You can file this under "What goes on in Audrey's Head?"

I told her to go pick up her puzzle off the floor...apparently that needed the sanitary precaution of putting sandwich baggies on not only her hands, but her feet as well. She looks like a crazy old cat lady in this picture, I know...

Just for Uncle Jon: This is Star Wars Land

So I was trying to catch Kateri's new trick: Nanny kept getting her to say "Row row row" for singing "Row Row your boat", but it looks like she won't do it for me. Anyway, Kateri was enjoying the yard (It has been so beautiful; warm and breezy and smelling delicious from the citrus blossoms) and Audrey comes up behind me humming a Star Wars theme...listen close and you can hear her. Anyway, I decided to keep rolling and Audrey gave me a rare glimpse of what goes on in her head. She and Lili and Uncle Jon have put in alot of hours in our yard playing star wars, so thanks, Uncle Jon, for helping turn our mundane backyard into Star Wars Land, and for leading Audrey to think that green-on-green is an acceptable color scheme when she got dressed this morning.

Kateri speaks!!!

Kateri's first word....kind of
You have to let me have this little victory, even if it's not completely legit, since both Lili and Audrey said "Dada" first....

Going for a Walk

This is Luke's current favorite thing to do with Kateri: He helps he balance by holding one hand so it looks like they are going for a walk together. The girls think it's hysterical and Kateri finds it pretty amusing as well.

Octopus Baby

Lately Kateri has been doing this pinwheeling motion with her arms whenever she is sitting somewhere and gets excited...she does it when she wants to get picked up or when she is watching the girls run or skate or ride their bikes. I made a comment that I should get her an octopus costume so now the girls are calling her octopus baby. Here it is, kind of funny:

Kateri

This video will have no real entertainment value to anyone but me and possibly Nanny, despite Audrey's dramatic offscreen wailing. I just thought she looked so sweet playing happily by herself: soon she'll be destroying the house...

A waste of tape

Want to see what Audrey was doing while I was nursing and she was supposed to be picking up her toy room? She was constructing an elaborate security system using a jumprope, a tutu, a ribbon and about 3/4 of a roll of scotch tape that now I need to go and peel off gently so it doesn't take any of the finish off the armoire. I said, "Audrey why did you do this?" and she replied"So no one would take my stuff" I asked, "Who is going to take your stuff?" and she said, "I don't know, like a bad guy..." I'm so glad my junky craft drawers and fabric scraps are now safe from bad guys...