Celebrating 2 years!

Audrey has been such a wonderful joy the past 2 years. We are so grateful for her and her spunky spirit. She definitely keeps us all on our toes! Audrey loves to play with Rachel. As a matter of fact, she still hasn't gotten used to Rachel being away 2 days a week. She misses Rachel while she's at school. Audrey tries so hard to keep up and please her sister. Rachel can be a little bit of a mother at times and Audrey is pretty good to play along with Rachel's requests...

Audrey is quite the talker! She has amazed us (and many others) with her growth the past 6 months. She totally talks in sentences - the grammar isn't always correct, but you get the gist of what she's trying to say. She can pretty much say and talk about anything. Carrying on a conversation is easy peasy for her. The other day she randomly told me that "Honey likes to drink water from the lake". We had recently been to my parents and I guess she was just reminiscing about their dogs...

This little one loves babies - real and pretend. One day she is going to make a good momma! Probably better than I am with newborns. Audrey says such sweet prayers. Right now, the first two things she says are: "Thank you for this day" and "Please bless Papa get better". Sometimes she'll add in more, like "Daddy come home safe" or "Bless we sleep good". I love her prayers!

One of the most humorous things Audrey has done recently was at a store. As usual, Rachel was asking for anything and everything and I kept on saying no. As we were walking to the cashier, Rachel asked for one last thing and of course I said no. Well, Audrey turned around and said to Rachel, "Sorry buck-o". Too funny! I guess she must of picked that one up from me...

And just like her sister, Audrey loves her daddy. She gets so excited when he comes home every night and she loves for him to read her a story before bed. Audrey is quite the mama's girl, so it's nice when these moments come along. Audrey is quite a girlie girl. She insists on having her hair in a ponytail with a bow every day. If I do a twisty ponytail and don't put a bow in, she becomes rather upset. She loves to put on make-up with Mommy, playing dress-up with her sister, and wearing lots of jewelry.

Audrey has her check-up on Tuesday, so I'll post her stats then. I'm guessing she'll be around 21 pounds and 32 inches tall... Audrey likes the finer things in life, so for her birthday we enjoyed a cheesecake with blueberries and raspberries on top. Right now she has quite the fetish for blueberries. Not a bad fetish to have though!

This little girl loves music! She loves to sing, be sung to, and dance. She has pretty good rhythm as well... Her most requested songs right now are "Silent Night" and "Jingle Bells". Before the Christmas season she would always request "ABCs", "Itsy, Bitsy Spider", and "I am a Child of God".

We are so excited to see what Audrey will bring to our family in the next year. I'm sure it will be one full of joy, laughter, tantrums, tears, smiles, surprises, kisses, and love...