Daddy's Sock

Audrey loves to help me do laundry and by help I mean scatter clean clothes in every direction while I race to fold and put them away before she can grab them. So it was no surprise to find a random daddy sock in her play area when we were done with the laundry. As you can see, it made a great toy and in the end she had all three socks (her pair and daddy's one) on one foot.

Feeding the Turtles

Audrey and I went in search of ducks the other day to feed with the end of a loaf of bread. We never found ducks, but we did find some turtles and I threw a couple of pieces of bread to them to show Audrey how it is done. She thought better of my idea and just ate the bread herself.

Notice the cute Fridley, MN shirt from Aunt William!

Reading to baby

Audrey loves her books. And now she reads them to her baby dolls regularly.

Granola Bar break down

For some reason Audrey has a disturbing reaction to granola bars. She likes to eat them - that is she likes the taste of them, but the fact that they break apart really unnerves her. Yesterday I forgot how traumatic they are for her so I gave her one as a treat. I handed her the granola bar inside the opened wrapper and within seconds she was hysterical - crying and screaming with the two halves of the granola bar in her outstretched hands. I asked her if she wanted me to try to fix it, which she did and when I was unsuccessful she had an even larger meltdown. I tried, to no avail, to explain that granola bars were like bananas they still taste just as good in smaller pieces, but she wasn't buying that. In the end, she sat on my lap sobbing her way through her granola bar. I held all the small broken pieces in one hand (and kept it closed) and all the larger pieces in the other. She ate the larger pieces and cried anew each time they broke. The whole exhausting process took about 10 minutes and I have learned my lesson - no more granola bars for Audrey - no matter what.

The funny thing is, with almost all of her other foods, she really enjoys the breaking apart process - sometimes more than the eating process. She regularly shreds small bits of toast, croissants, banana, green beans, etc. I can't figure out why granola bars are such an unusual exception.

"Nummy Mummy"

Audrey finally says mommy! - such sweet music to my ears. The funny thing is that she says it "nummy mummy" almost every time - as if the first word is the warm up to the real thing.

She also now says baby - beebee - and hi and grandpa - bapa.