catching up

sorry to not blog in almost a week. we have been house sitting for friends and i thought it might be rude to download our 288 photos from this week on to their computer. right now we are home getting ready for aubrey's 2nd "1st" birthday party of the weekend. i thought i would unload the camera before her party, that way we have a clean slate to work with. anyway... this week. tuesday we arrived at the harlan's house to house/dog-sit for the next two weeks. it has been a lot of fun. what a great opportunity for aubrey to meet and befriend two well behaved, CALM basset hounds "ellie & lacy". she comes downstairs in the morning with me waving her arms and trying to get down so she can pet the puppies. they seem to like her a lot too. mostly because she has the tendency to drop food at a moments notice. friday i had my first "i can't hear her, i wonder what she is up to" experience... i left aubrey in the living room with a couple of cheerios on the coffee table and put the box on a side table out of the way, then went to get some coffee in the other room. when i came back aubrey, ellie and lacy were all huddled in a small space eating as many cheerios as possible. it was adorable....and mischievous...but mostly adorable.yesterday was aubrey's 1st "1st" birthday party with my family and some close family friends in new jersey.... we invented a new 1st birthday party game... we're not sure what the official name for it will be and we are open to suggestions, but for now we will call it "birthday suit bingo".
see aubrey hasn't been feeling well and has a little diaper rash so after changing her we are airing her out a bit.
thus "birthday suit bingo" was born. it's really quite simple. the birthday girl (or boy) get into her birthday suit and then everyone at the party gets a turn to hold her. the result is a sort of modified hot potato/russian roulette game where one lucky guest will eventually be "the winner" when the birthday girl/boy decides to give them their prize.
we played the game for a little while although aubrey never chose the winner. at one point we tried to speed up the game by letting her have some water to drink. eventually we gave up waiting because after all no one really wanted the prize in their lap. ;)