Miss A's 2nd birthday and more drama for mama

 Miss A and Baba at church Feb 5th.  Baba is still sporting his "Abraham Lincoln" February beard.

 Pilgrim Chapel celebrated Audrey's birthday with cake, flowers, mandarin oranges and this dancing plush monkey.  Below is one of Miss A's favorite Pilgrims... Nick R.  Audrey will ask where Nick is if he isn't at church. 

 The above picture was taken at CAM.  We went there after church to see the new Monet in Giverny exhibit which was great. I included this picture not b/c of the quality but rather to remind us about Audrey's memory.  Later that evening at home I asked Audrey if she remembered what we saw at the museum that day.  Her response "Monet".  This recall both impressed and scared John and I.

  Monday evening before Audrey's 2nd Paula and Anna came over to celebrate A's b-day.

  Birthday girl waking up and video below.

 Just random cuteness.

 I really like the picture above b/c I can see "baby" Audrey in her expression

 Backwards crawling in a new birthday dress.  She almost always chooses dresses these days. 

 Ready to go outside.

 Counting on Bow Tie's  abacus.

 Playing Bow Tie's piano with bunny.  Other than "Gigi's monkey", "froggy the turtle puppet" and "Biscuit" all her stuffed animals are referred to by whatever animal they represent.

Signing "alleluia" and playing.

Lighting a candle for birth mama at our neighborhood Catholic church on Miss A's birthday on our walk home from Bow Tie.

 Birthday dinner at the Bar and Grill.

 Which included hot fudge cake and ice cream.

 A gift from Mom-mom, this pink knit coat.

 Playing her piano at home,

 wearing one pink mitten.

 Friday we went to Culture Kids class at the Art Museum.  In the picture above A is looking at her reflection in the elevator mirror ceiling.  She choose to wear her Panda hat on the 1st part of the class which was a tour around the museum looking at fabrics specifically the sound suits and tondos by Nick Cave, a current exhibit all over the museum.

 Audrey was the only girl in this tour group and based on the energy of the boys she seemed like an angel child.

Having a snack before the art project.

Miss A was way more interested in the glue than making a "tondo".  Below is a picture of the completed tondo which has already been recycled as it was done by myself without any help from A other than picking the fabric.

It was here that I lost my camera again... my new less than a week old camera.  I was seriously bumming about my own carelessness and was so happy to get a call this past Monday from Elyssa, the Culture Kid Museum coordinator saying she had it.

Wednesday morning Miss Kelly's class and scarf dancing.

Thursday I had an appointment at 5/3 to discuss a mortgage re-fi which was only going to take about 30 minutes.  I planned on taking A to the aquarium afterwards.  Well this simple re-fi turned out not to be b/c we put our properties in LLC.  I was really surprised by 5/3 loan officer comments and knew it was time to shop around. So instead of going to the aquarium we went directly to Advantage Bank and re-started our re-fi search.  Below is Miss A in Sandy Z office.  Audrey was a hoot.  She sang Sound of Music "do-re-mi" (8 verses) perfectly at least 3 times.

So after we got that ball rolling we walked up to Bow Tie for a smoothie, tea and piano time.

and decorating their white board.

Performing at home on her A-B-C stage.  In this outfit she was various costumes of "big white dress", "soundsuit" and "superhero".

The video below pretty much shows why I never get the good stuff on film.

 

Lost camera and phone @ park, Bow Tie, Miss A's first car wash and fun with friends at Hair on the Hill

This weeks weather was so moderate that we were able to go the Zoo Tuesday afternoon.  John was able to come with us and we got a lot of nice pictures that are not downloaded here.  Also not downloaded here are the cute pictures from our Wednesday morning spent with Molly M and her mom at library story time followed by lunch.    The reason being I lost both my phone and camera at the park Wednesday afternoon.  Such a bummer but on the bright side the replacement camera I bought has so much better clarity and zoom capability.

Below is a picture from our Thursday afternoon trip to  Bow Tie. 

Miss A's and her creation on their white board.

 Friday afternoon we ran errands.

 This is what I mean about the zoom being better on this camera.

 Miss A's first car wash experience.  We had the music videos from Sound of Music on the DVD player.  I've heard some kids love car washes and although the video below doesn't really show it Audrey not a big fan.

Below is a picture of Audrey sharing Baba's breakfast sandwich Saturday morning.  She had already eaten her own very considerable breakfast.

  A random picture of the silk jacket that we had framed in a shadow box.  Right now we have it in the kitchen ... not sure where it will be placed more permanently.

 Climbing the steps backwards.

 Video of her climbing.

Saturday afternoon we went to Hair on the Hill to hang with Helen H and Patti W (neighbors and friends) while they got their hair done.  Paula joined us too and we had so much fun. 

Audrey dancing with Paula in the washout room.  

 Even though we didn't have an appointment Sue cut Audrey's hair.  This time she really enjoyed getting her hair cut!  Although she would not wear the cape ... at least not while she got her hair cut.

 Here we were teaching her how to look at her hair in the mirror after the haircut is complete.

 Such a shame she is so shy.

 Watching Patti get her hair washed and Boo getting in on the action.  Audrey repeated many time "Patti leaned back" and we felt she understood this way you don't get soap in your eyes.

 Another picture I might win a mother of the year award for.

 Audrey got the full salon experience today.

 She also finally put on the cape as we were all leaving Hair on the Hill.

Paula came over for dinner afterwards.