Little Eisenstein's

Audrey has a few shows she watches on playhouse disney. They are:

• My Friends Tigger and Pooh

• Handy Manny

• Little Eisenstein's

She absolutely loves them. I think she would watch them forever, if she could. Well, she actually did that on saturday...Like I said the poor thing was so sick with a fever. She just curled up into a ball on the couch and didn't move.

I love them because it gets the kids involved. It'll ask them questions (handy manny doesn't...but they sing like 20 songs an episode and she enjoys that), it has them do actions. It's really great.

Little Eisenstein's is a recent addition to her videos. I really enjoy this one. The show is a continuous 20 minutes. What I mean is the show doesn't have two unrelated stories during the run time...I hope that made sense. And every episode focuses on a classical song and a famous painting. And the episode actually revolves around the song and plays the song in the background.

If you watch this clip for a few minutes you'll understand what I mean.



Anyway...Patrick and I have always encouraged her to do the actions and will do the actions with her. But she's never really has been interested in mimicking the cartoon characters. However, yesterday she started doing the actions without any encouragement from Patrick.

At about one minute in the video above the little guys has you pat your legs faster and faster. And Audrey was getting faster and faster with him. And then one of the little girls is a dancer and Audrey would dance with her any time she would dance. It happened while I was at work but apparently it was really really cute.

Later that night while I was watching "So you think you can dance" Audrey noticed the dancers and started dancing around the room. But, was actually trying to do what they were doing. If they had there hands up in the air she would put them up. If they would jump/leap around she would start jumping. If they started spinning......you get the picture. It was all fun and games until she tripped and ran her rib cage into the coffee tables corner. After that she wasn't too excited to dance. But it was really great while it lasted.

and by the way Audrey will raise her hands in the air and scream touchdown. She'll do the "GOOOO Cougars" action at the end of the fight song. And she can say "first Down" and do the action they do at Lavell Edwards Stadium. We're proud of our football fan.

Tagged by Whitney

8 Things I'm looking forward to

1. Band Camp...I'm such a geek.
   
2. Power 90 results (we started last week...No. I will not be adding photos til there are real results..I'm too embarrassed.)
   
3. BYU vs. UNLV (Lindsey...We are officially asking now...Oct 10th?)
4. Getting over the cold/flu Audrey gave me.
5. Finishing Advisor Training at UVU. Thats right...those of you who need advisoring (at UVU) I will be fully trained next week.
6. Michelle coming up on the 12th.
   
7. Our 4th Anniversary
8. Starting classes @ UVU
   

8 Things I did this weekend

1. Cleaned the entire apartment.
2. Did 8 loads of laundry.
   
3. did not fold 8 loads of laundry.
4. gave Audrey tons and tons of Nyquil...poor thing she was so sick this weekend.
   
5. Watched Usual Suspects...Awesome movie...don't judge me!
6. Thought about what to do for moms B-day. Happy Birthday...yesterday.
7. Encouraged Audrey to say flag.
8. Sat around...a lot...poor baby. She has/had a fever and a cold.
   

8 Things I wish I could do

1. Dance for a living
2. Eat chocolate cake..not just a slice...lots and lots and lots
   
3. Have my BS done already
4. snowboard
5. Buy furniture...lots and lots of pretty furniture.
   
6. never never ever get sick
   
7. go to the BYU Oklahoma game
8. drink Dr. Pepper
   

8 Shows I watch (please keep in mind that these are not in order and are currently showing new episodes...or new to me)

1. Friends (always will be number 1. So I had to add it..I've been re-watching the series...and totally cried when Ross and Rachel broke up...again)
2. So You Think You Can Dance
3. HGTV (no particular show)
4. Tru Blood (great show)
5. Curb your enthusiasm (I Love Larry David)
6. Better off Ted
7. Jon and Kate plus 8
8. Handy Manny
   

8 Places I'd like to travel to

1. Germany/Austria
2. St. Barts
3. Italy...again
4. England
5. Alaska...But first I would need to learn how to snow board really really well and then do back country snowboarding. Yeah that's right it sounds awesome!
6. Paris
7. Take and R.V. cross country. We love road trips and find them really relaxing
8. Every Cruise we could every think of.
   

8 or 12 People I Tag

1. Carrie
   
2. Amanda
3. Michelle
4. Grandma/mom/Katherine
   
5. Stephanie
6. Jenny and Veniece.
   
7. Ashley and Sydnee
8. Amy
   
9. Colleen
10. Lindsey
11. Gretchen
12. anyone else that i did not name...please don't be offended.
    

I know a few of you have already done this. But it's always fun to do it again.

Singing, Dancing and Flags everywhere!

*Caution bad words ahead*

Audrey is learning so much so fast. She has a new skill and that's singing. She loves to sing. When she hears songs on the radio, or on T.V. She start to sing...and dance. The dancing is so cute. She jumps up and down and spins round and round. She loves it and does it all the time at home. In the car she's restricted to singing but doesn't have any less fun. She'll make up words to sing about. She'll sing about people she knows. She'll also sing about objects she sees. Whenever we see someone towing a boat she sings about grandpa. But most of the time she sings about her favorite stuffed animals pinks and puppy.


Before the 4th of July Patrick and I spend time teaching Audrey what the American flag was. She actually caught on really fast and loved that she knew a new word. She was also excited that she was able to say it all the time because they are every where. At first the word sounded a lot like flag. But in the past few weeks she has gotten lazy with the word and it has turned into the F word.

On University Parkway (the main road between UVU and our apartment) is a huge auto mall. And in the center of the large mall is an incredibly ginormous American flag. Yesterday we were driving home from UVU when she saw the flag and started singing a song about the flag. It went something like this.

"F***,F***,F***,F***,F***,F***,F***,F***,F***"

Now please, try to imagine a very very sweet tune with the profane lyrics.

I've made it my mission to teach her how to say flag properly. But not too quickly, it's pretty funny.

Loves,
Elizabeth, Patrick and profane Audrey.

Buttons

Mom is working on a movie again. It's called "The Last Eagle Scout" or "The Last Boy Scout." I'm not too sure. It's set in the future, like 50 or 60 years from now. But, I really don't know too much about the story. All I really know is it's alot like George Orwell's 1984. (good book by the way).

Mom is the costume designer and the director, kels, wanted some buttons, or mom wanted some buttons made. Anyway, She asked if I would make some buttons for the movie. Here is what I came up with.

I lay no claim to the phrases, she gave me what she wanted them to say.

I made these two first. They are not my favorite but they work.

I thought that this was a good idea. I like it.

This is my favorite. Isn't he cute?

I thought this one was just fun and a good idea.

The lips make this one really cool.