The Wyatt Family: November 2013

Since Aubrey will be 11 months tomorrow, I decided I better hurry up and do her 10 month post tonight! Our sweet girl is really showing her personality more and more. She is still really easy going which is FABULOUS when you have two others that are not so easy going. She is waving bye bye, blowing kisses, and giving high fives. She babbles a lot and says "mama," "da," and "bye bye." Her most consistent word that she says with meaning is "Da" for daddy. She says "mama" too but I feel like she says it all the time and not only when she wants me. But "da" is definitely her word for Ben. A couple of weeks ago he was outside grilling and she was sitting in the kitchen with me. She could see him through the kitchen window so she was looking at him and yelling, "Da! Da! DAAAA!!!!" He couldn't hear her because he was outside so she just kept yelling louder and louder. It was pretty funny. For a while, Ben was the only person that she would wave to. We would all take turns waving to her and she would just stare at us but as soon as Ben waved, she would wave right back to him. Every time. It never failed. Finally, just in the last couple of weeks, she has started waving at everyone else though. And just in the last couple of days she has started saying, "bye bye" when she waves.

She is still a good eater. She prefers to eat vegetables as baby food instead of picking up real peas, carrots, corn, etc. However, she did eat broccoli for the first time last night. And she liked it!

Fun times at the park.

Always a trooper at sisters' soccer games. Even when it is freezing.

She LOVES to play with spoons. If I am trying to cook dinner or get something done, I just throw a bunch of spoons on the floor and she will happily play forever.

She always wants to be where her older sisters are. Even when they are taking a bath, she wants to be right there watching their every move.

Lately I have noticed that she will pick up the remote and point it toward the TV and today I looked over and she was brushing her hair with Ava and Macy's brush. It is crazy to me that she is old enough to know what to do with objects that she finds around the house. She has seen us using these things so now she tries to use them the same way we do.

She's not walking yet. She is cruising around while holding on to the furniture and will let go and stand for a second or two but then she always plops down and crawls where she wants to go.

She celebrated her first Halloween as a black cat. She hates anything on her head (which is driving me crazy!) so I couldn't get her to wear cat ears but her outfit was really cute. We had a super busy Halloween afternoon/evening and I wish I would have taken the time to get some better pictures of her. After school, I rushed around to get all 3 girls ready so we could go to a neighbor's house before trick or treating. Right before we were about to leave, Aubrey grabbed a HUGE bottle of opened mouthwash and dumped it all over her legs (and the bathroom floor). So I had to rinse her leggings and tutu in the sink and throw it in the dryer before we left. In all that chaos, I just didn't get many pictures. But at least Aubrey was smelling minty fresh all night. : )

Here are some pics from Ava and Macy on Halloween.

Ava was a witch and Macy was the Tooth Fairy. Just fyi... you can't buy a tooth fairy costume at Target. I spent 2 LONG hours cutting these teeth out of felt and gluing them on these fairy wings. Might not seem like a lot for some of you crafty, pinterest worthy moms but for me this was a big deal!

I also made a little bag for the tooth fairy's collection of teeth and a wand. You can see where these ended up... in the back of the stroller less than 2 minutes after we started trick or treating.

Once again, I failed at the cute onesie with the number photo shoot. I thought it would be a good idea to put her in this cute pumpkin outfit and put the "10 months" sticker in a picture frame. But she just played with the frame so I didn't really get any cute ones.