February 28, 2010
what word did I spell?
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February 27, 2010
go spartans
Yesterday Todd worked a half day and then we took Audrey to Nana and Papa's to spend the night.
Last night Audrey went to her first basketball game, which she calls a basketball party, to see uncle Jeff coach. Even though her aunt Rickie and her cousins were there, Audrey clung to Papa for most of the game. She did enjoy the cheerleaders and dancers. Today before she came home, Audrey went to the pet store with Nana and Papa to help pick out two fish and a snail. Audrey chose the name of the goldfish - Dorothy, after Elmo's pet fish.
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February 23, 2010
free pancake day
If we can get our act together to get free food when it is available, we do it. Today was free pancake day at ihop so we ate pancakes for dinner.
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February 21, 2010
monkey see, monkey do
We've been finding socks and small toys on the stairs to the basement. Turns out it is Charlie who is dropping things through the cat door.
When Audrey saw the photo of Charlie doing this, she had to try it out too.
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February 18, 2010
puddle jumping
at the park district after gymnastics
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February 16, 2010
feeding himself
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February 14, 2010
valentines
finger hearts
new book
first baby-sized pancake for baby-sized Charlie
Charlie makes his newspaper debut
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February 13, 2010
miss congeniatlity
Audrey and Todd came home from the grocery store with flowers for valentine's day.
Audrey looked like she had just won a beauty prize holding them so we had to have her put on her crown and do her best miss america wave.
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February 11, 2010
all while wearing a cat dress
Helpful Audrey fed Charlie his entire bowl of oatmeal while I cooked dinner.
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February 10, 2010
quiet time
During Charlie's nap, Audrey decorated hearts for the valentines she will give out.
During Audrey's nap, Charlie practiced his walking with the wagon.
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February 08, 2010
milk for two
Now that Charlie is one we have started to introduce a small amount of dairy in the form of a couple tablespoons of yogurt per day. So far so good, but for now he has to drink soy milk. He's making it look good in the picture but so far he isn't really interested. Probably because I want so badly for him to be. We also had to start Audrey with soy when she turned one and she still drinks it exclusively. She calls it "original" milk. Not sure why.
Audrey had an allergy appointment today and just happened to wake up with a bad case of hives (you can see them in the picture). The allergist thought maybe she had something worse than a typical ear infection so sent us down to pediatrics right away. Turns out Audrey does have an ear infection, but not in the ear the walk-in care doctor diagnosed. She also probably has strep but they did not bother with the throat swab as the antibiotics prescribed yesterday for her ear will take care of that too. Good times.
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February 07, 2010
sick again
Last night Audrey was complaining of her ear hurting. With all of the ear infections she has had she has never complained so I took her to the walk-in care this morning. She has another ear infection that the doctor thinks burst. This has been the winter of sickness for poor Aud.
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February 02, 2010
eight and nine
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January 30, 2010
one year party
Family gathered at our house today to celebrate Charlie turning one!
How could one little cupcake make such a mess? I'm not sure how much of this he actually ate. Most of it ended up on his shirt sleeves and crumbled in his seat.
Charlie had a lot of help opening presents with Todd, Audrey and all of the cousins. Thank you, everyone!
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January 29, 2010
one year
Charlie is one today! Between burnt fingers, stitches, head bumps and such, I wasn't sure we would make it to this day!
Since Audrey wears a crown most days, she wanted Charlie to have one too. We made him his very own birthday crown on the fly yesterday out of felt, elastic, a hole punch and Audrey's new favorite craft item, glitter glue.
Charlie would have been happy with just balloons but opened a few books and toys that he can make noise with.
My sweet boy isn't a baby anymore. He is a silly boy who is always laughing. He is cruising along furniture, using his sign language a bit and says a few words, mostly mama and dada. We love you, Charlie!
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January 28, 2010
after gymnastics
For the last few weeks, Audrey has been having snacks and coloring with Sarah after gymnastics while I get Charlie from day care.
Sarah is always very interested in where Charlie is. Today she was giving him kisses and found out the hard way that Charlie's kisses are slobbery with an open mouth.
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January 27, 2010
memory
Audrey has her own version of Memory that she taught Susan tonight. It doesn't involve taking turns, just flipping over all of the cards faster than the other player to find the most pairs. The most important pair to find is the ice cream cones.
Charlie wanted to stay out of it and just wanted more Cheerios.
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January 26, 2010
six and seven
Audrey chose crocodile as the game at school today but still did not participate. Next week she says she wants to play hippo. Miss Ann also asked Audrey to draw her a picture of a hippo.
Audrey did participate in a little tea party before dinner tonight.
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January 25, 2010
back window
A little bonding while wondering where the snow went and watching the neighbor's dogs
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