see, Mr. Spider had moved himself and his nice little web right in front of the FRONT DOOR. Seth went to open the door and saw him right before he stepped in the house. If he had taken one more step this little monster would have been sitting on his nose. If you know Seth very well, he is terrified of spiders, which is why I was really confused when he wouldn't let me kill it in the first place. Anyway, he had to go across the road to get a big stick to close the door with because he was afraid to get close again. Again, being the good wife I am, I immediately got the camera to document this "I-told-you-so" situation. Here's what the situation looked like from a distance.

Doesn't look too big does it? That picture just doesn't do the spider justice. That thing was massive. Here's a closeup~

An even closer shot~

Let me just say that if I had walked up on this thing first, Seth might be a single man right now. I do not like critters of ANY kind.

After I got all the pictures I wanted, I finally made him kill it. Notice how far away he is!

I love having a man around in situations like these.

I can't tell you how hard I was laughing during all this. Hopefully he learned his lesson and from now on, he won't let any spiders live on the front porch!

Mini-vacation

This past weekend, we made a last minute road trip with my family to Atlanta. Early last week Seth found out he was off for the weekend and my dad and brother had tickets to a Braves game. So we totally invited ourselves and went with them! Audrey Claire stayed at Memaw's house for the weekend so we could just relax. It was so much fun! We laughed so much we cried, stayed up way too late, and probably spent too much money but it was completely worth it.

Friday night we stayed at my mom's cousin's house in Flowery Branch, GA. We enjoyed going to the mall and grilling hamburgers. I didn't even get my camera out! I was just enjoying the moment:)

Saturday morning we got up and headed to Cleveland, GA to Babyland General Hospital. This is no ordinary hospital. It's where Cabbage Patch Babies are born! I was like a kid in a candy store while there. It was like getting to be a little girl again and I loved it!

The new building is huge!

Right as we got there, a new baby was being born. They go through the whole labor process except use "cabbage" terms instead. For example, Mother Cabbage dilates 10 leaves instead of centimeters, etc... They also did a sonogram right before the birth to show us it was a boy!

Here he is!

I was probably WAY too excited about being there but I didn't care. I was fulfilling my childhood dreams! Here I am with the new baby! Notice no shame in my face:)

The Cabbage Patch

Hopefully we can go back someday with Audrey Claire but just in case, we adopted her a new baby while we were there. Pictures are at the end of this post.

After visiting the hospital, we headed to downtown Atlanta for a little shopping before the game. Here we are in Centennial Park.

Right before the game

When we got home, I was excited to introduce Audrey Claire to her new baby. Seth was worried she wouldn't be as excited as I was but I proved him wrong. She loved the baby!

Her name is Piper Catherine

She LOVES being a mommy:)

Fixing her bow

Apparently Piper was tired from all the riding. Audrey Claire was letting her go "night-night".

As you can see from all the pictures, we had an amazing mini-vacation. It was so nice getting to have some adult time. However, I missed my little monkey and loved the kisses I came home to!

Wordless Wednesday

Weekend Wrap-up

This past weekend was, as usual, very busy. It started Thursday night when we went to Wesson. Audrey Claire has enjoyed getting to spend time with Uncle Hunter who's been here this summer from Texas.

I worked in Hazlehurst Friday while Seth was busy doing this:

I was very grateful to be inside where it was cool:) Audrey Claire spent the day in Crystal Springs doing this:

Friday night, we enjoyed eating at one of our old favorite places to eat- El Sombrero in Brookhaven. We ate with Seth's parents and Tucker. I had every intention of taking pictures while we were with them but my child decided to act like a crazy woman in the restaurant! That could have something to do with the fact that she is now 6 months away from being 2!

We came home Friday night for Seth to work Saturday. Audrey Claire and I had a much needed day together running errands around town. We went to an indoor inflatables place (LOVED IT), the mall, Big Lots, and Cellular South to see Seth. Before getting in the car to go, she had to talk to the cat-cat. She hasn't shown much interest in him lately but that day he caught her attention for sure.

Later that night, we met some friends-Greg, Kay, Zeph and Kati Brooks. We went to church with them when we lived in Cleveland. They now live in Wesson and Zeph made the All-Star baseball team this year. Playoffs were being held in Hattiesburg so we got to go to his game! We hadn't seen them in a little over two years and seeing that Kay was pregnant with Kati Brooks last time we saw them, I was really excited to visit with them!

While at the game, AC found some old pacifiers in her stroller from "back in the day". Haha. She loves playing with them when she finds them.

Here's Miss Kati Brooks. How beautiful is she? Her curly hair and eyes are gorgeous! She cracked me up the entire game. Since Audrey Claire is such a terrible eater, it blows me away when kids actually want to eat. I think KB ate the whole time we were there! Here she is enjoying a pickle. And she never once made a 'sour' face!
I had a really cute picture of the two girls playing together but accidentally erased it from my camera!

Here's the All-Star himself, Zeph, sliding into home!
He has grown up so much in two years! Here he is after the game posing for me:)
Since we seem to be in the car a lot here lately, Madison let Audrey Claire borrow her travel pillow. We've only used it once but on the way home from the game, I looked back at Audrey Claire and she had put it behind her head. It was a little past her usual bedtime so I guess this was her way of saying she was tired.
That child knows what Momma is doing when she gets the camera out. She kept making silly faces at me so I kept snapping.

Once again, we have a busy week ahead of us. Posting will probably be random but I will do my best!