You make me smile...

Oh the lack of "think before you speak" a two year old has! Apparently my kid is psychic, because every time she does something, she knows what I am going to say and says it before I even have a chance! Although Aubrey has yet to make me want to crawl under a table and hide, she does have a few cute things I just have to share...

This morning out of nowhere, she let out this monster sneeze. Before I could even say a word, she looked at me with a concerned face and said, "Bless you Honey!" Aubrey has recently learned that after we take a sip of milk or juice, the sippy cup goes on the table, not the floor; so every time she puts it on the table, she says, "Good girl Honey!" After almost every diaper change, I hear, "I all better?" Oh, and I love love love the next few...In the mornings, I usually wake up to a little blonde girl about one inch from my face saying, "I wuv you." That right there is enough to make for a great day. When we go down for nap time, Aubrey sometimes rubs the side of my face very gently and just looks into my eyes. Man I could go on forever!

After reading the last paragraph, I know what some of you mamma's are thinking. "She still let's her kid sleep in their bed?" and "Why isn't she potty trained yet?" Well, to be honest, I am only working on one of those topics presently. Let's talk about the sleeping arrangement first...I work twelve hour shifts, 5:00 to 5:00. It flip flops every month whether I work days or nights. When I work nights, as you can imagine, I cannot get home soon enough (as my co workers will confirm, due to a slight lead foot). I am a dispatcher at a Sheriff's Office, so you can probably imagine some of the calls we take. All I want to do is get home and crawl into bed because I know there is a healthy, beautiful, innocent angel waiting for me. My husband leaves for work when I get home, so I get to curl up to my Lil' Lady by myself! I usually watch her sleep and listen to her breathe, while thanking God she is ours, before going to sleep.

On to potty training...Wow it is hard to potty train! Aubrey was showing absolutely NO interest in the subject until I was told to buy the "Elmo Potty Time" video (thanks Joy ;). That has now become Aubrey's obsession. We watch Elmo on a daily occurrence more than I would like to admit. I actually know the songs! Anyways, since we got the video, she wants to sit on her pink little potty chair at night before bed! We are making progress!

This last story will tell you what the heck Aubrey was doing in the picture above. I shape my eyebrows ALL THE TIME. So the other day when I was doing just that, I had to run to the other room for I swear ONE second. When I came back, Aubrey was trying to pluck her own eyebrows!!! She is very sensitive, so every time she does something cute and I laugh, she cries. It took everything I had not to bust out when I saw this! No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't contain it, so....she cried! I'm sorry Aubrey you are just too cute!