Easter catch-up

It's Easter Sunday again. As I write this, Audrey is pulling open our filing drawer in the office, presumably in preparation for pulling all the papers out and eating them. Aria is downstairs, getting ready for an easter egg hunt and playing with the little toy boat that came in her easter basket. Nana and Aunt Lynn are here too. It's a nice family day. So we figured we'd celebrate it by... um... getting dressed up and taking pictures?!? OK, why not:





Audrey is crawling everywhere now. I had a lot of trouble getting video of her when she was first doing it, because Aria would insert herself and her "woobie monsters" into every video I tried to take - which was cute, but frustrating. But, I was able to persevere and get some token footage at least.

This is when she was doing the soldier crawl:



And here's one of the first times she did a real hands-and-knees crawl:



She's also pulled herself up to standing several times already. Here's a picture of her first official standing up moment. She's in the cosleeper. We put her in there sitting up, so she had a head start. We thought she was going to try to hop out. (We put the cosleeper away shortly afterwards.)



Here's the first time she pulled herself up from lying down:



A couple days ago, she pulled herself up on the piano stool, then maneuvered herself over to the piano.



Speaking of the piano, she LOVES to bang on it. She will do it for an hour if you let her. She doesn't get tired of it.





She also loves to go to town in the bouncy chair. Now admittedly, I'm not the most experienced with babies, but I have never seen one go this nuts in a bouncy chair.



Oh. And it wouldn't be a discussion about Audrey if we didn't talk about her sleeping, or lack thereof. There are still plenty of nights where she doesn't stay asleep for more than an hour at a time. Her napping is haphazard at best. And sadly, the days of her napping on me are just about gone. But occasionally she'll let me shush her into a nap. A recent day when Hosanna was out for a while was such an occasion. Aria took this picture of us:



We're slowly introducing some solid food for her. She's still only marginally interested in it most of the time, although occasionally she will eat a few spoonfuls of rice cereal. Here she's trying out some pureed carrots for the first time.



So with all this talk about Audrey, you might wonder what Aria's up to.

Well...

She's turning somersaults:



And writing songs:



And finding creative ways to write words (this spells "Sheep", starting with the backwards S on the left):



And occasionally finding the time to help Mommy change a diaper:



And today, she got a special Easter basket, with bubbles, a special pencil, and yes... some candy...



...and an easter egg hunt.