Catching Up

Tomorrow it is back to the real world! Aubrey is 3 months old and it is back to work for me. It is going to be so hard for me to leave this little one. I really enjoy my job and look forward to seeing my co-workers and all my little students at school, but I will miss this sweet face! Let the countdown to summer begin.

 

We have stayed busy over the last month. My neighborhood friends threw Aubrey and I a "sip and see" shower. It was actually for us and for another friend and her baby that is about a month younger than Aubrey. It was so sweet of them to do that for us. We had fun showing off the babies, visiting with each other, and opening presents. Two of my good friends in the neighborhood just had their third girl also. It will be so fun to have our NINE GIRLS grow up together. (What is really funny is that Ava and Macy are the oldest of the 9! Talk about crazy times when we are all together!).

 





We also spent some time in Arkansas visiting family. We got to show Aubrey off to my grandparents and a few others that had not met her yet. While we were there, I got to spend some time with my girlfriends. My friend, Stephanie, got married so we threw her a shower/bachelorette party in Little Rock. We also had lots of time with Grammy, Pawpaw, Aunt Em, Uncle Jon, Presley, Landon, Gigi, and Papa. Ava and Macy got to go to Presley's 4th birthday party which was the highlight of their trip. She had a princess party and "the REAL Rapunzel" was there! So much fun for them.

Digging in the dirt at the park

Yucky Hands!

Little sister slept through most of the park

 

Snow White (aka Ava) and Rapunzel

Cinderella (aka Macy) and Rapunzel

Ava, Macy, and Presley have a "team cousins" cheer that they did over and over while we were there. They were lucky enough to have Rapunzel join in and do "Team Cousins" with them. It doesn't get much better than that.

Wyatt girls with Rapunzel

Meme and Papaw Bob with their 6th great-granddaughter. No great-grandsons yet!!

 

I have tried to make the most out of my time off of work. One way I did this was by taking Ava and Macy out to lunch separately on two different days. When it was their special lunch day, I picked them up from school and took them to the restaurant of their choice. It was SO special for each of them to be able to leave school and have lunch with just me (and Aubrey).  I was able to give them my full attention and there was no fighting over where to eat and who gets to sit where. I can truly see their different personalities when they are not together. For example, Ava picked Arby's for her restaurant. That girl loves a roast beef sandwich! : )  She sat in her seat, ate all of her lunch without me having to beg her, told me about the science project at school and what sight words they were learning this week. Then she cried when I dropped her back off (I didn't actually see her cry but she told me later that she did). Macy picked "Old McDonalds." She ran back and forth between the play area and her nuggets the whole time. She talked non-stop but I can't even tell you what she talked about. She just makes noise constantly. : ) I had to beg her to stop talking (or singing) for just a second so she could eat. Then she attempted to lock me out of the car as I was loading her back in after lunch. Luckily, her attempt was not successful!  It was really fun for me to give them that individual attention that I know they need but so rarely get.

Ava's special lunch day!

More interested in talking to Aubrey than me!

Every special lunch deserves a messy chocolate dessert

Macy's special lunch day!



Stay tuned for Aubrey's 3 month update and a report on my first week back!!

2 Months Old and Other Happenings

Another month has gone by. Aubrey is 2 months old today. Time is flying by which makes me sad. She started smiling at 5 weeks and it still melts my heart every time she does it. There really isn’t anything better than those first baby smiles…. except for baby giggles. I can’t wait for that! She is cooing and will really focus on our faces when we talk to her and “talk” back to us. It’s the best. Her 2 month appointment with the pediatrician went well. She weighed 10lbs. 11oz. which is in the 50th percentile. She is in the 97th percentile for height!!! Holy moly! They said she is on track to be 5’11”. I don’t really know how they can tell that this early but I guess we’ll see.

She is eating every few hours during the day and is sleeping really well at night. She usually eats between 9 and 9:30pm and then goes down for the night. Most nights she wakes up around 3am to eat but we have had a few nights where she has slept until 6:30 or 7:00! Hoping those nights become more regular as it gets closer to time for me to start back to work. She is still nursing but we are supplementing with one formula bottle a day. It just makes life easier when we are on the go with soccer, gymnastics, birthday parties and everything else we have going on these days. We have a lady that is going to come to the house and keep her when I go back to work. She came yesterday for a few hours to do a “trial day.” I went to the spa so it wasn’t as hard to leave her as it will be when I go back to work! Here are some pics of our 2 month old. Sorry there are so many. I love them all and couldn’t decide which ones to post!

With her buddy Gibson.

 

Aubrey had a busy second month of life. Gigi came to visit the first weekend in February. Ben went out of town and I wasn’t sure I was ready to handle all 3 by myself so I called in some reinforcement. Dad was going to come too but ended up getting a really bad stomach bug right before they were supposed to leave town. Thankfully mom didn’t get it and was able to come help me out. We took the girls to see The Wizard of Oz play at a Children's Theatre. Aubrey napped peacefully in her carrier the whole time. Here are some pictures of the girls with the characters.

The next weekend Jon, Emily, Presley, and Landon came to visit. We had so much fun hanging out with cousins! The kids played and played and Emily and I got a little shopping time in.


 

I love this picture! We will totally be able to blackmail Landon with this one day. He even accessorized with a purse and necklace! I guess that is what happens when you are surrounded by girls. Of course Macy wanted to dress up like Spiderman instead of a princess.

 

Aubrey celebrated her first Valentines Day by running errands with mommy, going to Ava and Macy’s Valentines party at school, going to soccer practice, then having a “romantic” dinner of Papa John’s pizza at home with the family. It was a busy but fun day for everyone!

 

In other news, Ava and Macy have started back to soccer and had their first game last weekend. 5 year old soccer is WAY more serious than 4 year old soccer! Wow! The coaches aren’t on the field with the girls anymore and most of the girls are really serious about the game. No more picking flowers on the field!! One funny story about the first game. There is another Ava on their team, but she hadn’t been to any practices so the girls didn’t realize that there was another Ava. She showed up at the first game and played during the first quarter with Macy while our Ava sat on the bench. Every time the coach would yell something to the other Ava, Macy would get totally confused and think he was talking to her because she is so used to people calling her Ava. She kind of looked like a chicken with her head cut off  because she didn’t know if he was wanting her to sit down and our Ava to go in or if he was accidentally calling her Ava instead of Macy. Ben and I totally knew what was going on but I’m sure the other parents thought she was nuts! By the third quarter when she went in again, she had figured it out and wasn’t so crazy. It was pretty funny but I just wanted to call a time out and go out there and explain to her that there was another Ava on the team and that he wasn’t talking to her!

Photo Shoot

I didn't want to post any of these pictures until I sent out Aubrey's birth announcements. Here are some newborn pictures that were taken in the hospital. Aubrey didn't wake up or cry for the first 3 days of her life until this photographer came in. She decided during the photo shoot to wake up, move around non stop, and cry. So... we only got a few that were decent.

This is the one I used for the announcement. Love those sweet cheeks.



Love it in black and white too. We had a big print made of this one to frame.

 

 

 

I set up my own photo shoot to try to get some good shots with all three girls. All three of them were actually pretty cooperative. I got some pretty good ones. Just wish I was a better photographer.