Deck

Our deck is now finished and we have eaten many meals and snacks out there-- picnic style! We have deck furniture but the girls enjoy just running around out there that I hate to take up the space with the furniture. So, for now, we just sit on the floor. They love it!

Zoo, Zoo, Zoo

Audrey has never really cared all that much for the animals at the zoo. She's always just loved going and picking up random rocks, twigs, etc. I always took her and pointed out the giraffes, tigers, elephants, etc but she mainly just focused on finding the coolest rock she could that she could take home and add to her "collection".  Our membership to the zoo lapsed before Christmas and I just never renewed it because it was in the middle of the winter. My parents gave Shelby Claire a membership for her first birthday so I took the girls the first chance I got.

Audrey was all about the animals. She loved seeing every.single.one. I loved it! I loved when she would just go on a rock hunt while we were there, too, but I especially liked that I had taken my girl to the zoo and she had a GREAT time!

Shelby Claire came also. She is in the middle of dropping her morning nap so she was barely hanging in there at this point!

 Lyric came with us and Addie met us there. These three girls had the best time!

Shelby Claire's One Year Portraits

We had SC's one year pics taken at The Botanical Gardens. After much drama getting her to the appointment on time, we ended up having some really good shots of her. I was so thankful to even have one!

 This one will be mounted on a canvas and join her sister's one year picture on the wall!

Neighborhood Snooping and other March Madness

There has been a lot of action going on in our neighborhood. The boy scouts have been here almost every Saturday picking up debris from the tornado. I am so thankful for them. A lot of the homeowners who lost their houses are not rebuilding and their lots are abandoned. Some have cleaned up but some have not. One neighbor had a car that looked like it was bombed sitting in the front yard for weeks. It was an older model car that they had bought for their teenager and only had liability insurance on it. The boy scouts pushed it into the basement of the house (or where there used to be a house) and it made our street look SO MUCH BETTER. It's strange to walk through my own neighborhood and see military vehicles and such. It's much better than the cops that were here for weeks to prevent looters though!

This March weather has been very unpredictable. Cold one day, hot the next. We are taking advantage of any opportunity we can to get outside and get fresh air.

These Tiny Toms were given to Audrey (Aunt Lesa) for her birthday this year. She loves them so much. She's outgrown them now but wears them ALL THE TIME. 

 Audrey is also loves puppies and anything else "dog". She pretended for about a year or so that she was my niece, Gracie. We had to call her Gracie and everything. She told her teachers at school that her name was Gracie and anyone else we met. It got to be so bad that I had to ask her pediatrician to see if I should be concerned about it. He assured me it was totally normal. She's moved past "Gracie" and onto "puppies". Now, any chance she gets, she barks, crawls on all fours, begs to be fed in bowls on the floor, etc. This picture is of her friend that she loves to carry around with us. On this day, we were at the park. *Notice her toe-walking-- still doing this at 3 1/2.*

 Shelby Claire is beginning to be able to climb and play at the park these days also. The bruise she has on her forehead was from running into our kitchen cabinets. She and Audrey were playing and SC is not too stable when she runs. It was an awful bang!

 Her favorite activity at the park is still the swings. She would let me push her on them all day if I would!

 She was ready to move on to something else on this particular day though. Ha!

 The last three pics are just of random adorableness of my littlest one. I adore every little thing about her and so does her big sister!

Accessorizing at an early age!

New Car Seat

For one of her birthday gifts, we got SC a new car seat for Daddy's car! We got new car seats back in January when we got the van (!!?!?) and will be moving SC into the Britax. We got this one just as a spare for when Clay needs to cart the girls around.

 Shelby Claire was giving the old pumpkin seat one last whirl. I sold it in a consignment sale for more than half of what I paid for it!! It was kind of sad to see it go! It safely took two sweet girls home from the hospital and has been in many restaurants, shopping carts, and on many park trips!

 Audrey had to try it out one last time also. Shelby Claire didn't quite know what to think about her sister being in her car seat!

Tumbling Observation Day

Audrey had another observation day at tumbling and she did much better at this one than she did the last. She still ran to me and wanted to sit in my lap rather than doing what her teacher was telling her, but of what she did do, she did it well. :)

The "splits". :)

Backbend

 Headstand!

 Rolling off that octagon again!

 Not doing what her teacher told her to do!!

 This was an obstacle course-- she loved it!!

Audrey is certainly improving but is still not a big fan of going. She BEGS and I mean, BEGS not to go. I think it's because it is at 4:30 in the afternoon and by then, she is tired and grumpy. We are supposed to go once a week but don't really go but once every-other-week. We are not going to sign this sweet girl up for any organized activities next year. All she wants to do is "stay home and play in my playroom with Sister". SO-- until she ASKS-- we will just enjoy her at home!