Garage Band

So yes, she has taken a few steps but not many more than what you saw. She still prefers to drop and crawl, and why not? She's speedy that way. I guess she thinks she proved she could, so why show off? Cutie pie.

She's very verbal now, much more that Miles was at this point (if my failing memory serves me right). Lots of jabbering to all her babies and books. In the car the other day she had a Diego book and was just telling him what was what. And laughing at him too, in this deep "huh huh huh" laugh. Very funny. I called Wayne so he could hear but haven't gotten it recorded yet.

And Miles has moved on from guitar hero to garage band 101. Wayne set his drums up in the garage so they could both have fun playing. Miles enjoys it! He wants to go out there several times a day, which is huge because I can't go out with him and he's going through a "fear" stage right now. He doesn't want to be out of my sight inside the house. But maybe he thinks the loud banging scares away any monsters. {note to all grandmas: see the blue things in his ears? earplugs! and he asks for them every time.} I took some video I will try to put up later.

Sorry this isn't very exciting. Need to get over my writers block!

check her out...

Hope this makes up for blog neglect...

sorry about the sideways filming, it's hard to capture by yourself! couldn't back up far enough for horizontal.

Happy Birthday, Audrey!

We all were finally well enough to have Audrey's birthday party this weekend. We held it in Nashville at YaYa & B's, which made it a much easier trip for the Memphis family to make. Unfortunately BeeBe & PopPop came down with whatever we had the week before, so they couldn't make it over, and the cousins were headed out for spring break on Saturday. But we had lots of fun partying with Mimi & PawPaw, Aunt Megan & Uncle Kyle, YaYa & B.




In true second child form, I took a fraction of the number of pictures that I took at Miles's 1st party, and we forgot to do the group picture of everyone that we've been doing at all Miles's parties. Oh well. She still had a big time! She ate up the brunch - sausage breakfast casserole, fruit salad and biscuits - then wanted to be out of the high chair. So we sang to her and blew out her candle with her in my lap. She grabbed right for the cake and we figured it would be best to put her back in her chair with a bib, but she wasn't very happy with that. So she would scream at us, then grab a fist of icing and smear it on her face then scream at us some more. It was also pushing right up to her naptime, so we called the cake eating, opened presents quickly then sent her crashing to bed.

She had lots of fun with presents, although Miles ripped through them all before we could blink. Look how creative she got with her accessories!! She got lots of pretty dresses, a couple of Princess books, baby dolls and a zoo membership (fun for all!). I took her to the toy store to "pick out" her present and after looking at several areas we ended up in the baby doll area. She started squealing. and cooing. and crawling around to all the cradles & carriages. So it was sealed and she got a baby doll. But I think Miles wants to play with it more than she does!!

I didn't take it every week, but I think I got a good progression of the year. This was a lot of fun, especially these last few times when she was really playful. Happy birthday, Audrey!

Guitar Hero

Miles is a huge music fan and I can't wait for him to start taking lessons of some sort. But he's not waiting for me! He's been grabbing this toy and carrying it around everywhere like it's a guitar, while totally jamming on it. I think Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters is the only guitarist he's seen perform, but Miles has adapted to lots of other musicians as well. Today we rocked to Smash Mouth, Joan Jett, Tom Petty, Phil Collins and an extensive 80s one-hit-wonder playlist. I would attempt to play air guitar along side him and he'd say "no mommy, I'm playing guitar. You play drums." Sigh. That's daddy job. I guess Audrey & I will have to sing. Or explain what a bass guitar is. Oh, keyboard!! We are all over it. Look out Jonas Brothers (or rather, Partridge Family).

And about those 1st birthday party pictures I promised, that will have to be next week. Miles shared his germs with Audrey & me so we postponed the party. We all had the same progression of 2 days with 100 fever and sinus stuff that has lasted an additional 3-4 days. But we're all on the mend now (Wayne was spared), so the rescheduled event should be on for the weekend.

whoo hoo, I'm one!!!

Audrey had a big day today. She woke up and just *knew* it was her birthday, all smiles and giggles. She loved being serenaded with various happy birthday songs (traditional, Beatles, Stevie Wonder, The Replacements). And this evening she dug into her first cupcake... with sprinkles! More to come from her party with the family this weekend.

Sick boy

Of course today's big news is Audrey's 1st birthday, but we'll have more on that later. Poor Miles has been hit with some awful virus that gave him a fever for over 2 days and made him have an allergic reaction with a hive-like rash. Those things are better, so hopefully he's on the mend. As expected, I am now running the fever and have the cough, but thankfully no hives! Just have got to keep Audrey well so we can have her birthday party this weekend.