18 Months

Once again, time has gone by so fast!  At 18 months Aubrey is speaking more, playing by herself a lot more, and getting to be more interactive with people and other kids.  She is so much fun to watch!

This girl loves slides!  Everytime we pass by a park or Sunplash in our neighborhood, she clearly sees the slides and says the word every time we pass them.  She loves to go down them by herself.  She tells herself to "go" and then drops down and holds herself on the end before she goes down.  He face is priceless when she gets off.

She loves to "swim" in the bathtub on her stomach and pushes off with her feet to propel herself through the water.

Is so dramatic sometimes. When she says certain words she says "AH" before words.  She always says, "AH bird!"

This girl is in love with bubbles and also asks on a regular basis to go play outside with bubbles.  She asks us to first put her shoes on, says outside, and then says bubbles.  It has been amazing to see how many words she can say and put together!!  Thank you is one of her new words that sound so cute :)

She is definately testing us a lot more with what she can get away with :)

She loves to read, but always wants us to read her the same books.  There is a book where an elephant sneezes and after we read it she walks around the house saying, "ah, ah, ah-choo!"

Wants to feed herself all the time and it usually ends up with her tipping her bowl over on her tray or trying to feed herself with a bowl.  She can now eat using a spoon and a fork despite her dislike in wanting to use it sometimes :)

She loves to be in the kitchen and her job now is to spin the lettuce in the spinner.  She's only got her finger caught in it once. 

She still is not crazy about Uncle Tyler's beard :(

She is so much fun and learning so much!! Love this girl :)

Visting Jon and Krystal

So Aubrey and I treked out to see Jon and Krystal the week after Easter.  It was Krystal's break from work so we took a break from life in Sacramento to spend some quality time with them :).  We didn't take as many pictures this time, but on one of our first days there we went to the zoo.  We joined Jon's brother and sister-in-law, Nate and Jackie, and their five kids, Josiah, Hannah, Grace, Naomi, and Abe.  We had a great time and Abe just loved to take care of Aubrey :)

Aubrey rode the carousel for the first time with her uncle Jon :)  She wasn't too sure at first, but once she went around a couple of time she was definately a fan!

We also rode an a little train and Aubrey loved to make the "choo-choo" sound.

hmmm...are we related? :)

During the week we also ate out a lot (and at one restaurant Aubrey flung her peas and pasta across the room...really fun time for mom!), went shopping, went to Cabela's to check out the animals and fish, and looked for baby things for the expectant little Fox.  We had a great time together.

Aubrey did great on both flights!  She was, however, sick on the flight back, but luckily the worst part of her stomach flu didn't hit till we got home :(. 

Easter 2012

This Easter we spent with the Pierce side of the family.  We went over to Brandon's parent's house where we joined his grandparents, brother, future sister-in-law, cousin Brooke, and my grandparents.  We had a tasty meal, had a little egg hunt, and had a yummy bunny cake. 

Aubrey's great grandparents, Mimi and Corky, gave her a little chicken that sang and laid eggs.  It was a huge hit!

Aubrey got an Easter basket with a ball in it and she had so much fun with it all day.

The dog is still one of Aubrey's favorite "toys."

Aubrey had her first egg hunt :)

She enjoyed putting each egg that she found into a basket.

Aubrey also enjoyed her dairy-free cake and was on a little bit of a sugar high afterwards :) (Note the face)

As always, she took time to smell the flowers.