Deanna Rose Farmstead Opening Day April 1

We met up with the Bowman family at Deanna Rose's grand opening. The weather was beautiful and the kids had a blast!
Audrey looking at the BIG fish!

And turtles!

She especially liked the flowers.

Zoey the butterfly!

Audrey was a little shy around the goats after the fall and winter break of seeing them.

Jackson wanted to ride the horses.

The goats were not shy around Travis.

Audrey and goats mostly played a game of chase. I'm not sure if anyone knew who was it!

Audrey and Zoey watching the baby goats.

Audrey remembered the bells right away!

Isn't he cute?

As soon as we arrived Audrey yelled out chickens! I couldn't believe she remembered after a 5 month break where they were!

Crown Center and the Easter Bunny

Last year Audrey was unimpressed with the Easter Bunny.
This year proved to be no different...

Maybe it's the Bunny.

Or the eggs. Who knows.

Then we went to Fairy Tale Land.

Pretty much every fairy tale you can imagine had some sort of display that the kids could explore.

Audrey, Steve and Grandma liked the three pigs house.

And Audrey loved the princess carriage!

You could pull Pinocchio's strings to make him move!

Then we went to the Crayola store where Audrey and Steve were in heaven.

Audrey was multi-tasking: eating a sucker Papa bought and drawing with Daddy.

This was a fun tic-tac-toe board. Papa said he could make one quite easily. But where would we put it?

Audrey's 2 Year Old Portraits

She was pretty crazy and wild at the shoot but managed to take some really cute pics!

Precious

Big Girl!

Audrey's 2nd Birthday Party

My first attempt at making my child's birthday cake. I was pretty happy with the results and happy that Audrey recognized that it was Elmo.
Here are some of the guests: Jennifer Hall was holding Zoey, Jackson and JJ.

Audrey wanted to play with everything that she opened right then. She didn't understand the concept of opening up everything at once.

And she got a ton of cute clothes!

I was happy that she let me put her hair in pigtails. I didn't take that many pictures since I was taking care of the party details. She had a good day and was quite spoiled as usual.

My (BIG) Little Girl

Audrey at 1
Audrey is 2 days old

I still can't believe Audrey's 2nd birthday is tomorrow. She had her 2 year old check up today and everything looks great! She is 35.5 inches (80-85%)! And 25 pounds and 9 ounces (30-35%), the highest she's ever been in weight. If the wives' tale holds true, she will be 5' 11", WAY taller than me and not much shorter than Steve! Not too much to update since last month other than more new words. I will probably compile them at some point but I know she says 300+ words and says several 2-3 word sentences. She has an ornery personality and is very wild and active. Audrey loves Elmo and Sesame Street, running, hugs, kisses, her cousins, Grandma, Papa and babies. She knows several people by name, at church and relatives. Potty training is still a work in progress and still hopeful that we have it semi-mastered before the baby arrives.

New words: office, coffee, drum, treat, away, come, hurt, nipple, careful, triangle, coat, remote, finger, leg, phone, tv, donut, brownie, dice, balloon, camera, clown, again, warm, bath, noise, face, flag, broccoli, tail, neck, chicken, mouth, truck, dragon, now, dolphin, diamond, xbox, hungry, top, page, side, both, juice, sand, elephant, dinosaur, ocean, earring, welcome. And many more I'm sure I forgot to write down! :)

2 year old pictures are being taken this week!

Adventures of the Almost-Two-Year-Old!

So, Audrey absolutely hates having anything on her head. A hat, birettes, pony tails, anything. Tonight at church, Stephanie was able to convince her to wear her hair in a pony tail and she kept it that way all evening! In fact, she didn't like it when I took out the birettes before she went to bed.
But doesn't she look so cute?!

Maybe I can get her into pig tails for her 2 year old pictures next week!

We were at Red Robin yesterday for lunch. Audrey insisted on trying out my lemon.

With every taste she gave that sour look, yet she kept going back for more! It was hilarious!

And we started back with the potty training again. We started last week and have had pretty good results with peeing.

She keeps her interest by reading.

I keep asking her to smile but she is not having it.

I have to remind her every 2 hours to potty but occasionally she'll ask to go on her own. Pooping is going to take longer to master...

I also get these looks I get when I ask her to smile. What a goof! And then she wants to look at the pictures on the camera after she's given me this squinty face!

And we still love to golf with Daddy!

We went to the mall with Grandma last week and rode the carosel several times.

She kept calling the dolphin a fish. Pretty close.

Good form.