Hello Fall!

 Audrey and I have had some fun adventures on our days together.  We went to the zoo several weeks in a row.  She loves all of the animals except the monkeys.  Every time we talk about the zoo she says, "But mama, we no see the monkeys. NO. Monkeys." Often she holds both of my cheeks to make sure I am listening to exactly what she is saying.  But the last time we went I snuck her over to the gibbons, which are the monkeys that swing around with their long arms.  She saw the swinging from a distance and was intrigued.  It's a step!  But NO. Gorillas.

Yesterday you saw the picture of us a Tatarus, a gymnastics studio.  We mostly jumped on the trampolines and into the foam pit, but she was curious about a class going on.  Maybe when she's 3.  And these pictures are from the Knoxville Museum of Art.  She liked walking around the exhibits and chose the nude Prometheus as her favorite.  She saw it and said, "He naked! He no have on panties!"  Speaking of panties, she is practically done with potty training - not that I can claim one bit of influence there.  She literally got so tired of waiting for me that she trained herself. She has had a few accidents but they are getting rarer, and she still wears pullups at night.  But she loves her Hello Kitty and Fancy Nancy panties! Yay!!

 Miles has started playing AYSO soccer on Saturdays.  The first week was quite hysterical.  We call it "cat herding." He had never kicked a ball before that day, but the coach had them chasing the ball all over the field.  After the warm up laps Miles came huffing over and said "I'm tiiiired."  By the 2nd game he had a little more confidence to go after the ball.  He scored 3 goals! One was for the other team, but who's counting?  He loves it, that's all that matters.

And someone else loves it too.  She wanted some pink cleats so badly when we went to get his. So we got her a little ball to play with.  She's not bad! Looks like we'll be doing soccer Saturdays for a few more years.