But there was snow.
Look, Mama. Footprints.
Friday 18 January 2013
Snow Days
All the days are running together lately. Time goes faster and faster. It's difficult to keep up.
But there was snow.
Look, Mama. Footprints.
But there was snow.
Look, Mama. Footprints.
Thursday 10 January 2013
Everything
This morning on the way home from the play park Audrey was up on my shoulders. She pointed exciting things out to me as we walked "Mama, look - red door!" "White van, Mama, big white van!"
She was tired by the time we got close to our house, and my shoulders were aching. She put her "wow red mittens" covered hands on my face, leaned as far forward as she could to look at me, and said "Mama Mama Mama Mama."
"Yes, Audrey?"
"Everything."
It was Ian's 30th birthday yesterday, and we had a lazy family day. Audrey made him a card covered in animal stickers, each one meticulously placed. We went into town and shopped and looked at the "peoples" and the "oooh pretty lights" and the castle rocket on the hill (every castle is a castle rocket right now to Audrey, that's just the way it is).
We went out to have dinner at our favourite little restaurant in Bruntsfield, where the owner/chef/waiter always lets Audrey look in the kitchen and gives her free chocolate ice cream. Also, every single time we're there he offers her a job. She has her own special name for him. She says please and thank you, and always orders the scampi.
Lately Audrey can't get enough jigsaw puzzles. Something clicked for her with them, and now she does them for hours every day. Every piece she picks up she asks out loud "Where fish go? Where apple go? Where tree go?" Or whatever the piece might be. Then she finds the place and puts it in carefully (sometimes forcefully). When it's all done, she brings it proudly to show me.
Toddlerhood is amazing. I wish I could freeze my life right here. We play lots of games and have endless conversations. Audrey has an opinion on everything under the sun.
She's a little charmer, too. She spent some time this morning chatting to the bin men who were taking the recycling away. She loved their "huuuuge white van" and watched the way the rubbish was loaded and ground up for ages. She got so many smiles and hellos from everyone.
This afternoon we're off to the museum to look at dinosaur skeletons and mummies, sculptures and paintings, clothes and trains and stars, rocks and computers. So much fun!
She was tired by the time we got close to our house, and my shoulders were aching. She put her "wow red mittens" covered hands on my face, leaned as far forward as she could to look at me, and said "Mama Mama Mama Mama."
"Yes, Audrey?"
"Everything."
It was Ian's 30th birthday yesterday, and we had a lazy family day. Audrey made him a card covered in animal stickers, each one meticulously placed. We went into town and shopped and looked at the "peoples" and the "oooh pretty lights" and the castle rocket on the hill (every castle is a castle rocket right now to Audrey, that's just the way it is).
We went out to have dinner at our favourite little restaurant in Bruntsfield, where the owner/chef/waiter always lets Audrey look in the kitchen and gives her free chocolate ice cream. Also, every single time we're there he offers her a job. She has her own special name for him. She says please and thank you, and always orders the scampi.
Lately Audrey can't get enough jigsaw puzzles. Something clicked for her with them, and now she does them for hours every day. Every piece she picks up she asks out loud "Where fish go? Where apple go? Where tree go?" Or whatever the piece might be. Then she finds the place and puts it in carefully (sometimes forcefully). When it's all done, she brings it proudly to show me.
Toddlerhood is amazing. I wish I could freeze my life right here. We play lots of games and have endless conversations. Audrey has an opinion on everything under the sun.
She's a little charmer, too. She spent some time this morning chatting to the bin men who were taking the recycling away. She loved their "huuuuge white van" and watched the way the rubbish was loaded and ground up for ages. She got so many smiles and hellos from everyone.
This afternoon we're off to the museum to look at dinosaur skeletons and mummies, sculptures and paintings, clothes and trains and stars, rocks and computers. So much fun!
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