Birthday, Thanksgiving & More

When Jeff came home from work on Wednesday he said that he wanted to put out Christmas decorations that night so that we could just enjoy the weekend. So, while I was fixing dinner, Aubrey & Jeff put together the tree. Aubrey was quite fascinated with the idea of a tree being in the house.

Then we had Jeff's birthday dinner. We had it a day early cause we were obviously going to have Thanksgiving dinner on his birthday. Jeff is not a big fan of cake - so I made him one of his seasonal favorites instead - a pumpkin roll.

Then, after Aubrey went to bed we put out the rest of the decorations. (Except decorating the tree - since we want to do that with Aubrey today!)


When we awoke Thursday morning we took Aubrey out to see all of the decorations. You would have thought it was Christmas morning by how excited Aubrey was by everything. She just kept wandering around the family room, kitchen & front room pointing everything out and asking to be lifted up so she could get a closer look. After that Jeff opened up his birthday presents. Then I made him his birthday breakfast and we ate.

Then we hurried to get ready and went to the movies. Jeff thought it would be fun to go to the movies on his birthday - but we were worried about how Aubrey would do. We thought we'd have the best luck if it was animated. So we went and saw Bolt. We knew it would be a hit with her since she loves dogs! She did great for the first hour. She was mesmerized by the movie. She reclined in my lap and had a lap full of snacks that she was eating while her eyes were glued to the screen. At the end we had to wander around in the back of the theater a bit and we took turns wandering in the hall with her. I think we both just missed about 10 min. of the movie.

We then went home for naps. When we woke up we were off to Cindy & John's for thanksgiving dinner. It was a great meal and great company! We spent the afternoon/evening with my siblings Cindy, John, & JJ, Esther & Bryan & Elliot & Katie. All and all it was a really fun day!

On Tuesday Aubrey & I went to Chuck E. Cheese for lunch with Rachel & Zoe. The girls had a blast!

Enjoying their first ride.

This was Aubrey's favorite game. It was small enough so she could reach the wheel and see the screen. She loved moving the bear around and seeing nuts bonk him on the head. Every time a nut would hit him she would pat her own head.

This was also a favorite of Zoe & Aubrey. Sort of like Wack O Mole - but without the big hammer.

They were completely enthralled by the show!

They loved the car ride. It takes a picture of the kids as they ride. They rode it so many times that they had a stack of pictures. If you look close you can see them looking at them and passing them back and forth to each other. They looked like little people!

Putting all of her animals to sleep on the pillow shhh!

She had to knock some off to make room for herself.

Aubrey just went pee pee on the potty for the first time! I know she is only 18 months and really young to be potty training. I actually had no intention of even trying until after the new baby was born. Aubrey, had a different idea. This week she has been wanting to sit on the potty when she sees us. So, I haven't wanted to discourage her, so I've been holding her on it for a few minutes. That's really fun on the back - so today I bought her a little potty. After she woke from her nap I put her on the potty to try it out. After a few moments she went potty. I was totally shocked! Anyway, I don't plan on doing any sort of aggressive potty training. Just whenever she wants to. Hurray for Aubrey!