The main thing going on in our house for the last two weeks is Potty Training. After last week, I thought Aubrey pretty much had it down. She had only a few accidents all week. But the last 2 days she's had as many accidents as she had in the whole week before. I think I need to help her out a bit more still. But we did have a great success - she actually went potty at church twice on Sunday. I was glad to see that she could go even if we weren't on her potty.
This is Aubrey showing off her big girl underpants on her first day of potty training. After her first accident that day, I decided we would forgo pants for a few days.
Showing off her Potty Chart. It's amazing how a sticker on a chart is such great motivation for a little one.
And of course you have to have the classic sitting on the potty picture. (You know to be used as blackmail latter on in life!)
We've also had Zoe over to play a few times this past week. Zoe has a new brother, Clayson, so we've had Zoe over to give Rachel a little time to rest.
The girls have done so good playing together. They had hardly any fights and have been so cute talking with each other. They are just like little people.
As they were playing Aubrey would start making up little songs (something my dad would do and I inherited and now have passed on to Aubrey) and Zoe would start singing along too. It was so cute.
Brooke was on the ground while they were playing with Aubrey's doctor kit. They decided Brooke would make the perfect patient. It was so cute because Brooke was just eating it up. I think that she was so happy that she was being included in their play.
The next day they wanted to doctor Brooke again. Then they decided to doctor each other.
After the doctoring, I heard Aubrey say to Zoe, "Will you make me really really pretty." Then Zoe responded with, "OK, let's do it." I came in to see Zoe doing Aubrey's hair and makeup with Aubrey's beauty kit. What cute little girly girls!
Aubrey has also been very into role playing lately. One day she said, "Mommy you're Dora, Daddy you're Boots and I'm Swiper." Then she went over to some toys and said, "I'm going to take these toys, you guys have to say 'Swiper no Swiping." I thought it was so cute that she was acting it out. She also had us be Uncle Elliot, Aunt Katie and their doggy Sophie a few weeks back.
The other day Aubrey was playing in the back. She came out and said, "Mommy you have to come see my Choo Choo Train." I thought it looked so cute and was impressed that she came up with the idea and built it all on her own.
We left it up that night because she wanted to show daddy and he was working late. The next morning she said, "We have to build a track for the train." So we added some books to be the track. And then she wanted to take a picture with her camera.
Later she added on a whole lot of onlookers and told me that they were saying, "Chuga Chuga Choo Choo." Oh how I love to watch her little imagination come to life!
For a few days Aubrey was all about her baby dolls. I was really excited because up until then she wanted nothing to do with them, and only wanted to play with stuffed animals. I like dolls much better than animals and hoped she would be interested sometime. Well that only lasted a few days and now she is back into her animals. Oh well, maybe it will return sometime!
I thought she looked so cute in the above outfit for church. I wanted to document it with a picture, but she would have nothing of it!
My girls still just adore each other. Aubrey likes to get into the crib with Brooke and lay with her.
She also still loves to help feed her. She can do it on her own now. I was making dinner while she was feeding her sister in the above pic. Quite convenient I must say!
Brooke is getting to be quite a bit more active and social. She always wants to be around the action. The other day Jeff, Aubrey and I were playing with a play dough kit. Brooke was sitting on Jeff's lap. She was fussing so we kept handing her her toys to play with, but it wasn't working. I put her on my lap and leaned forward to grab one of the play dough tools. Brooke got close enough and grabbed one of her own. She was perfectly happy after that. She wanted to play with what we were playing with not just random toys! Funny kid!
She absolutely loves the tub. She's been in the bath chair for a little while now and just loves it. I think that she likes to be at Aubrey's level. She also loves to reach and grab for the toys as they come floating by. Aubrey doesn't love that she can grab at the ones she is playing with. I told Aubrey if Brooke is trying to take a toy that she is playing with then to just hand Brooke a different toy. Aubrey now does that on her own. It's really cute to see her working through the problem without getting upset.
Brookie loves to play. She loves to play with her feet and with toys. I love watching her enjoying herself!
She's also getting really good at feeding herself crackers. Before she would drop them constantly. But now she can get through a whole cracker without dropping it once.
Only a child of mine could get this messy while eating a teething biscuit!
