Being a Grandparent at Christmas is just the best! Last week we celebrated one year home from our mission and attending that anniversary was Audrey's one year birthday and Alyssa's one month birthday! What wonderful little people these are and how happy they make our hearts!
Alyssa is growing more each time we see her and is feeling more at peace with her own body. Still has gorgeous, very dark eyes with little eyebrows that often knit together as though she is really trying hard to figure things out! She loves to be cuddled.
Audrey obeyed my challenge to her to be walking on her own by Christmas. She toddles all around the living room with tummy stuck out and real pleased with herself....especially since she can reach so many more things now. There is an "Audrey line" on all the trees, where we naively suspected she couldn't reach the ornaments. On the family tree we put a lot of soft, harmless ones on the bottom branches which she plays with every day as part of her search and destroy mission. She got to have her very own birthday party and do the gooey, fingers-in-the-cake thing.
