Is the weekend over yet?

I know, most people don't want the weekend to end, but I do. It's been one of those weekends, no wait, one of those weeks. Work has been crazy busy and three nights this week I didn't make it home from work before Audrey went to bed at 8. I am glad most weeks are not like this, I miss this girl when I only see her for breakfast. She loves the time with Brent, except he had to work this weekend too. She had a great time hanging out with my parents yesterday and for the first time in a long time she didn't get sad when I dropped her off. She actually said "bye" to me, it was super cute. Usually when I leave, even if Brent is home she hangs by the gate and cries, so it really makes it easy for me to leave when she says "bye".

We actually did get to enjoy a little time last night with Mindy, Jon, Natalie and Harvey and Mindy's mom, dad, and cousin Sara. They were in town and stayed in a hotel, so Audrey got to go swimming and we hung out afterwards for some yummy cake.



Audrey creating some amazing music.

Enjoying one of my awesome smoothies, after every sip she would say, "ahhhhhhhhh." I have been making tons of smoothies in the magic bullet lately and Audrey loves them. It's super easy and a pretty good, healthy snack. I use some fresh fruit or frozen, milk, vanilla yogurt, dry oatmeal, and a couple ice cubes. Yummy!

Ouch and more ouch!

Today was a rough day at school for Audrey, two accident reports. She fell off the toilet, whoopsie. She has just recently become interested in the potty. One day she came up to us and said "poop" and pointed to her diaper. She actually had not gone yet but did a few minutes later. So, dad took her shopping one weekend for a potty chair of her own. She likes to hang out and sit on it with her clothes on, which we read in the potty training book that that is okay to do. This week at school she actually went into the bathroom and wanted to sit on her own. Every day they have them go in and sit on the toilet and apparently today she fell off. I am not sure exactly how it happened, but she bumped her head.

Oh yeah, just when we thought the biter was gone, she got bit today on her back. It was fight over a toy. Audrey needs a little help in this area, we could use some advice.

Weekend wrap up

We had a very nice weekend enjoying some family time. Saturday I went to a baby shower for Christine which was really fun. Then Saturday evening Brent and I enjoyed a date night and saw the movie "Youth in Revolt", which was hilarious and then dinner after the movie.

Today Brent finished painting our work out room in the basement, which is finally ready to go, it's been a long time coming. While he was painting Audrey and I visited the mall and played in the play area and then we visited Grandma Julie. We had supper tonight at our house with Doug and Bev and then let Audrey entertain us afterwards for a while. She really loves her kitchen now with all of her new food she got for Christmas.





Chillin after her nap, eating some raisins.

Audrey likes to get right in your face now when she sees the camera.

I guess her pants are seriously baggy today, when we were playing at the mall today she kept sticking her hands down the back of her pants, ha. Good thing she usually has tighter pants on.

Check out the snow on our deck and the table, whoa. This is before Brent got it all scrapped off on Saturday.

Pajama Day

Today was pajama day at school, something funny about wearing shoes with pajamas:)

Good Morning Girls!

Sometimes we feel lucky to be able to cuddle with Audrey, she is not much of a cuddler. But we would appreciate it if it wasn't too early in the morning. Some mornings she wakes up around 5 crying and we go out and lay on the couch and she falls back asleep. It's just not as comfortable as sleeping in the bed. But, I have to say, I enjoy the little cuddle time that comes with it:)


This morning Tina decided to join us.

Are you nuts?

That seems to be the popular question asked to me about the polar plunge. I was meeting with a family at work and I was telling them about this event and the son told me after only knowing me for a couple days, "I always knew you had a screw loose." It made me laugh. Here are a couple pics Bev took.

I love this last picture, it looks like Doug is just standing on the water.

Polar Plunge

Today I enjoyed jumping into Lake Minnetonka to bring in 2010. I jumped with Doug and Nate and it was horribly cold. I can't imagine ever doing it again, but if you asked me this summer when it is 90 degrees I would probably say I would do it again.

Enjoy this video that Curt put together.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWA7sNLLr-g