Two recent interludes between Audrey and myself (I was going to say two recent conversations but to be truly honest these weren't really that, more like her comments to me).
I was finishing our bedtime routine and was trying to get Audrey to stop jumping on her bed and say her personal prayers. At my third request Audrey said to me: "Mommy, you are making me responsible! And angry!" I busted out laughing. I seem to remember that I was having many discussions with Alexis about being responsible that week. And as an afterthought it is true! My job as a mother is to make my girls BOTH responsible and angry! Then I know I am doing my job properly! :)
Audrey really likes me to pack her a lunch every morning because she wants to be like Alexis. Well, we forgot this morning. Alexis was having hot lunch at school and I thought we could forego Audrey's lunch. When I picked Audrey up at preschool she told me she was sooo hungry, which she tells me every time I pick her up from preschool. I told we were going right home to eat. Well, the whole way home and then for several minutes after we got home she said over and over: "Mommy, you didn't make me a lunch! That makes me frustrated!" But she says it frusterated. She also said it makes her "impressed." I assume she was trying to say depressed, although I don't know where she got that word. But once she said impressed she realized she had no idea what she was trying to say and so went back to frustrated.
I told Audrey that I was going to wait and go grocery shopping while she was in preschool. She said, "Why?" I said because then I can go without her. She protested: "But I like going with you!" How sweet is that. And it's really true. She helps me pick out EVERYTHING. She knows almost all the fruit and vegetable names, even though we don't eat half of them! She also likes to put all the food on the conveyer belt and bags the groceries. She gets so disappointed when there is a bagger there. She just loves doing whatever I am doing. She has been helping me cook dinner and anything else she can weasel her way into. I also started teaching her how to do the laundry because she kept complaining that she was bored and wanted to pick up Alexis!
She is my sweet, energetic shadow!
This was Audrey's first bus ride. She was thrilled. She even made me take a picture of the back of the seat. We had a fun time on her preschool field trip to a pumpkin farm. We saw barn animals and sang Old MacDonald, watched a little play, had a hay ride, and picked out a pumpkin.
Now, it was around 44 degrees outside this particular morning. We were all cold! It probably felt colder to us than it normally would have because two days before this it was in the mid-80's! It was quite a shock to go down forty degrees!
This was Audrey's favorite part. She picked a really good pumpkin and reminds me of that daily.
Not an attractive picture of me but very cute of Audrey. I don't think I will try to take any more of us this way! :)
This one is just the girls being silly and wanting to take pictures.
We were chopping down our front yard on Saturday. We were outside a lot to chop, gather, and put it all in our lawn bags. Audrey and Alexis took turns wearing these headphones outside while working. I thought it was funny. Especially whenever they shouted at us to talk!
Audrey being silly for the camera.
Audrey at a gymnastics open gym time. She loved swinging on a bar and dropping into these foam squares. 
Audrey's birthday invitation. Hope you can read it. Doesn't look like it. It says, "Hear ye, Hear ye! Her Majesty, Princess Audrey of the House of Thomas requires your presence at the celebration of the 4th year of her birth, at our castle, 7630 N. 51st Blvd., November 10th, 10:30-12:30; RSVP to Queen and King Thomas at ....; gowns, crowns, and castles too, nothing short of a royal celebration will do!" I then rolled these up and tied them with gold ribbon.
I had a request to put some pictures of Alexis drawings on the blog. Here are just a few that I found lying around the house. She is constantly drawing and coloring. Today she made a coloring book for Audrey.
She made this last year, in first grade. She puts so much detail in everything that she draws.
I took a picture of this because she spent an hour on this. She colored each letter according to an animal that starts with that letter. For instance, the r is a rabbit and she made it hairy. The y is a yak so just brown! She made this for her cousing Lily. It is part of a school project that we get to send to them and they have to mail it back to turn it in. My favorite kind of project! I don't have to do anything! (Look out Lori!)
