My baby turns 3!

My precious Audrey turned 3 on June 15 and I really don't know how it happened so fast! I am so grateful for her and feel so blessed to be her mother. Here are a few of my favorite things about Audrey right now: 1. She will not leave the house without getting into her dress up box and putting on fancy shoes and a purse over her shoulder. She could still be in her pajamas and it wouldn't matter. She just loves to feel fancy and girly and I have called her my tiny diva before she was even one year old, I just knew she had it in her! 2. She loves to make anyone laugh, and she really is funny! She does things and says things that have Alexia and me laughing all of the time! 3. She's a little spunk and definetely wants things her way, but it's how she goes about getting her own way that is unreal. She has coaxing, playing with your hair while she asks, using those big beautiful eyes of hers, and using the highest voice you have ever heard, down to an art! There was one time that she was in trouble and she was looking down at the ground, so I told her to look at me. When she looked up her eyes immediately melted my heart and I started smiling (so that whole teaching lesson was lost) and I know it's not going to be the last time those eyes get her out of trouble! When she was a toddler she wanted my mom to open the back door, so she went over to my mom, layed her head on her shoulder and THEN pointed to the door. We couldn't let the cat in, so my mom told her she couldn't. However, Audrey wasn't going to accept that answer, so she would go back over, put both her arms around my mom's neck and just love her and then point to the door again. This happened until, you guessed it, my mom opened the door. The other experience I want to write about for my journal purposes, is when she was a toddler in her crib for the night and wanted to get out. She would yell for me over and over, but I wouldn't answer. Then I heard her yell, "mommy, diaper off!" So I had to go in there and she had taken off her diaper so I got her out, (I knew she was so satisfied with her plan, but it didn't end there) and brought her in the family room where Brod was to put a new diaper back on her. I put it on and she said, "snuggle daddy!" So of course, it made Brod proud and she got to snuggle into his lap. A minute later she said, "watch Dora? Okay!" acting like Brod and I suggested it! We just looked at eachother and I only let her little plan work for so long, because I put her back in her crib! But the planning and scheming that went on was unbelievable! 5. Whenever she needs my attention, she comes and finds me and I hear this sweet little voice say, "mommy?" when I answer she says, "I want you" It completely melts my heart and sometimes she goes a step further and asks, "can I have you?" I drop whatever I'm doing and pick her up and snuggle her. I love it. Okay, so I really could just keep going forever, but I love my darling Audrey...happy birthday honey.


I can't believe my baby is now a 3 year old diva!
She wore her "birthday princess" crown when we brought her breakfast in bed-she wanted an omelette with salsa(yep, my girl) and chocolate donut holes with strawberry milk!
So excited to open all of her presents!
She got a little ballerina dress (which is what she asked for) along with sunglasses, purse, lipgloss, and cards from both her perfect grandparents (and those were my favorite presents)

She got to start her day off with not having to wait out in the car while I got my pop, she got to come in and get her own! I really don't know if I've ever seen her more proud. Really.
Then we took her to Paradise Cove, which is this darling water park and Brod and his girls had a blast.

Then, more than anything on her birthday, she wanted to go to Chuck E. Cheese!
This horse was a simulated game and you really had to ride the horse, like guide it and kick the sides, etc. and you were racing on the screen. Look how concentrated she is! And Brod and I were laughing so hard because she did SO good!

Her face says it all when the race was over
And guess where she chose for her birthday dinner? Of course, a happy meal at McDonalds! (We're going to enjoy this while it lasts)
Then we took her to the library and let her pick out a movie for her and Lex to watch that night
It seems like I bearly put that candle on Alexia's cake... where does the time go?
She had completely given in by the time bedtime came, and daddy took advantage of such a precious situation!