We have a Walker

She has been walking for about the last two weeks. She makes about halfway across the room now before she goes back to a crawl.  

She loves stairs and can go up and down them by herself.  She still loves books and flipping through the pages.  

She also is great at using the potty.  She just doesn't know to tell me just yet.  So I sit her on it sometimes when I think she might go #2.  I gave her a book so she didn't get too squirmy. 

She has also been using her signs "more" and "all done" a little.  It's so cute.   She mostly does all done but the other day she did " more while on the couch asking for some food. :-D 

Walking

Aubree is on the verge of starting to walk.  She is great at free standing. She just needs the courage.  Well last night she gained the courage. She starting to work on taking those first steps.  She just gets so excited that she leans her body first before moving her feet. 

Here is a picture of Aubree playing in the kitchen cabinets. 

5 year Anni

This is Aubree in her first pair of tennis type of shoes.  Grandma Debbie got them for since she is on the verge of walking. They remind me of grandma Sanders favorite pair of shoes.  The Reebok's.  

I didn't know quiet yet what I wanted to do for our Anniversary gift for Ry.  I had been thinking about doing this for a bit.  So to save money on a gift I decided to do this the day of. It's in the hallway to our room. Now when we walk by it numerous times in the day we can see things that show our relationship with each other. 

Ear infection

She ended up with with ear infection. So she is taking Amoxicillin to get rid of it.  That stuff looks and smells familiar, but gosh it's got too much pink dye in it. I hope it doesn't stain anything (mostly her bibs) permanently.  

Also she is now ten months:  She loves to open cupboards, eat everything off the floors, shake things that make sounds. She will walk along everything she pulls herself up to but anytime you try to get her to come to you she plops right down.  Doesn't want to walk yet. She loves climbing the stairs but I've blocked them off for now. I've been working on teaching her to back down them but I can tell her brain isn't ready to process it yet. She will shake her hand at me to help her but accidentally starts going up until I start moving her legs. Once I start helping her she does it right.  I give he kisses all the time so she loves giving me them back.  Sometimes I'll be just holding her and she'll sneak one by swinging her neck down and around. SO cute.  Also if she is nonstop talking I know she is getting fussing.  She'll normally gibber jabber by taking breaks if she's just talking.  She loves to shred paper and especially toilet paper.  If I don't want her to put something in her mouth I'll just give her a binky and she's pretty good about keeping it in for a bit.  I've contemplated a couple of times to get rid of the binky at nap/bed time but then teething or sickness kicks in. Also often I'll put things on her head just playing with her and she actually does it to herself now. 

So sweet cuddle bug

Aubree has been struggling with sleep for the past month.  I think it's a combo of supplementing with formula (gassier), and teething. I have ended up falling asleep on the rocker at least part of every night. 

By five a.m. when she wakes up I'm tired and just feed her back to sleep. Most times in the rocker but the last few times in our bed. It's easier for me to get up and make Ry's lunch that way. 

Yesterday I climbed back in bed with her. She woke at about eight, like normal lately. She crawled around on our bed for a bit and then cuddled with me.  She laid her face against mine, cheek against cheek, faces facing the same way.  She laid there for a few minutes. It was just so precious.  Then she moved her head forward on to my pillow and went back to sleep.  This made the late nights and staying at home with her SO worth it. If I was working I'd never have gotten to enjoy sleeping in with her like that. :-D 

Memorial Day Fun!

We started off the day by going to the ward breakfast at the park.  We had pancakes and sausage. It was fun to see what the Kuna park off Main st. looked like up close after driving by it a few times. 

We decided to go with the Howe's to the Parade.  We missed it by a few weeks. This year they did it earlier. So we decided to go to Wahoos mini golf. That was a lot of fun. The girls were fun to watch.  Hannah got sprayed by water at the ending.  If you missed the last hole it sprayed you.  She didn't like it.  Then McKinley slipped on the water. We decided to go get their food.  We both got nacho grandes those were huge.  Neither of our families finished.  Aubree wanted same so I was feeding her Cheerios with my left hand while I ate with my right. 

We both were supposed to bring a side to the Burnhams that night but we partied all day and wouldn't have the time or energy so we went to Winco to buy some potato salad.  The girls thought it was funny that we were also at Winco with them.  

Later at the Burnhams we had dinner and then played a game. You had to have a run or a set of three like in phase ten but you play with face cards.  The number of cards you had was the number that was a wild that round. You can only lay down on the first person to lay outs cards. When they lay down you only have one more round to lay down or get rid of your highest cards. You don't want points in this game. If you win you deduct 5 points if you lay out and get rid of your cards you have 0 points Ace's are worth 14, and jokers none. 

While we were playing Aubree was playing with Sawyer on the ground, and we were joking that he was trying to impress her.  "Check out these push ups,  check out my guns." It had me laughing so hard it was hilarious. 

It was a great day off with Ryan.  I hope we can have more fun days like this on his days off :-D

The Gift of Hearing

I heard about the mothers gift giveaway on the radio.  I didn't think I'd get them but with how expensive hearing aides are I figured it was worth a try. 

I had Alisha enter me cause she would know what I struggle with most. She wrote something and it had some good pointers but not all truth for me.  Some was true for her amount of loss so we worked on it a little together and then she submitted it.  She got a call and informed me to call them back. I took a hearing test and they got to see me personally.  They decided to reward two of us.  I was kind of glad because then that means I didn't take them from the other lady.  So excited that I got them.