Cookout With Friends & Family

On Saturday, a few of our good friends and their kids came down for a cookout. Ryun, Brandy and the twins joined us as well, so Mamaw and Papaw had a house full! I don't think they minded though, the play area that Papaw set up definitely got used a lot! The kids absolutely LOVED a kids "rollercoaster" that my aunt handed down to us. Aubree got to play in the sandbox for the first time, and she finally started liking the infant swing today as well. Usually when we put her in it, she starts screaming and wants out immediately. Now, she's all smiles! After dinner, the kids played for another hour or so outside before moving the party inside. I don't think the kids could have come to a better place for a WIDE variety of toys to play around with. I swear it's like all of the toys for Aubree and the twins have taken over the livingroom. So, nothing really fun and exciting to tell, just that we have a great time with everyone and I've posted a slideshow with pictures from the evening.

86 Degrees in April Today

Just a few sweet pictures of our baby girl. Unfortunately I didn't get the huge smiles she gives all day, but the seriousness look is just as adorable sometimes. Enjoy!

Patty-Cake

Aubree started doing Patty Cake about a week ago and now "loves" to clap. I caught a short video of her doing it, but when she heard me singing the song to go along with her clapping, she quit. It use to be that I could make popping sounds with my mouth and she would just light up allowing me to get great photos of her beautiful smile, but now....as soon as she hears the words to Patty Cake...she stops what she's doing and gives the biggest smiles ever. She continues to amaze me day after day. She also started waving in the last week or so. Half the time when she's waving she also sounds like she's say "hiiiiiii" in a real kentucky twang. I'll have try and catch that on video next.

Aubree's 10 Months Old Today!!!

It's getting late, so this post will be a short a sweet note:

Aubree's Wall of Wonders:

-Crawling up the step from our livingroom to dinningroom

-Pulling up on EVERYTHING and cruising around

-Plays Patty Cake

-Loves to play in front of the mirror

-Loves Peek-a-Boo

-Starting to wave "Hi" and "Bye"

-1st trip to the ER after having high fever for 4 days and vomiting daily

-FINALLY began babbling. (This one worried us, dr. said she's have to start 1st steps if she didn't begin babbling by 10 months). Well, low and behold, she began 1 week before turning 10 months!! Yay!!

Goodnight for now, will post more later.

Aubree's 1st Easter

Here is a slideshow of some of my favorite pictures from Easter. Aubree did a lot better than I thought she would. I took her around to the eggs, she'd pick one up, and was "suppose" to drop them in the basket her daddy was carrying, but she'd end up putting them in her mouth instead. I love the pictures of her cousins Rylyn and Kelton where they're reaching for the eggs. I think we did a pretty good job of hiding the eggs at "toddler" level. My absolute favorite is of Aubree sitting in the grass holding the yellow egg up as to say, "Look everyone...I found one!"

My Daughter Will Hate Me Forever...

Be sure to have your volume turned up!

Outside Photos

The last few days here have been beautiful! We got a picture in front of a one of the beautiful trees out by the house (think it's a pink dogwood?). Then I took her out today and let her play in the grass. She wasn't quite sure what to think of it beneathe her toes. Here are a few of the pictures:

3 Cousin Stories

So I have 3 cute stories to share about Aubree with each of her cousins on my side of the family.

1st story: Kelton caring for Aubree

When I picked Aubree up from daycare last week, Mariann told me Aubree was crawling around everywhere, but got stuck when she got to the bathroom door. She's not quite sure how to go backwards yet. So, Kelton being the caring cousin he is, went over to her....laid down on his belly next to her and started patting her on the back as to say, "It's okay Aubree, I'm here to take care of you!" Too cute!!

2nd Story: Aubree vs. Rylyn

Instead of explaining this one, I just uploaded the video for you to see for yourself. The two girls were having a ball!!

3rd Story: Aubree laughing at Austin

Aubree has mastered pulling up and continues to practice her "cruising". One of the places she pulls up on all the time is the coffee table. For my birthday, Austin sent me a framed picture of him holding a sign for me. Aubree would pull the picture towards her and just laugh hysterically. Then she'd push it back a little bit and laugh again...she continues this for a couple of minutes. I think she misses her handsome cousin in California!