Busy

"Monkey sitting down and reading book."

That's my girl!

I put breakfast on the table and Audrey shouted "BACON!"

Cheese!

Today was picture day at school. After dinner Garrett said he was setting up a camera. He put the red "camera" on a chair and proceeded to line up all the other cars and trucks. Once they were positioned the way he wanted he walked to the camera truck, said "big smiles," and made a clicking sound when he pushed down on it.

hilarious

well, we know he's napping... 

(center, under blue blanket)

Who doesn't?

Garrett to Audrey, "you like dollars and dessert, right?"

Yep.

It's disappointing when everyone is died.

Let's do the time warp again...

G, referencing some toys we were playing with: it was a terrible accident. Did you see it?

Me: No! When did it happen?

G: Oh, I think it was in the sixteen-eightys.

garrett quote

do you know what trees have acorns?

"acorn tree"

no. where do we live?

"oakland"

is there a tree that has some words like where we live?

"yeah - an oklahoma tree"

It's hard to argue with that...

"Garrett, please don't walk around with milk. Come back to the table and sit down to drink it."

I can't see him and all I get is silence from his room.

"Garrett."

From around the corner I hear, "Yeah, but I'm not supposed to walk around with milk."

Audrey Proclaims

Audrey:

Daddy go poop.

Butt.

Daddygopoopbutt.

Typing

Garrett's first email:

One Man Band

Roadkill

While driving on the highway on the way to the school field trip, I hear from the backseat, "Momma! I saw a cat on the side of the road! I think it was sleeping."

I didn't have the heart to tell him what it was really doing. 

Clone

Matt was scrolling thought my photos and saw these. He thought it was Garrett.

Fishy

He swam to the stairs!!!!

This is only his second private lesson; totally worth it!

(I'm closed into the dressing room and looking out a peephole because if we were out there I'd be constantly grabbing Audrey from throwing herself into the deep end!)

Audrey is also doing well, she's learning to relax and lie on her back; hopefully floating soon.

Minding my own business...

So today when I picked Garrett up from school I arrived and gave him a 2 minute warning. While sitting there waiting, a little girl came up to me. 

"Hi Grace. How's it going?" I asked. 

"What are those red dots on your face?"

"Uhh. They are called pimples. Thanks for asking."

Effing kids.

A Letter To BeBe

From Garrett:

Vgggksiduxuuddjuh udidjd'yvygfjqjyhyoigh gcbloygyhdrhwjdudyhhghhg

Garrett

Dear bebe
I love you
Garrett

(He typed this himself with me sounding out the letters)

Incoming!!!

View from inside the bunkbed.

Bedtime Routine

Matt's been putting the kids to be in an effort to wean Audrey from bedtime nursing. 

He thinks she does better when she can "decide" that it's time to go to bed. "I've never seen such a restless soul. It's something to watch at night... she climbs through the ladder to fall into bed head first. It's a little unnerving..."

Here's his new strategy:

Sit in the glider and let her work it out...
   1 - she does some laps between the bed and and the floor
   2 - she brings you some "babies"
   3 - she climbs in and out of your arms a few times
   4 - she finally goes into child pose and puts herself to sleep

Little Farm Morning

We ventured to Little Farm today. The kids had fun feeding the animals, though Audrey is more brave with them then Garrett. He kept just throwing our celery in their general direction, meanwhile Audrey nearly got a finger nibbled off for not letting go with a goat.

The joy that is nap time.

she's finally down.

holy jesus. 

I went in and held her after an hour of trying into let her work it out on her own. Which was after an hour of nursing and trying 4x to unlatch her. Which she woke after each attempt.

then I tried singing. every time I started to sing she yelled "NO" really loud - which made me laugh.

she started saying head and patting her head - writing this makes me realize that she wanted me to rub her head. not that her head hurt, which is what I thought she was trying to say.

duh. 

anyway, when i thought she was telling me that her head hurt I felt bad and asked her if she wanted to nurse. she said, "yeah" and i told her if she nursed then she had to sleep. she said "ok" i nursed for a while and she had her eyes open. I told her to close her eyes and she passed out. 

cute little effer.

Erupting

"See you later. I'm makin' a mol-cano!"

"Come on daddy, let's go!"

Meanwhile

At least somebody is napping...

(no mystery around what he was doing before falling asleep)

Google It

While discussing Halloween costumes over breakfast Garrett said, "I decided. I want to be Luker Sky."
"Who is that?"
"Look it up. Or ask daddy, he knows."
After a beat I realized he meant Luke Skywalker.

Stinky

Me: "Audrey did you poop?"

Garrett sticks his nose in her butt, deeply inhales then moves his face within an inch of mine, "smell my nose, doesn't it stink like poop?"

Igloo Building

Garrett Inviting Audrey to Nurse

Conked Out

Belly of the Beast

Oh NPR...

Listening to the radio after picking Garrett up from school and they
were discussing Russia's Putin and what he's been up to with Syria.
The broadcaster was asking about the Putin Doctrine.

From the back seat I hear, "what's a Poo Doctor?!"