Adventures of Audrey & Lillian: More visitors & Mommy's Birthday

I seem to have taken no photos with my camera recently, just with my scratched-up camera phone. But we have had some fun!

Audrey had a play-date with one of her new friends, Jenna. We went to the Smith Playhouse and they had a little picnic:

Then Auntie Ashlea arrived from England for a little visit. The girls were very happy to see her & she had a fun little photo shoot of her own with them:

We also made another visit to Atlantic City. This was supposed to be a photo of a shop called Irene's for Baba, but it didn't quite turn out :)

Then Papa arrived from Kentucky. Audrey was quite happy to give her room over to our visitors as she got to sleep on a mattress in our room.

Walking by the Schuylkill River in Philly with Papa:

We took a quick trip up to Hoboken with Papa on my birthday and picked up Uncle Dave. Hoboken was a surprisingly very cool place and we had a nice walk on the Hudson River with an amazing view of Manhattan in the NINETY degree weather. Then we hurried back to Philly for dinner with Michael.

Yesterday we went for a tour of a nearby preschool. Audrey loved it! She really wants to go to school and was so excited to interact with the other kids and the teachers. We are going to two more schools next week and Audrey is excited to see some more classrooms. Lillian was unimpressed and slept through everything :)

Lillian is just getting easier! She is settling into a little more of a routine and has one long nap in the middle of the day is going to bed earlier in the evening and getting a long block of sleep - last night she went to sleep at 8:30 and didn't wake up until 3:30! If I hadn't stayed up until midnight filing our taxes I would have really been able to enjoy that.

Tomorrow is Lillian's two-month check-up and I'm looking forward to hearing how big she is now. Not so much to the shots, but at least Audrey was glad to hear that she would not need any shots.

Speaking of shots, it's funny, Audrey seems to think it's possible that she will at some point become a baby again. She has made the comment more than once about things happening in the future when she is little like Lillian. I keep telling her that she only grows bigger. Her memory keeps amazing me though...today we were watching a little video from last June when I had to go to a conference, after watching the video she talked about things totally unconnected to the video that had happened later that day and I know I haven't spoken of them since. I was very surprised.

And here are a couple of extra photos & videos:

Lillian enjoying her special blanket from Aunt Martine & Uncle Ted (Thank you!!)