Audie's 4th Birthday

We celebrated Audie's Birthday yesterday. All day was great. Audie enjoyed the phone calls she got, and the cards in the mail.
Due to overwhelmingly busy schedules, we did her pictures last Saturday--(instead of on her birthday like I'd like to). Either way, what a little cutie head she is. Love this girl.

We started the day off with breakfast, then school.  We did what she wanted to do for most of the day. Her choice of dinner was Red Robin...she wanted balloons! Matt and I told her we would buy her balloons if she wanted to go somewhere else for dinner, but she stuck with the place that she knew had the balloons.

We came back home for some cake- we had Grandma Joyce and Grumpa Bob over to eat and open presents with us.

She got some Little Critter books, a Strawberry Shortcake coloring book, and  cheerleader outfit.
She had daddy throw her up so she could do her cheers in the air.

The best part of the day for me was something Audra and Corinne said on the way back from Red Robin:
Audra: "I had a really good birthday today."
Corinne: "I hope you did, sister."

How sweet! I love my girls.

minus one

Corinne lost her first tooth earlier this week.
The night I pulled it, I didn't really think it was ready to come out. From my memory back when I was a tot, I remember blood being involved when it was ready to come out. There was no blood present.
And usually, Corinne is pretty squeemish when it comes to blood and hurting type of things. I didn't think she was going to be in to me pulling her tooth and maybe causing her pain.

Well, we jiggled and wiggled and it didn't seem to get any looser.
Finally, I tied some floss around that little baby and gave it a yank.
Out it came, with blood. It was ready!!

  I was so proud of her! She didn't even flinch or act woozy like she typically does around that kind of thing! Maybe she didn't know to be squeemish with pulling a tooth.

  and then she called her friends to tell them she had lost a tooth.

What a lovely girl.

first day of school

Where did the summer go? Today was our first day of school! 

They were pretty excited about it. Matt packed both of them a lunch which made their day. He wrote them each a little note which melted my heart. More details later on how the day went, and for now, the "first day of school" pictures.

Audie Says...

Rewind to several months back, at the dinner table.
Matt told the girls if you hold your nose when you eat your vegetables, you can't taste them.

 So, yesterday afternoon, I made the girls fruit smoothies for a snack.

About halfway through the smoothie, Audie says, "Hey mom, plug your nose and take a drink of the smoothie."
So I did.

"Can you taste it when you plug your nose?"
to which I replied, "I sorta can."

Then, with squinted eyes, like a detective, she said, "So.....dad lied"