Update from the Bryants

I was uploading more pictures to the blog today. Again.  (I've been staying up all night for days putting up pictures and some during the day too.)  Emily saw me and asked what I was doing.  I showed her the blog book I had made for 2010 and showed her some pictures of herself when she was a baby. Of course she thought the baby pictures were of Aubrey.  I read the first page while she sat and cuddled next to me.  Aubrey was playing in her playpen and Anthony was building his Knex roller coaster.  He started laughing and asked me to keep reading.  Before I knew it, almost three hours had gone by. I read the entire book to them.  I guess they liked it, because Anthony asked if we had anymore.  I cannot fall behind on blog updating again.  I don't have many stories to go along with the pictures because so much time has passed. It's embarrassing trying to read the stories when my grammar and spelling were so bad.  I hope when the kids read the books when they're older, that they don't think their mother wasn't very smart.  I just type fast and don't notice the mistakes until I try to read it aloud and hear myself not making any sense.  But I still think, while no one loves photos more than me, the stories are the best.  I love all the quotes from the kids.  They say the funniest things. When I reminded Emily of Aubrey's Christening and showed her the pictures from her own, she asked if she took at a bath at church too.

It's been 48 hours since we left the hospital, so Aubrey finally got to take a bath.  I've given her a sponge bath the last two days.  It's better than nothing, but I feel better now that she's clean and I'm sure she does do.  Her hair is soft again instead of all crunchy from dried milk.  I know babies are messy eaters, but she is the first messy drinker I've ever known. Daddy filled her old baby bathtub for me and set it on the dining room table.  Then he distracted her so I could pull out the packing without her noticing.  It came out easy and was only a few inches long.  It was much easier than I thought, but it still gives me goose bumps just thinking about it. I don't want my babies to every have another boo boo again.

Tonight Daddy got us dinner from Zaxby's.  I shared mine with Emily and when we were finished I thanked Daddy for dinner.
Me:  Thank you for dinner Daddy!
Emily: Yeah Daddy.  Thanks for nothing!
She said it with a big smile and not sarcastic at all.

After dinner I told her how sad Uncle Joe was because he missed her so much and asked her if she wanted to make a movie for him.  I told her what to say and we practiced the song Aunt Kathy taught her from the show Petticoat Junction.  I pointed to her when my camera was recording.  She added a little marching dance and went totally off script. It was awesome.  She was so adorable.  She said her part from the song and then said, "Hey Uncle Joe.....I miss you." in the cutest little voice ever.  Then I asked her if she wanted to call Uncle Joe and let him know about his surprise.  She said yes.  I was shocked because I've offered to call him for her several times and she always says she doesn't want to talk because she's shy, but wants him to come over. She left him a cute message.  (I was whispering in her ear what to say because I was afraid she's changer her mind)  He called her right back and boy did she get a case of the sillies.  She laughed and giggled and refused to hang up.  She said she's going to stop being shy and will start talking to people, except strangers.  She said she still doesn't want to talk to strangers.

Duck pond and Aubrey's 1st ER visit

July 28th.....

Daddy took the kids and I to the duck pond to feed the ducks.  I was hoping to recreate the picture of Anthony and Emily holding hands walking by the water, with Aubrey added.  We put a pair of shoes on her so she could walk on the beach area.  She wasn't real thrilled with the shoes and had no interest in walking in them when we got there. Plus, all those ducks made her nervous.  Daddy held Aubrey while the kids feed the ducks.  Emily was a little nervous but had a good time.  I don't know if Anthony was pretending to be scared or not, but at some point he was hiding and feeding them from inside the car.  He kept insisting there was a chicken there. I never saw it but later when I looked at the pictures, sure enough there was a chicken.  We even saw a one footed duck.

July 29th.....

Aubrey had her first ER visit last night. I made her a sick appointment with her doctor this morning, for a sore she's had on her right butt check that wouldn't go away.  The doctor said it would have to be lanced and was too big to do in the office, so he sent us to the ER.  Grandma came with me and Aubrey.  She was pretty pleasant for a while, but we were there a long time.  The said every room was full and then the power went out and they were running on emergency generators and then the fire alarm went off.  It was a strange experience.  Several nurses saw her, and all were very nice and loved Aubrey.  One in particular, Amanda, was Aubrey's favorite I think.  Aubrey even gave her a double handed wave. Since the power was out, things were hectic and someone unorganized at the hospital so our stay lasted over four hours.  Once the nurse felt comfortable that Aubrey wouldn't require sedation, she allowed her to finish her bottle, which Aubrey seemed to greatly appreciate and was much more tolerant of having to be there.  They gave her oral pain medication and made us wait for that to kick in.  Then they gave her oral "loopy" meds to help her stay calm.  I tell you, that girl was pretty calm.  She let us lay her on her belly and hold her down.  She didn't even seem to mind when the nurse pushed on her sore,  After that, when they got to the worse part, Aubrey cried and cried and her whole body turned bright pink.  She was a trooper though. She got thru it and didn't hold it against Mommy or Grandma for helping hold her down.  She even forgave the nurse who did the lancing and waved to her when it was all done.  By then, her drugs must have kicked in really good, because it wasn't the most energetic wave.  Of course that was after she tried to grab what looked like the needle she put in her butt. I think she was plotting her revenge. Mommy was a trooper too.  I teared up at the doctors office when he said it would need to be lanced.  But I didn't cry when they did the procedure like I did when they did Emily's.  I came close though. It was very hard to watch.  I'm sure it was a bit harder on Aubrey though.  Poor little girl was so out if it by the time we left that she waved goodbye to the trashcan.  She looked so doped up. We stopped at Walgreens on the way home for bandages and her antibiotic prescription and as soon as I got her in her pjs and put her in her crib, she fell right asleep.  She barely even touched her bottle. I woke her up when I went to take her bottle out of her crib and checked her bandage and change her diaper.  She was still dry and I only saw a tiny bit of blood on her bandage.  She was cranky so I made her a new bottle and she went right back to sleep. Poor thing must be exhausted after last night, because other than the five minutes she was awake at 2:30 am, she has been asleep for almost 12 hours so far.

Aubrey's 1st Birthday