Water table

Who would have thought a Tupperware box full of water would have ever been so entertaining. Definitely one of our favorite outdoor things to do right now.

Camp out

Well attempted camp out, we have been living in our backyard this week and we decided to try camping out in the backyard. We had fun trying to put up the tent and Wyatt kept on trying to push it down. When we got Wyatt to bed we we had a movie night in the tent with s'mores and watched Delhi Safari for the 50th time. We had picked up glow sticks that day so after the movie we played in the dark, glow stick necklaces make great frisbees and we played flashlight tag too. We read our books and then laid under the stars we'll not really it was a cloudy night and although there was supposed to be a meteor shower we couldn't see anything but Aubrey kept thinking she saw shooting stars which really were just airplanes. It was going to get colder that night anyway so we headed inside and went to bed in our own beds. Even though we didn't sleep it still was a great first camp out.

Hello summer

Summer is here, we were wearing sweaters and jeans last week and now the kids smell like sunscreen, have dirty feet (because we rarely wear shoes in the backyard) the breeze is flowing through the windows, the smell of BBQ is constant, and playing with water happens almost daily. Aubrey loves playing with one of the neighbor girls that is 5. Today we filled up a Tupperware container and called it a water table (that is after we emptied the container of Legos and somehow we have enough Legos to fill an entire trash bag!!! I love sitting and watching kids play it is relaxing in such a mom kind of way. Summer 2014 I hope you are a great one.

I think I can, I think I can

Every time I say I'm going to blog I fall short. Wyatt is already 1, Aubrey will start preschool in the fall. Seriously time flies and I NEED to document these times because we love looking back on our life in Tennessee but I also want to remember our life here and now. Aubrey loves looking at old pictures of her and one day so will Wyatt. So Wyatt I'm sorry mommy is a slacker it's not that your first year wasn't amazing and awesome but with 2 kids life gets busy and with more I bet it only gets busier so I am going to try soooo hard to document you and your sisters little years. Mommy loves you two so much and I want to remember what days were like taking naps, filling sippy cups, nursing sessions while aubs plays abc mouse, running around in the yard barefoot, playing hopscotch, and all the other things that seem so familiar now but one day will seem like lifetimes ago. So here's our days lately....

Happy new year!!

We rang in the new year(or at least 9 o'clock) with great friends and their families over in Illinois. There were 11 kids and it brought a whole new meaning to a crazy New Year's Eve party. There were kids running everywhere. I think its so neat that I've stayed so close to my friends from high school and that you are now friends with their kids too. We realized 4 of the babies will all be in the same grade later on in life. Aubrey didn't wanted to bring her dress up clothes and a little McDonald's toy Dorothy because she remembered her friend had the witch but not Dorothy. Aubrey Lynne your memory amazes me!!! You remember the slightest detail all the time, its so neat to see when you remember something from so long ago. We can't wait to see what 2014 has in store for us and to see if we'll know where our road leads to after residency finishes up in May 2015. We definitely were blessed this year with n adorable, healthy little boy and to our little girl who always makes us laugh and gets us always trying to figure this parenting thing out. Happy new year!

Boys will be boys

Wyatt is starting to love any toys that are loud enough to bang on the kitchen tile floor and today he figured out a truck wheels go back and forth on the floor. So cute watching him learn something new.

Aubrey is our 100% girl that loves dress up and usually doesn't even put normal clothes on in the morning since she's constantly changing dress up, here's her Snow White that she usually gets an apple from the fridge and takes bites and falls over pretending she ate a poison apple.

Happy thanksgiving!

We spent thanksgiving over at aunt Sharon's and Wyatt are a great thanksgiving feast probably more than Aubrey. He had his first bite of turkey and ate some green beans. The biggest difference between boys and girls is this boy knows how to eat!!! When he starts eating he means business and I swear he's a bottomless pit, then my little bird on the other hand barely eats anything. I think it won't be long before Wyatt starts cleaning Aubrey's leftovers off her plate.

Aubreyisms

The stuff you come up with little girl. Is beyond hilarious. Here's the most recent ones.

Why is the moon following us? (While driving in the car)

When I get older Im going to make dinner I'm going to make peanut butter and jelly.

While waiting to go to a New Year's Eve party you came into my room while I was trying to get Wyatt down for a nap and asked me "so do you have an idea of when we're going to leave? So we don't hit the traffic." I asked if dad told you to say that and you said no I came up with it by myself and sure enough you did.

Wyatt's first Christmas

Wyatt loved seeing Santa for the first time. Aubrey on the other hand not so much like every other year past. So Aubrey when you're all grown the reason we have zero pictures of you and the big guy is because you're all about seeing Santa until its your actual turn and then a switch is flipped and you turn into major meltdown when I ask why you don't like him you say its because of his beard, good reason enough for me we never force the screaming picture.

Aubreyisms

Aubrey has been saying some of the most hilarious stuff, so before I start forgetting all of these I seriously need to get back at the old blog thing and write some of them down and also maybe document all the great things our little man Wyatt is doing like pulling up, into everything, and crawling all over the place. So Aubreyisms are the crazy hilarious things she comes up with and she never fails to bring a laugh in this house.

Last night at dinner her and Kyle were discussing things that turn into other things like caterpillars into butterflies and she says- "Dad, did you know broccoli turns into green beans?  Bananas turn into corn. and chicks turn into chickens." 

Another for the books one was she was at Mimi's house and saw a picture hanging and said Mimi who is that?  My mom tells her it's Jesus and Aubrey gets this astonished look on her face and says YOU HAVE HIS PICTURE?!?!

I love this girl and her wild imagination and hilarious antics.  I'll keep them coming so I never forget.

New beginnings

I worked so hard documenting Aubrey's first 2 years of life and I'm so thankful I have this blog to look back on. Here's to new beginnings and hopefully doing the same for our baby boy Wyatt David born on my birthday (more to come on that later- been meaning to write our birth story down). He fits in like he's always been here and the Aubrey absolutely loves her little brother or little "buddy" or "prince" is what she calls him. Here's to more pictures and stories about Wyatt and Aubrey. 

Beach

We had so much fun going to the beach with kyles family a few weeks ago. We thought the hurricane would affect our vacation but just delayed it a day and created some huge waves. Aubrey and I road in the car with uncle Jeff, aunt Alisha, and baby Caden. The kids did pretty well in the car never failed that when one was awake the other was napping. We were so happy to be on the beach it was Aubrey's first time on a real beach not just the river or lake beach. She loved jumping waves and the girl has no fear she was ready just to go in. On a day we were in the water practically the whole day Aubrey was so concerned about her wrinkled fingers and toes it was really cute. One bad thing is my camera broke on vacation so right now I just have my phone for pictures and I feel. Very lost without my camera, waiting to find one on sale. We had a blast though and are so ready to go back already!