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For some reason, Daphne likes to wait until she gets to Micah's parents' house to pull out her teeth. However, the tooth fairy doesn't seem to make stops there anymore so she does get to bring it home. Between her and Kaylee losing teeth, the tooth fairy is going to go broke fast!
This picture was taken about a month ago and she looks a lot older now, but I thought that it was too cute to not show it off.
What a cute little kitty cat!
Sharing her playmat with Noah. Aubrey loves her playmat! She'll lay on it for a while at a time and play with the toys dangling from it.
Aubrey is now six months old and the past months have really seemed to fly by. She had her appointment today and had to get 5 shots plus drink something. She's gotten to that age where she looks at my with eyes that say, "Why Momma? Why is that mean old nurse doing this to me?" Everything else about the check-up went really well. She is about a month behind on some developments, but right on schedule with others. Her measurements are: Length - 26 inches (50-75%), Weight - 13.8 lbs (15%), and Head Circumference - 17 1/2 inches (90-95%!!). The doctor is still watching her head growth and her soft spot so we'll go back in a month for another check-up.
Aubrey is really starting to notice when other people talk and turning to face them. She's also really clinging to me and will sometimes stop crying when I take her from someone else. She has been eating some rice and bananas since about Christmas time and we just started some peas and green beans a few weeks ago. She loves to eat. She opens her mouth for more and she'll even open her mouth when I'm eating something. And this is what she looks like when you stop feeding her for a second...
Not so cute, right?
Aubrey was sleeping through the night about a month ago, but lately she's wanting to nurse every three hours and then lay in her bed (which is still in our room) and talk for a while before she goes back to sleep. She usually goes back to sleep really good around 5:45 or 6:00 and then my alarm goes off at 6:30. I have really started to feel the effects of lack of sleep lately!
This past weekend we went to Memphis to visit my Aunt Marcy and celebrate her birthday, my birthday, Kaylee's birthday, Micah's birthday, and Noah's upcoming birthday. We pretty much sat around the house and relaxed, but we did go to the zoo on our way out of town. Here are some pictures of the wild animals.
Then they'll probably get up even earlier than a regular school day (and you thought you might get to sleep in!)
Then they'll probaby pull out half of their clothes trying to find something warm to wear.
Then it will take them at least 30 minutes to get dressed.
Then they'll probably only play outside for 10 minutes.
Then they'll definitley want some hot chocolate when they come in.
Then they'll want to watch TV for a while.
Then they'll probably be ready to go back outside again.
Then they'll take at another 30 minutes getting all their coats, hats, gloves, scarves, etc. back on.
If you give the kids a snow day...
So far we have had 3 days off from school for snow!! Those of you who have lived in the central Arkansas area know that this is not something that happens very often. Sunday night through Monday we got over 5 inches of snow! And the best thing is that it was the perfect kind of snow for building a snowmen and making snowballs. We've had a lot of fun playing outside!
I sure hope that some of you who are reading this got some beautiful soft snow to play in this weekend because all we got was hard ice. The good news is that the schools were closed Friday and Micah got to come home from work early. Micah's mom said that they got over 4 inches of snow in Bradford. I sure wish I had taken the kids up there Thursday night so they could be playing in it right now. However, we still had a lot of fun playing outside. In fact, the kids are outside right now playing with Micah while Aubrey and I work on the blog that has been neglected.
Since we live in Arkansas, we do not have a nice sled because we very rarely ever need one. Therefore, we had to improvise redneck style. We tried the trashcan lid, some other storage lids and then finally found a big piece of cardboard that proved to work the best. Although our hill isn't very big and sled didn't work all that great, we still had a blast. It got even better when our neighbors brought over an old boogie board of theirs. It went a lot faster and a lot farther than the cardboard.
Kaylee turned 6 on January 13! We celebrated by getting together at our church with all of the family (our family has gotten too big for all of us to fit in our house!) Kaylee had a Barbie party complete with a Barbie cake and a put the sunglasses on Barbie game. She got a lot of great gifts including a Zhu Zhu hamster and car, a scarf, some Junie B. Jones books, a blue leopard print hair dryer, some new clothes, a princess nightlight, a Barbie bike, plus lots of other things.
Here are some things about Kaylee: she is very caring and concerned about everybody and everything; she has a sweet voice that can sometimes get a little high pitched; her favorited colors right now are pink and purple; she is an awesome reader and a really good student overall; for now she wants to be an ice skater when she grows up; she loves to dance and twirl around the house; she is really good at dance (much better than I ever was!); she would rather be drawing or reading a book than playing sports; she can be a bit dramatic at times and we've really had to work on her controlling herself, but she's doing better; she is a wonderful big sister as well as a wonderful little sister; she just lost her first tooth! (see picture below) although her bottom two adult teeth have already come in (I blame that on Micah's side of the family!); She's our favorite daughter with auburn hair, brown eyes, and freckles!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAYLEE!! WE LOVE YOU!
I hope everyone had a great Christmas and is having a wonderful New Year so far! We haven't been doing much the last two weeks except for lying around and taking some time off. We've been staying up late almost every night either watching a movie, playing Wii, or playing some other game. And then we all have been sleeping until at least 9 the next morning. It has been sooooo relaxing. I have hardly done any housework so I'll have a whole lot of catching up to do next week. Micah has been off for the the past week which has been a great Christmas present to all of us. We also got to spend a few days at his parents' house with the rest of his family.
We've had some other things going on besides Christmas. Micah and I celebrated our 10th anniversary on December 18th!! We got to go out to eat and go bowling while his parents watched the kids for us. We usually don't exchange gifts, but we decided to this year. I got him a blu-ray player and he got me a beautiful diamond necklace.
As many of you know, we had a scare with Aubrey last month. Some of you asked me quesitons through texting and I tried to reply, but I'm not sure all of them went through. My new phone has not been very good with text messages. Anyways, when I took Aubrey in for her 4 month old well child check-up, her head had grown from the 25% to the 75% while her body had only gone from the 5% to the 10%. Also, her soft spot on her head was not sunken in like it should be. So we got an appointment for the next day to have a head ultrasound at Children's Hospital. I am so thankful that we were able to get in that fast because I would have made myself sick if it had been any longer than that. They were thinking the she probably had hydrocephalis (or "water on the brain") which would mean that she would have to have surgery to have a stint put in. Thankfully, the doctors said that everything looked normal. We go back in about a week to get her measured again. I'm still not completely at ease, but I'm not worrying as much. Thank you to everyone for the prayers!! I know that there were many being said that day!
I will try to post some pictures of Christmas,etc. later. Thanks for checking in on us!
