Fun times

Aubrey likes to touch her "touch and feel" book

Elmo is the first and only character Aubrey smiles at when she sees him. She started this about 2 months ago. Now, when I read her the Elmo book, she reaches for him. I feel so bad because there's nothing for her to grab on to.


Watching the GT/Clemson game with our friends Rhys and Bonnie and their two cute boys. Two on one was not enough to stop GT (GT 30 - Clemson 27).




Watching her first football game with daddy. Craig has high hopes she'll like football more than I do.

Playing on the Jump & Go; so far she's more interested in playing with the toys rather than jumping, but I know it will be soon.

Aubrey loves playing with her activity center!

Just posing for the camera first

Everyone did say when she was born that she was going to be a pianist since she had such long fingers! Play, play, play!

Take a break to suck the thumb

Play some more

Take time to smile for the camera

Loves the toes!

So cute

Aubrey is such a roller. One night she rolled under our coffee table.

Poor Lillie! We miss her so much. She has been at the vet all week because the cast rubbed a hole into her leg (those were the vets words). She is such a tough dog. She never told us she was in pain and we took her in because she was smelling so bad and wanted to see why (I had called the week prior and they said it was probably from her licking and it getting wet under the cast). She has only had her broken leg three weeks and she has been through four casts, sedated six times and on all kinds of medicines. It has been awful!

The picture above is of Lillie snuggling into Aubrey's blanket taken over a week ago. I literally had just picked Aubrey up and Lillie walks over and starts making a bed. It seems everything Aubrey touches, Lillie wants to snuggle or rub against it.

4 months old

Aubrey is now 4 months old and it feels like it has gone so fast. She is so much fun and always makes me smile. Today we had her 4 month check-up and she weighs 14 lbs 2 oz (50th percentile) and is 24 1/2 inches long (75th percentile). She is rolling so much these past few weeks and last night I caught one time on video. So cute!

Myrtle Beach

This past week we went to Myrtle Beach for vacation. We had a great time and Aubrey was great! She loved hanging out at the pool and the beach. The first picture is of the hotel we stayed in. We stayed in a room on the top floor (Craig always requests this; good thing I'm not afraid of heights!) and it was nice to leave the porch door open all the time and just listen to the waves (which also helped Aubrey sleep well).

View of spa and lazy river from our room.

Just chillin' at the pool

Here's a picture of Aubrey's first time in the pool. We saw some other babies younger than Aubrey in the pool, so we decided to try it. She liked it okay. She didn't splash and play in the water, but she didn't cry either.

Picture of Craig in the lazy river from our room

Sleeping so soundly next to the waterfall that went into the pool

Hanging out at the beach

Aubrey thinks she is ready for adult food. At dinner one night, she kept grabbing Craig's skewer and pulling his plate closer to her.

Don't look behind you Aubrey! (This is at the Tiger Preservation area at Barefoot Landing)

Eating at Hamburger Heaven (we were pretending to be locals). It was delicious, but a very tiny restaurant.

This was Aubrey and my first time night crab hunting on the beach. I was so disappointed, we didn't see any once we actually had bought a flashlight.

Aubrey is such a little giggle box. In the first video, we are in a store and she was laughing for like 10mns. Finally, we decided we probably had enough time to search for the camera to capture the end of it. Lots of people kept coming over to watch her and made comments like, "I thought that was a big kid laughing".

Aubrey learned a new trick while on vacation...she loved to blow with her lips. It's hard to hear and see it in the videos, but we did our best to capture it. Now instead of talking, she does this little trick.

Poor Lillie!

We had a rough past few days. Tuesday night, Craig and I were walking with Aubrey and Lillie and we walked past some dogs. Lillie got really excited and wanted to go see them and she got under my feet. While trying so hard not to step on her, I stepped right on her left leg. It was awful and her leg looked terrible (I'm not sure I'll ever forget that image)! We rushed her to the only Emergency Animal Hospital open in Chatt. since it was so late. This was an interesting experience considering we had Aubrey with us and it took a long time. Also, while we were there we saw another Yorkie come in that was hit by a car and I opened the door for a man covered in blood carrying his big dog covered in blood. The little bit of good news, is that Lillie's break was a fairly clean break and they don't think she'll need surgery. I think I was more traumatized than she was. I stayed up and watched TV all night the night it happened because if I tried to go to sleep all I could think of was poor Lillie and her little leg. I took her to her regular vet yesterday and picked her up today. She is in great spirits today and she definitely does not understand she is wearing a cast. She wants to jump up on everything (even though she can't really). This is going to be a rough 12 weeks. The pictures of Lilllie in the green cast are after the Emergency Vet. The pictures of Lillie in the pink cast are after picking her up today.

Here's Lillie sitting on top of our couch while I'm feeding Aubrey. What am I going to do with her?!

Aubrey has definitely kept me smiling. She has talked off and on for a little while, but since Tuesday she talks nonstop it seems. It is so much fun! Even as I'm typing this, she is supposed to be sleeping, but I just hear her talking in her crib.

The thumb!

This weekend, Aubrey learned the art of thumb sucking and I have to admit, it is pretty cute! She really loves her new toy! (Now she is like her cousins Sophie and Elsie).

This was taken while I was changing her diaper.

Waking up in the morning

Lillie dropped her ball for Aubrey to throw

Just a cute picture

This morning

In an earlier post I had a picture of how Aubrey sleeps all swaddled tight. Those days are gone. Now it's impossible to keep the blanket around her arms. Here's how she looked after this morning's nap...and the video is how she greeted me. One of my favorite things is when I pick her up after a nap. It's the best!

Aubrey loves sitting in her Bumbo. We aren't sure if she is already teething or if this is just typical for a 3 month old, but this past week she has just loved putting things in her mouth. Below she is trying to eat the whale.

3 month Pictures

Aubrey had her 3 month pictures done this week. Below are some of her pictures. So cute!