Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Audrey’s 1st Birthday

I can’t believe my baby girl is already 1. She is walking now and even more so than the boys, I can see her growing up right before my very eyes. For her birthday, we had a fun family night together, and the boys just loved celebrating with their little sister. She had lost a little weight since her 9 month check up but grew in height a lot, so she is now in the 50% for both height and weight. She has had such a go with the flow attitude…but she also is super curious and especially enjoys the refrigerator, toilet, and anything she can climb on. She says Dada the most, followed by Mama, and Up and Bye-Bye. She also blows kisses and claps, and she started doing the high pitched scream thing (Trish, I know you remember Clark doing that oh so well) when she clearly wanted something, so I taught her my one sign that I teach all the kids in order to say please before they can actually say it, and it cut down on the scream altogether. For her birthday, we got her one of those Fisher Price doors with all the bells and whistles. Her brothers seemed to enjoy it as much as she did, and grandma and grandpa Nielson got her cute pjs! Happy Birthday Baby Girl!

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(My own creation via the Betty Crocker cake mix box…those are peanut butter m&ms…sooooo good)

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(Andrew, going for the ghetto fabulous look)

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(Clark, going for the unicorn look)

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YEAH…I think she liked it.

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Pigtails


My parents put me in pigtails for a long time when I was young. I liked them, and I think I looked pretty cute back then. Today I did Audrey's hair in pigtails for the first time. She looked so much older! She is bursting into toddlerhood!





Monday, April 4, 2011

Quarterly Clarkisms and Andoozies


01/01/11
Clark: I made some bad choices this year, but its okay because Santa gave me a treat.

01/06/11
(Clark, after going poop and shouting from the bathroom)
Clark: Mom, I wiped once but nothing came out. Can you come check?
Cherylyn: Sure.
Andrew: I want to come.
Clark: No, its dangerous.

01/08/11
Clark: Andrew you can't watch the same show too much ... if you do then you're dying.

01/10/11
(Cherylyn, talking to Tanner about a shopping experience she’d had earlier in the day)
Cherylyn: … And I was so bugged that I got sucked into the first store because then I saw several other stores that ….
Clark: Did they suck you and then chew you?

02/09/11
Cherylyn: Boys, dada is awesome.
Clark: But he doesn’t look awesome … he looks not happy with me because I hit Andrew in the face.
Andrew: Mom, dada’s the bad guy!
Tanner (to Cherylyn): Well that backfired.

(Clark saying a prayer before dinner)
Clark: Dear Heavenly Father, please bless that dada’s not happy with me because I hit Andrew in the face with a sword. In the name ….

03/05/2011
(After dinner prayer)
Clark: Dad, I saw you make a funny face during the prayer.
Tanner: How could you have seen me, weren’t you supposed to have your eyes closed?
Clark: Yeah, I saw through my eyes, they were closed but I could see through them.
Cherylyn: Wow, you can see through your closed eyes!?
Clark: Yeah, I have skills.