Today was Audrey’s party. She ate lots of cake and has been saying “ELMO CAKE!” ever since. She loved her Elmo birthday cake. Moonie, FoFo, Ti Ti La La, Uncle Mark, Grandma, Papa, GG, and Great Grandpa were all there. We even got a surprise visit from my Cousin Alan! We had a big BBQ – Grandma made all kinds of yummy food. She got tons of gifts from everyone including clothes, money, bathing suits, books, a kitchen, stuffed animals, and other toys. During the party she cut her finger on a plant while playing outside with her aunts. She cried a lot but cheered up when she got to play with her presents. That night we took her her swimming in the spa. It was a great day!

April 29th, 2006

Today was Audrey’s birthday but we had to postpone the festivities due to illness. Audrey and I were sick this week and now I have taken a turn for the worse. I’m back on antibiotics for the 2nd time in 6 weeks with a sinus infection and ear infections. We will have the party next weekend at my Mom’s house.

April 22, 2006

More colors, now she knows brown, black, and grey (sometimes.) She also counts to “URRR-Teeen” (13). All day she asks “colorsat?” (What color is that?) It’s her favorite game to tell you what colors things are. He pronunciation of words is adorable. Our current favorites are “CHEPS” for Chest…”BLOSS-SHEW” for Bless you…. and PAL-PA-PULLER” for caterpillar. Too damn cute. She is now giving goodnight and goodbye kisses on her own which is really sweet.

April 15, 2006

I’ve been slacking with the blog again , sorry! Audrey just started saying her own name – she used to refer to herself as “BABY” when asked. Now she says “AW-DWEEE”! She had her 1st trip to the beach with Aunt Mindy this week and LOVED it. She loved it so much that she became hysterical and had a complete meltdown when we made her leave. She cried the entire way home. It was very breezy and the water was cold. She was shivering and her feet were turning blue but she did NOT want to leave. She was having a great time counting shells. She also saw seagulls there which she called beach “chickens.”

This month she learned colors and more numbers. She can count to 10 in order but now sometimes counts 1-9, 11, 12 – she has recently stopped saying 10?!?!) and knows red, orange, yellow, green. blue, purple, pink and white. Sometimes she can identify black and pink. She also calls some things ” purplegreen” if it has lots of colors, which cracks me up. Its become her obsession, counting and naming the colors of everything. Even in her crib at night she will count and name the colors on her wallpaper (five, six, seven, blue, purple, yellow) We are planning for her birthday now, a Sesame Street theme starring Elmo, of course. I can’t believe she’s gong to be two already!

April 4th, 2006

Audrey got her hair cut today! No one seemed to want me to do it but her hair was outta control and a million different lengths. We took her to the La Bebe’ Salon in Trinity. They did a good job of evening out without chopping it all off. She cried hysterically the whole time. Its was very traumatic and I’m sure she was presently scarred by the experience. They did a great job though.. take a look at the before and after pics!

March 11, 2006

She really kissed us today for the first time! It was SO sweet!

She’s says everything now.. she’s a little mocking bird ( which means we have to be very careful!) Her most common phrases are Mommy-Play, Help- Please, C’Mon-Dora ( our cat), Out-Please, Bless You and Up- Please. Lets hope her good manners aren’t just a phase! Its starting to loose its sweetness because she will yell PUHHLLLLEEEEESSSSSSS nonstop until you do what she’s requesting.

February 19th, 2006

She knows all the numbers in the correct order! She counts all time time. Hopefully she’ll do better in math than I did 😉

We took a trip to Jacksonville – just me and Audrey. We got a DVD player for the car and I don’t know how I ever lived without it. Now we can go anywhere! She’s quet as a mouse unless the video ends when she will yell ” ELMO- NOODLE” We spent a long weekend with Aunt Lorrie and JJ. She was spoiled rotten by them as usual… she went to Chuck E Cheese, The Jacksonville Zoo, and Babies are us to buy toys and clothes.

February 14, 2006

She counted to ten today, unprompted… we overheard her counting as she stacked her blocks.

Jan 25, 2006

Today sang row row row your boat along with Blues Clues on TV. Too cute – “WOH -WOH-WOH-MEMA-MEMA-MEMA”