Audrey and a Unicycle

I'm inspired by my friend Kim (Hi Kim!) who recently posted several updates to her blog so here's my catch up post. I haven't neglected this blog because of lack of things happening around here, we've been busy! Happy new year to all! 2011 is off to a great start for the Harris family. Mitchell just hit his 6 month mark at work. It's hard to believe that we've been here 6 months already! Melanie is staying busy with Audrey, a quilt, babysitting once a week and I am making a better effort to read consistently too! Audrey is just as obsessed with climbing as she has been for at least the last month. She gets impatient when we have to do other things that take time away from her climbing practice. She stands up in bed now which, fortunately, has only interrupted her sleep routine a couple of times. Nowadays when I go in her room in the morning she is standing up in bed talking, I love being greeted with a big smile when I enter the room! Speaking of her smile, she has a couple of new additions to it! 2 teeth! The lower teeth broke through a couple of days after Christmas.

Audrey won't let me look in her mouth at the teeth so this is the best picture I could find of them. Just 2 little points poking through!

Here are some of Audrey's other 'likes':

*CLIMBING (it's her passion so it's worth mentioning again)

*Experimenting with lots of sounds including: mah, gah, bah, guh, dah, neh, buh. Sometimes she will string different sounds together too!

*Clapping. It's fun to see what gets her excited! The other day she went from crawling position to sitting on her own and clapped at her accomplishment!

*Smiling. Audrey is very generous with her smiles. She makes lots of friends this way. :)

*Crawling. She has mastered the hands and knees crawl and rarely army crawls anymore.

*Being social. She would rather be in the same room with me or Mitchell than be left alone playing with her toys. I often notice her following me around the house if I am doing other things.

*Reading books. Audrey got a lot of books for Christmas and she loves being read to! She has even learned how to open the flaps on her flap books and goes right for the flaps when we turn the page.

*Everything goes to her mouth these days.

*She is getting better at her fine motor skills and is able to pick up small things with her pincer grasp.

*Playing with cords, wires and heaters, all are off limits.

*Playing fetch with herself. She often throws certain toys (especially balls and rings) ahead of her and then crawl after them and repeat the process across the room.

*Sucking on a wet paper towel when I wash her hands and face.

Audrey's 'Dislikes':

*Anything that gets in the way of climbing.

*Water on her face in the bath.

*Being strapped in her car seat.

*Getting in her snow suit.

*Scratchy kisses from her dad who grew a beard.

*Being removed from the vicinity of cords, wires and heaters, they are off limits.

*Dad's Easy Button. She pushed it one afternoon and it scared her and made her cry, now she wont go near it.

Saturday morning we went to a regional juggling expo with our friends Andy and Lynn. It was amazing to see so many people juggling, doing tricks and riding unicycles. Lynn and I decided to give it a try. I have to say, it's a lot harder than it looks!

This guy had 5 pins going at once!

This guy was juggling 7 balls at the same time! His hands were moving SO fast!

I had a lot of confidence that I could learn how to ride a unicycle...until I actually got on it.

Audrey was tired and ready to go home.