6 Months Old - Take 2

I can't believe it but, Aubrey Nicole, you are 6 months old!

You are 16 lbs and 25 3/4 inches long.  You wear size 3 diapers and 6-9 and I"m washing the 9 month clothes to add to the closet.  I'm still gathering all the 6 month clothes to put away.  I have trouble keeping up  with the sizes since you seem to be growing so fast.

Things you have learned/do this month:
 - You said your first word... Mama!!!  You said it 3 times in a row and then when I went to get the camera you wouldn't talk at all.  Luckily you decided to say it one more time a little while later that I got on video so I have proof because you haven't even attempted to say it again.
 - You love rolling around and decided it will get you all kinds of fun places.  Right now you pretty much only go one direction so you'll roll all the way until you hit a stopping point then get upset until someone comes and turns you around.  I guess I'd better head to the store for some baby gates soon.
 - You love eating your food: squash, prunes, rice cereal and green beans (in order of preference).  The daycare says it's like feeding a bird with you.  You open your mouth so wide and talk/babble almost the whole time.
 - You can grab your feet and pull them toward your mouth, but you aren't quite strong enough to get them all the way there yet.
 - You are fascinated by your hands right now.  You'll be playing and then all the sudden see your hands and hold them up in front of your face and just turn them around and open and close your fingers and stare at them for long periods of time.  I find this really funny.
 - You are such a happy baby.  You will whine and fuss sometimes but you don't cry much anymore.  You cried for approximately 10 seconds when they gave you the 3 shots at the doctor's office.  You pouted your bottom lip out really big and had a huge crocodile tear and then stopped immediately when I picked you up.
 - You are still a great nighttime sleeper but mostly refuse naps unless you're in the car or being held.  Sometimes I pick you up from daycare and you've taken one 20 minute nap all day.  I asked the doctor about this and she gave me some bad news... she said you may never really nap.  She said that as long as you are happy and not fussing or acting really tired then you may just not need the sleep and there isn't a whole lot to do.  I don't want to mess up your nighttime sleeping by holding you for naps all the time, but sometimes on the weekends you wear me out so much that I can't make it any longer so I put you on my chest while I lay on the couch and we nap together.

It's getting much harder to take your pictures because you keep trying to escape and steal the paper.

I wish you didn't have that nasty cough in the middle, but this is pretty common now days.  You are a talker.

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6 Months - Very Angry

So I wrote the whole 6 month post, got all the pictures and videos loaded... I was having trouble getting a couple of the last pictures loaded and then all of the sudden everything was gone.  I quickly closed it before the auto save started again, I said no to the "do you want to save before closing" and it's still all gone.


ANGRY!

Catching Up

Well, it's been a little while.  Aubrey and I have had a fun month.  The best part was traveling to Austin, Texas, to see Matt!  It was a great vacation for all of us.  My mom came so Matt and I got to go on a couple dates and Aubrey got some Mimi time.

Aubrey is a champion traveler.  We had 2 flights both ways and she basically slept for all 4 plane rides.

Matt got to feed her the first food besides rice cereal.  She wasn't quite sure what to think of the squash at first, but by day 2 she decided it was really good.

 We went swimming almost everyday while we were there.  She's still not 100% sure what to think about pools.  She absolutely loves her bath and kicks and splashes the entire time, but pools are still a mystery.

 Tired girl!

Enough kisses guys!

Taking a walk through the flower garden.

Just loving on Daddy.

 After we got back home I put together a jumper for her to play in.  She doesn't quite have the hang of actually jumping, but she does finally put weight on her legs.  She really likes the toys and music though even if she doesn't jump.  I can't find a picture of her playing in it.  Just the one of the million parts that need to go together.

She eats green beans and prunes now too.  She's not sure if she really likes the green beans but the prunes are super tasty.  The daycare says she's like feeding a bird.  She opens her mouth up really wide and talks and makes noises almost the whole time.

Our next excitement of the month was a tornado.  Aubrey and I hung out in the basement for about an hour with no electricity.  She just stared at me then went back to sleep.  Even the loud thunder didn't seem to phase her.  I don't think a tornado actually hit our subdivision but there were some spotted nearby and we have some damage from the wind.  The garage door was the worst for our house and after having a garage for several years, I'm not really liking the adjustment back to no garage.

Thanks to some great friends and neighbors for helping get my car out of the garage so I wouldn't be stuck and helping pick up all the limbs and debris from the yard.  I wasn't feeling up to doing it all by myself.

