Happy 3rd Birthday, Aubrey!!!

Today Aubrey is 3! These 3 years have passed so quickly & I have treasured each day with her. She seems so grown up to me and continues makes me laugh everyday by the things she says and does. Just yesterday, we were making some Christmas cookies and I had left them on a plate on the counter. She broke off a bite of one and I asked her what she was eating. She said, "It's a cookie, but God glued my tummy on so you can't see it inside." She hasn't had the most exciting week or even birthday today, since Robert is still sick, but we celebrated a little today with presents and birthday cake and are planning on a fun outing when she is done with her rest time. Thankfully, Aubrey, Will and I still seem healthy and Robert is starting to feel better, so maybe we'll do some more celebrating this weekend. Happy birthday, sweet girl! We love you more than you can imagine!

The flu, oh no!

Poor Robert has the flu! He started feeling weak & tired on Friday night and then it came on strong Saturday afternoon. He thought he'd feel better the next day, but no luck. So, today we went to the doctor's office and he confirmed our suspicion that it's the yucky influenza virus. Thankfully, Aubrey & Will had their flu shots, so I pray that they will not get sick! I, on the other hand, did not get the flu shot yet ( I have been meaning to get it for a while now and just hadn't gotten around to it), so you can pray that my immune system is strong enough to fight it off. We are planning on traveling for Christmas next week and Aubrey's b-day is this Thursday, so it would be nice to be over it. In the 7 years I've known Robert, he's never missed a day of work for being sick, but I think he'll be out several days this week. We'd appreciate your prayers-- that Robert gets well quickly ( I can tell he's pretty miserable) and that the rest of us stay healthy... Getting the flu is not on my Christmas list!

Playing together in the kitchen.

This time Aubrey gave her water toys a bath in the sink with my permission. She was bored and it kept her occupied for at least 30 minutes.

After going potty, Aubrey came out of the bathroom with her hand wrapped in toilet paper & with one of my hair velcro rollers on. She called it her "hand cast"

We had our neighborhood Christmas party on Sunday afternoon with Santa, a moon jump, cookies, hot chocolate and candy canes. Aubrey was scared of Santa because "he's a little bit big", bur thuroughly enjoyed the cookie and candy cane.

Posing in their monogrammed pjs from Aunt Ashley, A smiling, W serious

A silly, W smiling

W crawling away, A smiling. It's almost impossible to get a picture of them both smiling AND still. I have 2 very wiggly children! Today Will let go 2 or 3 times while standing and stood alone for a couple seconds before grabbing onto something or sitting down! Also, A is a week away from being 3! Where did this year go??? I feel like I was just planning her 2nd b-day party and now here it is again, crazy!

Singing while standing on the furniture -- not a first for Aubrey

Going for a ride in the laundry basket today

Having fun in the playroom

Dancing and hopping around as usual

Decorating our first fake Christmas tree -- star on top!

"I'm Mary, Baby Will is Joseph and the baby doll is Jesus wrapped in the manger"

7 months! He was 18 lbs and 28 inches long at his doctors appt. 2 weeks ago. He loves saying, "Da, da, da, dad, add" over & over again. I'm still working on getting him to say, "Ma, ma".

Another clean mess. Aubrey decided to wash her doll's hair with her foamy hand soap.