Avacado and Spaghetti??

I think we found Vivi's favorite food so far...Fresh AVACADO!!! She LOVED it so much and kept smacking her lips together after each bite. Yummy. Since they don't have avacado baby food at the grocery, I didn't ever try this when I was a baby. No worries!! I get to eat spaghetti now and LOVE it!

A great finish to an excellent holiday weekend!

To round out a super weekend, we went to Jackie's house on Memorial Day! I got to give her piggies a bath!

Vivi had fun with Daddy in the barn.
Saying hello to Cowboy...Jackie's horse.

Jackie feeding Topper, her other horse, a sugar cube. I got to feed the horses sugar cubes also and the pigs ate jelly beans out of my hands!! I don't get to do that every day!

Now, it's my turn!

Aunt Luann helping me feed Cowboy!

I think Vivi wanted to try, too!

Celebrating 100 Years at the Indy 500

Mommy and Daddy attended the 100th running of the Indy 500 on a very steamy 90 something degree day! They didn't mind the heat and had a great time. Uncle Mark and Aunt Kari were also there but they didn't get any pictures with them since they sat in different places. :( Sorry guys!

The stealth flying over before the race. Honestly one of the most amazing, touching experiences ever! Goosebumps all over every time!

They actually sat right behind one of the pits for Rahal Letterman Racing (where mommy worked). Very cool to cheer on the boys so close! This driver (Jay Howard) ended up wrecking about 50 laps in but the second driver (Bernard Baguette) finished 7th, I believe...super job for not running a full-time car in the IndyCar series anymore. Way to go guys!! If you look to the left of the picture below you will see Mr. David Letterman himself.

Here he is again.

While mommy and daddy had fun at the race, Vivi and I had a blast with Aunt Susan, Uncle Matt and Austin. We went out to breakfast, went swimming and played a ton. Thanks SOOOO much guys!

First time at a 500 Festival Parade....and we will be back!

We were in town for Memorial Day weekend this year, so we decided to go to the 500 Festival Parade for the first time. It was GREAT and we can't wait to go back every year from now on! There are huge floats, celebrities, cotton candy, race cars, bands, cheerleaders, and tons of people! We parked at the Knights of Columbus for free because Uncle Mark was working there for the event. They had brats, burgers, hot dogs, etc. that we had to try as well.

Family picture in the parking lot before the parade. Happy Girl! Can't wait for her first parade!

I enjoyed yummy cotton candy while we waited for the parade to get to us. We sat at the very end so we had to wait a while...no worries though. It was well worth it!

More smiles!

Still waiting but still happy!

Hugs for Aunt Kari

...oh, kisses too of course!

The parade is here! Big man in a little car!

Of course, we sat on the other side of the interstate signs without realizing it until all of the huge floats turned right before they got to us. :( Oops! We will know better next year.

Such a beautiful parade and really reminded us of the reason we celebrate Memorial Day and all of the soldiers out there serving our country. THANK YOU military...past, present and future for our freedom! We are so thankful!

There were many different nationalities represented in the parade...Hawaiian, Chinese, Native American, and so many more. Here is the Chinese group.

Here is the back of Miss Florence Henderson (Mrs. Brady). She comes back to her hometown every year to sing at the Indy 500 race!

Kisses from Aunt Kari and Uncle Mark during the parade

SOOO much fun! What a great day!

Thank You for Reading!

Just wanted to say a quick thank you to all of my loyal blog readers. Audrey turned 2-1/2 and I realized that I (well, from Audrey's perpective) have been doing this for a while. It is so much fun to share the happenings of our lives with you and if for no other reason, to make sure we have lots of content for our baby books!! Knowing that I want to put pretty much whatever the girls do on the blog, it encourages me to always have my camera around to capture every moment....and these moments are very special and you can't get them back...so, thank you to you for reading! :)

Carribean Cove with Grammy

Grammy got us all a night at the Carribean Cove water park and hotel here in Indy! We had such a blast. There were tons of things for all ages and Austin and I swam until our eyes were bloodshot and our toes and fingers were shriveled like prunes. Vivi loved the water, too! There were big slides and little slides...innertube slides and tunnel slides....wading pools and big pools...a lazy river and lots of water sprayers. We even got Grammy to go down the tunnel slides and she raced against mommy. Grammy mouthed the words "I DID NOT LIKE THAT" once she caught her breath. I think mommy was faster on the slide. ;) Daddy, Uncle Mark and Uncle Matt really liked the tunnel slides too. They went down lots of times. It was such a fun place and we can't wait to go back! Thanks Grammy!!

Aunt Kari and Uncle Mark didn't spend the night but they came and swam for a while and ate pizza with us. It was a great slumber party!

I'm 2-1/2!!!

It is so hard to believe but yes, Miss Audrey Lyn Lieurance is 2 1/2 today! Time flies when you are having fun and that is exactly what she has brought to our lives...tons of fun!! She is such a joyous, independent, outgoing, a bit dramatic at times ;), silly, sweet, little chick. We are so blessed to be her parents and love her so much. She is becoming such a great big sister as she pays more and more attention to her baby sister. It is so nice having them close together as I hope they are great friends...as my sisters and I are/always were.

Her check-up with the Nurse Practioner, Theresa, went really well. She weighed 30 pounds (66th percentile) and is 37 inches tall (79th percentile).

She has a HUGE vocabulary and is pretty easy for most people to understand. I try to write things down because I know I won't remember otherwise. This is such a cute age with her little voice.

Here are some of my recent favorites: "bathing soup" is bathing suit, "Teef" is tea you drink, "Sang-witch" is still sandwich, "take a bathtub" is take a bath...

She has great manners most of the time. Here is a conversation we had the other morning. Audrey: "Mommy, watcha makin?", Me: "Toast, do you want some?", Audrey: "No, thank you", Me: "Those are very good manners. I am very proud of you., Audrey: "I am proud of you too, mommy."

She counts to 12, knows her shapes, and she even put on her shoes by herself a couple of days ago...and they were on the right feet! She just got accepted into a Mother's Day Out program at the church down the street from our house. She will start going there in the Fall on Monday mornings from 9AM-1PM. I think it will be great for her!

We have started potty training...at least she is interested now...which was our first goal. We haven't been in a hurry because she just turned 2 1/2 and don't want to drag it out longer than it needs to be. When she is ready, like all other things she has accomplished in her short life, I think she will be AWESOME! She just isn't quite ready to tell me when she has to go yet...we'll keep working on it. ;)

First time peeing on the potty: May 16th First time pooping on the potty: May 24th
...after her first poop on the potty...she got a special potty treat! A Dora popsicle from Handels!