Pretending to be a puppy at the park

Having fun in the "baby pool"

18 months

This morning we went exploring at the Austin
Children's Museum. In the top right picture,
Aubrey was standing in front of a wall of fans
feeling the air blow her cape and her hair.
She also liked looking at fish, playing in water, the
sing-a-long, and the bubble machine. The other 2
pictures are of her playing hide & seek yesterday at home. She is 18 months old today and continues to
grow and change everyday. Some of her favorite new
words & phrases are...
-"oh my goodness"
-"one more book" at bedtime; and she'll say this about 20 times to postpone getting in bed.
-"awesome"!
-"silly Daddy"
-"hold it", "do it", "fix it", "hear it", "see it"... she's very into commands. She also likes to tell me or Robert to, "dance", "sit", "stand up" or "run". At least she is getting a lot better at saying please.!
-"children" -- for some reason it is funny to see a little toddler pointing at kids at the park, pool or wherever we are and calling them "children". Sometimes she'll specify ans say"big children" or "little children".
-"how 'bout______?"
-"snuggle" -- this is my favorite, of course. Every now &
then she'll lay down next to me and suck her thumb & snuggle

Jumping Beans

Today Robert took the day off of work and we took Aubrey and a friend from church, Haddie, to Texas Jumping Beans. It is an indoor play area where everything is inflatable. They had several moon jumps and lots of things to climb up and some fun big slides. We all had a good time! Here are a few pictures...

A year ago...

...Aubrey was swinging in her swing in the backyard of our old house. She was about six months old and had just started crawling. I can't believe it has been a year since this picture was taken and now she has long hair, 16 teeth, runs all over the place and talks up a storm! Where did my little baby go?

Who needs toys when you can count & stack diapers and take them in and out the basket? Aubrey also hops in and asks to take a ride! The box the diapers came in also served as entertainment for quite a while -- she pointed out all the circles and all the number "3"s and then climbed on top of it.

"Goodnight, Mush"

Aubrey has started requesting books by name -- her usual pick before bed is Goodnight Moon, or as she calls it, "Goodnight Mush". She loves to point out the mush on each page! Tonight she also asked for, "Foot Book", by Dr. Suess. We realized she has most of her books memorized. If we leave any words out and pause for a second, she will fill in the blank! She does the same thing for all the songs we sing. Here is a picture of Aubrey acting out "Jesus Loves Me" in one of Daddy's big t-shirts ("...they are weak, but he is STRONG").

Playing dress-up