baby girl.

turned 19 months in May. we're rapidly headed for the second birthday and i have banned everyone from talking to me about this until at least September. cannot handle it! wah. time, why must you go by so quickly?

headed to the car
one of my favorites ended up being the one i didn't even know he took!

favorite foods:
turkey burgers with ketchup, PB&J, bananas, green beans, peas, cottage cheese, fresh cantaloupe, greek yogurt any flavor, mandarin oranges, spaghetti, wheat thins. she can eat an entire meal from a plate or bowl with utensils and not make a huge mess! i love her independence but she refuses to let me help her at meal time and it's a little bit sad that our feeding days together are completely over!

favorite toys:
books, books, books! babies (loves her new Cabbage Patch Kid) and stuffed animals; which she calls her babies, bubbles, her scooter, magnetic fishing set

favorite activities:
anything outside! she asks to go outside all. the. time. i dread rainy days because she hates being inside with a passion and makes this dislike very well known. swimming in her pool, slides, the park, running around, bird watching, reading books to herself or having you read them to her, putting on shoes all by herself ("mama no hep" when i try to help her ha!), brushing her teeth - which makes her dentist grandfather very happy. she usually cries when i pry the toothbrush out of her hands! also her new favorite thing to do is hide! the first time she did this was a couple weeks ago when i was trying to get us out the door so i could drop her at daycare and go to work. i looked everywhere and was baffled as to what was going on! after wandering around the entire house saying, "where are you?" (which she usually answers back "where are you?") and hearing nothing, i poked my head in our bathroom and was greeted by muffled hysterical giggling from behind the shower curtain. new favorite game when we're in a hurry to leave? hide and seek. SO MUCH FUN!!!!

new words:
the word pool has evolved from "poop" (which was really confusing) to "poo-ah," raining, ready? GO!, can count to 4 (!!!) usually does this when she is counting her wheat thins as she is grabbing them out of the box of "crackas," Aunt Ann, beji (Benji the dog), train choo-choo, what tis, what tat, read please, mine (grrrr, Will taught her this by saying it when they were playing one day and now she uses it somewhat frequently), eat (she used to just smack her lips when she was hungry), horsey neigh neigh, bite (when she wants something off my plate), "sing me" a request she makes at night when we're getting ready for bed. i know i'm missing a bunch -- her vocabulary has taken off tremendously this past month!

our house is constantly filled with Audrey babble and every day more "real" words take the place of her own garbled language. today when Will stopped home for a brief second to change for class, she followed him into the bedroom and told him, "Dada babble babble Aunt Ann babble poo-ah babble babble raining babble side" translation: Dada, today Aunt Ann came over and we played in the pool until it started raining and we had to go inside." BAM! love it!

favorite song:  a tie between Praise Ye the Lord and God is Love (Praise Him)
in the car we listen to 100 Prayers God Loves to Hear (sung by children, it rocks! i love it! i find myself listening to it even when she's not with me) and Audrey absolutely LOVES these two songs. Every time the kids yell "Hallelujah!" in Praise Ye the Lord she starts laughing hysterically and will yell something close to "Ha-lu-ah." She also likes to jam out to God is Love (Praise Him) and starts kicking her feet, clapping, wiggling and bouncing, well as much as possible under her five-point car sear harnass! haha! whenever the song is over she yells "digan!!" (again) and i gladly play it over and over and over and over because i love seeing her moved by the spirit :) 

fun fact: this is my 100th Boatright Life blog post!