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!

Aubree in California

Aubree went on her 1st trip on a plane to see her Aunt Steph, Uncle Kyle and Cousin Austin. Here she is in Rochelle's suitcase getting ready to become a stow-away!

Aubree posing with her BEAUTIFUL cousin Austin!While there we went to Half Moon Bay Brewery for a delicious lunch. Aubree got to test out one of her new sunhats. It doesn't look exactly like it should because I had to have it pushed back a little here in the picture...as you can tell she was eating, and she's not the cleanest eater.

You can see part of the beach behind Rochelle. We ended up coming back to this part to get more pictures, but we drove to a place called Half Moon Bay Beach 1st.

At Half Moon Bay Beach we went for a nice stroll to see a place called Mavericks which is where people come from all over the world to surf during certain times in the year when the waves are super large. A lot of people have acutually died doing so, but yet they continue to come. The last picture is the area where people surf.

And...to finish things off, here is a short slideshow of a variety of photos while we've been out here. I'll post more tomorrow after our photoshoot with Rochelle!

Everything All At Once...

I said all along that Aubree probably would walk before she crawls, but she may prove me wrong. However, she DOES prefer to stand and hold on to things to walk around, but I think she decided that "trying" to crawl seems pretty interesting to her now. She definitely doesn't have it down pat, but I'd say in the next few days she'll become a pro.

Oh No...Here We Go!!!

Aubree has been home sick from Daycare since last Friday. I stayed home with her Friday, Ben took yesterday and mom stayed with her today (St. Patty's Day). Of course, here I am...enjoying my lunch at school and I get a text message.

"Aubree just pulled up by herself on the table you brought home last night." :-(

I seem to miss out on all her milestones!! First I missed out on her rolling over for the first time...now this! What's next?? Am I going to miss her 1st steps??? My little girl is growing up...way too quick! Which only means trouble lies ahead...she'll be in to EVERYTHING!!!

For some reason this video uploaded the wrong direction, even after I rotated and saved it...and I'm not about to upload it again because it takes FOREVER. So, tilt you head and enjoy :-)

Happy St. Patty's Day!

You can't read her onesie, but it says "Mommy's Lucky Charm"

MumMum

So Aubree's been a little ham lately. She was sitting in my lap the other night for dinner and decided she wanted to eat what I was eating, so she did just that. Everything I had on my plate, she ate...even the pork, which I didn't think she'd do real well with, but she suprised me. Then daddy got her a MumMum out. She's had the puffs that melt in her mouth, but this was her first mummum.

Aubree's 1st MumMum

I really don't think she knew what to do with it as you can tell in the pictures! (Click on the picture above to see all of the pictures in the album) Then to add a top of all the food from dinner and the MumMum, daddy then decided to give her some chocolate icecream (her favorite by the way!). She's such a mess! There's also some photos of her playing in her new favorite toy.....a BOX. I think every baby must enjoy a good box sometime or another in their life...it's cheap! :-) The last photos are of her enjoying the chance to get to play with her spoon and wash cloth. I absolutely hate her being dirty...dirty hands, nose, mouth, ANYTHING....so I don't ever let her play with her food. She was such a good girl tonight when she was eating that I thought I'd give in and allow a little mess. Of course, that ended with papaw giving her some rootbeer float! I think they're all trying to make my daughter a little fatty!

Aubree's Rockin' Chair

I have had this little rocking chair for a long time. I remember it was originally red, but when we painted my room blue and yellow, dad painted the chair yellow for me. So, I found it down in the basement last week and of course thought about Aubree. I had dad paint it red for me again so I could paint black dots all over it to make it look like a ladybug, but he convinced me to use decals instead. I'm so glad he did...it was so much easier to do. I love it...if you can't tell, her name is on the top, and "Little Lady" is on the second bar across. Then there are little ladybugs "crawling" all over the arms, poles, and legs! Go figure huh?? :-)

Mommy's Birthday Dinner and Day

My family took me out for my birthday on Saturday. We went to eat at my favorite restaurant, TGI Friday's. Aubree had a great time sitting on the table being the center or attention and trying papaw's deep fried green beans!! YUCK!! She wouldn't exactly eat them, she would more or less suck on it.

