Cousins time

Aunt Kalyn just sent me these great photos of Audrey playing with Ali and Josie. They were taking in August, but I thought it would still be nice to see them.

As you can see the girls are having a great time (and making a great mess) in Audrey's play area. You can see the cool kitchen she got for her birthday as well as her magnet board. My favorite thing about these photos is the moon boots - that she insisted on wearing even though they were 1 1/2 sizes too small at this point and the little romper that aunt william gave her. Audrey is being a little saucy - actually she was just fascinated with the rainbow at the end of the zipper on the romper.

Going Bananas

Recently Audrey has taken to eating bananas all by herself. I start the peel just at the top and she takes it from there. After very carefully peeling the banana, she tosses aside the peels (often to the floor) and starts the difficult work of consistently biting off more than she can chew.

As you can see Audrey also likes to dress herself and shoes are by far her favorite to change. Here she is wearing her moon boots about the house.

Socks and Shoes

Audrey loves to try to do things herself (over and over and over). Here she is seen trying to put on her own socks and shoes. She hasn't been too successful at this yet - she will get a toe in her or there, but never her whole foot. This morning she put her shoe on my big toe and then laughed about how clever she was. And she is quite a wiz at taking them off.

Audrey does the sign for shoe and can almost say the word as well. Yesterday at the mall, she did the sign for shoes as we were walking past various shoe stores. It is cute how she identifies things in sign language as she recognizes them (she also did fish, hat and book).