Major milestones

Hi everyone,

Audrey is doing great as usual! She is catching up quickly, it's really hard to tell that she was a preemie now.

She has started to be able to sit up for a short time. She is really strong! She loves to kick her legs, and stand, and she rolls over really easily. She also loves to squeal. Audrey has always been a vocal girl, and she is talking more and more all the time. I'm pretty sure she'll be an early talker!



Tonight was a big night - Audrey tried "solids" for the first time. I mixed 1 tablespoon of rice cereal with 4 tablespoons of milk. It was like a very runny soup. She seemed interested in it, but didn't really know what to do. She did eat some of it, and that's really all we were hoping for. It's more of a learning experience than a nutritive one at this point. We just wanted her to start learning about new textures & eating from a spoon. So it was a good start.




Hope everyone's having a good week!

Experiments with Headbands

Looking through the pictures from the last few weeks, we have obviously been a little more girly with Audrey than usual. Sports teams are a big deal down here, so Michael wanted to get Audrey involved with a little UK cheerleader outfit.

I've decided I was right not to be too excited about headbands - the pink headband left a welt on her head, and even though it didn't seem to bother her I still felt bad.

I keep having the problem of thinking clothes are way too big for Audrey and not putting them onto her until it's almost too late. She shocks me with how big she is getting! I don't have an official weight for her, but would estimate her to be about 15 pounds. I'll try again to weigh her with our scale at home this weekend.

Today Audrey amazed me by almost sitting up unsupported - she did so well I bet she'll be sitting on her own in no time. I've been thinking for a long time that that would be a big milestone for her. She also loves standing and does really well if we just hold her hands. She's getting to be a big girl.

Audrey is so much fun and loves to talk. I think she's going to be a real chatterbox. I'll have to post another video again soon.

Hope everyone's having a good night!

Happy Labo(u)r Day!

Audrey had a good day, squealing and talking and hanging out. She loves her new exe-saucer toy that her Papa bought her. She stands in it and bounces and jumps and has a great time. Here is a short video of her playing - it looks like we'll be able to use this for a long time since she's far from touching the floor even on the lowest setting.


One of my old friends from U.B.C. added a stop on her summer road trip through the south to come see us this week. We were very glad to see Karen again & to meet her boyfriend John.


Although we were cheering her on, Audrey didn't quite manage to roll from her back to front. She got really close though, and then finally did it at her babysitter's house later in the week. I did get to see her rolling first-hand today. She had only been rolling when I left the room, but now she is getting so good at rolling from front to back that she did it three times in a row today and seemed to have an easy time with it. It's amazing how much she has progressed. I watched one of our very early videos of her earlier today, and she could bare move at all. What a difference!

One of Audrey's other new talents is cooking! We're starting her young.




I thought I would also introduce Audrey to the girly hair-bow. I didn't think she would like it, but she didn't seem to mind. We still only kept it on for a minute.



And finally, (really finally) we put together Audrey's crib. She seemed to like it and had a good nap in it already today.





We hope you are all having a great long weekend!

Audrey is doing great!

She is a happy baby, except for a few episodes of teething pain. Overall she's just an easy baby.

She is developing and changing so much. She is rolling from her belly to back, and getting better at that. She's close to rolling over from her back to front too.

And she has started laughing occasionally. I love to hear her laugh. Here's a video I made of her laughing today after I found out that she thought it was funny when I sneezed. It's not a very good quality video, but it's still fun.



Hope everyone is doing well!

Busy but fun weekend!

Audrey's Uncle Dave is in town and we have been busy! We went to a minor league baseball game on Friday night, and spent the day at our friends' houseboat on Saturday. I just wanted to post a few photos because we got so many great shots.

Here is Audrey hanging out in her car seat.

And here she is with her cousin Adele in L.A.



Audrey went swimming for the first time and really seemed to enjoy it. I think she looked extra cute in the swim suit her cousin Adele shared with her. Audrey really is getting big - she wears 3-6 months clothing, and this swimsuit was 6-12 months!





With Uncle Dave

And Jarrad


And here's a video of Audrey in her car-seat. She loves to kick and also to try to stand!

Checking back in!

We have been very very busy!

Audrey is now 5 months old! She is doing great & had her first real laugh tonight. It was very cute and I hope she'll be laughing more and more so you can all hear it soon.

Since we last posted, we have been up to Toronto and Los Angeles, and I have started a new job! It was a very sudden thing, but I am now working for the local public defender office. It's an exciting change, but I have been very very busy at work and at home.

Audrey has been doing really well with her babysitter. They seem to get along great, and Audrey has fun watching the other children.

Audrey's Uncle Dave is coming to visit tomorrow, we're very excited to see him!

Here are a few photos from our Toronto trip & I'll try to post some more this weekend!

Audrey with Michael's cousin Paulo.

With Michael's Aunt Son

With her Nana & her new husband

Four generations!

Michael's Avo

Here we are with the newlyweds - sorry for the quality of these photos, I'm not sure what happened with them.


Audrey got a hold of one of the chocolate suckers at the wedding, she is getting really good at holding things!

Happy Birthday Aunt Chrystal!

Audrey wanted to wish her Aunt Chrystal a very happy birthday! We're excited to go visit her next week!

Now that Audrey has started "talking", she has just taken off with it! She plays around with her tongue making all sorts of noises! This video is a little longer, but I hope you enjoy it.


And here are a couple of cute photos, poor Audrey scratched her face yesterday :( It's so hard to keep up with her sharp little fingernails!




Tomorrow we're off to Toronto for the weekend, hopefully we'll have lots of fun pictures when we get back!