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Febuary:<\/div>\n
This month I had a play date at my house for Valentines day. We invited Olivia and Avary ( and their mothers Michele & Tara). This was unusual for me since I am not a ” crafty person”. I even went to Michaels to get crafts. I NEVER go to Michael’s because I am terrible at arts and crafts and don’t like scrap booking. The made crafty cards for their Daddies and backed sugar cookies. The girls had a good time and the Dad’s really liked their homemade V-day presents.<\/p>\n

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Audrey also started Ballet lessons this month. On Tuesday Mornings we go to ” Mommy and Me” dance class. Its adorable to see her walk on her tippy toes in her little leotard! She LOVES “Miss Cathy” the woman who teaches the class. I am now able to use Miss Cathy and dance class as a bribe…” If you want to see Miss Cathy at dance class you had better eat your sandwich!”<\/p><\/div>\n

Also, She has overcome her hatred of waiting in lines. At first she would cry when she had to wait her turn to sashay across the floor in dance class. After 2 classes she was cured. Now she tells anyone who will listen that when she goes to ballet class ” I wait my turn and NO CRYING!”<\/p>\n

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We took a trip to Miami for Audrey’s great Grandpas Birthday. We got to see My Dad’s brothers and spend some time with the whole family. Audrey was SO easy this trip, no fussing in the car, slept well in her Dora Inflatable bed at the hotel, and loved the elevator. My dad drove with us and that helps a lot because he likes to sit in the backseat with her and she’s completely entertained by him. <\/div>\n

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Oh, that’s another development. Audrey will now eat a peanut butter sandwich on wheat if I use a cookie cutter to cut out shapes for her sandwiches! This is the first” normal” kid food she’s eaten. She still eats pizza crust and is starting to accept a bit of sauce on the bread. She still likes all her food separate so her usual meal is chicken nuggets, string cheese and a slice of wheat bread ( shell only eat the crust) and fruit.<\/p>\n

Her new favorite things are puzzles. She can complete large puzzles intended for 5 year olds ( 10-15 large pieces) by herself. Sometimes she’s better a putting them together then Rob and I are which is pretty sad. She definitely has Robs spatial relations skills, not mine. She doesn’t even need spaces to put the puzzle in – a border for it. She can start with a middle or end piece on the floor and crate the rest, all alone. Truly amazing. Her memory is also incredible. She can hold at least 6 bits at a time. ( The average adult holds 7 +\/- 2) She has an electronic memory game that gives her a series of symbols ( pencil, car, wheel) that she has to repeat back by pressing the buttons. After 5 ( the machine says “pencil, car, wheel, star, fish” – then she locates and presses them in the he correct order) the game ends and starts over at one. I’m not sure what her capacity is, but I’m sure she can do 6 at least.<\/p>\n

She also loves she Scholastic videos that go with some of the the books she has. My Mom got most of these matching videos for her and her favorites are The Napping house, The Bbear Snores On, Chick Chick Boom Boom, and The Very Hungary Caterpillar. She has memorized The Napping House book ( her current favorite) and large parts of many others. She’s starting to pretend more now too. The most amazing thing she said this month was when she told me, as showed me her toy butterfly, that “butterflies do a metamorphosis”. I think she saw this on Disney channel – Little Einstein’s show. I was amazed that she remembered it! She gets very excited about butterflies and caterpillars.<\/p>\n

Things Audrey does NOT like:<\/p>\n

Having her toenails cut, toothpaste, many animated toys, the handy vac cleaner, my hairdryer if its on high, her food touching ( or even two different foods on the same plate if the plate does not have dividers, nail polish, wearing socks, people asking her if they can have a bite of her food, anyone being nearby while she’s going potty.<\/p>\n

Things Audrey Loves:<\/p>\n

Puzzles, lemonade, The Ants Go Marching song, stickers- especially if they are Dora or Elmo, blueberries, homemade whipped cream, putting books away in her bookshelf while singing the “clean up” song, maps, marshmallows, going to dance class, ” playing cozy” in our bed ( snuggling with me and Rob)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Febuary: This month I had a play date at my house for Valentines day. We invited Olivia and Avary ( and their mothers Michele & Tara). This was unusual for me since I am not a ” crafty person”. I even went to Michaels to get crafts. I NEVER go to Michael’s because I am […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zilay.com\/blogs\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zilay.com\/blogs\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zilay.com\/blogs\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zilay.com\/blogs\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zilay.com\/blogs\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zilay.com\/blogs\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zilay.com\/blogs\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zilay.com\/blogs\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zilay.com\/blogs\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}