01/04/11

Aubrey does letter work almost everyday at school. She learns the sounds and then practices writing the letters that she's working on. She used to be able to recognize one or two letters in a word. So if she was looking at a sign or one of Matt's t-shirts, she would say, "There's an S" or "There's an A". Now she can identify almost every letter on Matt's t-shirts that he wears to school each day(Klein ISD Football, for example). A few weeks ago she brought home a letter sheet that said "cat", "hat", and "mat". I asked her if she could sound out the words for me, and she did! Here's she is this morning before school, showing me how to sound out "cat".

01/03/11

Totally posing and eating a lollipop

01/02/11

Hopefully as this project goes on, she'll become less aware of the camera.

01/01/11

I decided to take on the challenge of the 365 Photo Project in 2011...who thinks I can do it? Here goes!

Getting ready for bed

Christmas Dance Recital

Aubrey has been enjoying her dance class for the past few months and was very excited to participate in her first dance recital, until it was time to go up and dance. She didn't want to go at first, but joined the group about halfway through.

December Birthdays, Parties, and Dancing!

It's been a busy December and we haven't even gotten to Christmas yet! Aubrey turned 3! We've also had Christmas parties, birthday parties, family visits, and a dance recital. I have a lot of pictures from the past few weeks and couldn't pick my favorites, so here they all are...

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School Program

Last week at Aubrey's school, the students put on a Cultural Program to celebrate the teachers' and students' cultural backgrounds. They sang songs with the older class and gave a few presentations. They were allowed to dress in cultural clothing or to dress up. Here is Aubrey's class walking in:



Here is a song about the continents in Spanish:


And here is Jingle Bells (definitely the favorite of the group):

Breakfast With Santa

Where did November go? Aubrey got to see Santa this morning at our neighborhood Breakfast with Santa. She told him what she wanted for Christmas and got a candy cane. She didn't want to sit on his lap, but I think we still got a great picture!

Happy Halloween!

Friday, October 29th - Aubrey got to wear her costume to school. We got a 2nd costume because her Halloween costume is a long dress, and I knew they would be playing outside, and I didn't want it to get ruined before trick-or-treating. So presenting, Minnie Mouse!

Saturday, October 30th - We did trick-or-treating a day early because we attended our friend's annual Halloween party and hayride. I think we were the only ones out in the neighborhood trick-or-treating, so most people seemed surprised to see us, but for the most part they already had their candy and were happy to hand it out. Aubrey was so excited for Halloween, and she definitely got it this year. She talked about it all day, and I had told her we could go trick-or-treating once it was dark, so as soon as the sun went down, she started asking when was it time to go. I don't think I've ever seen her so excited then when we were on the hayride going from house to house. As soon as she would get back to the trailer, she would shout "I got candy!". So, presenting Snow White!

Since Les Miles had the night off, he came, too!

Even Cooper even got to take part in the action this year!

All lit up and ready to go trick-or-treating!

Sunday, October 31st - Since Saturday night was so exhausting, we slept in, went to church late, ate lunch, and took a long nap. Then we decorated a haunted gingerbread house, carved the pumpkin, and Aubrey put on her costume to hand out candy to the trick-or-treaters. What a fun weekend we had!

She did some tasting while decorating!

Aubrey's scary face!

Ryan came by to show us his costume

Sharing candy

Birthday Party and Pumpkin Patch

We had a busy and fun weekend. On Saturday, Aubrey attended the birthday party of her friend, Ashley. It was at a big bouncy place with lots of spacewalks to jump and climb and slide in.

On Sunday, we made a trip to the Pumpkin Patch where we picked up a pumpkin, rode the train, and had a snowball. (It definitely doesn't feel like fall here, though!) Aubrey even got to take a picture with a giant spider!

The weekend was also exciting because we finally told Aubrey that she's going to be a big sister. She was excited for our news and can't wait for her baby brother, Cooper, to arrive, so she can teach him how to do all sorts of things. She even told me she would help change his diapers! (And as a side note, Aubrey is officially out of diapers! Just in time, right?! She's been potty trained and wearing underwear during the day since February, but still wore a diaper a night. Lately, we've been having more and more dry diapers in the morning and last week she went the whole week with dry diapers in the morning. So starting Sunday night, we let her wear her underwear to bed, and we've had two successful nights!)