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When Shelby Claire was born, she gave Audrey a digital camera and a teddy bear. Audrey loved the camera and uses it all the time! Here are some of the things Audrey feels are worthy enough to be photographed!

Grandaddy, Paw Paw and Aunt Lesa at the hospital when Shelby Claire was born.

Meeting Shelby Claire for the first time- having to take her picture. :)

Too, Too,  my sweet friend, Kellie and my Momma at the hospital.

Self portrait

Someone got ahold of her camera and snapped a picture of her!

Another self-portrait.

Our kitchen with her easel and table.

The TV with what I am sure is "The Cat in the Hat" showing.

Sophie Haris coming to meet Shelby Claire! So cute!

Shelby Claire

This one is pretty good! :D

The neighbor's cat-- Audrey loves this kitty and tries to get it to stay at our house but he's a Tom and doesn't stay anywhere long!

I have a million more from her camera that are of our carpet, the walls, the lamps, her toys, and just completely black. The camera quality isn't that great but Audrey enjoys playing with it. I particularly enjoy seeing what she thinks is important enough to capture with a photo!

Happy 3 months to Shelby Claire!!!

Our sweet girl lost almost all her hair around 10 weeks. Here she is with what she has left!! It is coming back a tad bit lighter than it was and she is beautiful!

Her little arms and legs have chunked up and I love it! I love a chubby, healthy, little baby!! We don't go back to the pediatrician until June but we think she weighs about 12.5 lbs! We've hit the 3 month nursing milestone and I am so proud of Shelby Claire!

At 3 months, sweet Shelby Claire has come alive! She is no longer the little newborn baby that would just eat and sleep! She is awake the majority of the day and sleeps very well at night. Most days she will take 3 naps and they last around an hour and a half each. At night, she will go down around 7:00ish and nap until around 9:30 or 10:00. At that point, she wants to eat and then she will go right back to sleep and sleep until about 6:00 most days. Some days she will stay up for a good while then and then some days she falls back to sleep.

She's noticed her toys that we hang from her carseat and will coo and talk to them! She loves for anyone to talk to her and will smile at just about anyone and anything. She especially loves Audrey and will smile at her all the time!!

Speaking of smiling, that smile is almost always covered in drool-- just like her sister did! Shelby Claire is a master at the wet, sloppy, smile and her clothing is almost always wet in the front. I have to keep a bib on her so she doesn't saturate herself with her own saliva!

She's taken to gnawing on her hands lately and we wonder if she's getting ready to let a tooth break loose. I hope they are not too rough on her!

Overall, Shelby Claire is a very laid back, go-with-the-flow type baby. She rarely cries unless she is hungry or sleepy. She's practically perfect in every way!



Audreyisms

We were at the Antique Mall cafe and Clay and I were discussing who was going to hold Shelby Claire. She was fussing and I went to get her and he offered to get her instead. I said, "No, you eat and I'll hold her." He responded with, "No, you always hold her- let me so you can have a break." Audrey interrupts us with, "Share her. You share her!". :D We can always count on Audrey to set us straight.

Eyeshadow by Audrey

When Clay and I were dating, Beanie Babies were all the rage. He bought me a white dragon that had sparkly wings. I put it in Audrey's playroom and let her play with it. One day we were in there and she was pointing up high above her window (I stick random stuffed animals on her curtain rod to get them out of the way) and telling me she wanted to play with the "dragonfly". After she kept repeating "dragonfly" over and over, I finally realized she meant the dragon that could fly. She was so proud of her momma for finally getting it!

She is going to MDO three days a week now. We started the extra day when Shelby Claire arrived. Every morning she asks me, "Where my go today?". I'll tell her "school" and she will tell me that she wants to stay home with me and Selby Care. By the time we actually get to school, she is all happy-go-lucky and proud to be there. Then, once I pick her up, she tells me she is not ready to leave. She wants to take a nap with her friends! Fickle little one she is!

Audrey loves to stay at home and play with her toys. So much so that whenever I have a hankering for ice cream or just want to get out of the house-- I will make a deal with her that if we go to Dairy Queen/Target/wherever and she behaves herself, we will come right home and play with her sand table. :D

Wordless Wednesday: Babies

Mother's Day Weekend

We did some traveling around south Alabama this weekend! First, we went to my mom's house Saturday morning. We had an awesome lunch and Audrey "scratched" up some potatoes with her cousins and Paw Paw.

After wearing Audrey out from chasing her cousins around all day, we loaded her and her sister in the car and drove 45 minutes to Clay's mom's house. It was just enough time for her to get a power nap and get ready for round two of the playing!

 The cicadas were singing their song the entire time we were there. It brought back memories of growing up in a little house right beside a pond that was more swamp than actual pond. All of the critters would start singing around dusk and it was hard to have a conversation if you were outside at night. You could forget about sleeping if you came for a visit and were not used to it! Now, if I listen closely, I can hear a train and the neighbor's goofy dogs barking all night long. It's just not the same!

"I NOT TOUCH THAT!"

 Okay, maybe it is a little interesting. :)

 Audrey stayed up waayyy past her bedtime Saturday night but was a good girl despite it! On Mother's Day, Shelby Claire and I slept late because she partied all night and needed the rest! Audrey, on the other hand, was up at her regular 7:30 hour.

We spent some time at the barn with the horses and rode the jeep around to look at the cows. Audrey loves to be outside and she is in her element when we go to either of her grandparents' houses!

This fella's name is Sarge. He's my ride of choice when we go trail-riding. Sarge is slow and easy. Audrey and Shelby Claire *might* get to ride him one day. Horses scare me. Like seriously scare me. I developed that fear in my old age. Donkeys are more my speed.

This is Audrey's latest method of communicating with us. She puts her hands on her hips, wrinkles her nose up and stomps around. I have no idea where she learned to pitch a fit like this. We see this pretty frequently these days-- we are knee-deep in the two's around here!

I see strict, early, curfews in her future.

We spent some time with Clay's grandmother, ate a yummy lunch and headed back home mid-afternoon. Audrey slept the majority of the way home and Shelby Claire did also. It made for an easy trip back! It was just my kind of weekend. 



Mother's Day

Audrey made me the most precious Mother's Day gifts at MDO this year. I absolutely LOVE them. I have a soft spot in my heart for anything made by a child and when it's from MY OWN child, well, nothing's better!

First- a portrait of me. Please notice my upside down lips and the nose that is placed where my chin is normally. Her teacher said that she hoped it didn't rain! haah!

 Next is the sweetest little handprint tile. I love this stuff! She won't be this little for long!

 And finally, my favorite-- a survey of her about me! Looovveee!! I especially love that she thinks that I like to put diapers away! I will be framing this one!

I enjoyed Audrey's survey about me so much that I did my own little survey about Clay. Here are her responses:
Daddy's Favorite Color: Green
Daddy's Favorite Dessert: Chocolate Crunch (I am not sure what this even is but Clay would rather eat fruit than anything chocolate anyday! HA! Audrey's favorite is definitely chocolate though!)
How old is Daddy? 2 and a half
What does Daddy eat for breakfast? I not know.
What does Daddy like to do a lot? Play with me. (Love this response!!)

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