Peek-a-boo!

Aubrey enjoyed playing at Amy's Ice Cream on Sunday evening -- they have a fun playscape and yummy ice cream!

Water Sprinkler Park

We took Aubrey to a fun & free water sprinkler park on Saturday. She liked running around under the fountains and watching all the other kids play. We also did lots of climbing and sliding on the playscape. We are enjoying scoping out all the parks near by -- we went to another park earlier the same day and saw tons of geese, ducks, ducklings and turtles swimming in the pond.

Aubrey loves to reach into my water glass, grab the lemon wedge, eat it and ask for more. She also loves pickles and anything else sour or tart. She rubs her hands together, scrunches up her nose and says, "sour"!

17 months

Here are Aubrey's new interests and accomplishments:
-coloring with crayons, playing with stickers & stamps
-playing with play dough & cookie cutters
-stacking legos
-watching, "American Idol". Every time I turn on the tv, she says, "la, la, la", referring to the signers and has started saying "Soul Patrol". She's a Taylor Hicks fan, so hopefully he'll win tomorrow night!
-fedding her "baby dolls" their "baby bottles" and putting them in their "baby bed"
-greeting objects. She like to say hi to everything like, "hi, abadado seed" (avacado seed), "hi, apple juice", etc...
-learn people's names and talk about that person all day
-still climbing on everything and loves to go to the park everyday
-starting to use sentences: "I want ______". She'll insert whatever it is she wants, like ball or doggie. I guess I'll have to work on "May I please have_______ "!
-she surprised me today by saying half of the alphabet! A-K and then she can fill is several other letters after that.

She is such a joy to be around and is definitely full of personality. She amazes me by what she knows and how quickly she picks things up. I can't believe she is almost 1 1/2! I still have 1 month left... Here's a recent picture of us at Old Settlers Park.

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"Tofu, mmm, yummy!"

Just thought this was a funny thing for Aubrey to say as she sipped her tofu-berry smoothie...

First Bike Ride

Robert got a bike seat for his birthday from his Mom so we can take Aubrey on bike rides around the neighborhood. We tested it out this weekend and she really liked it. I don't think we'd used our bikes since Aubrey was born so it was fun to be able to all go together. Robert picked up this cute pink & purple helmet for Aubrey and now we're considering making her wear it, not only in the bike seat, but around the house with all the climbing and falling that she does!

Wedding Weekend

This weekend my good friend and college roommate, Amber Cornwell, got married to Gordy Quist! It was a busy but fun weekend for all of us. Aubrey had 3 babysitters in 2 days and did really well for all of them. Even though she is almost 17 months I still wonder if she'll eat her dinner, go to sleep with out fussing... Thankfully, she napped the entire time she was at my friend Jessica Pavy's while I was at the bridesmaid luncheon. Friday night, Aunt Joy watched Aubrey while we were at the rehearsal dinner at the Saltlick. Yum! Saturday, Robert's parents, Pam & Isaac, and Aunt Susan came to babysit durning the wedding. I had a great time catching up with all my college friends and fellow bridesmaids. Also, their wedding was at the same church, same reception site and with the same Pastor, so it was neat to relive me and Robert's wedding almost 4 years later! Unfortunately, I didn't have my camera but hopefully I will get pics from friends via email and post a couple soon.

Happy Birthday, Robert/Daddy!

Today is Robert's 29th birthday! It is on a Thursday, Robert has a tennis match and we are busy with a wedding I'm in all weekend, so maybe we'll get to celebrate more next weekend. Robert, I hope you have a good birthday even though we aren't doing anything extra special and I hope you know how much Aubrey and I love you!

Very Observant

Pointing at the little horse on our license plate
Studying a "baby bug" or roly ploy with Nana

16 months

Okay, so Aubrey has been 16 months for almost 2 weeks but I still wanted to mention all the cute new things she's been doing lately. She loves to:
-walk backwards.
- stand on her head and occasionally do a somersault.
- point at objects and say what color they are. If she doesn't know she says, "ret" and if that's not it she'll guess, "boo".
-count. She can count to 12 but usually not straight through -- she'll either do 1-5 or 6-12 and only if she is in the mood. I can't get her to do it on cue, but I was able to capture it on our video camera!
-watch for rain. Anytime she hears a lawnmower or a truck go by, she thinks it is thunder. She claps, says, "tunder" and runs to the window to see if it is raining.

We went to the pediatrician a month late for her 15 month check-up and Aubrey has dropped down to somewhere between the 5%-10% in weight. She is a very busy, active little monkey who likes to climb everything! She is still tall though in the 75% for her age... We'll see if that trend continues. Anyway, here is a picture from our drive home from Dallas this weekend with her two new friends, Po and Kermit.