Some awesome updates!

First let me just tell you what a big girl we have! Today was the second Sunday Audrey was excited to go to her classroom! No tears, no screams, no clinging. We're so proud of her! I know, it really doesn't take much! :) Last week the wild woman's teacher came up to me while I was getting her things together and said, "I can't believe how many animals and the sounds they make Audrey knows! Even the exotic ones!" God had given us such an amazing girl with a deep lover for animals and music! After I picked her up she RAN into the sanctuary and started dancing, clapping, and shouting SING SING SING MOMMY!!! So, we stayed 15mins into the second service so she could sing and hear the worship. She's so awesome and I just thanked God she wanted to praise Him too!!

We've had a nice weekend with family and hope that you all are as well! Thursday was a bit of a rough one! The wild woman was supposed to have her 1st dentist appointment. Supposed to. She fought nap time a little bit, so she went down a little later and slept right up until we had to walk out the door. I woke her up, got her dressed, and had all the bags by the door to grab on the way out. I had switched diaper bags earlier on and forgot to grab my keys.... argh. I got down to the car, went to unlock and it hit me. I started having all kinds of negative thoughts but stopped myself and thanked God for the reminder to slow down. Ben canceled the dentist appointment  but it still counted as a "no show" because it wasn't canceled 2 hours prior to the appointment time. I know, like I could have planned that in two hours I'd be rushing and forget my keys. Anyways, we had Daddy call the maintenance guys, who forgot about us, and we played outside for two hours. It was a beautiful day and the wild woman had a blast blowing bubbles and coloring with sidewalk chalk. Two things that I always make sure are in my bag (other than my keys :) ).

Friday was my first day back in the NICU. It was a down day so the normally crazy hospital wasn't crazy at all. It was awesome. I followed a retired Major who spent 17 of his 27 years in the military in the NICU. He was the one who taught my Neonatal Resuscitation  class a few weeks ago. He is an extremely knowledgeable nurse and great teacher! I was helping him with some vitals and things he he asked me what it was going to take to get me to work there. I was taken back a little bit because I had only been there about 2 hours. I said well sir, my family comes first. My husband works 12 hour days and the days he's off one week, he works the next and we as a family have agreed on no daycare for our daughter, that I was going to stay home. He said, "Yeah, I like that! But we self schedule and you could totally do part time. DO me a favor and get your resume in to the charge nurse this week. There isn't an opening now but I want yours to be on top if one opens up in the near future." haha I said wow thank you very much! I'll go home and talk to my husband about it and maybe get my resume cleaned up. What a blessing!!!! I was really excited at first and Ben was all for it. The extra income would be outstanding and we could work it so that I'd still see Ben on his days off and Aud wouldn't go to a sitter, she'd have more Daddy days. I've been talking to God about it and asked him to show me area's I'm not thinking about and to make this decision clear. As of right now, I'm going to just volunteer. If I would take to job and Ben deploy, I would be stuck here and have to find someone to care for Aud 12 hour days or night putting her to bed, getting her up and breakfast. It's not something I want to do while Ben's away. I feel like it's really important she has me there while Ben's away. Yes, I'm going to need some me time for some recharging but I feel like that's something our families should be apart of. We're going to need that support system when the best Daddy and Husband in the world leaves. So if you would just pray for us and this decision. We would appreciate it!!

Saturday we had a great breakfast downtown with our good friends. There was a festival going on and they had 4 stages of bands playing. I was so irked my camera was left at home charging. It was called swinging K-town. It was awesome! Aud danced like it was her job! haha Ben did grab a pic of her in her crown and balloon with his iphone . I'm really really really going to miss the food here when we leave. I wasn't sure about the breakfasts at first but midmorning they're not so bad. Its at 0700 that meat and cheese gross me out for breakfast.

Anyways enough of this novel! Have a great labor day all!!

And I just realized in these pictures that she's playing with a cigarette butt.... haha wow. I saw what she was playing with after Ben had taken the pictures and ran over with a wipie in hand!!!