Child of the 80's

Total bed head....

Shoe Queen

Aubrey is a shoe fanatic. She loves to grab my shoes from the closet and walk around the house with them on. It doesn't seem to matter if they are a pair of shoes or two mismatches. Look at the big smile on her face here. She's so stinkin' proud of herself!

Harvest Festival at School

Aubrey's school had their annual Fall Festival on Halloween weekend. We left Prescott and headed over there to check it out. She had a great time trick or treating, petting the animals in the petting zoo, playing games and getting stars painted on her hand. She was a bit unsure of who exactly was painting on her even though we explained that it was her teacher Ms. Suzi with a wig on.

She was dressed as Glinda the Good Witch from the Wizard of Oz. As you can see from the pictures it was a homemade costume. We used the dress that she wore last Novemeber to Josh and Dana's wedding and sprayed it with some silver glitter. We found some fairy wings and a tiara to top off the ensemble and she was happy with it. Brian and I thought she looked super cute!

Last weekend getaway as a family of 3

We've been trying to do a ton of fun things with Aubs before our world totally changes with the upcoming baby. We decided to go away to Prescott for the weekend during the last weekend in October. We got to head into town for Harvest Festival. At that point we still didn't have a full Halloween costume for Aubrey so she wore her Old Navy Halloween shirt and tried to be festive! At the festival she got to play all sorts of games for prizes (mainly candy) which she thought was great! She even got her face painted with a butterfly, sparkles and a special jewel. We weren't sure if she'd let the woman paint her face but she was excited about it and sat super still.

After leaving the Harvest Festival we checked into the hotel and went swimming. Brian made sure there was an indoor pool at the hotel. That was one thing we needed to make sure we had for Miss Aubrey since she loved swimming so much this summer. The pool had a play elephant in it that sprayed water from his trunk. Aubrey thought it was pretty cool to look at but it took her awhile to warm up to the idea of being under the falling water. They also had a small kiddie pool which was basically the size of a jacuzzi. It went from 1' to 1.5' deep and we spent most of our time there. Aubrey had a blast walking around the pool and swimming with Brian in the big pool. We had a ton of fun watching her laugh and giggle! It was a great little vacation get away for the three of us!

Facing Forward

Finally, at 25 months Miss Aubrey has been flipped forward! Right before she turned 1 the guidelines were changed for forward facing children in the car. The new standards bumped from 1 years old and 20 pounds to 2 years old. Brian was bummed because he wanted to flip her but we waited and waited even though all her friends still seemed to be flipped once they hit 1.

We were heading to Prescott for a weekend getaway and we took Brian's car. Aubrey's Cadillac of car seats wouldn't fit into his backseat backwards so he made the decision to flip her around. She smiled the whole way there. Check out that grin!