Then daddy took Aubree first thing in the morning on the day of my birthday so mommy could actually sleep in...I use to be able to sleep until noon or later, hmmmph...how come I can't do that now??? Even when she's not here to wake me up?? I ended up getting up around 10ish, and Ben had a birthday gift for me. As you can tell, once I got it out of the bag, Aubree ended up liking the bag more than the toys around her.

Clean Girl

Aubree's bathtub is getting too short for her, and we really don't have an easily accessaible "bathtub" to use here (glass doors make it hard to use), so we started giving her a bath in the sink. Ben had the spicket out of the faucet letting Aubree play with the water, and she decided she wanted to take a little "sip" of it. It reminded me of a child first learning how to use a water fountain. I got a good picture of her acutally drinking the water, and a video as well. She really acted like she wanted to drink more, but after mommy and daddy laugher so hard at her, she thought twice about whether she really wanted to get laughed at again.

Pictures Created by Mommy

After the last photo shoot with Rochelle, I finally decided to break down and buy a program that I've wanted for a while now, in order to create the look of some photos that I love. Here are three that I have been playing around with, and I plan to do more!! It's a really cool program, if you can't tell how excited I am about it!

I have ALWAYS loved the pictures that are black and white, but have spots of color in them, so that's what you're seeing here. I've also figured out how to make Aubree's eyes look even more blue than they really are...as you can tell in the middle picture. The first and third picture also have her blues eyes colored, but the pictures here are too small to tell. Oh yeah...I also figured out how to actually "change" the color of her eyes...talk about weird! I made her have green eyes, and let me tell you...my daughter was "MEANT" to have blue eyes. Green is just not her color. :-)

Aubree At 8 Months

Our wonderful family photographer was down again this weekend, so we were able to get more pictures of Aubree. Here are a few of the good pictures that we played around with. I LOVE the yellow dress my great aunt sent me when she was born. It's still a little big, but should be perfect for Easter. I've put in a couple of pictures below, but to see the rest, click on the big ladybug.

Here she is in her Easter dress, she loved the little eggs:

We also tried a ladybug shoot, but she wasnt' too cooperative:

Yay...It's FINALLY Here!!

After 4 months of waiting, wiping drool everytime I turn around, and letting her chew on everything from her toes to my cell phone....it FINALLY happened! Aubree got her first toofers!! :-) I know..tooth, but I've always called them toofers for babies, don't ask me why!! I've been checking every day since I don't know when, and today when I checked it was just there. Of course, I had to stick my finger in there just to double check, and YEP...it's a tooth!! I definitely will NOT be sticking my finger in her mouth for her to chew on in the near future.

Aubree's Many Valentine's Day Outfits

Aubree had so many Valentine's Day outfits that she started wearing them the week before to school so she could actually wear each of them at least once. Click her picture below to see the collage of her outfits.

Collages

Aubree Enjoying A Valentine

Daycare had a Valentine exchange, so we thought we'd let Aubree try out her 1st sucker. She loved it!! When my mom would pull it out of her mouth to say something to me, Aubree would lean over with mouth wide open trying to get the sucker back in her mouth. She definitely enjoyed it. I know what I'll be taking with me on our flight to California to make her happy if she gets restless or grouchy!

Aubree and Her New Friend Brobee

I've been to Walmart so many times checking out the toys that dance and sing to get Aubree excited. When we watch cartoons, "Yo Gabba Gabba" is one of the shows we watch...so everytime I see Brobee, I'm so tempted to buy him. Well, I finally broke down and paid the thirty crazy dollars for a silly toy. I do have to say, it was a good purchase. She's a dancer, so Brobee's upbeat music and singing really gets her moving. Here she is with her new friend Brobee. I love the last two, it looks like he's playing "Peek-a-Boo" with her.

Kissing Cousins

We finally got outside the house after being her since Monday. Way too much ice and snow for my car to go anywhere, so when mom got home, we went over to visit Ryun, Brandy, and the twins. Comes to find out, Rylyn is a kissing fool just like Aubree. It's so cute!!!! Every time she would give her a kiss, she would make the "mmmwah" sound. Listen carefully in the video and you can hear it.

Aubree's 1st Experience with the Snow

Yesterday was nothing but ice, so today when I woke up and saw quite a bit of snow, I decided I HAD to take Aubree out in to it for the 1st time. Since she's not a walker or crawler yet, she couldn't do much fun stuff, so I just snapped pictures to get her first snow experience on record