Busy Rotation Month

Well the month of May is already flying by and Aubrey is going to be 11 months tomorrow!!! Here are a couple pictures to explain why we have been so busy. We've been trying to cram in "field trips" around St. Louis and Bethalto- including shopping at West County, dinner date with Kyle, Grant's farm, playing at the park, going for walks, going swimming and working out, play dates with my friends' kids, and just tonight we made it to a baseball game with Kyle, my parents, my sister, and her boyfriend. On the days we aren't taking trips we're watching my nephews Caden and Zachary. Who are so much fun and Aubrey absolutely adores Caden. She gets so excited when she sees him and she's definitely taken an interest in Zachary too and tries to swing him in his swing and rock his bouncer.

Hanging out in Papa's truck when he gets off of work is how our afternoons sometimes wind up.

 Zachary hanging out with us too!

Taking a drive around the driveway.

Ok, so this is usually what our days look like, Aubrey all over the place and Caden being very creative.  He and Papa set up a rabbit trap and then would raise the stuffed animal rabbit up to a tree limb, he's pretty darn funny.

Then my beautiful, smart, summa cum laude lil sis graduated from college so we went up to Springfield and stayed the night in a hotel with the whole fam (minus Christy) and had a blast swimming and playing.

Seriously, she's gorgeous.  I'm so proud of you future Dr. Kimberly.  She's decided to go to Loyola med school in the fall and there's no doubt in my mind that she will do fabulous in med school.  There's something to say about someone who's never got a B in her whole life, let's see if med school will break you of that.

 Aubrey loved playing with Aunt Kimmy's graduation tassle.

 Aubrey's favorite thing to do, swimming at the hotel.

 Learning how to blow bubbles.

 Daddy and daughter matching shirts!

Probably the most relaxing time I've had in 10 months, even though there were kids yelling and screaming all around us, but to be in the hot tub with just us girls....heaven!

 Back to Aubrey growing insanely fast!!  I can't believe how fast this first year of her life has flown by.  I'm working on throwing a b-day party for her at my parent's house and was looking at pictures to print and I can't get over how much she has changed.  She is so much fun, this is definitely a fun but also exhausting stage.  She is all over the place and into everything.  She is officially WALKING, ahhh I can't believe it. My baby is walking.  I will post a video soon of it so you have proof. 

Before I ended this post I wanted to add some things that Aubrey's doing now so that I will remember because I really think she's changed and grown up a lot this month.

-You love to walk everywhere and even while you are holding stuff in your hand- like big things of blocks and bigger baby toys.
-Mimi has helped teacher you more with sign language and you do it sometimes for food but you were doing it like crazy at Grant's Farm when we were flicking water at you, you wanted more water.
-You know the word light and can turn the light switch on and off if we ask you.
-You can crawl up stairs no problem, down sometimes but you usually get too excited and want to turn around.
-You can climb on a play set that Aunt Kathy brought over and the first time you played on it you did it exactly how you were supposed to like you had been doing it your whole life.
-You know the word kick and like to kick a ball around Mimi and Papa's house.
-You LOOOOOVE to dance, you were dancing to music at the baseball game tonight, you go into the kitchen and want to dance.  You also know where the stereo is in Papa's room and walk to it and start dancing to have us turn it on.
-You like going for walks in Mimi's old stroller but not so much in our fancy new stroller.
-You loove kids and people wherever we go you are always smiling and making people smile.  You also like to wave and usually do a princess parade wave.
-You call about every animal Bailey and every man Dadda (even Osama bin Laden on a magazine,oooops), and every little boy Daden (Caden).

I love you little girl and I can't believe that you are doing all these new things.  Every day is a new adventure and I look forward to what each day brings.  I love you more than chocolate fudge pop tarts!

My Little Dancer

Aubrey's new thing to do is dance and boy is she adorable when she does.  Whenever music comes on she sits up and shakes her hands and then she'll move from side to side.  It's too stinkin cute.  Even when we're eating my dad will turn on the music and she'll start smiling really big and dancing.  At my sister's church on Sunday she loved the music and she was shaking her hands any time the music would start up.  She even would stop during the slow parts and then start back up during the fast part.  It was adorable and the people around us told us after church how much they liked watching her (oooops, a little bit of a distraction, but at least a good distraction).  Here's a video my mom sneaked during church sorry it's sideways and you have to kind of tilt your head.  She made my mother's day, it was so wonderful just to hang out with my little family and my bigger family.  Aubrey thank you for the best mother's day!

Busy, Busy, Busy

Well we made it to my parent's house for Kyle's rotation in family medicine in Cedar Hill.  We have been so busy since Easter trying to get Aubrey feeling all better and now that we've been at my parent's house trying to get her on a good sleep schedule (she didn't transition quite as easy as she did in Oklahoma).  After a week of not wanting to sleep by herself and just lots of snuggling and even some crying it out in the crib we figured out she had allergies.  Since we've been up here we've all had horrible allergy problems, sinuses, headaches, itchy eyes, the whole nine yards.  I called her pediatrician and they told us to try Zyrtec, holy moly!!!  Different kid, I would totally be one of those spokesperson for a commercial on zyrtec because thankfully we now have our happy Aubrey back and we're feling better I might add too.

Kyle is staying at his grandma's house during the weeks so his missing his little girl.  It's a long drive so he decided it would be best just to stay over there.  So here are some pictures of our trip so far.  We are having a blast watching Caden and Zachary. We've also had the chance to go meet our other new nephew Caden and see Kyle's sisters, brother-in-law, and Grandpa. 

Playing at Mimi and Papa's house.

 Swimming!!!!  Aubrey's favorite!

 Here's a video of Aubrey swimming at the gym my mom has a membership to. Aubrey loooooves to go swimming and we can't wait for this weekend when we'll stay at a hotel for Kimberly's graduation and Aubrey will get to go swimming with everybody.

Visiting Grandma Nell and playing with ElleWe. 've done a lot of visiting with family and it's been great, we've gone for walks down to see my aunt and uncle. We've gone out to my grandma's for my first mother's day. We've visited Kyle's grandma and saw his cousins. It's been great, but definitely busy is an understatement.

Picnic and playing at Ballwin park, right next to my old apartment, brought back a lot of memories.

A wonderful first mother's day.

My girl.

Thank you for my first mother's day Aubrey Lynne, I can't imagine this world before you.  I love you soooo much.