Signs, Sounds and Words

Lately Patrick and I have noticed how easy it is to communicate with Audrey. She has learned lots of words. Most of them she can sort of speak but she knows a lot of them in sign language. And i just wanted to take the opportunity to tell you some of the words that she knows.

Here is a list of words that she knows how to say. (I know there are more but I can't think of anymore)

1. Mommy (very very clear)
   
2. Daddy (also very very clear)
   
3. Audrey
   
4. More
   
5. Milk
   
6. Juice
7. Shoes
8. Hi
9. Bye
10. Pinks (her stuffed animal)
11. puppy
    
12. Kitty
13. Outside
14. Soft
15. All done
16. Currently we are working on Amen
    

Here is a list of words that she knows in Sign Language. (again there are more but i can't think of them.)

1. Please
2. Hungry
3. More
4. Milk
5. candy
6. Apple
7. Shoes
8. Brush your teeth (this one is cute. This morning while patrick was brushing his teeth audrey came up to me and did the sign of brush your teeth to me and I brushed her teeth. Good that she is learning hygiene early.)

And finally here are some things that she does.

1. She loves to play peek a boo. And will mimic the inflection in my voice for the words peek a boo.
   
2. She will grab the brush and start to brush her hair.
3. she loves to sing. and Sings whenever the radio is on.
   
4. If she has soiled herself (and she notices) she will go and get a diaper and the wipes and will lay down with the two items in hand. If she doesn't notice she will go and get the diaper when asked to do so.
   
5. (I love this) Every morning after i pull her out of the crib she will walk into the living room and lay down next to the cubby that holds the diapers and wipes. First thing! I love it!
6. If you give her something and ask her to she will throw it away. I don't throw diapers away any longer. she is happy to run it over to the garbage and put it in. She will find trash and throw it away with out asking. And she even creates trash (a.k.a she will find a perfectly good piece of paper and rip it up just so she can throw it away.)
7. When she wants to go outside she will say shoes and then go find everyones shoes. then she will find our cell phones, give it to us and then she will say outside and go stand next to the door.
   
8. She will fold her arms and say a little prayer. Sometimes her prayer will be after family prayer. Sometimes it will be during. All that matters is she is learning to pray.
9. Her movies are on the lower shelf of the DVD stand. She will walk over to the stand and pick out one of her movies and bring it to us so that she can watch it. She really loves little mermaid.
   
10. She loves to jabber on our cell phone. She'll go and get them and act as though she is having a conversation with someone on the other line. I think it's cute.
11. If you ask she will show you where her belly button is and her head. We've been working on toes for a while but she hasn't caught on to that

I believe that is all that i can think of at this moment.

Loves,
Elizabeth, Patrick and Audrey

Pictures....Finally

Finally I have pictures for you.

Asleep in her bed. Cute Huh?

about to go on walk with grandma

Audrey got to the grass from Easter

Tia with Audrey in Texas at the Bowling Ally

Isn't she cute?

Michelle in her Wedding dress

Audrey and Her Cousin Mckayla

Audrey, Mckayla, and Katherine

Annoyed

I've been trying to put pictures up from past events but every time i try and upload the pictures from my camera to iphoto, iphoto crashes. It happened 5 times last night. I had to turn the computer off once. I think we need to reinstall the program because it's been acting odd for the last little while.

So when i get pictures from my camera on to my computer i'll have pictures on the website.

Elizabeth :)

Happy Birthday to Grandma/mom

Happy Birthday to Grandam/mom

Happy Birthday to Grandma/mmmmoooommmm

Happy Birthday to you.

You are officially a half century old. Congratulations.

I hope you enjoyed your surprise party. a lot of effort went into it. (Don't thank every daughter! trust me!) As you can see i have some problems with some of the members of the party planning committee. Someone (who shall remain nameless) was to wrapped up in her wedding plans that is 3 and a half months away. She could have spent sometime thinking about her mother. I'm a little ticked about the problem. But she did find her wedding dress, on sale might i add. It was the last day of the sale. So snaps for nameless.

yeah we had a surprise party for mom. I think she was really surprised. She said she thought we only invited camille to a family dinner. Wrong. I invited everyone i could think of. Camille and tow were there, Carla was there, the Daleys, the lemens, Marlene, and a whole bunch of people from guard, Carrie and nate came, Kyle came, Luca came, Joyce was there, carmell and Janice came, and now i'm forgetting. Oh well, thank you everyone for being there. We had fun. I think there was over 40 people in the house at one time. Cool.

By the way, Justin Anderson is awesome. He was the one who came up with our plan to get mom out of the house. you see, he is from Layton and borrowed some costumes for her and needed to return them. So he made up a lie ( I don't know if it was a lie) but he said that he had an uncle in American Fork and that he was going to visit him. So we met him in American Fork and he Stalled her. I actually don't think that it's too hard for him to distract mom. I think the two of them can talk for hours about guard. I actually had to mention that we had dinner waiting and that we needed to leave. But it was an awesome decoy.

Anyway mom don't have a mid life crisis or anything you have done a lot in this life time. A whole lot more than i could ever boast. You are have a masters degree and you are a well respected advisor and teacher at UVU. You have three annoying children. One Married, One Engaged and One with a bachelors Degree and who will be soon going to grad school. And you have an amazing granddaughter who loves to be around you. And a million other things. But, I don't want to say everything or people are going to get jealous.

Anyway I'll say goodbye now.

Love,
Elizabeth, Patrick and Audrey

P.S. I promise I'll get some photo's up here ASAP