Mommy Loves Me

We do a lot of talking about who loves who around here and I am constantly telling Audrey we love her. During our bedtime routine we have a song that I sing to her every night that is loosely (very) to the tune of "Jesus Loves Me". I completely made it up when she was itsy-bitsy and for some reason it's stuck. "Mommy loves her little baby, her sweet little baby girl, mommy loves her so, she can't get enough, Mommy loves her little baby girl". Audrey loves to hear it and has started to sing along with me. I love it!

Now, today we were riding in the car and she wasn't in the mood for lovey-dovey's from her momma! She really wanted to watch a DVD but we only watch them when we are going on long car rides so I wouldn't turn it on. She began to whine (how did she learn this so early!?!) and say, "pwwwweeeeaaaassse, Barrrrneeey!" over and over. I said, "Mommy loves you but we are not watching a DVD." and just ignored her for a bit. She quieted down and after a few minutes I said, "Audrey, Mommy loves you!" and she mumbled something and I could tell she was trying to figure out how to say what she wanted to say. Out came, "Not!, Not!". I said, "Not, what?" and what she said next just about made me run off the road!

"Not love Mommy!" "Aw-ry loves Daddy!" I could not BELIEVE she'd put those words together and actually said what she said! No, it didn't hurt my feelings but it sure did make Clay's heart swell!! He loved it!! Thankfully she was back to her sweet self and loving on her Mommy by the time we made it home!

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Due February 27, 2011

Life is good!

July 4th Weekend

We spent a few days before July 4th with my parents. They were in the middle of "harvest" time for their garden and had tomatoes, okra, corn, squash, and watermelon coming out of their ears.

Please ignore the bug spray and other crazy chemicals that are in the background. My daddy is allergic to wasps so we have to keep the "killer" spray handy! I promise it wasn't used on the tomatoes!

I would say they probably had this amount of tomatoes times about 4 or more total. I brought some of them home with me and made my first batch of homemade salsa. The recipe I used came from my brother-in-law's daddy-- he's one of those cooks that just says to put a little of this and a little of that so the recipe is a bit sketchy. You just put how much you think of each ingredient. In parentheses is what I actually put in mine.

Salsa
Ingredients:
banana peppers (3)
jalapeno peppers (0)
onions (one small)
peeled tomatoes (12-14?)
apple cider vinegar (enough to cover the tomatoes in your stew pot)
sugar (1 cup)
Salt- (a good bit-- sorry!haha!)

Stew all ingredients together, adding vinegar or sugar or salt to taste. Do not add water. I canned ours in a regular water bath. :) Enjoy.


Moving on to other July 4th fun...

My parents have a post on their back porch that they measure their grandchildren's height. Here's a picture of us trying to get Audrey to cooperate..

She thought the whole process was absolutely hilarious.

You can tell she's grown quite a bit in her short little life!

We made it back home in time to celebrate the actual day of July 4th. We went to the same Freedom Festival that we went to last year and Audrey had a great time running around crazy. It was smokin' hot outside but it was perfect for a good, old-fashioned July 4th celebration.

She got to drive a firetruck! This little look on her face is her response to us asking her to smile for the camera. I really think it's the toddler version of an "eye roll". I suspect she will have that down pat by the time she is ten.

And since it was blazing hot outside, she had to have an ice cream to cool down (and a wagon ride)!

The Freedom Festival has a lot of kid friendly activities such as bouncy houses, blow up slides, and mazes. They also shoot off a ton of fireworks once the sun goes down. Little Missy wasn't feeling to keen on any of that though and she just wanted to go eat at the "cacker bell" (Cracker Barrel)-- so we did! :)

It was a fun afternoon!

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Sara from Savannah

My sweet friend, Sara, once again came to visit us. She stayed about a week and we had a much different trip than in the past. We used to visit art museums, eat at fancy restaurants,stay up until the wee hours and go antiqueing. This time we went to the Splash Pad, put up squash and okra, were home before 1:00 every day for naps, and went to bed before midnight every night. Kids change things! It was fun, just a different fun!

Here's Audrey at the airport waiting for Sara's commuter plane to arrive.

We did manage to go eat at my new favorite place to get a burger, FLIP Burger Boutique. It is a very trendy sort of place and we noticed that in order to work there you have to be really young, and very thin. :)

We had a great time together and even though this trip was "different", I can't wait for her to return!