Audra is Talking, and it's the Cutest!

Audra is no one and a half and she has gone from baby babbling to copying everything we say.  Although she doesn't quite understand what it means to count to ten, she still has it completely memorized and points her little finger on the table when she does it!

We took the kids on Audra's first boat trip last weekend!  We rented a fisherman's boat, which is way scarier than I ever imagined!  Talk about being close to the water.  Especially with two kids.  Luckily Audra sat in my lap most of the time, not wanting to let go of me.  And when I put the kids on the bench, they both sat well together.  We had a nice 1 hour boat ride at Alum Creek!

She's also working on her ABC's and almost has it perfectly; even the "now I know my ABC's" part!  She inherited Xavier's old V-Tech laptop computer that sings the ABC's, Row Row Row Your Boat, and many other songs.  She's picked up the words to every song.  

Her vocab skills are impressive!  She repeats almost every single thing we say to her.  Here are some of the cutest words, and imagine all of her "s" sounds with a slight baby lisp (so cute!):

ba-nah - banana

gasses on - glasses on

dake ew weh-come - thank you welcome (with no pause!)

oran-iz - oranges

iPad - iPad (spoken perfectly, go figure!)

bisses - kisses

thaw-bayz - strawberries

au-duh - Audra

oh-piss - open

No no baby. 

Hi baby. 

Dake ew baby. (thank you, baby)

her favorite thing is to sit on the bottom step, rock back and forth, with her doggie!

Other things Audra's been up to...

Audra knows her nose, mouth, teeth, ears, hair, etc.  In one of her Sesame Street books, Ernie opens his mouth and shows his tongue.  I'm teaching Audra to show her tongue and she puts it on the top of her mouth, showing us the underside of her tongue, then sticks a small bit of her tongue out of her mouth.  Funniest thing ever!

Audra loves playing house.  She loves to put socks on her feet, clothes on every part of her body, take shoes on and off, and recently, pretending her doggie is her baby.  She calls "mommy" when she wants me to unfold the changing pad, puts her doggie on it, I strap a new diaper on, she grabs the diaper cream and puts it on doggy's head (like it's her detangling spray), and then puts her doggie in the walker and walks him around the house.






"gasses, on"

Audra gave me a pretend bath the other day.  She rubbed her hands together and washed my hair, then put her fingertips on each of my feet going up and down them, saying "foot".  That's exactly what I do to her when giving her a bath.  Steve said she gave him a bath too.

And, finally, as Audra would say with a cute wave of her hand, "Bye, Bye, Baby."