Monday, November 4, 2013

Let's see...what has gone on in the last week...uh...hmm.

In her new winter hat playing with one of her favorite toys.

 My brain isn't working correctly lately.  I've heard it's called "mommy brain" when your child sucks all of your common sense and reasoning and ability to remember things directly out of your cranium.  This seems to have come about as of late (who am I kidding? This happened the minute she was born.).  Example: I went to the pharmacy to pick up my prescription a few days ago.  They asked for date of birth.  I gave them Aubrey's and then couldn't figure out why the whole exchange wasn't working out.  Mommy brain-1, Keli-0. 

Aubrey, on the other hand, doesn't seem negatively affected by "mommy brain" in the least.  That's because she has sucked out all my brain power and is using it for herself.  Example: she can now climb the entire flight of stairs in our house.  We watched her do it yesterday (and stayed directly behind her while she did it).  She grabbed the carpet with her hands, hiked that little leg up and planted her foot on the step, gave a heave, and up she went.  To the second floor of the house.  By herself.  We are in SO much trouble.  Baby gates are being purchased tomorrow. 

I think we have finally gotten past Aubrey's previous pure hatred of baths.  She cried with every kind of bath I tried to give her.  I've bathed her in the kitchen sink for the past 2 weeks and she seems to tolerate it pretty well now.  She even almost smiled a little.  I have to leave a trickle of water running from the faucet though, so she can play in that while I do the scrubbing.

Adam and I went out on...what do you call those things?  Where the guy and girl go out and do stuff, away from home, without the baby?  Like dinner?  And a movie?  Oh yeah!  A date!  Yeah, we did that last week.  We left Aubrey for more than an hour and went out.  We had an actual face to face real conversation for the first time in a week!  And we went to a movie for the first time in a year!  It was lovely!

I think that's pretty much it for now...as far as this brain can recall, anyway.

-Keli