Weeks 50 & 51

Wow, so hard to believe I’m writing the post for weeks 50 & 51… and Audrey’s birthday party is this weekend!! 

Audrey is getting so big… she knows the signs for 3 words now, “More,” “Please” and “Eat.”  Last weekend, the weekend of the 12th, she really figured out the whole walking thing.  Instead of stumbling all over the place, she really just started taking off and walking.  She’s gotten progressively steadier since then, and now she walks as much or more then she crawls.  It’s still strange to be in a room and see her walk around the corner! 

We had a few days of really nice weather, so I decided to take the girls to the park.  It was Audrey’s first time of really being able to enjoy the park, and boy, did she enjoy it!  She is a FAN of sliding!  At first she just sat at the top of the slide until I pulled her foot and made her slide down.  Then, after a slide or two, she started leaning forward and sliding herself, until she was sliding down before I could get to the bottom to catch her! 

This sliding thing is AWESOME! :)

Our major adventure during the past two weeks was our trip to IL for Grandma’s auction.  We had a good time, and I got lots of good pictures of Audrey enjoying the farm.  She’s a farm girl at heart, and I had to scrub grass stains out of her jeans by the end of the weekend!  :)

Audrey & Max… probably the origin of the grass stains! :)

Riding a tractor with Daddy!

Refusing to nap with Aunt Ruthie… NOT tired! 

She did learn that gravel was hard to walk on, and managed to coerce Sam into helping her!

 

Audrey & Aunt Sarah, rockin’ the shades!

 

What would a trip to Grandma Judy’s be without a trip around the farms to see all of the baby animals?  We piled in the mule (and Charlie in the four wheeler) and off we went!

Watching the cows from Aunt Ruthie’s shoulders!

No, we did NOT actually let her ride like this… but it was too cute of a photo op!

 

Who said she could get so big?!

Always has to do what big sister does… hanging on the fence with Uncle Charlie.

 

Just cute…

Farm girls, even if they were born in town!  Yes, Miss A is licking the fence… I had to resist the urge to wash her mouth out with purell after this…

Audrey, sticking out her tongue.

Funny part about that picture is the picture before that, Charlie had photo bombed by sticking out his tongue.  So we were teasing/yelling at him for sticking out her tongue, and Audrey did it in the next picture!!

But we finally got a cute one of Miss A and me!

 

Audrey definitely loved having all of the dogs around while we were in IL… she was constantly going after one!  Thankfully, they were all pretty tolerant!

 

Audrey has a new food love: cornbread!  Yes, it’s even one her forehead! :)

 

So there’s two week’s worth of pictures of Miss A!  Next week I’ll have lots of good pictures of her FIRST BIRTHDAY PARTY!  Can’t believe it!

In other A news, she still does not have an ear infection (that we’ve noticed- she is snotty, but doesn’t have a temp or anything).  We go back to the doctor on April 4th to double check, and are really praying for clear ears.  But I’m pretty at peace with having tubes if we need them, I just want her to be healthy.

She still eats, well, pretty much whatever you put in front of her.  I haven’t really found much she won’t eat, but she LOVES bananas, hot dogs (cut up small, of course), green beans, and pretty much any fruit, really.  She is definitely developing lots of personality, for better or worse!  She has opinions about most things, and she’s so funny when you try to take something away from her.  She loves to play with Laney’s crayons, but since she mostly eats them, it’s not usually a good idea!  But if she gets one and I go to take it away from her, she will grab whatever she’s standing next to (usually Laney’s table), square her feet, grit her teeth, and just pull and pull to keep the crayon.  It’s hilarious.  Stubborn child!!  She still loves blankies, especially thrashing around in a big blanket, like a comforter.  She usually takes one nap at school, and still sometimes takes one little evening siesta of a half hour or so. 

So there’s the A-Lou update… turning one next week… I don’t know where the time has gone…