Thomas actually was bugging me last night about blogging... shocker! So here I am! :) Well life continues to move at an ever-increasing speed for us up here in Idaho! Summer is definitely gone, and we are gearing up for winter. We are holed up in the bedroom today because our big room is too cold without the heater on. I brought Miss Audrey's new piano from wonderful grandparents into our room and I am keeping warm under the covers. It's a pretty good deal! She loves that piano so much. She plays songs and turns the pages and I don't care if she bangs on this one too hard! And my toes get to stay warm. Even better!
Thomas is ever-busy with school, and I think we've adjusted to the busy-ness a new schedule has brought. I have been called into the cub scouts as a Webelos leader, which has kept me busy learning new things about. I also was called on to the Enrichment board, which brings my total number of callings to 3. Pretty normal for this ward, I'm told. I only have one voice lesson I'm playing for so far, and she doesn't have to do a jury which is super nice.
Audrey turned a year old this month, and she is just so cute. She is a super walker/runner/faller, is learning to imitate lots of words we say (see ya, hi, dadeee, yeah, cracker, etc) and is learning how to be sassy. She knows she isn't supposed to use hard things to bang on the piano bench, so she will take a toy and walk over to the bench and look around at me, as if to say "hey Mom, look at me... I'm about to do something naughty!" Then she slowly lowers the toy to touch the bench, watching my reaction all the time. If I say "no" then she grins and does it again. Sometimes she will walk over to me and give me the toy nicely, but sometimes she just is ornery. It's cute, but annoying. Mostly annoying. But she is sure cute.
We are so excited to go to AZ for Christmas! It seems so much closer now that it's freezing outside. We will be down the 18th through the 30th, so give us a call if you wanna do something fun/see us!
Sorry- just short for now because Audrey has a short attention span... and she smells like something might be leaking from her diaper regions.
