This & That Thursday

* Audrey's getting (a little) more successful with her potty training. This makes me happy! I'm planning on working at the church preschool this fall. She's coming too IF she's potty trained... and SHE WILL BE!!!!

* The girls aren't big into posing for pictures right now. Here's what I got the last time I asked them to take a picture together.


* We're having dinner with friends tonight. I'm just supposed to bring dessert. I wish I had my sister-in-law's cake making/decorating skills, but I don't. (HEY AMY!) I wound up making 3 different easy desserts (marshmallow treats, chocolate covered pretzels, and chocolate peanut butter bars) and I'm hoping that will suffice.

* The girls surprised me over the weekend and willingly pet a little lamb. (sorry the pic is bad) Yes, when the lamb actually looked Audrey's way she cried with fear **BUT** at least she pet it. That's progress for us!


* Matt and I watched Shutter Island the other night. It was just the right amount of scary for me. Enough for me to freak out a few times during the movie, but not so much to keep me up for half the night.


* Julia's really into getting in the swimming pool floatie free. She loves the fact that she can hang out in the shallow end and still touch the ground. She's even started swimming on her own for 6 or 7 kicks, although Jules doesn't use her arms just yet. We also need to work on dog-paddling, but she's doing such a good job! It's so sweet to see the look of pride/confidence on her face when she comes up from the water.

Princess Party @ CFA

Last week we went to Chick-fil-a for their Princess night.

Hair, nails, makeup - OH MY!




Pictured with Audrey below is her princess shoe. The girls didn't want to dress up in their full princess attire, but they did want to wear their high heels!



My girls liked looking at the chick-fil-a cow and the princesses, but neither really wanted to be near them. We waved 'hello' numerous times, and after many requests I finally got the girls to take a picture...


They also had a limo for people to take a ride in, but the line for that was really long so we didn't enjoy that fun. Plus, the girls didn't even take a second glance at it when we walked by - not interested. :)


Ahhh, sloppy kisses are the best!

My Baby!

I've got extra pictures on my camera that I haven't blogged about yet. I was looking through them just now and saw one that really caught my eye. Look at my Audrey!! She looks nothing like a baby! My baby is a now a little girl!!!!

Father's Day pics

I had to grab the camera Sunday for some pictures of Matt and the girls. The photo shoot wasn't great, but I'd prefer "ehhh" pictures to NO pictures!

VBS family night

VBS family night was tonight. Audrey just stood there looking confused, but Julia put on a show. She elbowed her way into center stage, accidentally smacked herself in the face, mugged for the video camera, shouted the last note, galloped before taking her final bow, and capped it off by showing the congregation her panties.

This & That Thursday

* We've got VBS this week. Both girls have enjoyed themselves (although Audrey does cry at drop off!) Audrey singing the little preschool songs (motions too!) is just the C-U-T-E-S-T thing! I can't wait to see these 2 perform on Family night tomorrow. A video is a MUST! Don't they look like they're having fun at VBS????



* Julia's been sleeping in winter pajamas recently. She thinks it is hilarious to come running out of her room in fleece even when the low at night is 80!


* Skittles aren't working so well for Audrey and the potty. I think we might move to $. Perhaps she would like the clink of coins in her piggy bank. That or M&M's - perhaps chocolate would work better than skittles??

* We got a few new floatie toys for the pool. Audrey's favorite new toy is the little boat we bought. She likes to throw it in the pool and then jump in after it feet first. Since this action could easily cause her to bust her head open, we've outlawed it. Now she has to settle for diving out of her boat.


* Wednesday night the girls didn't sleep too well. Both girls woke up multiple times. One of the times Julia woke up she was having a night terror. She screamed for awhile, then walked into our room and finally woke up. During this screaming session she woke up Audrey. We wound up putting them back down together - I think this is the first time they've slept together, not that it lasted more than an hour or two.

By the way, Julia's shirtless in the above photo because the child insisted that night on wearing another of her fleece pajamas. Apparently, some time before she fell asleep she got too hot. I promise the child does have summer pj's to wear!

A great mailbox day...

6 coupons for FREE items (no purchase necessary - just pay tax) arrived in my mailbox today! I was extremely excited.




FREE items are:
Kool-Aid fun fizz
Kraft Homestyle Deluxe mac/cheese
Digiorno Deep dish pizza
Kraft 100 calorie packs cheese bites
Oscar Mayer Delifresh shaved meats
Ritz Crackerfuls

The girls will definitely be snacking on cheese bites before the week is out!