We are alive!

There is no way I can go back and sum up these last five months easily so I figure I will just pick up here! Yikes five months! Should I even keep doing a blog?? :) I think it's safe to say that between Thanksgiving, Christmas, my sister doing American Idol, Audra's first and hopefully last cast, getting ready for our girls big 1st birthday party, Audra's first trip to Disneyland, Easter, company visiting throughout all of that, siblings living with us off and on and all our regular weekly outings like Legoland, Sea Life, the park, days and evenings at the beach with friends and other just regular life necessities the blog has not been a priority.


Our sweet baby or I guess toddler girl will be 14 months in a couple of days and is just growing and changing before our eyes! She is all girl and will turn a simple starbucks coffee sleeve into a bracelet and just glows when I let her wear one of my necklaces. She loves her babies and her stuffed animals and loves to hug and kiss them and give them to me to hug and kiss but also loves basketballs and cars and her favorite thing to do during bath time is "catch fish". She has this plastic fishing pole and fish with curly tails that her Grandma Palmer bought her and if I do say so myself, she is pretty good at it! At this point she is fearless. She races towards the roaring waves with giggles and excitement! She is now running! She loves dancing. She has just figured out how to get herself up onto the chairs in our living room and now uses her glider as an at home swing.

She loves to climb into her stroller Grandma and Grandpa Bachran got her for christmas.

This is at target, I was looking at belts and handed her this one that is elastic and beaded so she thought it was a necklace. Boy was she thrilled to wear that throughout the store!! Cracked me up!

Her vocabulary is growing like crazy. I think her new words since my last post are doggy, hi, what's that which comes out mostly as whassa (she says this all day every day too, has been for months, and it is still the cutest thing!), more recently who is that which comes out whoosaaa, all done, Lucy, oh yeah (just this morning she was wanting to get up on her glider to swing and I said, "Audra don't you want to go outside to the park with mommy and daddy?" and she said, "Oh, yeah!"), up, toes, pretty which just comes out puhrrr, audra, hug, uh oh, and her newest favorite is "no"! We are teaching her some Hawaiian words too. For example she knows how to find her Piko which is her belly button. I tell her to sit on her Okole which is bottom and she knows what that means.

At her last appointment in February she was back up to the 10th percentile for weight and 50th for height. Still a tiny thing!

She has 8 teeth fully in and two molars that have broken through.

Hmm what else.... She is a sleeping and eating champ now. She goes down without a peep and sleeps almost 12 hrs every night. In fact her Grandma Gerry babysat her last Saturday night and tried rocking her for a bit but Audra just kept pointing to her crib so Grandma Gerry just put her in and she went to sleep. She is also finally napping! I used to consider anything over 30 minutes a nap but now she takes at least an hour nap in the morning and an hour in the afternoon. Of course we have off days for napping but generally she is a great napper. She loves lots of different foods although the week she first started walking if I couldn't put it in a smoothie or in a snack trap she wouldn't eat it because walking was just too much fun!

I am thinking about taking the paci away next week because I know the longer I wait the harder it will be. Why next week? Well my brother is living with us right now and he will be gone for a week so I figured that would be a good time as I know there will be tears involved. Right now she just has it at nap time or bed time and this morning when I put her down and she didn't see it right away she asked for it by saying pac. I guess that's another word...

Here is a minor attempt to go back and round up some pictures from the last couple of months anyway.

planting strawberries, lavender, oregano and thyme with Grandma Gerry.

Ok I must stop now and get back to my girl who is awake!