baby audrey is 2 years old today! here are some pictures of her rocking out on her ice cream cone mic yesterday. i had some video but they didn't turn out for some reason. anyhow, she basically sings Oh Susanna. "Oooooooo Suna, don for me"


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Cloverbuds in February was all about the senses. We learned about our 5 senses with an interactive story and then with a hands-on guessing game. The kids sniffed cotton swabs and guessed what they were smelling. They tasted popcorn with various flavoring. They closed their eyes, picked a fabric, and described the way it felt.

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Fynn

• has stayed relatively healthy this past month considering the mess of illness around him
• spends most of his days obsessing about fighter planes
  
• vocabulary is growing tremendously.  today he said that the plane the Red Baron flew had good maneuverability
• prefers to stay home over just about any outing
• asked to play soccer, got signed up for soccer ( Read more... )

audrey has had an eye infection for a few days now.  this picture doesn't quite capture how swollen and red her poor eyes are.  doctor says it should be clearing up any day now.  we certainly hope so.  she had been uncomfortable.  plus, we've had to stay home and i think we're all getting a little stir crazy!

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Audrey likes to wear this ratty old costume (her "dress") every single day!


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clover saw enchanted today and loved it.  especially the dragon part at the end, despite the frightful intensity!  it's so fun to have time alone for just mommy and clover!!  we also went to wild oats and she was thrilled that they had cheese to test.  something about the toothpick with the colored stuff on the end and poking the cheese....so ( Read more... )

audrey is signing like crazy.  well, she's talking a lot more than she's signing, but she knows more signs than fynn or clover combined knew at this age.  we are all learning more signs together everyday and it's so much fun.  the latest has been colors.  at first, since a lot of the colors have a similiar hand turning involved, most of them looked ( Read more... )

her nap time gift today is a paper airplane, baby teething toy, and a brown ribbon.  surprisingly, yesterday she came out empty handed.  we were all slightly disappointed, seeing as we are so wildly amused by this ritual.

For a few weeks now Audrey has been surprising us after nap time.  We hear the door swing open and footsteps down the hallway....and we look to her hands to see what she is carrying.  It ranges from controllers to dolls to books....one day it was an armful of things.   Yesterday, when Troy was driving back from Detroit, he called just to ask what ( Read more... )