Growing like a weed

Audrey has accomplished so much this past week. 

One
Jonathan and I went away this weekend and left Audrey with a sitter. (I'll go into more detail about our trip in another post, I'm waiting on pictures).  It was time for Audrey to have a few nights without us.  I do have to say that I was nervous all day Friday thinking about being gone and leaving her, but once our sitter got here they all went away.  Audrey seemed very excited and didn't cry when I left.  I think that was my saving grace to see her laughing and in a great mood as we were walking out the door.  She had a great time.  She didn't seem to miss us, which I'm so fine with, and she was actually excited to see me when I came back. So, Audrey spent two night away from us!!

Two.
She has been on the verge of crawling for about 3 weeks now.  I tell you, it is absolutely amazing how far she can move across our living room, but not be crawling. She has been getting up on all fours and rocking back and forth. Then when she wants to move she falls down on her belly and just kicks her feet.  It is so cute to see.   I told Jonathan that since we were going to be gone she would start crawling.  Well last night I sat her down on the floor to play and sure enough she got up on all fours and crawled for a little bit. Needless to say, my life as I now know it is about to change!!

Three.
Audrey has been sitting up by herself for quite a while now.  She still has a tendency to fall back when she is really upset (I think she is just being dramatic like her mother :)  ). Well on Thursday she was sitting on the floor and turned to face me.  She put her hands in mine and pulled herself up into a standing position.  I couldn't believe it. I  did it several more times just to make sure I wasn't helping her, that she was using all of her own strength.  I couldn't wait for Jonathan to get home and show him. He comes in and I say "Look".  Well of course he says "your helping her".  He can be so encouraging sometimes :)  I told him no really she is doing this by herself, you try.  So I hand her to him and sure enough she did the same thing.

Well the next day I had her sitting on a floor mat that she has. It has these rods above her so that she can play with the dangling toys.  Well, now that she has been sitting, she plays with them sitting up.  I was sitting behind her, she had grabbed two toys on each side and was trying to pull herself up again by herself.  Well these rods are not built for this so it started to tip over, but she kept trying to stand up.

This morning she wakes up and I hear her playing in her crib. She usually starts to stir about 7:30ish, but I let her play by herself and sometimes she just falls back asleep, and so does mommy :)  Well this morning she woke up and was starting to make her "I'm ready to get up now" cry.  So, I walk in her room and low and behold, she is sitting up in her crib.  I couldn't believe it.  She just smiled up at me and when I got closer, she grabbed one of the rails and proceeded to start to try and pull herself up!! Needless to say Daddy is going to be lowering the mattress in her crib tonight!!