Silly Girl

Aubrey was being silly with her Dr. Dada before he headed off to a midnight shift in the ER.  This month will be full of crazy schedules for him and just hopefully he can get through it and then it will be on to a couple month of electives one even planned for Dallas.  Aubrey definitely loves her Dada (which is what she usually calls him with the occasional full out Daddy)

Bedroom Re-decoration

When Kyle was gone last week to Philly I got an itch to spruce up our bedroom.  I blame watching too much HGTV seriously it's all I watch right now and I don't know why.  It started with these pillow cases and the blue pillow I already had.

I had a boring brown comforter on so I switched it out with on my grandma's quilts and then I took this jewelry stand and wicker stand and went spray paint crazy.  I was spray painting after Aubrey went to bed and after it cooled off.  So if Kyle was here he would have called me crazy for spray painting outside so late but I finished up at about midnight, yep you read that right midnight.  Here is my projects ready to be sprayed with a beautiful can of spray paint.  I also got this new tool, soooo awesome!  It looks like a little gun and it's only $2 back by the spray paint.  It makes spray painitng soooo easy, all you have to do is click it onto your can and then you save your finger from the pain of holding the thing down and from getting paint all over your finger.  I also bought this duel spray paint so I didn't have to prime the jewlery organizer first and it worked great.

So after I spray painted it, I took some scrap book paper and mod podged onto the drawers and top just like I mod podged our coffee table last year.  I love how it gives a pop of color and if you spray it with a clear spray paint it makes it pretty durable.  Aubrey bangs stuff on our table and it hasn't scratched yet.   I also spray painted and mod podged a little trinket box I had already had.

And ta-da it looks like this in our room....

 I even spray painted the knobs purple, it's so much fun now!

Like the new frame that was a boring 'ol  black, a little fun blue later and a black and white picture and I loooooove it!  and there's my mod podged box.

Here's the jewlery organizer in all it's glory, with a blue $1 elephant from Goodwill that isn't Kyle's favorite he said but Aubrey always points to it and does her elephant sound.  I also painted a $2 lamp and added a burlap shade again all from Goodwill.  I also sprayed a shelf that hasn't gotten around to being hung and a picture frame with black and whites of all of the places we've lived.  There's even a picture of the tunnel on it, so many days of driving through the tunnel in a weird way it's a special memory.

With new/old (they were in the closet) curtains hung.

Our bedroom looks like this now....

It's my new favorite place to hang out, which is what I was going for since our crazy light sleeper we can't even hang out in our living room after she's in bed so now we have a retreat to hang out while the 'lil Miss is sleeping.

Speaking of 'lil Miss, here's a picture from playing outside in water today, I was too lazy to fill up the whole pool so instead we improvised with a tupperware container.  Hey it works, she was happy. 

And now she's napping in her "It's not my diaper that stinks, it's the Cubs" shirt, getting ready for the Cards/Cubs game coming up. 

And more to come on what she's wearing on her behind, oh yeah those are G diapers if you know what they are we're a cloth diapering fam now.

Ooops

So like a week ago I said I was going to update and then a week, a very busy week at that, went by and here I am again on a summer night trying to squeeze in some time for the blog. I have a feeling once summer is over, yuck don't want to think about that, and more time inside will lead to more time for blogging. We have been very, very, very busy enjoying Kyle's vacation month that sadly ended yesterday. Kyle took the comlex boards test in Nashville and Aubrey and I headed up to my sister's house to visit with her and the kids since we hadn't seen them in such a long time. It was great to see Aubrey play with Noah and Josalyn and it was so good to see my sister after such a long time

.We also took a last minute trip with my family to the Lake of the Ozarks the most wonderful place in the world, even though the lake is mostly beer and urine it still is a great place to be, haha.  We have been going there since I was little so for me to be able to take Aubrey was great.  She was a little swimming machine too, I'm so impressed with how much she loves the water and how comfortable she is.  Maybe my lifeguard skills rubbed off on her.

Then Kyle packed up 2 weeks later and headed to Philly with Chuck and Michael.  Oh what a trip that must have been.  He said there were plenty of stories but most of them were just silly Chuck, Michael, Kyle stories that only those 3 find hilarious.  He did great and now we're just patiently waiting for his scores.

When Kyle got back I had a whole 3 day vacation planned for just us three to go to Gatlinburg and just have some family time before he started back with a rotation in ER (which has already had one midnight shift, not so much fun).  We had an awesome time.  We went to an indoor waterpark.  We had a hotel right by downtown so we were able to walk to dinner the first night we were there.  The next night we had a fancy dinner of pizza in bed and I fell asleep before Aubrey did, ooops.  We were all so tired but so glad we got some time for just us and it was a blast.

 Playing at an indoor waterpark in Gatlinburg, Aubrey had a blast.  She even went down a waterslide all by herself.  Kyle would put her down and I would catch her at the bottom, she loved it.

 Aubrey getting a ride up to Clingman's dome the highest point in Tennessee.

 She kept wanting down to walk but it would have taken us a week to get up there if she walked, it was really steep.

 Kyle needed a break, so I got a turn carrying the 25 lber toddler.

 Doesn't look to happy, I think she's looking at some guy behind the lady taking our picture.

 Looking out over Tennessee.

 Playing in puddles outside of the Apple Barn, the best restaurant in Gatlinburg, we go every time we're there.

 Our fancy pizza on the bed dinner.  Aubrey is cheersing her pizza with Kyle's pizza.  Aunt Kimmy taught her how to cheers cups and now she tries to cheers everything.

Some new things Aubrey is doing:
-Wanting to read allllll the time.  She brings a book up to you and then turns around to sit on your lap, it's precious.  As a former first grade teacher I'm so glad she loves books.
-She is saying bcchhrrr however to spell that, it's a gun/bomb sound and she does it all the time.  When we're reading books, when she falls down (usually on purpose), when we sit down in church (oh yes, very loudly she did a bomb sound in church).  I blame her cousin Caden for this new development but really it's probably mine or Kyle's fault.
-The first thing in the morning Aubrey says is Bailey and then immediately starts to look for her.  Not Momma or Dada but Bailey, she loves her dog.
-She likes to put glasses on and LOOOVES necklaces and plays with them putting them on and off.
-Kyle has taught her how to spin and that it makes you dizzy so now she likes to spin herself and then try to walk and laugh about it.
-She gives belly blows now too thanks to Kyle's belly blowing tutorials.
-She is starting school tomorrow!!!  Well music class at our church, I'm excited to see how she likes it.
 -She's a full blown toddler now and we're loving every day and every day is something new and usually exhausting so therefore that's where the lack of blogging has come from.  I hope the next update and pictures aren't this far apart next time.

For now...

Summer has kept us insanely busy and I promise I will be back on with lots of catch up.  Like soon, like probably tonight if I get a minute to myself.  Last night I did get a minute but a certain hot bath, margarita, and good music got my attention instead.  I know most women drink wine while taking a hot bath, oh no not me, my guilty pleasure is a margarita.  But for now, enjoy this cutie with a dress for a shirt because this is 18 month dress is too short, oh my long legged little girl.
Oh and Kyle is working hard on his residency application in the background.