10 Months Old

Its crazy to think that in two short months, Aubri will be turning ONE. While we are ecstatic for her to turn one, we wish she would stop  growing up so fast. She already has 8 teeth! Can you believe that?  We sure can, I mean we do have the bite marks to prove it! (We have become her teething rings.) She would be walking if it wasn't for her twiggy little ankles. She loves to say Mama all day long. She is quiet the ham as well. She love to pester Aunti Em, and her Mama.  I don't know why, but she only does it to us. I do have to admit that Emma gets it a lot worse.  Her favorite food is yogurt, by far. She also loves homemade fries both sweet and idaho potato. She loves going on walks and playing at the park right by our new place. She has discovered that she has a voice and gets more talkative each day! We are just so in love with her.

On her 10 Month birthday, she woke up sick that night with the horrible stomach virus that is going on around. She just started feeling better yesterday, thankfully! Now, if only she would sleep through the night, it would be amazing. (We are starting to ferberize her tonight. While also sticking to a very strict routine daytime routine. If you have any tips, we welcome them!

Robin Egg Blue

As I mentioned on my last post, we've moved. We love our new place, and I am enjoying making it our home.  We painted our walls Baja Dunes by Benjamin Moore--I have an obsession with all of their paints. Its a soft gray/tan color that goes well with so many colors.  I painted our kitchen table the other day, and it just turned out perfect! Its close to a robin egg blue. Our kitchen/family room colors are robin egg blue, navy, and cream. With a pop of cranberry here and there. Its so nice and fresh. I am in love with it!

This colder weather makes it even more motivating to do crafts and be thrifty with our decor.  And no one can complain about that,  not even the hubby. Hope you are all enjoying this wonderful fall weather. I know we are!

P.S. If you have any ideas of what I can put next to our antique window, please share!

Life

We  have been insanely busy these last few weeks. When Aubri and I got home from Disneyland,we packed up the house and moved into our new place. We absolutely love it here. But with moving from one place to another, comes  unpacking and getting settled in.  I am still in the process of decorating it though. Its coming along great. We just bought a new couch and love it! I am also painting furniture, everything is coming along great and has that cottage feel to it.

On top of moving, I woke up Sunday with a swollen face, and went to the dentist the next morning. A week or so before, my tooth broke off (Having glass like teeth is a wonderful characteristic of Celiacs) And it had become infected. Well, to make a long story short, I had to go to an oral surgeon to get it removed and have been recovering since. While I haven't felt much pain, the pain medications are kicking my butt, things are looking up though.

Other than that, we are all doing wonderful! We love our wonderful new home and are looking forward to the holidays! (Aubri is going to be a kitty for Halloween, and who knows what we will be.) I promise to post picture of our house soon and all the other pictures we have taken over the last little bit. Until then, take care!

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.