The Parberry Family: It's March!

It's March which means it is offically time for some Spring Cleaning! (and it is the month before Aubree's birthday which means all those projects that have been sitting on our to-do list for a year are begging to get done... well, if you ask Dan they probabbly sound a bit more like nagging in a voice that sounds oddly similar to mine.) So, it is time to get them done!

First off, we are making an effort to eat at home and eat a bit more healthy. I am adding more veggies to our plates and we are eating more salads. Now that Aubree eats everything we eat I think it is time that we actually stop eating like we are still in college... Good bye Taco Bell at 9 pm. It is perfect timing for Spring Cleaning because we are going to clean out our fridge and pantry and refill it with some healthier options.

Our project for this week is child-proofing... Quite a daunting task when you start to see every item in your house as something that will potentially harm your child. The first thought is how to wrap every corner and hard surface in bubble wrap but when Dan tells you that you are a crazy person you start to think more realistically.

We have already plugged all the outlets. Well, all the outlets we could find. Aubree always seems to find the one that we didn't see.

We put nobs on our gas oven so tiny fingers can not start fires on the stove. (Child-proofing and Mommy-proofing just as I am starting to cook more... awesome.) We are in the process of pulling out the baby gates to block of Aubree's new favorite toys... the dog bowls and the stairs. She LOVES crawling over and taking out handfuls of food and throwing them on the ground one at a time. Then, if we have not made it to her by handful number 3, she starts splashing in the water bowl. If the gates didn't require drilling in the wall, they would already be up.

She can officially make it to the top all by herself (with me one step behind, of course).

We are also putting bumpers on our fireplace bricks. Probably, most importantly, we are in the process of building a new tv stand and mounting our tv. Now that Aubree can stand and pull herself up, she has discovered the lights on the DVR. (Not only is she pulling herself up, but she is climbing over the wall of toys in front of the tv stand.) Her favorite is the blue light that turns the cable off. She also found the red light on the xbox that spits out a CD... which is also fun to pull on. Now the xbox is broken. Needless to say, the tv stand will have doors. That is a month-long project in itself but we are hoping to get our whole house cleaned and organized by the summer!

Aubree loves to help her Daddy!