I can't believe it's Thanksgiving week already! I am so not ready for Christmas season!!! Heck, I'm really not even that ready to travel at the end of this week. I mean, I just did a ton of laundry after we got back from Minneapolis, so I'm not ready to do it all again so I can pack up and move on out. I suppose it would've made sense to take Tuesday off from work so I could get ready... maybe I still will take the afternoon or something. we'll see.
We had a nice lazy weekend here. Travis took Friday off from work so he could tailgate all day in anticipation of ISU's football game vs. #2-ranked OSU. I thought he was crazy - I was sure that it'd be cold and windy and miserable, and then the game would totally suck. I was wrong about everything except the wind, I guess!! What a game!! Lucky for me, Dan and Kerri came over to see the game so I wasn't alone to go berserk as they actually won.
And then I had about a 180-degree swing the next day as I discovered that Audrey can't have oranges without it triggering a mass release of the entire contents of her lower intestine. insane. Poor girl. We're still holding steady with 1-2 accidents per day, which pretty much occur when we let her take the lead on when she goes potty or not. I can trick her into going, or I can mandate it (like before naps) and pretty much she will fight me unless I'm very conniving and get her to think that it's her idea in the first place. it's tiring, but mostly it's annoying since I know how many other incredible things she's capable of doing, and she's proven she's capable of this too. I just keep telling myself, as long as she's got it figured out by, like, March, well, at least I won't be nursing and potty training... sheesh.
As for those other incredible things, I started the day by Emily requesting that I play the piano while she sings Golden Slumbers. So Audrey sat on my lap and sang along with Emily's pretty clear voice. It was soooo cool. Tonight at bedtime, they were both singing twinkle, twinkle, and it was absolutely the best. They spent the evening doing puzzles with me and Travis, and it was pretty amazing to see what they could do. Audrey was putting puzzles together licketysplit that she hadn't ever seen before. AND, she's getting more words! We read a book about a frog tonight, which she exclaimed to be "Gog!!!" And she wanted a cup that she couldn't reach from the bathtub the other night, and she actually said her word for cup. I'm working on shushing Emily enough to give Audrey a chance, and set the expectation that Audrey needs to use her words and not just rely on big sister or her expressive little face to communicate for her.
And Emily has been so snuggley and sweet lately, and so beautifully expressive with the way she words things. Can she just stay 4 forever???
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