A Four Year Old Girl

My sweet Audrey Joanne turns 4 years old today, April 19th, at 5:17 am! She's been hoping and wishing her birthday would come pretty much the day after her last birthday! It's so hard to believe it was already four years ago that my water broke at a restaurant and soon after, we had our baby girl. It's been an interesting four years, challenging, but mostly great :) I wouldn't trade it for anything!

We just love this sweet-hearted, thoughtful, smart, creative, talkative, articulate, silly, clever, fiesty girl, who just loves to play and have fun.

A quick list of her favorites include:

• Disney Princesses
• Wrestling with Daddy
• Making Carson laugh
• Cooking with and helping Mama do anything around the house
• Making cards for people
• Watching her 'shows' (Sesame Street, Daniel Tiger, Super Why)
• Being an 'adventure girl', this means she likes to run around outside collecting things like pine cones, rocks, grass, etc :)
• Playing with David, Sammy, and Emily
• Doing her hair (over and over)
• Wearing pajamas
• Shopping 'by herself' (I hide out of her sight)

There's a million things more to say about our lovely girl, but I have to stop sometimes. We love watching her grow and learn. She is still a little sponge, taking in everything she learns and asking tons of questions.

Happy Birthday sweet girl! We love you so much!!!

Her Birth Day

One Years Old

Two Years Old

Three Years Old

Last Day of Being Three!

Below are a few pictures of the past year :)

                                               

9 Months Old

 

At Nine Months You:

• Are pulling your self up on anything you can reach, letting go, balancing, and then grinnng at whoever sees you as if to say, "Look at my new balancing trick!"
• Love to balance on your feet, but won't take a step yet
• Are still wearing 12 months clothes
• Have mastered picking up puffs and eating them, but this also means you are able to pick up anything off the floor and try to get it in your mouth!
• Are starting to be a little stinker, getting into cupboards, boxes, and drawers!
• Are waving 'bye-bye'
• Will lie down like a tiny new baby in our arms right before bedtime and be rocked as long as we want to, it's my absolute favorite part of the day, you're so calm and peaceful, happy to lie there and relax.
• Really don't suck your thumb anymore, which is great, now we have no habits to break!
• Love to hold and shake anything that'll make a noise, your favorite is a little maraca at Grandma's house, you get the biggest grin.
• Still love to play 'I'm gonna get you', peek-a-boo, pat-a-cake, and such.
• Have started to act on your feelings a bit. When I get you in the morning, clearly you're starving because you start to throw your head around and pump your legs up and down to show how much you want that bottle! And at night, before bed, you get a little silly and we can tell you're trying to laugh and have fun.
• Adore your grandparents, parents, and sister :)
• Have fallen in the percentages, in the 50s and 60s now for weight and height instead of 80s, 90s. The Dr. says it's because now you're so on the move! You seem perfect to us!
• Still love to try to suck on Mama's chin, but now those two little teeth are in the way!
• Are the most adorable little thing that brings such joy to all you meet!

Love you sweetheart!

Carson and Daddy at the park

One nice(r) day in April...Carson loved the park

Check out my tooth!

 

"So Big!"

Me and my boy :)