Audrey is 3!

Wheeeee, someone is three! 3 is actually a really fun age, even taking threenager drama into account. Her imagination is crazy and cracks me up daily. Its a whole new wonderful world where she's not running into traffic, running into the street, etc. I can take her out of the car and know she will stand right there until I'm ready for us to go into the store/house/whatever. She has her moments of course, but she does love her brother "Efan", she can't wait until he can actually talk and play with her "when he's bigger". So sweet. There's jealousy of course and sometimes she *needs* something exactly when he needs a bottle or to be changed. For the most part though, she's really adapted quite well. 2.5-3 was rough with her, but we've really turned a corner now.

Current loves are playing outside, painting, Peppa Pig, Doc McStuffins, her best friend Evie, going to the beach and boardwalk, going on the rides. Oh and ice cream and cookies, she certainly got our sweet tooth!  She's fully potty trained, nights too which is AMAZING. She had a rough summer of sleep, I think mostly because Chris was at work with lots of wake-ups, but overall she sleeps about 11 hours per night with no naps. She does still nap at school but never at home.

She starts 3 days a week of preschool this year and is so excited. She loves the structure of school. Summer camp, not so much. It was too free and too many kids for her liking. She's turning out to be sensitive, which is surprising given my personality, but I'm trying to pay attention to it and use things that hurt her feelings as teachable moments. She likes to know how things are going to be, but as long as you explain it to her ahead of time, she can handle change pretty well.

When she plays independently with her dolls and puts them to sleep or to nap or to time out, she mimics us, which is adorable. Turns out, we're doing things right!

Ethan's 5 Months

Ethan's 5 months old now and that means my favorite milestone is coming up - eating! I loved feeding Audrey and I'm excited to start feeding Ethan too. I plan on making some puree and buying some puree, whatever is easier at the time. Making them is great because you really can make a big batch in a few minutes. Given his new fascination with watching us eat, I think he's ready!

And in awesome news, he just started sleeping through the night! Woohoo, I could finally sleep - except that my almost 3 year old wakes up multiple times a nice. But that's a different sob story.  He is truly the sweetest, happiest baby. The only time he's really unhappy is when he's overtired and we don't get him for a nap soon enough.  He's into the "put everything in your mouth" stage and drooling nonstop. I don't remember this from Audrey! He is soaking his shirts constantly!

Audrey is really sweet to him (most of the time) she can't wait until he can interact and play with her and neither can I! He's loving his exersaucer and jumper too. Still not so much with being on his stomach although he CAN roll he just chooses not to. Lazy babies :)