Update post #2

Aubi lately...

Her favorite thing right now is books. She likes pretending to read them to me, Ian, and her babies. They're her 'Green Eggs & Ham,' she likes them in the car, in her bed, in the wagon, while riding her bike, at the store or in the tub, she likes books everywhere! Lately we've been talking about the pictures in the books because I'm getting pretty drained of the same stories. Her favorite right now is easily "Cuddle" which I don't find all that special but she loves it. Ian told me one of his daddy secrets and now I've caught on... each page has asks her to "find" something, or he points to things and has her say it. With Cuddle there's a little boy talking about cuddling different animals and Ian has Aubrie point to the boys shoe, or his eye or the skunk, or make a tiger sound. She likes it and she's learning, double win.

Speaking of learning, I've been trying to be intentional with exploring age appropriate material (I plan to do a separate post about her 'tot school' soon, stay tuned!). Her favorite number is nine, as we walk the stairs to her bedroom I count them for her and she thinks you count like this: "1...2...9....5....9....9....9....10!" Just thinking about her little voice saying niiiiiine makes me smile. I've been trying to be pretty intentional about pointing to items and calling them by their names and asking Aubi to repeat them... I know I'm bias but I think she's doing great :)

Some of her favorite words are: Tar (guitar), book, Bible, hew (shoe), wa wa (water), car, nana (banana), baby, cuddle, ummm, cower (color), keys, teef (teeth), pease (please), bike, and her name, she says it so clearly. Aw-bRee. Lately she's been saying "Aubrie B" which I find adorable! The standard mama, daddy, yeah and no are said too many times a day to count. She switched within the past few days from "Dada" to "Daddy." Ian loves it! It's been really cool to watch Ian enjoy being a daddy to her. He asks her for kisses all the time, usually after a few she'll say "Nooooo!" He keeps track of her babies, compliments her hair and tells me which dresses her likes most on her. Listening to him read to her, sing to her, pray for her, talk to her melts my heart. She is so lucky to have an awesome daddy. After she gets dressed in the morning or I do her hair or she colors a picture she toddles over to Ian to show him, awaiting his approval. His role is so important and by God's grace he's loving Aubrie (and me!) so well.

Lastly on a more somber note... Aubrie weaned herself. I was totally emo about it... and even cried a few times. I've researched a bit that around the sixth month of pregnancy it's common for moms milk to dry up or because of the hormones the taste changes - leading baby to self wean. Maybe the hormones did affect the taste but either way, I completely dried up. She still asks to comfort nurse a little bit here and there but there's no milk. I'm thinking maybe when my milk comes back in with Levi she'll start up again, not likely but well see! If you recall the awful time I had in the beginning (here) with nursing and the toddler nursing I researched (here) it was definitely bittersweet to see it come to an end. I'm so thankful for the 15 months I was able to nurse and learned SO much from it. I'd do it again in a heartbeat! Oh wait, in 3 months I will ;-)

That's the Aubi recap from the past few months, thanks for reading!