Someone Please Call the Super Nanny

Our sweet baby Audrey is nearing the scary age of 2....and somehow she knows. Last week, the devil flipped a switch in her and she started throwing tantrums. Good, long, loud ones. What in the world? She's too little to reason with, especially since once she's been crying for about 15 seconds she doesn't remember what she is mad about. We have some mirrors in the front room that she loves to sit in front of watch herself cry. Oh boy. Please let this pass quickly.
Here she is on Labor Day. She really wanted to sit in Vivian's chair, so I told her that her only choice right then was to sit on Viv's lap while Viv sat in the chair. She wasn't quite as excited about my solution as Vivian was.
Because I love her binky as much as she does, we've allowed her to keep it longer than we originally planned (it's hitting the road for her 2nd birthday). However, she's only supposed to have it in her bed (and at church :) ). Now she's started asking to be put in her bed during the day so she can get a binky fix. This is what I found the other day after she'd been hanging out in her bed.

When she's not tantrum-ing she's extra cute and says some hilarious things, so we live for those moments. Oh man, I love this girl. I hope I can figure out this parenting-a-tantrum-thrower thing so we're not both permanently traumatized.

(She's loving her "Mr. Potato Guy" so here she is with his teeth.)

Go Cougars!

If you know us well, you know that Todd and I both l.o.v.e. BYU football. Todd takes it a little more personally than I do, but we both really look forward to football season. Tonight was the season opener and BYU played #3 ranked Oklahoma and WON! Drew was decked out in his sweet BYU gear from our friends the Derrs.

I love how they're both so engrossed in the game.

Then the Cougars scored a touchdown. Drew is obviously ecstatic. One day he'll understand the importance of these moments. Just give us a few years and we'll be sitting in the West Stands going wild like these two cuties.

Rise and shout, people!