Audrey has had an eventful fall. She has been to 2 bonfires now. She was a Mizzou cheerleader for Halloween, and she has even had her first sore throat. She has also been more defiant than normal over the course of the past week. She has thrown fits about eating what is on her plate at dinner and not "snacks", walking like a big girl instead of being carried, and even putting on her coat to go outside. Before her throat virus last week, she was a cooperative and happy little girl, then three days of not feeling well and being cared for constantly by mommy or daddy spoiled her. We are finally getting to the point again where she is her normal cooperative self, most of the time. I am glad it was just a test, and since she is behaving again, it would seem that we’ve passed. I won’t get too confident though; I know we’ve got a long way to go.
Last Saturday, Audrey’s first day back being social after 3 days at home sick, we went to Christy White’s studio with Audrey in her Mizzou cheerleader outfit for pictures. She was cooperative until we decided to take her shoes off. At that point, the straw from the hay bale bench that Christy was using as a prop began sticking to her socks. When Audrey knew there was straw on her socks, she could not do anything else until every last piece of straw was off of her socks. Then, she would put her foot on the ground again, only for it to collect more straw. This cycle could not be stopped until we put her shoes back on. Fortunately, we already had a few good shots to use before that. Today, she was methodically lining up her puzzles at home, taking the pieces off, putting them back on, and then stacking the puzzles to put them away again. It seems that Audrey got Billy and I’s neat freak genes. Watch out world!
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