Goodbye Lellow Brick Road

We haven't had many posts lately so I thought I try to do a little update for both the girls. First up - Audrey. She has been working on sounding out words lately and while this is so cool to witness, we had to mourn a sad casualty of the process. One of her speaking quirks that we never really pushed to correct was her pronunciation of the word yellow. "Lellow" was just too cute. But the other day she was looking at a book with Mike and put her finger down on the word and out came "yellow". And then lellow was gone, just like that.

The 4th of July was fun this year. We started the day with a local parade, the tail end of which was all the local kids with their bikes decorated in red, white, and blue. Audrey joined on her tricycle for the last few blocks and was by far the youngest participant. People were impressed...







The parade ended at a small festival with ice cream, popcorn, and jump houses. It was a perfect warm-up before heading over to her cousins' house to further celebrate the 4th (and Nana's birthday) by stuffing her face will all sorts of goodies.







Not to completely ignore Cora, she spent a good chunk of the day strapped in to her stroller, or high chair, but I think she enjoyed the festivities nonetheless. She especially enjoyed breaking in her new teeth with some new foods.



Audrey made a little progress with fireworks this year. She enjoyed a number of sparklers and pop-its and even sat and watched a purple fountain we set off. Maybe in a few years we'll actually be able to go to a fireworks show!



Other than that we have been having a good summer. Lots of park days, some water spray park fun, and fostering a new obsession with running. We have participated in two of these "kid track days" that someone I know is organizing. It's a fun morning of obstacle courses, 50m dashes, balloon kick races and the very popular "candy dash". Audrey is the second from the left in the above picture and finished spectacularly last in her heat. To be fair though she wasn't really paying attention during the start.