independent

Aubree has really started to become "miss independent" lately. For example-eating.... (i know i know...all of these updates consist of Aubree eating-but i find it entertaining)

She has been surprisingly pretty good at using a spoon. Eric says it takes her WAAAAYYY too long to eat this way but I think it is fun for her to learn how to do it herself.
                                             

It always starts out with the spoon. And then....

she realizes that there is a much faster way.

  

 slurping it down is SOO much faster. Duh!

And this is where she finally makes the "Ahhh" sound. 

She enjoyed her meal.

 But wait...she is not done yet.  

 We almost forgot an important part. 

The part where you use your hands and fingers to get all of it out of the corners. 

Success.

Good thing she is fine with me scrubbing her down after she eats. This meal wasn't too bad to clean up.

But don't get me started on her eating her chocolate chip pancake by herself. 

 The pictures don't do it justice. This child was covered in chocolate!

But she was soooooooo happy that all the scrubbing was worth it. 

(Is it just me or is it hard to get everything off of little baby hands. I scrub and wash and then let her down to play and 5 seconds later i look at her hands and they are still covered. This is a big part of why she usually goes to the tub after she eats. MUCH easier clean up that way :) Good thing she LOVES bath time!