She's 7!

I am late with this but last week Audrey Claire turned 7 months old! A lot has changed in just a short period of time. Here is an update of what she is up to these days:

-She LOVES her walker. This may be the best investment I've made so far. It is so nice for her to be able to "get around on her own". And get around she does. She is all over the place. She loves to go all over the house but a few of her favorites are by the back door so she can see outside, right in front of the stove in the kitchen, by the computer so she can see her picture (ok so she's kinda vain, but wouldn't you be if you were as cute as she is?), and in our bedroom looking at herself in the mirror (told you she was vain).

-She is talking a lot more these days. She mostly says "Dadadadada"! I have a video I will upload later of her talking.

-Have I mentioned that she is growing? She just had her 6 month check up two weeks ago and is in the 99th percentile for her height and went down to the 94th percentile for her weight. The doctor says her height and weight are proportioned, just most babies her size are 9 months old. I know Daddy is hoping for a basketball player!

-She really hasn't tried to crawl too much this month. But if you went and stayed with your grandparents wouldn't you try to be held as much as possible? Maybe we can work on that this month!

-We haven't been doing much baby food. I know babies are supposed to make a mess but things got out of control with her. Every time I gave her solid food, she spit out every bite. Not because she didn't like it, but because she thought she was cute. She would spit and laugh about it. She really ended up getting more on her and me than she ate! So instead of getting aggravated with her we put the baby food aside last month. Her doctor says nutritionally, she gets everything she needs from the formula. I guess that's another thing we can work on next month.

-She still has only two bottom teeth; however, I think some more may be on their way. Absolutely everything within reach goes in her mouth so she can chew on it. She is also drooling a lot more than she was.

-She is now a big girl and goes to the nursery for Sunday School and "Big Church". She even goes in there for night church too. This took me a little while to get used to. Up until this past Sunday I would go check on her in between class and big church.

-We are experimenting with juice in a "sippy cup". We started that just yesterday. We have only tried apple juice so far. She mainly likes to chew on the cup. Go figure!

-Lastly, she spent her first nights without Mommy and Daddy this month. We went to Kentucky for a few days and she stayed with ReRe and Pops in Crystal Springs. I know she had a great time. I hear she even got to work for Mrs. Amy at KeyHabits even though we haven't seen a check. We missed her a lot but we were able to video chat which really helped!

Busy Girl

This post may get a little long but bear with me. We had a quick but exciting trip home this week. It started Tuesday night after Seth's church basketball game. We loaded up a very sleepy little girl and headed north to Wesson. Thankfully, she slept the whole way there. However, when we got there at 10:30, she was so excited to see her Popa D that she woke up and stayed up until midnight to play. I was hoping that she would sleep late the next morning since she was up so late. But she must have known how exciting our day was going to be because she didn't sleep late. But anyway, we got up and I got to go to Brookhaven all by myself to do some bow shopping! (Thanks to Popa D for babysitting!) I know they must have played hard while I was gone because when I got back, they were knocked out on the couch. Before we left there, I managed to get a "few" pictures. Here are my favorites:

How grown does she look here? Does not look like a 6 month old to me!

Our next stop was Co-Lin. That's where Memaw works. We got to visit her for a few minutes and guess what! I forgot to take pictures there. Next time we promise to take pictures with you Memaw! From there we headed for Hazlehurst to see ReRe at her office. They must recognize our importance because when we got there this is what we saw on the door:

We stayed there long enough for them to have a little break from doing work. If you can believe it, Mrs. Amy somehow managed to get Audrey Claire from her ReRe for a minute. And I do mean only 1 minute.

Next we headed for Jackson, stopping in Crystal Springs for a few minutes to see my aunt, Michelle. No picture there either! Audrey Claire was sleeping by this point (what baby wouldn't be?) so Michelle just came out to the car.

So on to Jackson we went. That's where Mawmaw June lives. We don't get to see her as much as we like so we were excited to get to spend the afternoon with her. I think she was just as excited!

One of Audrey's favorite parts of the visit was Mawmaw's dog, Georgie! She watched Georgie run around the house all afternoon. She always wanted to know where she was and what she was doing.