Springtime!!!

I think i just realized the reason I never actually write here. I get so caught up on catching up on other people's blogs that I never actually make it to writing. Stop being so interesting, all you people! :) Well, Audrey turned 7 months yesterday- which totally caught me by surprise. She can't be 7 months already!? But she is indeed. She has almost mastered the art of sitting up, and falling over. She doesn't even cry when she falls nowadays, just kind of looks around stunned-like for a few seconds, and then is just fine. She still hasn't cut that darn tooth- but so close. It's been giving her a really hard time lately. It seems to come in spurts- she will have a SUPER hard time one week, and then it gets a little better, but then it gets worse again. Audrey is so talkative these days- she makes a lot of sounds that are a lot more like words. She makes the "muh-muh-muh-muh" sound when she is sad or when she needs something (usually food), and she makes the "da-da-da-da-da" sound when she's happy and having fun. She loves her daddy! She is learning to imitate sounds that we make- she discovered the "p" sound the other day and experimented with the word "up". She also tries to make a "hi" sound that we make at her. My favorite is when I'm spoon feeding her, I always make a sound when she takes a bite like "ahhhhummmmm!" and she does that every time she takes a bite now. LOVE IT! She is starting to grow out of more clothes now! I feel like she is growing so fast! She finally is chubbing up a bit- she has a belly now! I love it! Her favorite toys are old apple juice bottles, still loves boxes of all kind, paper, and anything musical. Oh and she always covets our cell phones... Thanks to Grandma Ellen who sent her a little toy phone of her own! :D

I mentioned that Audrey is finally gaining weight at a regular pace- when we took her in for her 6 month appointment, they weighed her and she had actually LOST weight between her 4 and 6 month appointments... which was obviously NOT a good thing. She weighed in at just under 11 pounds. So they had us start supplementing each feeding with a couple ounces of formula. At first she really didn't like the formula and wouldn't take it, and then would only take it if it was a certain temperature, in a certain bottle with a certain nipple. But she got much less picky and in fact, ended up much preferring the ease of bottle feeding. Long story short- she gained a pound in a week (hooray!) and has successfully weaned herself. I'm totally fine with that- I think I was more fine with that than Thomas was at first because nursing her was so much cheaper. But I'm so glad she is doing so well with her weight. And she was so much happier!!! And she sleeps better at night... need I go on. :) She has an appointment on Thursday and we will see how much she weighs now.


We survived the end of the semester! Whew- man it was tough, but we made it! And we all are pretty much intact! :D We have been enjoying the extra time we have to spend as a family- Thomas only works until 2 each day so he has time to do shoe appointments and to get things done around the house he's been dreaming about all semester long. We went out and worked on the yard Saturday- and we worked hard all day long, and did SO much but we have so much left to do. But it looks SO much better! Hooray!

Hey, there are plants growing in all that!

You can see the difference between the bushes that have been trimmed, and the ones that haven't...

We took a walk with Audrey to the park behind our house on Sunday- it was windy so we thought we'd try out our kite we got for Easter. We put Audrey into one of the baby swings there to see what she would do and she LOVED it! She grinned and laughed and thought it was way cool. Thomas took some adorable pictures on his spiffy new phone- so I will have to beg him to put them on our computer so we can post them.

I also think I never really have a chance to finish any post... naptime is over for Audrey! Back to work for me!