Laundry

I wish I could have this much fun with a hamper....






During this entire time she was playing with her laundrey, she was "talking" to me. Daddaadaadadaaadaadaaaddaa!! We do LOTS of talking about Da-Da. I can't wait to hear a Ma-Ma one day!

Last week my friend Sara from Savannah came to spend some time with us. I loved having her for the short time she was here and I miss her so!! I am trying to talk her into moving over here but I don't think her family would like that too much!!

These were taken after church yesterday. Audrey loves to "stand-up"! She tries to get us to let go of her but she always falls when we do. She will be a whopping 8 months old tomorrow!

Kisses

Last week while Gracie was here, Audrey learned to give us "kisses" when prompted. You can see some pictures of her giving Gracie kisses in the last post. This video is the cutest video of her giving kisses to that sweet baby that lives in the mirror!!

Mini Camp Christi

One of my students in my last year of teaching spent a week each summer with their aunt in Nashville. They called this week, Camp Whatever her Aunt's Name Is. They did wonderful things together such as make t-shirts with the Camp's name on them, go to concerts, etc. This student has a sister and the sister did not go to "Camp" together. They each got their own week. The girl in my room looked forward to going each year and talked about the fun things they did together frequently.

I thought this was a wonderful idea and we started Camp Christi with Gracie last summer. We did all kinds of fun things--- McWane, the Zoo, parks, crafts, cooking, etc. This week was Gracie's Spring Break so we had a "Mini-Camp" so that Gracie could go to the beach with Lesa's family at the end of the week. We will do the real Camp Christi this summer. I LOVE having Gracie here with us-- we get her all to ourselves!!! Laura will start coming when she completes her Kindergarten year- that is if she wants to come. She doesn't have any interest yet!

1. We made a fancy bejeweled mirror.






2. Gracie made us some divine multi-colored french vanilla pudding.








3. She also baked us a fabulous chocolate cake with buttercream icing.


4. She created and we framed a "self-portrait" that was meant to be for Lesa but must hang in Gracie's room.



5. The most favorite thing this little momma did was this....




.... PLAY, PLAY, PLAY with Audrey!!

We can't wait until the real Camp Christi this summer!!!

Patiently...

.... waiting for Daddy to come home from work.

Easter Party

We went back home for Audrey's second egg hunt last weekend. My sister and her friend, Nikki, had an Easter Party at Lesa's house. They had around 400 eggs! You can see how Clay and Alan hid all those eggs in the following pictures! The kids painted spring paintings, dyed eggs and played games. I didn't realize this but most children these days do not dye eggs-- people buy plastic ones now! I always looked forward to dying eggs with my Mom and sister when I was little. It was so much fun to decorate them and then hunt them! We had to always make sure we knew EXACTLY how many eggs we had hidden because we didn't want any stinky surprises a month or so later!

Wildcat

Our little Wildcat has officially decided to crawl all over the place. She did her first little bit of crawling on the Sunday of her baptism but as her Aunt Melissa likes to say about me.."I was in denial." I just am not ready for our sweet baby girl to grow up! Needless to say to all you Mommas but the past week has definitely been different from the week before. The most challenging part is chasing that naked hiney across the changing table so I can change her diaper!!! She is a master twister, slider, scooter!! Clay gave her a bath tonight while I went to a coupon class and said that he had to lock her down with his legs just so he could put her clothes on her. She is ready to GO!GO!GO!

She has become much better at pulling up. She has lost some of the wobbles and is very confident in herself. She will slide from one piece of furniture to the next-- not far though. Manytimes she is more brave than she is actually capable and will hit the floor! She earned herself two little bruises on her forehead last week! Our hardwoods and tile are not very forgiving to a beginning crawler/stunt performer!

Here she is.... our sweet little wildcat at her first egg hunt! She "found" this pink egg and decided to explore it a bit with her tongue!

Hopefully I will catch the crawling on video before long so you all can see!