Sure to put a smile on your face.

So I saw this video over at another blog I read, GeorgieGirl, and it definitely made me smile. It's pretty long so if you even fast forward to the end you'll see what happens when the song ends. I wonder if Aubrey will dance like this in a few more months.

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

Here's an adorable video of Josalyn singing Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star to Aubrey. Don't you love the pjs Dad picked out for Aubrey. Camouflage with ruffles on the butt. You can tell when he picks out what she wears.

Visit from Aubrey's Cousins

My sister and her family came down for a visit. We had a great time and Aubrey loved having kids to watch and to play with. We went to the waterfall on Friday that is only 15 min. from where we live. We also played on the playground because we had unbelievable weather.

They brought new toys for Aubrey, which she looooves.
Uncle Josh and his girls.
At the falls.

Playing at the playground. Slide+static=crazy hair
Being lazy in bed.
Saturday we just hung out. Noah and Jos called Aubrey, "Baby Aubrey", it was really cute. Josalyn loved playing with her real life baby doll she helped give Aubrey a bath. She did a great job taking care of baby Aubrey.
Pajama Party! They were watching Night at the Museum and Noah told me to take Aubrey out of the room because there was a scary part that she wouldn't like. Saturday Aubrey also went to her first parade and we hung out downtown, but I didn't have my camera and we didn't get any pictures. We had a great time and we were sad when the weekend was over.

New Cousin!!!

Aubrey is going to have a new cousin!!!! My sister Kathy is due with her second at the beginning of April. We're really excited because Kyle will have a rotation in St. Louis in May so we will definitely get to hang out with the new little one for a whole month. She just had a sonogram last week and it's a...........BOY!!!
Caden is going to be an awesome big brother! Congrats Kathy and Bill, we can't wait to meet the little man.

Mommy Monday

Well my mommy Monday this week actually happened on a Sunday. We went back to DCOM yesterday to go to church and for Kyle to be inducted into a honor society. More to come on our trip later, but here's just a little thing that would ONLY happen to a mommy and ONLY happen if you're crazy like me. We were trying to make church at 11:00 and we even had to deal with the time change and a 3 hour drive so we were going to make it right as church started. Rather than having a cranky baby and having to feed her as soon as we got there I made an executive decision to fill up Aubrey's tummy on our trip. Crap....didn't have a bottle. Hmmm, well I wonder if this will work. Presto!!! It did, and what is that you ask. Well Kyle looks in the rearview mirror and says, WHAT are you doing!!! Oh yes, I was nursing Aubrey while she was in her car seat. Pretty impressive, I know. We weren't on a busy street and there weren't any cars around so I thought what the hay. I'd like to say it worked out better than I expected and we had a very happy baby by the time we got to church. She charmed the pants off everybody at church I might add. Here's one quick pic from our quick stop at Hardee's to change her and we decided to get her dressed at church. We figured this wasn't exactly church appropriate.Alarie thought I somehow changed her in her seat, now that would be awesome but nope I'm not that good.

I L L- Z O U

There's one word for every Saturday this fall and that is FOOTBALL. We usually gather at one of the apartments and watch football, eat, and lay around and be lazy. Kyle picks out Aubrey's attire every Saturday and it's usually this cute Tennessee dress, but this weekend he actually put her in an Illinois onesie. He was watching them play and said they were doing surprisingly well so she could wear it (I'm a Illinois fan and Kyle on the other hand is a Missouri fan). He'll deny that he put her in it because he's Mizzou fan and so is Aidan and his mommy. So here are our little baby rivals, aren't they too stinkin cute?
It was hard to get them both looking and smiling at the same time.

Here Aubrey you can chew on my fingers....

It's beginning to look a lot like.....

CHRISTMAS!! Ok, before you start reading this post. Please do not laugh or make fun, haha. After much convincing (I swear I should be a lawyer or something) of my husband, I got my Christmas decorations out. Kyle has the month of December off so we will be leaving the second week to go visit family in Texas and then in St. Louis so rather than getting to enjoy Christmas decorations for a couple of weeks, now I have a whole month. It probably has been the best decision ever and if he lets me I might just do it again next year. Aubrey LOOOOOVES the tree and flashing lights. When we put up the tree and lights she was sleeping and when I brought her out to feed her in the middle of the night I turned on the lights and she just stared in awe, like what is that sparkling, shiny thing in my living room!!! She actually stayed up for 2 hours that night and it may just have to do with the awesome tree. I wasn't too mad because I got to rock in my rocker with my baby and look at my tree and listen to Christmas music. We also rearranged our living room and I like it so much more than the way we originally had it. I used to have my rocking chair back in a corner where I can't see the tv now it's in the perfect place to relax and watch tv while rocking Aubrey. I've even fallen asleep there 2 nights with her during our middle of the night feedings.
I left both of these pictures up because the first one is how usually pictures go with us. It takes several times until we get it right. Ususally Kyle is the cause behind it, but this time it was Aubrey. She was so fascinated by the tree she wanted to grab it and probably put it in her mouth where everything these days are going. Finally a few more tries later, we got it. Our little Charlie Brown tree. We aren't getting a real one this year because we'll be gone in December.Here is a video of the walk through of our now Christmas decorated place.... I realized I don't have many pictures up of our apartment so that's why I walked through the whole place. Ignore at the end where I primp, it's because I'm in front of a mirror and I think it's a Bartosiak disease that in front of a mirror we always primp. All of us Bartosiak girls have it, ok besides Kathy. Enjoy the tour of our Winter Wonderland!