"I have baby teeth now. When I grow up I'll have beaver teeth"

 The title of this post is what she was telling me yesterday as I was walking up the steps to get her up from her nap.  My response was "not on mama's watch" and then I explained adult teeth as best I could to a 26 month old. 

The above picture is one from this past Easter.

 Last week Audrey helping John put up a towel rack in an apartment.  Here she is holding the drill hole guide.  She kept repeating "this is going to look good" which I thought was pretty funny.

We constantly praise her for being a good helper which I believe makes her happy.

Potting up the cucuram and calla lillies in the pots we recently painted.

 The pots in the garden.

 Followed by ice cream trip to UDF after dinner that day.

  Thursday John went with us to the Zoo.  In the above picture they are looking at the wisteria growing on a trellis at the entrance.

 Audrey remembered that giraffes have purple tongues from our previous visit.

 Both pictures, above and below are off center, but still interesting to me.

  Checking out the manatee tank which is still one of her favorites.

 The baby camel born just this week.

 The crowd around the camel exhibit.  It got a lot of local press and drew quite the crowd.

 Lunch at Mechlenburg's after Zoo visit.

 The outfit I'm hoping she will wear for the Derby Day party at church this Sunday.  Even the kids have a hat competition this year.

Saturday morning Audrey and i went to a Madcap Puppet / Peanut Butter and Jam puppet show and orchestra music.  PB&J had a piano, cello and violin trio playing Brahms pieces to Madcap puppet "Frog Prince" show.

Afterwards meeting the players.  Below is a puppy puppet.

 And the frog.

Saturday night John and I went out for dinner.  It had been a really long time and Miss A threw a fit but not for more than 15 minutes.  We went to Vine Street intending on going to A Tavola but the line was out the door.  We ended up eating at the bar at Taste of Belgium.  We had no idea this part of OTR was doing so well.  And so happy to see it happening. 

This picture is really awful but I was somewhat intimidated to take pictures.  But in a typical Cincinnati story the couple who was seated next to us while they waited for their table was the cabinet contractor who built our kitchen booth.  Also interesting is that Roy, this contractor, lived within blocks of the owner of this restaurant in Belgium and they never met until they moved to Cincinnati.    

 After dinner we went to the View in Walnut Hills to hear Parker sing.

 Miss A eating a chocolate croissant from Taste of Belgium on the booth that Roy built before church Sunday morning.

 Playing in the church nursery.

 Sunday afternoon the 3 of us walked up to art museum.

 Nick Cave's exhibit was leaving the next day.

 Showing Baba the "secret" stairwell from the 2nd floor to the 1st that we learned from one of the Culture Kids docents.

 In this picture she is handing me a half eaten chocolate granola bar.

 Wearing baba's hat he wears on inspections.  He traveled to PA this last week.

 Not a great picture but the only one I have captured so far when she is telling me "I'll be right back" mimicking the way I say it to her. 

Goofing after breakfast this past Wednesday.  We have become so leisurely in the morning it is almost hard for us to get out the door by 10AM. We barely made it to Mr. Eric's class that morning.