8 Months

These pictures were taken 2 days before Aubree turned 8 months.  I love them.  I really need to use Krystin's photography skills more often.  Brigham was a total hand full and nearly impossible to work with but Krystin managed to get a couple of shots with him not being a total grouch.  We left right after we finished these and he was asleep before we even got off of her street.  It was a Wednesday and he normally skips his nap on most Mondays and Wednesdays.  I was relived to see his grouchy-ness was at least mostly due to being tired and not because he is turning into an honory, hard to deal with kid. ha ha

At 8 months Aubree still has just 2 bottom teeth and a 1000 watt smile.  She began crawling on her 8 month birthday.  Mark's mom and Albert were visiting us before they went back to Ohio the next monring and they were able to see her first time crawling.  They have been on their mission her whole life so they miss a lot of things.  We were so excited that they were there for the momentous occasion.  Even though Aubree figured out the whole crawling thing, it took her about a week to realize the usefulness of her new skill.  Now she crawls all over the place and we are all much happier since she doesn't need us to move her to a new toy or activity every few minutes.  

In the last month she has gone from eating anything I give her to wanting nothing but puffs, applesauce, yogurt, and sweet potatoes.  I also noticed that she will eat almost anything I am eating.  This made me wonder if she would eat green beans if they weren't pureed.  We have a couple of cans in our food storage so I opened one and cut the beans into bite sized pieces.  She LOVED them.  I am not exactly ready to move to just table food with her.  Pulling pureed veggies from the freezer is so much easier.  Oh well.  I will have to figure it out. ha

Aubree is still super smiley and sweet.  She LOVES Brigham more than anything in the world and he feels the same about her.  As soon as he hears her awake in her crib (and sometimes when she isn't awake at all) he runs in and gets in the crib with her and plays.  They both smile and laugh at each other all day long.  My favorite is when she just starts cracking up laughing in the car just because he is smiling at her.  

Halloween

Brigham loves the idea of getting lots of candy but getting him to wear a costume for more than 30 seconds is nearly impossible so I knew I had to find a costume that was mostly just normal clothes.  At about the time I was starting to brainstorm costume ideas, he began to really like all things pirate.  How perfect! I looked online for some inexpensive pirate costumes but nothing had the look I wanted for the price I wanted.  My favorite costume was $50!  There was no way I was paying that.  I wanted to be under $10 including shipping.  A week or two before Halloween I went to my favorite thrift store, Value Village.  They almost always have whatever I am looking for and it is only 2 minutes from our house.  I went in with a vision of what I wanted in head.  I had no luck finding what I was looking for (except for the black sweatpants that I cut to make pirate pants/shorts.  As I was walking to pay for the pants, I saw a woman's stripped jacket hanging at the end of an aisle.  I immediately had a new vision for this prate costume and went back to the children's section to look for a red shirt.  I didn't find a red shirt but I found some girls stripped leggings that I missed my first time over there.  Next I found a red scarf and a red belt.  I got his whole costume for $8.  We got home and I cut the sweatpants to make them pirate-y.  Next I cut the zipper and hood off the stripped jacket and then I cut the sleeves off.  I bought a red thermal shirt at Wal-Mart and we had our costume.  He loved it and so did I. Since I got a red shirt for him to wear, I ended up leaving the belt off.  He got a lot of use out of this costume.  He had a preschool fall festival, a preschool class party, the ward trunk or treat, and then Halloween.  We stuck with tradition and went trick or treating with our friends, the Woods.  Kaitlyn was a super cute princess, Brayden was an adorable chicken, and Aubree was a bumble bee.  It was another cold Halloween but lots of fun!

7 Months

This picture is actually from election day.  I have gotten really bad about taking pictures on the 23rd of each month. Our sweet Aubree-Rose is just that.  She is so sweet and smiles all the time.  We are amazed at how much she smiles.  Brigham was not a smiler.  He wasn't a crier either.  Aubree cries more than Briggs did but  she only cries when she is tired or hungry.  She also has to cry herself to sleep.  Most of the time she just wines for a few seconds but as she was getting close to 8 months old, she would cry pretty hard and sometimes even cling to my clothes once we got beside her crib even though she was obviously tired.  She is just a busy body and wants to be where the party is at.  She is still an awesome sleeper at night.  She goes to sleep for the night between 7:30 and 8:30 (depending on how early she decides to wake up from her afternoon nap) and wakes up between 7 and 8 the next morning. Occasionally she will wake up in the middle of the night or early in the morning and she will play or talk to herself and then go back to sleep after 20-30 minutes.  Nap time is a whole different story.  She will sleep anywhere from 30 minutes to 3 hours.  Most of the time her naps are between 1 and 2 hours.  Luckily she will play in her crib until when her wake up time is supposed to be.  Morning nap is supposed to be 10-12 and afternoon nap is supposed to be 2:30-5:30.  I will take a bad napper but a great night time sleeper any day over a bad nighttime sleeper.