It's been a while...

Things sure have changed around here... for one thing I have a 4 month old little girl. :D
Little baby Eleanor Moleta Wilde was born July 3rd a little bit after noon. She came about 2 and 1/2 weeks early. She weighed 5 lbs 14 oz. No complications. Just a beautiful baby girl.

Audrey loves being a big sister and loves to help out with her. Though she was a bit jealous about the baby being able to sleep in Mommy's room.

Just before Ellie was born, Audrey decided that she wanted to use the potty. And we started trying to potty train... and that lasted for about 3 days. Then I had Ellie and Audrey decided again to use the potty. And that time it lasted for a week or so I think. Daddy went into the hospital a week after we brought Ellie home and Audrey told me that she missed me and wanted me back. And she then decided that telling mommy she needed to use the potty was a good way to get attention. Well she got it and then promptly decided that the potty chair was "scarey".

So we have begun the potty training battles.

2nd new thing happening at this house:

On Sept 5th, Stu was working at the theatre, I was home with the girls. My parents had come over with my 2 nephews whom they were going to be watching for the weekend. So we decided that it would be a good idea to let the kids play together. Audrey loves her cousins. My mom needed to get some groceries, so she left me and my father with all the kids. I received a phone call from Stu, that went something like this:

Me; "Hey, what's up?" Stu; "I just got a call from transplant, they may have a liver for me." Me; "What...." Stu; "They may have a liver for me." Me; "what, but I thought you weren't transplant-able" Stu; "Me too, I asked them and they said my score was 17. And that I need to get to the hospital. I am coming home to get you, we need to find someone to watch the girls." Me; " It's ok my parents are already over here, they can watch the girls, Dad can you watch the girls? Stu is coming home we need to get to the hospital they may have a liver for him."

And the call went on a little bit more... But I can tell you that when he told me that they have a liver for him I just about threw up right then. You see we were told that it would be probably another 2 years before he would be sick enough to really be considered for a liver. But that it could happen any time so no one really knew how long he would wait. I took a few long drinks of water and that seemed to calm me down enough to think about what really needed to be done in preparation for us to leave.

Stu came home and we made some final plans with my dad and he went upstairs and got a kiss and a hug from Audrey. We walked over to our neighbor's to tell them what was happening. And then my mom pulled into the driveway, we talked to her and then left for the hospital.

And it is late so I will finish this story later...

Funny Audrey-ism...

This morning Audrey found a sucker that had been taken away from her last night. She was soo excited that she found her sucker... It was a tootsie pop. So I let her finish it up. Normally she gets bored with the suckers before she finishes any of them, so I end up having to throw them away. But after about an hour of her eating her sucker, she walks into my room and tells me, in such a happy voice,"Mommy! I eatin a cookie sucker!". So I turn around and look at her to see what she is actually doing. Because I don't know where she got a cookie from, and she is biting into the center of the tootsie pop. I start laughing... silly little girl.

Done with the haircut...

Audrey was a little squirmy during the whole haircut experience, but there were no tears shed and mostly just giggles coming from her. So all in all it was good. Thank you Brandie for your expert help. :D

Audrey's first haircut

This is how she looked like before... Her uncle's fiance Brandie is going to be doing the trimming. Audrey is very comfortable with her so we figured that would be a good way to go about this.




And here we are not quite finished....