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| In a pretty sweater dress, courtesy of the Marr's |
Dear Audrey,
You are the sweetest little girl. You love your daddy, but you're still a momma's girl. Which doesn't bother me a bit. :) You are such a good little helper. You love to have a job to do like putting things away, but only if we make a fun game out of it. You love to get out your vacuum and vacuum alongside of me. You love to dump out your basket of hair bows/accessories and then pick them up and put them away. Over and over. At "school" (daycare), you get stickers often for being a good helper for your teachers.
You have made so many friends at school: Karishma, Chloe, Avery, Maureen, Jack... you can name them all when we look at your school picture. And your teachers just adore you. Your teacher in the Toddler 2 room, Ms. Abby, just raves about you. How you love to play with the baby dolls, and you take such good care of them by wrapping them up in blankies and carrying them around. She told me that if she had to choose 1 child to be a big sister to her kids, it would be you. For your birthday, Ms. Abby made you a little red cradle with a tiny baby doll for you to play with and remember her by. She's really going to miss you now that you've moved up to the 2/3's room with your new teacher, Ms. Meghann.
You love reading books, and you certainly have some favorites. For bedtime, we many nights read the same books over and over. You love all Dr. Seuss books, especially The Lorax, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, Horton Hatches the Egg, and Green Eggs and Ham. You love the books I'll Teach My Dog 100 Words and Snow. Sometimes you'll let us mix in some other stories, but those are the go-to's. Your favorite movies are The Lorax and Despicable Me. We have watched these movies so much, especially The Lorax, that it's not uncommon for Daddy and I to have the songs from The Lorax stuck in our heads all day at work. (Why do they make the songs so darn catchy??) You love watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Elmo (not Sesame Street, just Elmo), Jake and the Neverland Pirates, and Little Einsteins. You love to color. Some days they send home 6 sheets of paper that you colored by yourself. And you love stickers. We have sticker books where you can stick them all, but your favorite thing to do is stick them to your face and your clothes, all over your body. You crack up at yourself doing this.
You love playing at the park, sliding down the slides (even the big ones!), swinging, and just running around. Our park in our neighborhood has a splashpad, and you loved to visit there over the summer and run through the water.
You are a fun-loving little girl. You are shy around others, but you're adventurous and ready to try new things. At school, they tell me that you are usually the first to try something out, even if the other kids are hesitant. You have no problem sitting down and focusing on one thing for awhile. Recently it's been a number of things... Playing with a mini-tent with mini-people when you were talking about camping at daycare. Ms. Abby was so impressed that you sat there and played with the tent and people for so long. You were focused on figuring out how to zip and unzip the tent, and once you figured it out you were so proud of yourself! Also, building things with blocks... you love to build and then crash it down. You are analytical and you like to figure out how things work.
Your favorite restaurant is Train Car Tommy's (formerly known as Choo Choo Johnny's). We sit around a bar where a train circles around and brings you your food. You were so excited to eat there for your birthday, and started clapping and hootin and hollerin in the parking lot even as we were pulling up. They gave you ice cream with a candle in it (delivered by the train, of course), and we all sang "Happy Birthday" to you. You got so embarrassed and hid your face in my shoulder.
You are a good sleeper in your big girl bed. You transitioned from the crib to the big girl bed at about 19 months old (back in the early summer) when you learned how to flip out of your crib. You still can't open the door to your room by yourself, so you knock on the door when you're ready to get up for the day. You still sleep with your paci, but it's reserved only for sleeping. You hand it to me to put "in its safe place" on the dresser as soon as you get up in the morning.
You are quite the talker these days. You are now putting together 3-4 word sentences. And you've learned possessives... "Audrey's car", "Chief's leash", "Daddy's coat", etc. Your expressions and some of the things you say and how you say it just crack us up. One of my favorites... you scrunch up your nose, shake your head, and say "I don't like it", usually in reference to broccoli or something like that. That facial expression is so funny.
Grammy Patton planned the most wonderful 2nd birthday party for you. You kept saying "Audrey's birthday" for a good month before your birthday, just in anticipation of your party and celebrating. (I think it also helped that other kids at school had birthdays, so you wanted your turn!) The theme of the birthday was One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish. We had a lot of friends and family who came to celebrate with you. It was such a good time!
Audrey, we love you so much! You surprise us everyday with a new thing that you've learned or what you can do. Even as you get more opinionated and independent, you are such a good girl. You have such a good, caring heart. And you are so smart, such a good memory! You amaze us, and we love you so much. Happy Birthday, sweet Audrey Elizabeth!
We love you more than you'll ever know!
Mommy
Pictures from your Birthday Dinner:
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| Watching our food come out on the train |
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| Superman Birthday Ice Cream |
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