Audrey: May (22 months)

Audrey is such a sweet little girl. She loves to color in her brother's Spiderman coloring book and is happy to be Green Goblin or Catwoman and be a bad guy.

Audrey loves jelly beans, soy beans, black beans (lots of beans for this baby), carrots and pasta.

Since learning of Sampson's lymphoma, I have been letting him out into the yard with the kids in the afternoons and the three of them dig in the sand together.

And when I say "dig in the sand together", I mean that Devon dumps sand on Audrey and Sampson poops in the sandbox. :)

This little girl loves her blanket. Loves it. She hates to leave it behind when we leave the house or go outside, but she has learned to do without it by finding a special place to leave it so she knows exactly where it is when she gets home.

Hello!

Audrey happily washes her hands and, like most kids, loves to play in the water. She is quite a clean kid, like her brother, and proclaims,"Oops! Mess! Mama, need towel. Clean up." If she spills her crackers she picks them all up and doesn't miss a single one. That's my little OCD baby!

She loves to be around animals especially dogs. If we ever get a dog it will be the most loved dog on the planet.

They both wanted this same little chair so instead of giving it up to the other, they shared it. Works for me.

We took a long weekend vacation and went to California. The kids had a blast. I have decided that a vacation with kids as little as ours is not a vacation. It's harder than real life ... just different scenery. SO worth it, but you don't have all the stuff you need, they're off schedule, etc.

We went to Sea World and it was mostly a waste of a day until we found the kids play area and that saved the whole experience from being sorta sucking. They had so much fun just running around and playing on different equipment outside in the beautiful weather and couldn't have cared less about the shows.

I think their favorite part of Sea World was the grass :) Figures, right? Give a kid a new toy and they play with the box. That was Sea World. Just as well. Audrey just kept crawling along the ground running the grass between her fingers.

We met up with my parents at their boat. We stayed over with them one night and spent the rest of the nights at our hotel.

Somebody get this kid a toy I think she's bored! They did great in the car and had a pretty even split of watching movies and playing toys.

This is one of the boats my parents have. Don't be fooled by her terrified expression ... she loved the boat. She just didn't like me leaving her with her life jacket riding up to take her picture. Handsome Daddy :)

The beach. AAaahhhh the beach. Probably our least expensive and hands down BEST days with the kids. They didn't want to go near the water so we didn't really have to freak out about them getting too close. They could take off running down the sand and we just called them back when they got too far. Easy peasy. Joe and I got to actually relax. Wish we could have spent more days there.

A giant sand box.

Audrey is such a joy. She isn't eating as much as she used to so I think her little growth spurt is over for now. She is still above the 80-90% for height/weight.head size :) She loves to snuggle and give high fives.