Girly

When Brent picked Audrey up from daycare today she was sporting a pony tail. I have never tried this with her since she always rips barrettes out. Our thoughts are they thought she was looking boyish with her Vikings jersey so they were making her more girly. We both loved it, she looked so different.

Christmas all weekend!

We pretty much wore Audrey out the last 4 days celebrating with family every day. Today we finally got to get together with Curt and Christine. It was wonderful and we were glad they could come down when traveling was safer. We enjoyed a new board game while Audrey was napping. Once she woke up she entertained us.


Audrey is getting the hang of the new tent/tunnel system.

Audrey is watching dad, hoping he doesn't get stuck in the tunnel.

Audrey was ready to go I guess, she put on her new coat that Christine and Curt got her for next winter, she just couldn't wait until next year to wear it.

We also got to celebrate Christine's birthday with some awesome cake, it was a big deal when she was cutting the cake as you can see, cameras at every angle.

Colorful Christmas!

We had a wonderful Christmas this year. Spending time with our parents and Audrey was wonderful, it was snowing outside and nice and cozy inside. We didn't get to see Curt and Christine because of the snow, so hopefully Sunday will be nice enough for them to travel down.


Here is Tina getting high on Christmas with her cat nip fish.

Thor enjoying his new toy.

Not sure who enjoyed this box more, Audrey or Thor.

Doug and Bev poured some hard work into this book shelf for Audrey's toy room. It turned out so nice. Doug built it and Bev painted it, it's a perfect fit.

Audrey got a sweet table and chairs from Grandpa and Grandma Sonnek, she could hardly wait for them to get put together. Here she is reading to her sock monkey.

Snowy

Brent spent some time getting the snow off the roof today, this is some seriously heavy snow.

Audrey finally started to enjoy the snow, I pulled her around the neighborhood in her sled and we played on the incredible snow pile at the end of our street. Here we are bugging dad while he was making some appetizers.

Happy Birthday Aunt Christine!

We miss you today, but enjoy your birthday and we can't wait to see you on Sunday!


This is Audrey and Christine last year on Christmas.

O Christmas Tree!

Our Christmas tree ornaments have a lot of history and a lot of stories behind them. We have no theme to our tree at all, it's just a bunch of ornaments we have collected over the years. I thought it would be fun to blog about them.


Audrey loves checking out the ornaments.

This is a cheap ornament from back in my college days when I lived in the funeral home in Roseville. My roommate and I bought all our ornaments at the dollar store:)

This is our tree this year with a brand new tree skirt. It's fun to get something new every year for the tree.

This is one of Brent's ornaments from when he was younger.

My aunt makes a new ornament every year, this is a Santa made out of an acorn.

Heidi made these for me the year we were married with petals from my wedding flowers.

This is one of the ornaments I got from my grandma's collection, she gave me all of her decorations.

Oooooohhhhhhhhh!

Audrey has been making this face a lot lately, ha. We have been letting her open the Christmas cards and this is the face she made today when we let her open the card from Curt and Christine. All we have to do now is ask her to do this and she does, it's too funny!

Audrey is learning so much lately, she is full of conversation. She can repeat a lot of words that we say. She knows what a dog, cow, duck, and monkey can say. Lately I have been hearing her say 1, 2 and repeating it over and over. Before bath time she goes in her room and can take her socks off and put them in her hamper and she can take her shirt off , but not the pants yet. She learned this week at daycare to take off her hat, mittens and coat and put them on. She is doing pretty well.

Audrey gets frustrated very easily lately, so we try to distract her right away if something is not going well. I think she wants to do so many things by herself , but not everything comes easily so it's frustrating for her. Communicating is a challenge with her limited vocabulary, she knows what she wants, but we don't always know what she wants. It's very exciting the more and more words she picks up, something new every day.