9 Months

I can't believe our gorgeous girl is now 9 months, and 1 week old.  She is developing more of her personality each day, and we love it!  She has a quirky side to her, there is no doubt about it. She loves to scrunch her nose at your and snort. She smacks and licks her lips. She has discovered her belly button and plays peek-a-boo with you by hiding behind something.  She loves our jetted tub, and is crawling maniac.  So far, she is has started to say Mama, Dada, Baba and Mo (more). She is also catching on with signing. She can sign all finished or done. But she also knows what each sign means. So far, she knows Mom, Dad, diaper, drink, food, more, all gone, bath, bedtime, and milk.  We are slowly adding in more signs as she catches on. She loves cats and dogs. Especially, Molly because she will tolerate Aubri pulling and grabbing on her. She still loves going on walks and is a Mama girl, through and through. I love it, but there are times I wish she would go to her Daddy too. 

We had her 9 month appointment last week, and she is a string bean! She is in the 90th percentile for height and 35th for weight. She loves yogurt and bread from Kneader. Those are by far, her favorites, overall she is a fantastic eater and not picky at all. I can't complain about this age. I love how active she is and how she loves to play!  We love her and are having so much fun as she is getting older. 

California-cation

This last week, Aubri, Jenni, Emma, my Mom and Dayna all headed down to Disneyland for a girls trip. It was a lot of fun, but I definitely won't be going back to Disneyland unless I have Austin with me.  As always, Disneyland was magical! Aubri loved Little Mermaid and its a Small World the most. We became VIP's on those rides, going over and over again.

Disneyland was all decked out for Halloween! It gets better every time we go! It was also 112* the last day we were there. It was miserable. Aubri and I were only there for a few hours because of the heat. 

Little Mermaid--Aubri was in complete aww the whole time. She kept trying to jump out of the shell to get to Scuttle.

Waiting for the parade

Lunch on the beach

Aubri by far loved the beach more than Disneyland. More than anything, she was wanted to crawl straight into the ocean. She loved eating and playing in the sand. And she got so excited when the waves crashed, kicking and giggling.  Did I mention she was sucking the and off her fingers as we were walking away? Silly girl! It was a fun trip, but we are glad to be home and getting back into our routine. We already have a busy week ahead of packing and painting, as we get ready to move into our new place on Friday---I am beyond excited for this! I will post pictures of our new place, once we get settled.

Her

Aubri is my favorite little girl, ever. As she should be. She is a Mama's girl to the max. And I mean it. She clings onto me like a monkey, and only wants me. While I am completely flattered, it wears me out somedays. I just had to share this picture. I just love it! I am teaching myself how to use my Photoshop, and I personally think its coming along pretty good! What do you think?

Family Pictures

I had my wonderful sister-in-law, Sam, take our family pictures last night. And I loved how they turned out! She let me edit them since I am working on perfecting it and so is she. Tell me what you think:

Aubri seriously looks like my clone in all these pictures, especially this one.

I am still working on perfecting/learning  Photoshop--I am taking a class in a few weeks and can't wait! But I love the way these turned out. Thanks Chris and Sam for doing this for us! We couldn't have had Aubri looking at the camera if uncle Chris wasn't there to entertain.