Audreyism

1/13/2015

Today was supposed to be a cardio day at the gym but we had the opportunity to babysit for Audrey and I chose to fill my morning with my Squishy Girl instead of ramping up my cardio at the gym.  Audrey is enrolled in gymnastics, it starts next month.  This morning she told Jamie ”Auntie Mickey is taking me to ninastics today.”  There are a few things wrong with this statement but she is just so damn cute it doesn’t matter.  

1. It’s Auntie Nikki, I know you love all things Disney and think Mickey and Minnie are the Bee’s Knees so we will just let that pass.  
2. Auntie Nikki has not driven in 5 1/2 years so it is highly impractical to believe that she is taking you anywhere....let alone to a lesson that doesn’t begin until next month.
3. It’s pronounced gymnastics non ninastics.  If you become an Olympic gymnast are you going to be OK with kids saying you are a ninast?

That kid makes me unbelievably happy, even when she is licking her Cabbage Patch Kids head.  The best part of it was when I told her not to lick the doll’s head it went like this:

Audrey is sitting in her car seat holding one of her beloved babies, I casually look over and she says “Auntie, stop looking at me.”  I make a big deal about looking away yet I sneak a few looks back.  Come to find out she needed me to look away so she could lick Phoebe’s little Cabbage Patch bald head.  

Nikki: “Audrey, don’t lick your baby’s head.”

Audrey: “Why not? It tastes good.”

Nikki: “Well, don’t do it, it’s kind of gross.”

Audrey: “You want to lick her head too? (while offering to share her precious baby with me)

Nikki: (struggling not to laugh) “While I appreciate the offer, I’m going to have to say no.”

Audrey: fully exasperated- sighs deeply, “Fine”

Although I missed my cardio session today I am going to have to say “Oh well!”  I did run/walk the trails (2.3 miles), do 50 modified push ups, 25 squats and 2 sets of stairs.  So, I had a plan but a small Audrey-shaped wrench was thrown into that plan.  I did manage to do some form of exercise today, I suppose I will just have to be happy with that.