Aubrey the Explorer

On Wednesday Aubrey was invited to go to her friend Katelyn's Dora birthday party. She had been excited for it from the minute she got the invitation. Aubrey opened the envelope and inside was the invitation shaped like Dora's backpack. When she saw it Aubrey gasped and exclaimed "BACKPACK!" She carried that invitation around for the whole week and half before the party and would talk about going to Katelyn's Dora party. The invitation said that the girls should wear pink and orange like Dora.

Tuesday afternoon I told Aubrey that after she woke up from her nap the next day it would be time to go to the Dora party. She said, "Aubrey wear pink shirt, orange shorts." Then she proceeded to put on several pair of her shorts. She then ran up to me and said, "Aubrey ready for Dora party." I reiterated that the party was when she woke up tommorrow. She ran off, got her hair bag and did her hair and then repeated, "Aubrey ready for Dora party." I told her once again that it wasn't until tomorrow, but asked her if she would like to help wrap the present for the party. We wrapped the present and put it on the counter. The rest of the evening whenever she saw the present she said, "Aubrey hold present in Aubrey's hand for Dora party morrow."

The next morning Jeff heard some little feet in the kitchen. He went in to see that Aubrey had went in and got her present - as soon as she saw me she said, "Aubrey wake up - go to Dora party." I couldn't believe how excited she was.

Anyway, above is Aubrey's Dora outfit.

And of course, I had to make a Dora bracelet to complete the outfit!

Aubrey wanted me to take a picture of her Dora hairband!

The party was sooooo cute. Ali did a fabulous job. When the girls arrived she had "the map" for each girl to color. Then they were all given Dora backpacks (that she made), Dora wigs (she made those also), a spy scope and necklace.

She had set up a whole Dora adventure for them to go on. She explained that Boots (Dora's pet monkey) was missing from the party because he couldn't find his red boots. So they had to go through the orange tunnel and into the forest. In the forest they had to use their spy scopes to find a pair of red boots. Then they went through the TP to find boots. She had a large pic of boots on the fridge. Then they played pin the boots on boots once they all got there. It was seriously so cute to see all of these pint sized Dora's going through the adventure. She also, had hand drawn a Dora on the cake. It was amazing. Aubrey had such a fun time.

When we got home I started making dinner. Aubrey was making a pile of her animals on the floor next to me. She then said, "Mommy take a picture - Aubrey made a party." She is such a funny, imaginative little creature. She had made a birthday party for all of her animals.

The next morning she made an even larger birthday party with most of her toys - right in the entry way to our bedroom. It was really fun trying to navigate in and out of my room. Then I heard Aubrey's cute little voice singing Happy Birthday to her animals. What a little cutie. I got a short video clip of it below.