Smilebox Album

Smilebox is a pretty cool site; check out the album I made in about 2 minutes (no joke!)

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Busy Week!

Well, my parents were in town the past week, and boy did we have fun!Audia had all kinds of new experiences this week, and I must say that while she was definitely a bit overstimulated by the end of the week, she did a lot better than I guessed she would. Apparently I don't give her enough credit :-)

Not only did she have her first ever restaurant experience, but she had three restaurant experiences! She met her second cousin once removed, Brenton, for the second time, which was fun. They are pretty close in age, and Audia had fun stealing all of his toys while he watched. LOL.

We also went to the Botanical Gardens to take in some butterflies and Chihuly. She, of course, wanted to put the glass and butterflies in her mouth.

To add to the hecticness of the week, Coopy came home this week too. He's been staying with Chris' mom since January to keep her company, but she is heading back to Illinois this weekend so he's back with us for good now. It was really fun to see Cooper and Audia get reacquainted, and probably quite a shock for Cooper since Audia is so much more mobile now than she was the last time he saw her!!

My parents were amazed at how far she's come since they saw her in December. She really is growing like a weed, and she is more and more vocal by the day. She has also started reaching for me if I come up to her when someone else is holding her, which just melts my heart!!

We were sad to see my parents leave this morning, but we've locked into moving out to MN the first week of May, so it will be less than a month until we're all together again - the way it should be!

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Everyone says i never post any pics of her crying....

Army Crawling

Here's a video of Audia doing her "army crawl". In the matter of about two days, she's gone from doing it once or twice a day to doing it CONSTANTLY when she's on the floor.....there's no stopping her once she's figured something out! She is definitely a "willfull". (My Uncle Bob refers to my parents and I as "the willfulls" (-: )

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Well, Audia and I are sick again. :-( We both are pretty congested, sneezing and sniffling and coughing, and I have a killer headache. I must say that while she is definitely having a hard time with sleeping, she is in much better spirits than I. The past few days, she has been so extremely vocal, squealing and babbling a TON, and giggling at everything, even seemingly at nothing (she must have some inside jokes that we're not privy to.) Everyone always says she seems like such a happy baby, and she really is. I feel so lucky to have a baby that smiles and laughs as much as she does; even when she's feeling crabby, she still has a smile and a giggle for me. I only hope her happy-go-lucky nature will carry through her teens ;-)

My mom and dad are coming out here to visit for a week on Sunday so hopefully we will be better by then!

Audia is finally sitting on her own for longer than 2 seconds, which is exciting! It is pretty funny because she skipped over the whole sitting using her arms to prop her up and went straight to sitting without needing her hands. And she has figured out how to move forward on her belly, doing the 'army crawl' (although she hasn't totally mastered this, she has done it quite a few times). I am hoping that she will hold off on the crawling thing until we are moved to MN and have babyproofed out there.....

Attached is a video of her playing with daddy earlier today. Enjoy!

Green Beans

Well we fed Audia Green Beans for the first time yesterday and boy, was it a hoot!She made the funniest faces I've ever seen. She got tight-lipped pretty quick yesterday, but when we tried again today, while she still made some pretty funny faces, she finished just under a Tablespoon and hardly got any on her bib! It is so much fun to introduce her to things for the first time and see her reactions; watching our little girl grow has become my favorite thing in the world by far!