Okay, Okay.... Audrey turned 5

My 1 week old Audrey in the small Kettle at "Chocolate Boppa's" Candy Store

Yes, I know she turned 5 three months ago... And I have been putting off this post for a little while now. She has had so much going on, and I have had so much going on... but some how I can post about other things...

On her 5th Birthday! 

She is growing up in so many ways. She now sleeps on the top bunk of the beds put together, she adjusted very well to that. She loved Preschool so very much and was constantly learning all sorts of things there. 

She has graduated Preschool and is impatiently scared about going to Kindergarten. 

She is growing taller and taller all the time... And her hair just keeps getting longer... It goes down past her waist... In fact I need to get her into a salon to get it trimmed up and looking nice... But first I must work up to that... 

She is getting better and better about eating food, though that has been a hard fought battle. This last Saturday she actually offered to eat a bite of Baby Back Pork ribs. She was sooo excited to try it from when her daddy told her he was going to make it the day before. Then she looked at it and got a little scared. But decided that she had to try just one bite. She said she liked it and then went to play some more computer games. After about 5 mins or so she came back out and said she wanted more of that... but the idea of the bones still kind of creep-ed her out... So she had me cut off the meat and the outer crust that was just a little too spicy for her. But then she finished off everything that I gave to her to eat! And still raves about it! She also doesn't want me to eat all of the left overs... :)

I am still having a hard time trying to balance where my attentions are going and trying to give both my girls the attention they so need. But that is something I have to work on. Audrey can count up to 100 by herself, and she actually counted up to 1,000,000 with the help of her dad. Counting first to 100 by 10's, to 1,000 by 100's, and so forth until they got all the way to One Million! She had to call me at work to tell me what she had done. She was sooo proud! And so was I! 

Showing her hair

She can read more and more. But mostly she only reads when she thinks no one is paying attention. Like when we are driving down the road, and she reads the store signs. She knows a few sight words and I need to work on those more with her before she starts school up. She can count random objects. And so forth...

She is becoming quite the little dancer. And absolutely loves her dance class still! 

Eating roasted Marshmallows

Daddy helping out with the marshmallows

Pink is, as always, her most favorite color... and she also loves to wear anything that is animal print or pictures of animals...

Her favorite animal is the Zebra... right now

She went to her first dental appointment with a Pediatric Dentist. And tried sooo hard to be brave. Though she did cry a little. She wanted to be able to do what the dentist asked her to do. But once she saw the x-rays of her teeth show up on the screen in front of her... Mere seconds after they took the shots, she became very easy to work with. She Loves to take pictures of herself, and was thrilled to see her teeth like that... So they were able to take several shots of her teeth... to make sure they got them right. And they found that she had 8 cavities... oye... So we had to talk about getting them filled. We decided to try the Nitrous Oxide... to see if she could do it that easily... The dentist talked to her about it and we showed her what things would look like and she tried on the mask. And we set up the appointment for the next week. The dentist also gave me a list of what terms they use for the different tools and things that they would be doing... 

 She was marvelous... :)

She ended up having to go in 2 times to get 4 cavities filled but by the last time she was a pro.... And our dentist office is magnificent! She still has 4 cavities that need to be done but they wanted to give her a break so we will have those one's filled after her next visit in Sept or Oct.  

 After her birthday but before the Dentist visit... Audrey took 2nd place at her first Pine Wood Derby with the ward! Here are some pics of her winning car and our not so winning cars...

Audrey's Car!

with the Family of Cars... in order from left to right: Dad's, Mom's Audrey's and Ellie's

 Audrey and Ellie painted their car's themselves. And Dad and Grandpa Wayne engineered and built the cars. The race was lots of fun! We can't wait for next year's race!

Gotta love the Zambonis! 

Audrey loves hockey so we took her to the local Hockey Team's Game the night of her birthday... The Utah Grizzlies!  She loves them!

 Cheering on her team!

Audrey took this picture... 

We Love Hockey!

Showing off the treats we took to Preschool for her birthday!

 well she is an amazing girl... and I am constantly trying to keep up with her and her sister... 

sorry for the jumbled ramblyness of this post but that is what my life has been the last little while :) I hope you enjoyed this summary of my Little Audrey :)