Audrey

Er, what?

While putting her to bed recently, I said “I love you”.

She replied: “I don’t want to be killed.”

Er, me either babe.

Quotes

• "Can you please not talk, since I might copy you?", she says to Jared. 
• "Mommy - there's a BIIIIG poop stuck in my bottom, and I want to put it in the potty!!!"
• Her t-painned rendition of "Be quiet everyone": http://tinyurl.com/qyj2qd
• "Mommy, can you please play hippos that are hungry with me?"
• "Look mommy, a woodkepper! I mean, a woodpepper."
• "That car is sooooooooo cute because there's a baby in it!"
• "Here mommy is your present... ... ... Now can I have it?"
• Unclear on the concept: Jared: "I spy w/my little eye something blue..." Audrey: "My waffle!!"

An Audrey story from Savta

In Savta's words:

Yesterday, standing on the couch, she informed me that "Maxie is a bitin' dog!" 

I asked her when he bit her. 

She said, "One day when I on accident, put my finger in his mouth, he bited it off!" 

"Well, let me see your fingers," I said. "Oh how is this?  You have all 10 fingers!"

She looked at me seriously and said, "The tooth fairy came and put it back on!"

Need to remember how this sounds...

For at least the last year now, Audrey pronounces "give" like "gov" - "That toy Jared gov me". It's the funniest thing because she has very good diction most of the time, but this one just sticks with her. I love it.

As she's growing up we've found that she really has such a generous heart... on the way home today we had McDonald's in the car, and Jared dropped one of his mcnuggets and was upset about it. She handed him one of hers without comment - she didn't play it up like "Look at me" or anything, it was just matter of fact, Jared dropped his so she was giving him one.

While Jared is an amazing kid, this kind of generosity does not come naturally to him - perhaps something about having been an only child for a few years and then having that taken away from you, vs Audrey who's never known what it's like to be an only :-) Hrm, does that mean I was super generous when I was a kid? Whaddya think, guys?

Preschooler unclear on the concept, exhibit A

"I spy with my little eye... something blue... my waffle!"

Worst. Parents. Ever.

It's been a rough couple of weeks with Audrey, she's just been... well there's no other way to say it, she's been a little wanker. Very 'screamy', as they say. So my nerves have been a bit frayed lately, to say the least.

I finally got around to scheduling her 3 year checkup for a month after she turned 3, and we took her in to the appointment... only to find out that she has a raging ear infection in one ear.

Huh? Neither of my kids has ever had an ear infection - which has always been amazing to me given how many of my friends' kids had seemingly one after the other, and some had to get tubes put in.

Gee, come to think of it, maybe this could explain her behavior...

So because I'm not a fan of antibiotics if they're not needed and because Audrey wasn't pulling at her ear or doing anything to indicate that she was in a lot of pain (other than, of course, being a little wanker but hey there are lots of reasons for that, one of which is "being a three year old"), we decided to just let her body fight it off.

The next week, David pointed out that hrm, gee, I'm going to be traveling on a plane with both kids by myself in a couple weeks, and what if her ear infection hasn't gone away by then, that could be hellish... so he takes her back to the doctor, only to find out the ear infection is worse.

Oy.

So he got antibiotics, and she's been on them four days (it only took us 24 hours to figure out that she would be wonderfully motivated to not spit them out if she gets to have a piece of halloween candy every time she has the medicine. Did I mention that she gets the medicine twice a day?)... and today we noted that you know, life's been a little less crazy the last few days, and gee she's less "screamy" than usual.

Gee whilikers.

I haven't heard this song before...

"Here we go around the libary bush..."

Birthday

I don't know what to do for her birthday. Jared's first "proper" birthday with kids from his school was at age five, we just treated birthdays as excuses to have a barbecue and invite over friends-with-kids for previous years. But Audrey has seen first-hand at Jared's party and all the other parties for both of their classmates that when you have a birthday, you have a big party with all your friends from school, and you get a lot of presents.

I asked her tonight what she wanted for her birthday, and she said:

"A storm trooper. No, wait... a chewbacca."

That's my girl!

Of course I should also mention that for the last couple of weeks she has been asking for "a baby that when you push a button, eats a cracker." Anyone know where I can find such a doll?

Potty training is sooooooooooo much fun

A couple of weeks ago, our intrepid two year old waddles into our bedroom at 6AM like usual, and proudly announces: "I wearin' underwear!"

David and I looked at each other, puzzled... oh crap! Did we put her to bed in underwear by mistake last night? Oh no...

So I get up, and head over to her room... the bed, fortunately, is dry. I look in the bathroom, and sitting on the floor by the toilet is a very wet pullup. In the toilet is a single square of toilet paper. Audrey then toddles in and confirms the sequence of events: "I pee inna poddy and den I puton underwear!"

Favorite food

"You know what my favorite food is?  Whales.  I was eating it yesterday, when I was at the doctor."

I love Audrey's little non-sequiturs.