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5 Months Old

Aubrey Nicole, you are 5 months old!

You are (unofficially) 15 lbs 6 oz and 25 1/4 inches long.  You wear size 2 diapers (only until I finish this last box) and 3-6 and 6 month clothes.  You are starting to quickly outgrow the 3-6 month size so those are starting to go in a box and I guess I'd better get the 6-9 month size out and washed.

Things you've learned/can do now:
 - You are a rolling machine from your tummy to back now.  You will now only stay on your tummy for approx. 1 second.  You still refuse to even attempt to roll onto your stomach but you will turn in circles to get in a better position for something you want.
 - You are eating rice cereal now and loving it.  You eat like your daddy... as fast as possible. :)
 - We put together your high chair and walker and you like sitting in them.
 - You went swimming for the first time last week.  You weren't quite sure what to do with a life jacket on, but hopefully we'll be able to go again soon and you'll figure out how fun it is.
 - You started "singing" to some music on your walker the other day.  I was trying to get you to talk to me and then every time I'd play the music you would start to babble and then stop when the music stopped.
 - You are great at finding hair and necklaces when I turn my head for only a second and have an awesome grip.
 - You still don't say many consonant sounds and most ahh and ooh but you've started to be more deliberate in your babbling.  You look at me and seem to be trying to tell me something now.
 - You want to be able to sit up so badly.  You can lift your whole head off the ground and sometimes even your shoulders slightly like you're trying to do a crunch.

I'm sure I'm missing some other milestones for the past month, but I didn't keep the list going all month like usual.  I just had to think of them all off the top of my head and the top of my head has been pretty forgetful lately.  Now for the best part.... pictures!

 

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Growing So Big

Aubrey is growing like a weed.  She's learning and doing new things everyday.  She wants to sit up so bad she just isn't quite strong enough yet.  We put together the high chair and the walker so she could practice sitting up more.

Ready...

Such a good helper!

Why is this taking so long?

 Good job, Mom! 

 Next: the walker

I guess I took too long

Last weekend Aubrey got her first taste of rice cereal.  She wasn't quite sure of it at first.  I think that was mostly because she was really hungry and not in the mood to try something unfamiliar.  After a few sips of milk to tide her over we tried again.  She seemed to like it okay.  The next day she acted like it tasted disgusting.  Now 5 days later she gulps it down like it's the best food ever!  Once I get a charger for the video camera, I'll be able to upload some of the rice cereal fun.

Tomorrow will be 7 weeks since Matt left.  For some reason this week has been really hard.  I think I've just been extra tired.  I did get to eat the last teal M&M and started eating the green ones for May.  Eating those everyday have been really helpful, but unfortunately I think the cleaning people ate a bunch of them.  Several of the green ones were gone when I went to eat one last night and then I looked and a some of the white for June and bunch of the blue and maybe even yellow in the big jar for July and August were gone too.  I can't replace the white ones because those are Easter egg M&Ms, but I guess I can try to replace the others and then hide the jars better.

April 30th, 1 full month down and last teal M&M

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Ft. Hood Training

Well Matt has been gone for over a month now.  I've gotten to speak to him everyday so far even if only for a few minutes.  For the most part the first couple weeks were really slow for him.  His first days were just in-processing and medical checks.  He got a small pox and anthrax shot and a few others as a welcome. :) He had a couple hours of language training.  I asked him what he learned to say and he couldn't remember anything.  Seems like that class was super helpful.  There was a couple days of weapons qualifications, one gun he will carry while in Afghanistan and the other he won't.  He's also had some combative training so if you read any news articles about the Taliban wrestling with soldiers, have no fear!  He only got to fly one day in the first 3 weeks then last week he was in New Mexico all week for high altitude training.  Now he's back at Ft. Hood and his days are getting busier.  He's actually starting to fly simulated missions and do more of the type of training I expected.

It's been a long 5 weeks but we've managed.  I had some good plans for making the year go by quicker by setting some goals that I can track besides just the time.... and so far I haven't even started most of them. I might have to adjust my goals a little but I still think I can at least attempt to do most of them.  I've followed through on eating my M&M everyday though! :)  Now that it's May I'm on to my second color.  I think one of the major struggles right now to go to bed and fall asleep every night.  Speaking of bed, I should probably head there right now.

Last Purple M&M

Weapons Qualifications

Barracks

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