Kelly family reunion

Back in July we took a trip to Michigan to join my mom's side of the family for the 24th annual reunion. Audrey had fun meeting many great aunts and uncles and cousins.

She got a lot of love as she passed amongst the crowd.




It was especially fun and cute to see her meeting relatives her own age



There was a lot playing, eating, drinking, swimming, riding, running, yoga, tennis, what am I missing.

...bocce ball

...a hike along the coast of Lake Michigan



We are looking forward to next year!

Canoeing

We took a little spin in the canoe on Pearl Lake. Audrey was tired and hungry so that made for less than ideal conditions, but she did okay considering.

First tooth!

Audrey has a tooth showing itself after a month or so of symptoms. She does NOT want to show it off and gets really pissed when we attempt to look at or feel for it, as can be seen below.










Daddy apologized and all was forgiven.

Summer in Steamboat

It's a big day for blogging today seeing as I'm laying on the couch recovering after taking an unlucky fall while mountain biking yesterday and ending up with six stitches in my leg. Chris and Audrey met me at the emergency room (because they weren't riding with me), all the medical personnel told me how cute she is and the security guard gave her a teddy bear.

Other summer activities have included camping,













hiking,




wading,



picnicking,





watching hot air balloons float through the backyard,




along with other fun activities that haven't been photographed such as, swimming, riding in the bike buggy aka Burley going to free concerts, playing at the park, and so on.

Motoring

Audrey has been developing her motor skills, both fine and gross, to the point where if she is not watched closely she will pick up tiny bits of dirt, fluff, grass to put in her mouth, or just disappear altogether










Luckily, she has been pretty easy to find (unlike my brother as a baby in the funny story posted in the comments section here.)

Other gross motor skills (that's the moving around ones, not the putting things in her mouth ones) include pulling herself up on everything, then sitting back down again or scooting along the edge on whatever she is holding on to. She has also had a few instances of standing all by herself for a few seconds, the first time was long enough for me to drop my jaw, pick it up, and say "holy shoot!" before she gracefully sat down on her butt.

Some of her fine motor skills have been documented by video and posted to YouTube. Here is one of her using a modified pincer grasp to eat cheerios and here's another showing her grabbing rings while playing with Gammy , it starts with some adorable giggles before getting down to the more serious business of holding on to the rings, dropping rings, picking up rings, etc, etc.

Visitors

Okay, I'll admit this post is very late in coming but it's better than never coming right?! We had folks come and meet Audrey for the first time:


Grand-uncle Tom and cousin Kevin stopped in for a night along their motorcycle road trip in June.




Great-cousin Meghan visited in May.





And follow this link to the
Visit from grandad album
to see pics from way back in March.


We love visitors, so come on out to see us and maybe you'll make it onto the blog ;)

Forward Ho!

After working out how to move backwards, sideways, in circles, and anywhere but forwards, Audrey has now begun crawling towards an intended target. The target seen here is the beloved dada.

This exciting development has triggered the start of retrofitting the house for baby safety, but she is still fairly slow, so we can beat her there if she is heading somewhere we don't want her going.