Without daddy

The past two weekends daddy has been out of town.  The first weekend was to get a new tractor for Mike.  It was in Oklahoma and he got a good deal on it so they drove there to go pick it up.  The second weekend was to go hunt for Elk. Come Sunday morning we hadn't head from the guys since the night they arrived.  We were starting to get a little nervous.  I thought Ry would check in a little more but when he got back informed me of his unplugged weekend plan.  Well it was nice to have our boys come back home safe and sound.  :-D. Unfortunately they didn't see any elk or wolf.  Bree had pointed at the pictures of daddy a few times over the weekend. It was cute.  We missed daddy. And it cute to know daddy missed us too.  I loved that gave Bree lots of love when he got home and wanted to cuddle with me all night :-D 

A new job

I recently started a job at a Day care in a athletic club.  I love it!  It has been a plus all around.  It's great for the extra cash, for me to be able to get out of the house, for Aubree to learn some great skills around other kids.  Aubree likes it sometimes and then is more clingy other times but she has been pretty great at letting me hold other kids/babies when they are hurt or need some extra attention.  She is beginning to take interest in babies.  When they are in there she keeps going back to look at them, and wants to touch them.  We recently had a three month old in there and just yesterday a three week old.  Wow I don't think I'd want to leave my own that age with a stranger with a bunch of other kids, but I love being the one to watch them.  I love holding the little babies!  

Daddy did good Yesterday.  He brought home a surprise dinner!  It was nice!  I love not having to make and clean up dinner every now and then and a surprise is even better :-D   And he even got home from work before me!  That is something I could get used to :-D


Aubree's stages recently!  She likes to be carried down the stairs.  Not sure why.  She'll just stand at the top till I grab her.  Now if I wasn't standing there I think she'd just come on down by herself.  She loves baby dolls, fisher price people, sitting on anything and everything (including dad's head if he's on the ground), purses, shoes.  Unloading the dishwasher!

Camping

You enjoyed your first camping trip.   We joined daddy on the youth camping trip.  You didn't walk around too much there since the ground was pretty uneven, but it still a lot of was fun.  We slept in the cabin basement while daddy slept outside between the girls and guys. 

Your first time in the lake. When we were getting ready to leave we left a little later then the rest of the group so we had to find everyone and that took a moment to find the trail.  Daddy was a little hesitant that we wouldn't find the trail but I'm glad we found it so that we could enjoy the view and then lake.  By the time we got there you had fallen asleep.  So we held you for a little bit but then you woke up to enjoy the water.  You didn't like the yellow floaty.  We let you play in cascade lake a little just walking in the shallow area until your started to shiver and turn purple.  We changed your clothes and bundled you back up.  Mom was so focused on making sure you got your sun block on you that she got a little sun burnt herself.

Organizing

I've been wanting to organize things more in my house.  I went to Lowes and got some help to find a way to hang up clothes in my laundry room.  This worked out perfectly. Now the temporary rod is not in the way when we go to the garage.   There is now lots more room in there. :-D 

One year!

I can't believe it's been a year already.  You have so much caricature, and personality.  When music is on we can often find you bouncing to it, bending and straightening your legs.

You love carrying anything around the house. You will pick things up and carry it until you find something else you like. You like little people or items that are about the size of your hands and you will carry them for a while. Moms purse is a new favorite of yours. You love shoes and get a little upset that you're unable to  put them on yourself.  You will still shred toilette paper if you get your hands on it.  

Sometimes you are still cuddly but it make me sad when you want to be independent and push away. Like you will cuddle with me sitting on my lap, tummy against tummy laying your head on my chest but you don't like my arms around you. I will often wait till your more sleepy before I wrap my arms around you. Just so I can cuddle you more. 

Smarty pants

Aubree has been signing "more" and "all done" here and there.  She knows what the toilet is for just doesn't know how to tell me when she needs to go just yet.  She can go up and down the stairs all by herself.   Then today she finds a small hand towel and starts rubbing it on her tummy. So funny. 

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