The fun month: Numero 6

This month has been filled with firsts for Audrey. She can sit up all on her own now, and not only that, but she can go from her belly or back to a sitting position. I often find her in her crib in the morning sitting in front of her mobile, smiling, which she has turned on by pressing the button, watching it go round and round. She is so smart! She has also been trying to pull herself up on things, which led us to lowering her crib because we were afraid she would be able to pull herself up on the rails and fall out. We also had to buy a mesh crib bumper because she kept getting her legs stuck (all the way up to her crotch!) in between the slats and couldn't get out, poor baby :( She has also started to crawl! She hasn't been able to really take off yet, but she can definitely move.






Mike's friends let us borrow their jumper, and Audrey absolutely loves the thing! I think she is going to be like her dad because she is always looking up at the thing trying to figure out how it works. Her first two teeth have just started to poke through her bottom gums, which has been tons of fun... not! She has been super clingy to me and will scream and cry if I try to give her to daddy or put her down or leave her sight. Poor baby, I know that her gums must hurt, but boy oh boy is it also hard on mommy! I had her in the grass the other day and the next day I noticed she had broke out in an awful rash. She had been in the grass on multiple occasions and had never had any sort of reaction, so I didn't think anything of it. Mike had just mowed the lawn though, so I wonder if that had something to do with it. Anyways, the doctor told us to add a couple of tbs of baking soda to her baths and after three days of that, the rash is practically gone.




Mike and I finally took Audrey to the Buffalo Zoo. We had always heard such great things about it, but neither of us were impressed. Mike mentioned that they had multiple animals that he has eaten, therefore their animal selection was lame. Audrey seemed to enjoy it, although she did sleep through most of our visit. She did get to see some of the animals. The ones we know she saw were a huge vulture, meerkats, and some fish. She squealed out loud when she saw the meerkats, so I think I know which was her favorite. Our favorite were the vultures. They were huge! One came right up and perched on a branch right next to the fence and we were able to get a good photo op of Mike and Audrey with the vulture in the background.




Audrey also went for her first "swim", went on her first swing and slide ride (with daddy holding her of course), went to her first bridal shower and air show. I had been wanting to take Audrey swimming for a long time, but we had never had the time to do it. So as it happened we were by Conesus Lake due to some of Mike's Craiglisting, so when we were finished with that we took Audrey to the beach to dip her feet in the water. She was fascinated by the waves, but the water was a little too cold for her liking so it didn't last long. After that we went to the playground and stuck Audrey on a swing, and she loved it. She liked the slide as well, but not nearly as much as the swing. She was squealing so loud that the security guard came over to see what was going on, laughed and told us that he was going to call the cops! Audrey also went to her first bridal shower, and I got to put her in a dress for the third time. I like putting her in dresses, but she never has any reason to wear them, so when a reason arises I take advantage of it! Anyways, there was another baby there named Charlotte who was a month older than Audrey, yet was much smaller and hadn't many of the milestones Audrey had met months before. I know every baby is different and develops at their own rate, but it made me feel like Audrey was advanced, and I kind of like that ;) Anyhow, Charlotte kept trying to hold Audrey's hand, but Audrey kept pulling it away and hiding in my chest and then whipping her head back around to look at her again. I call it flirting, I don't know if that is the correct word to use, but that's what it seems like. It was pretty cute. Then there was the air show, which unfortunately got rained out. We were there for a few hours and they had only flown three times, so when it didn't look like it was going to stop raining we decided to leave. Audrey slept pretty much the entire time, so I'm not sure she saw any of the planes, but we wanted to get out of there before she woke up and got upset because we couldn't take her out of her stroller due to the rain.

In other news, we are no longer selling our house. I am kind of relieved. Those showings are a pain in the ass! It's so hard with an infant and all the animals to keep the house spotless, especially when Mike was in Canada for work and I had no one to help me. So we are staying, at least for now. The wedding is back on, and we are both very excited for that. Mike's mom and cousin have been helping me get everything ready, which has been a great help. The wedding is going to be a small, very low key, laid back event in our backyard. Mike's job is to build a trellis for us to say our vows under. The picture to the right is what we are thinking. Initially we were going to try to get married by the "campsite" as we call it, in our yard, but the "campsite" is right by the creek and is often soggy, so we won't know if it will be dry or not on the day we've picked out for the wedding. And since the trellis is going to be so big we won't be able to move it once it's built we are going to have to put it elsewhere in the yard; we would also like to use it after the wedding and if we put it out by the "campsite" we will only be able to use it on those rare days when it's dry out there.

This one is just too cute not to post