Audrey Lately~Communicating Edition

Audrey still pretty much only says Mama, Daddy, and Mack mixed in with lots of her own little jargon, but her receptive skills are developing full speed ahead.  She's really good at following simple directions like "Drink your milk" and seems to understand in and out.   She's learning how to get her messsage across by showing us and using gestures.  When she gets hungry, she walks to her high chair and tries to climb in it.  The opposite of that is grabbing her tray and pulling it back down when I assume she's done eating.  That one is actually a little funny because she gets this determined look on her face like "lady, I'm not done eating!"  After her bath every night, we read books and do puzzles in her room to get ready for bed. When she's ready, she walks over to her bed, pulls out her blanket, and hands it to me.  Although I sometimes wish she'd let us rock her to sleep, I'm thrilled that we can lay her down awake and she puts herself to sleep. The girl is also developing a love of shoes.  One of her favorite things to do is get shoes out of her closet, bring them to us, and hold her foot up.  She loves to have shoes on her feet!  Speaking of shoes, she's now the proud owner of a pair of black Mary Janes that squeak.  Might be the cutest pair of shoes ever.