Pizza Monday

Olivia grabbed Audrey's pizza tonight and decided to help herself.  It was so cute watching her crawl around with a piece of pepperoni in her mouth.  So I got Olivia her own piece and cut it up for her.  She is now on her third mini slice!  She ate more then here sister!

A weekend in Big Bear

The past few weeks have been a blur...

Audrey came down with a terrible cough before we went to Big Bear for my birthday weekend.  She recovered but we did discover that she takes after her mother and got car sick on the ride up the mountain.

 

We had a great weekend. We stayed at a cabin that belongs to our good friends Amy's family.  She was also there to help us celebrate.  Audrey immeditely fell in love with the snow. We went sledding, build a snowman and made snow angels.  It was perfect!!!  Joe gated off the balcony and built Audrey a snow fort to play in and she was entertained the entire weekend.

 

Amy brought me flowers for my birthday and Audrey HAD to have one in her hands at all times.  Here she is on her sled being pulled along by her daddy.

 

Olivia also had a snow suit but she did not like it as much as Audrey loved hers.  Olivia had problems sitting up in her suit and she did not like the feel of the snow on her skin.  I hope that she enjoys the snow much more next year!

 

This is how Olivia liked to spend her time outdoors!

 

But when we were inside the cabin with a roaring fire Olivia got very cozy with her new favorite dog Ollie!

 

She also decided to try on her sisters helmet. 

Here is a picture of Audrey playing in her snow fort.

 

And another picture of Audrey, but now eating snow.  She loved the cold wet "treat"!

 

Again hiding in her snow fort.

 

This picture is my favorite.  

We has such a wonderful time in Big Bear.  But we did have to leave...

Oliva came down with a terrible cold on Sunday morning and was sick for the next 5 days!

It was terrible poor girl had a nasty cold and was getting 4 new teeth at the same time.

  

But we did manage to have a few good moments in the next week.  Olivia rode her rocking "chick" for the first time and LOVED it!

 

Daddy and Audrey played indoors too while Olivia was on her rocker.  After Olivia recovered from her cold Audrey came down with the stomach flu 2 days later.  3 days later I got sick as well and felt awful until I could finally get out of bed today.  Olivia also got the stomach flu with me.  I am crossing my fingers right now that the Ward family has made a turn for the better and can now begin enjoying February 2010!

Audrey turns two and a half

"Thank you for helping me with the door mommy"
"Help me daddy, get me out of here"

These are a few of the funny sentences that Audrey has been saying.  Today marks her 2 1/2 birthday.  WOW does time fly! Today after I picked her up from school we all went outside to play.  Audrey has so much fun playing with Olivia.  She kept on bring out new toys for both of them to play with.  most recently Audrey has begun trying to pick up Olivia and move her around. This gets to be a bit scary as Audrey is not very graceful of the moment.  Okay so I wrote this a few weeks ago and forgot to hit publish.  The past week has been crazy!

Her favorite foods include quesadillas, french toast with agave syrup, and cucumber.  Recently she has also taken a liking to chicken nuggets, beef and broccoli.  Last week at school they tried to serve her chef boyardee and she spit ot out and said "yuck".  Her table manner are notso good.  We miss the days when she was with Carline her old daycare provider. Audrey used to push the chair in behind her when she left the table. I guess Celebration Kids does not focus on table manners as much...bummer!

We went to hear 2 1/2 year check up this past week and she is perfectly in the 90th percentile.  Dr. Henry said that if she stayed on her growth path she would grow to be between 5'6 and 5'8.  That sounds great to me!