I have been an absolute blogging failure over this last year. I'm so behind! I can't believe the last time I posted an update on Aubrey was 10 months ago!
As she gets older, it seems there are fewer Aubrey milestones and changes to record, but there are definitely a lot of hilarious Aubrey quotes. I went through my Facebook account and found all of the funny Aubreyisms I posted over the last 10 months. Here they are:
- After we told her many times to get her pajamas on: "I'm running away. I'm going to a different house... without my PJs." And then to Daniel, after she'd stormed away from me: "Daddy, I'm leaving and going to a new house." *pause* "Now how do I open this door?"
- During dinner, she was whining about her food being too hot and demanding we cool it off for her. When we told her she was old enough to do it herself, she lost it. She said hysterically, "But I don't know what to do! Blow on it? Fan it? Blow? Fan? Blow? I just don't know!!" She didn't take kindly to me and Daniel laughing at her...
- When Carter wanted to join her as she was playing: "Okay Carter, I get everything and you get nothing."
- One day I was worried I might be arrested because Aubrey decided to repeatedly shout, "Someone please help us!" out of our open window.
- "That rock looks like a baguette!"
- When I picked Aubrey up at preschool towards the end of last school year, all of the kids had t-shirts they had painted to wear for their end-of-year ice cream social. When I talked about how cool it would be to match everyone, the following conversation occurred:
- Aubrey: "But Mommy, I don't like white. So I can't wear it."
- Me: "Aubrey, the shirt you're wearing now is white."
- *Pause*
- Aubrey: "Well I don't like shirts with fish on them."
- While jumping from the table onto the couch: "I'm sorry, Carter, but this is too dangerous for boys. It's just for girls."
- After I called myself an idiot for hitting my head: "You're not an idiot, Mommy, you make me breakfast!" I'm glad she's set the bar low.
- She decided that she wanted to be a teacher like Daniel. She created a class called Spider Technology and drew up this ad for it (dictating the words to Daniel, which read, "Spider Technology is for me and you. Spider Technology is really cool. The spiders creep and crawl around your house. Spider Technology: you can learn about spiders too if you go to spider class!")
- After Daniel gave her Top Ramen with ice cubes and tried to stir it for her: "Daddy, I know how to mix it myself!" *pause* "Mommy, can you mix my soup?"
- Aubrey: "Ms. Shelley and Ms. Kathleen said I have to make a lot of potions today. I need to keep going until one explodes."
Me: "Sweetie, I'm absolutely sure your teachers didn't tell you to do anything at home that would involve an explosion."
Aubrey: "No, Miss Kathleen said to so that we can learn not to do that." - One time, when she was using the bathroom and had toilet paper stuck between her cheeks: "Look, Mommy! I have a unicorn tail!"
- Me: "Do you want to go play at the Chick-fil-A park after the chiropractor?"
Aubrey: "No. That place smells like boys."
Me: "What do you mean by that?"
Aubrey: "It smells like feet." - When Grandpa said she was a good girl on Marco Polo, she responded with, "Thanks, Grandpa, I am a GREAT girl!"
Honestly, I can't think of a better way to illustrate who Aubrey is than through those quotes. But I'll throw a few more things in here.
- She's SO excited for the new baby coming in August, and she's very adamant that it be a girl. I've explained that we don't get to make the decision, but she's Aubrey, so there's that. She used to say she wanted to name the baby "Love" or "Snuggle," but when we asked her a couple of weeks ago, she said the name Clara, which is actually on our short list! It was weird.
- She loves being magnanimous to Carter (when it's her idea), so she'll take something she knows he'll want (like the blue spoon or the last strawberry yogurt), watch him throw a fit, and then give it to him in a grand gesture. It's kind of funny.
- She watched a kid's Halloween video on YouTube several months ago (and we have since deleted YouTube from everything), and it completely freaked her out. It was a cartoon and was geared toward kids, but it really was creepy and kind of evil feeling. Anyway, it scared her so much that she called it "the bad video" and had trouble falling asleep at night because she was thinking about it. So we encouraged her to think about happy things--family, school, friends, fun things coming up (like Christmas)--and to say a prayer. More than once after putting her to bed, I'd walk by her room and hear her saying a prayer asking Heavenly Father to help her think about Grandma and Grandpa and cousins and Christmas. It just melted my mommy heart.
- She has started reading! Her preschool teacher noticed she knew the phonetics for each of the letters and even knew the sounds made by some letter combinations, so she suggested we get the Bob Books from the library. Aubrey did great with them! She's even been reading some of the Level 1 readers, which are for kindergarteners. Sometimes she doesn't take the time to sound out the words, so she'll just guess random words that start with the right letter or are seen in the pictures, but she does really well when she takes her time.
- She still LOVES art, and she's been making good use of the art station Grandma and Grandpa got her for Christmas, as well as the supplies we got her. Her drawings of people have become more detailed, and she takes her arts and crafts very seriously. I love it. This top photo is her recreation of a plate Aunt Karen made as a kid. The second one is her rendering of President Eyring at the October General Conference.
- She once asked us why all the songs we listened to were "boy songs" and if there was any "girl music." So I downloaded a bunch of girl power music, from Sheryl Crow and Kelly Clarkson to old-school Hannah Montana and Hilary Duff, with a lot of cheesy girl music from my youth mixed in. She loves it! And I love that she thought of it and wanted it.
- She participated in a Broadway Disney Princess class, where they learned singing and dancing parts to two songs, "Let It Go" and "Under the Sea." She had lots of fun at the class, but when it came time for the performance she was very nervous. I thought she might not do it! As you can see (she's on the far right), she didn't really do many of the choreographed moves; she kind of stood there. But I was just really proud she went up there even though she was nervous!
- Unfortunately, she has since decided that she hates being up in front of people, and she utterly refuses to even go up with the other Primary kids for musical numbers in Sacrament Meeting. When they did the Primary Program last Fall, she refused to stand up for the songs, wouldn't go up and do her spoken part, and then came down to sit with us halway through. I was really disappointed. I've waited years to have my own kid in the program and be able to watch her with pride, but she doesn't let me do that. *sigh*
- She still has such a fun imagination, and I love hearing her play pretend in her room or with Carter. Here she is pretending to be an astronaut:
- We put her in swimming lessons over the summer, and she improved so much! She not only gained the skills of blowing bubbles under the water, jumping in and resurfacing, and gliding underwater, but she also gained a lot more confidence. She's always so proud to show us her swimming skills. We just went to the indoor community pool this past weekend, and we discovered that she plugs her nose all the way up until she actually dives down into the water, at which point she lets go of her nose. So she plugs it when she's just standing there, not in the water, but she doesn't plug her nose while she's actually swimming. It's so funny.
- She also started riding a bike this past summer, after our very kind neighbor gave us his daughter's old bike.
- For awhile there, she was very interested in what color different color combinations made.
- She loves watching Daddy play video games, especially Zelda (she helped name one of his horses, and she chose the name Robert). She also loves playing Mario Kart with him and Carter (and occasionally me, when I feel like it).
- She also loves board games and has started learning to play more adult games, such as Carcassone, Splendor, and Takenoko. She really loves Uno and has been playing Trouble a lot since we got it for Christmas.
- She's gotten very into watching hockey with Daniel, and she'll shout, "Go Colorado!" when she does. She also loves this Avalanche jersey she inherited from someone in the ward. One time, when the Avs won, she hilariously asked Daniel, "Daddy, have they ever won before?"
