Miss A and Baba at church Feb 5th. Baba is still sporting his "Abraham Lincoln" February beard.
Pilgrim Chapel celebrated Audrey's birthday with cake, flowers, mandarin oranges and this dancing plush monkey. Below is one of Miss A's favorite Pilgrims... Nick R. Audrey will ask where Nick is if he isn't at church.
The above picture was taken at CAM. We went there after church to see the new Monet in Giverny exhibit which was great. I included this picture not b/c of the quality but rather to remind us about Audrey's memory. Later that evening at home I asked Audrey if she remembered what we saw at the museum that day. Her response "Monet". This recall both impressed and scared John and I.
Monday evening before Audrey's 2nd Paula and Anna came over to celebrate A's b-day.
Birthday girl waking up and video below.
Just random cuteness.
I really like the picture above b/c I can see "baby" Audrey in her expression
Backwards crawling in a new birthday dress. She almost always chooses dresses these days.
Ready to go outside.
Counting on Bow Tie's abacus.
Playing Bow Tie's piano with bunny. Other than "Gigi's monkey", "froggy the turtle puppet" and "Biscuit" all her stuffed animals are referred to by whatever animal they represent.
Signing "alleluia" and playing.
Lighting a candle for birth mama at our neighborhood Catholic church on Miss A's birthday on our walk home from Bow Tie.
Birthday dinner at the Bar and Grill.
Which included hot fudge cake and ice cream.
A gift from Mom-mom, this pink knit coat.
Playing her piano at home,
wearing one pink mitten.
Friday we went to Culture Kids class at the Art Museum. In the picture above A is looking at her reflection in the elevator mirror ceiling. She choose to wear her Panda hat on the 1st part of the class which was a tour around the museum looking at fabrics specifically the sound suits and tondos by Nick Cave, a current exhibit all over the museum.
Audrey was the only girl in this tour group and based on the energy of the boys she seemed like an angel child.
Having a snack before the art project.
Miss A was way more interested in the glue than making a "tondo". Below is a picture of the completed tondo which has already been recycled as it was done by myself without any help from A other than picking the fabric.
It was here that I lost my camera again... my new less than a week old camera. I was seriously bumming about my own carelessness and was so happy to get a call this past Monday from Elyssa, the Culture Kid Museum coordinator saying she had it.
Wednesday morning Miss Kelly's class and scarf dancing.
Thursday I had an appointment at 5/3 to discuss a mortgage re-fi which was only going to take about 30 minutes. I planned on taking A to the aquarium afterwards. Well this simple re-fi turned out not to be b/c we put our properties in LLC. I was really surprised by 5/3 loan officer comments and knew it was time to shop around. So instead of going to the aquarium we went directly to Advantage Bank and re-started our re-fi search. Below is Miss A in Sandy Z office. Audrey was a hoot. She sang Sound of Music "do-re-mi" (8 verses) perfectly at least 3 times.
So after we got that ball rolling we walked up to Bow Tie for a smoothie, tea and piano time.
and decorating their white board.
Performing at home on her A-B-C stage. In this outfit she was various costumes of "big white dress", "soundsuit" and "superhero".
The video below pretty much shows why I never get the good stuff on film.
Safety girl holding onto the tram rail at the airport. 
We had a flight delay and Miss A entertained herself with her manket which she imagines as a "big white dress", "sound suit" or "cape".
"Please no more pictures".
And back to goofing.
Finally en route to Texas.
I told Audrey I was going to take a nap so I would be rested and ready to play with Chloe. This suggestion worked!
On the bus to the car rental center.
Quick lunch at Red Lobster before heading to Chloe's house.
Chloe and Audrey playing in Miss C's tent.
They got along so well!
Another quick nap on the way to dinner at a mexican restaurant.
Chloe's Uncle Raymond (pictured above) was the best entertainment.
Chloe's grandma (a travel mate) is pictured above sitting between the girls who shared a sundae after dinner.
One of many hugs they shared over the weekend.
Beautiful Chloe.
Looking at the pictures Aiyee (Chinese for Aunt) Karen took. Karen also traveled with us to China.
