Aubrey Ann played some more “Do I…?” today.

AA: Do I climb up trees?
MJ: No.
AA: Do I climb up pigs?
MJ: No.
AA: Do I climb up phones?
MJ: No.
AA: Do I climb up lights?
MJ: No.
AA: Do I bite food?
MJ: Yes!

The laughter from all three of us. Aubrey Ann thought she had tricked us on that one!

A game Aubrey Ann has created is called, “Do I…?”

In this game, you are required to answer, “Yes” or “No” to a series of silly questions. If you get the last one wrong, Aubrey Ann laughs. Today we played with food and biting.

AA: Do I eat birdies?
MJ: No.
AA: Do I eat plates?
MJ: No.
AA: Do I eat Arizona (she likes different US states right now)?
MJ: No.
AA: Do I eat waffles?
MJ: Yes!
AA/MJ: (laughter)

AA: Do I bite Sherlock (cat)?
MJ: No.
AA: Do I bite kids?
MJ: No.
AA: Do I bite toys?
MJ: No.
AA: Do I bite bananas?
MJ: Yes!
AA/MJ: (laughter)

It’s a pretty fun game, I don’t know how she came up with it, but I think it’s related to Do you want a Flap-Flap?

Aubrey Ann likes, but doesn’t like three things right now.

1. Raising your eyebrows.
2. Blinking your eyes.
3. Sticking out your tongue.

Whenever you do any of those three things, she will say, “Don’t do dis!” and then cover her eyes.

It is really funny, I suggest raising your eyebrows next time you see her.

We were watching the Tinkerbell movie last night with Aubrey Ann and at one point Tinkerbell is trying to be a different kind of fairy (animal fairy or something), and flew up into a birds nest.

Tinkerbell was asking the baby bird if she wanted to flap her wings and learn to fly. So Aubrey Ann started saying, “Do you want a Flap Flap?”

“Mommy, do you want a Flap-Flap? Do you? Daddy, do you want a flap-flap? You want a flap-flap.”

The whole time she was laughing. So we started tickling her, asking her if she wanted flap-flap.

Some things I will never get tired of hearing, I don’t look forward to her growing up at all!

In a time period of about 30 minutes, Aubrey Ann made us laugh 4 different times, here’s why.

1. In the car on the way home from church.

MJ: Who made the trees?
AA: God
MJ: Who made the car?
AA: God
MJ: Who made Daddy?
AA: Mommy
MJ: HAH! I own you!

2. Still in the car…

AA: I used to say Ba-Na-Na (Banana)
MJ: When you were a baby you said, “Ma-na-na”
AA: Ba-na-na, not Ma-na-na

3. At lunch

AA: I know rhyming words!
Me: Oh ya? Tell me two rhyming words.
AA: Cat, Sandwich. Rhyming words.
Me: lol

4. Taking of her shoes getting ready for a nap.

AA: I have Mustache Feet!

I have no idea what “mustache feet” are, but she’s been using “mustache” to describe her eyes, hair, legs, nose, etc for the last week. Maybe one day we’ll figure out what Mustache Feet are…

We just arrived home from San Diego (in a record breaking 5.5 hours! Google Maps was off by 1 hour…)

It’s 11:00 p.m. so naturally Aubrey Ann was very tired. She didn’t sleep on the way home so by 11 p.m. (4 hours past her bed time) she was exhausted. She was sitting in the car seat talking to herself and then said, “Mommy, I have a good idea!”. The rest of the conversation went like this.

Aubrey Ann: Mommy, I have a good idea!
Mari Jo: What’s your good idea?
AA: I’m gonna paint my eyes.
MJ: Paint your eyes?
AA: Ya!

At this point, Aubrey Ann licks her index finger and starts painting her eyes with her saliva. Then she “paints” the eyes on her teddy bear. The rest of the conversation sounded like this.

AA: I’ma paint your eyes mommy!
MJ: I don’t think so baby.
B: I think that’s a great idea, lick your finger and paint mommy’s eyes!
MJ: I still don’t think it’s a good idea.
AA: PAINT YOUR EYES MOMMY!
B: PAINT YOUR EYES MOMMY!

Then we all laughed. Aubrey Ann finished the conversation 2 minutes later.

AA: Mommy, I have a good idea!
MJ: What’s your good idea?
AA: I’ma paint your eyes!

Brandon and I wanted to take Aubrey Ann to the snow, so on February 21st we finally did it.  We headed up 41 and drove until we found a nice place for her to play.  As we drove Aubrey Ann was so excited.  Finally we reached our destination and started getting her out of the van and dressed in her snowsuit.  Her snowsuit is bright green, and not very attractive, but as we were getting her dressed Aubrey Ann kept saying, “I’m like a princess!”  She just loved that snowsuit.
The snow was rather deep, probably up to our thighs, so we had to walk holding Aubrey Ann until we found a place that was packed down.  Then Brandon started to build Aubrey Ann a “castle”.  It was basically a hole in the snow with the sides built up around her.  Well, she loved that castle and spent most of her time inside.  She would pretend to curl up and sleep in it.

Aubrey Ann also LOVED throwing snow balls.  She would randomly pick up a snowball and throw it.  She thought it was very funny when Daddy threw snowballs as well.
The only thing Aubrey Ann liked better than throwing snowballs, was eating them.  She was constantly eating the snow while we were there.

One of the last things we did, was build a snowman.  Aubrey Ann had a good time patting snow on the sides to make sure our snowman was nice and round.  When we asked her what her snowman was named, she said “Ella”.  I wasn’t surprised in the least!

We played for over an hour in the snow, and it was finally time for us to go.  So we walked back to our car, but before we got in, Daddy had to throw Aubrey Ann in the soft snow just one more time.

I am always so surprised at how much Aubrey Ann enjoys nature.  Most of the other kids (that were near Aubrey Ann’s age) didn’t stay in the snow very long, and did a bit of crying, but Aubrey Ann just loved it.  She couldn’t get enough.  Daddy says we are heading back very soon, infact I already have our snow clothes packed that way we can go at a moments notice!

My little snow angel, we love you so much and feel so blessed that we get to share these times with you!

According to DNA facial recognition software, Aubrey Ann is indeed my daughter. Now we just need to find the mother!

This is what happens when you mess with me!

Looks like Aubrey Ann has found a new feeding location…I don’t know if this is what God had in mind when he created the natural sucking instinct.

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