2nd Birthday Party!

Avery's birthday party was so much fun! I loved seeing her so excited about it and I absolutely loved working on all the details that I knew would make her smile. All the butterflies (aka"why-whys") and Dora was SO exciting for her. She would run around and squeal at every thing. :) She had almost all of her buddies there so she was in Heaven at her favorite place, The Little Gym, with her friends. Such a fun day and such sweet, sweet memories!

birthday girl with mommy and daddy

with two of her favorite peeps, Mimi("nini" as Avery calls her) and Papa

She cracks me up!

fearless girl flipping backwards on the bars

She LOVES her aunt and uncle!!

They sat her in the middle of the parachute as we twirled her around and we all sang to her. Of course she loved the attention. :)

jumping fun!

She has really been enjoying dressing up and playing mommy with her new toys!

terrific twos and meeting the grandparents!

I wanted to try and take a few pics of Avery before her party tomorrow. I ended up with this sweet one that I love! Her shirt has a big two on it. You can't tell here. She likes to point to it and tell you "I two!"

I pretty sure the "twos" are here! She has started letting me know more and more what she does and doesn't want to do with a little bit of an attitude thrown in. She's a little bit independent I'd say! I asked her to sit in her chair and let mommy take a picture. The pics below are what I got before a time out was threatened! I said "Avery, aren't you excited about your party?? Won't you sit and say cheese so I can have a picture of you in your party clothes?" She replied "NO!" to all of the above. She knew what she was saying because then I said "Well, should I tell your friends that they shouldn't come because you don't want to have a party?" She said "Yes!" Little stinker! No worries, party is back on! 5 minutes later she was smiling and giggling about her Dora and "why-why" party.

Avery go to meet some of her grandparents for the first time this week, Grandma Margie and Papaw Jim.(on Luke's side) They live in Ohio and we saw them last right before I had Avery. We were so excited they came to visit. Avery warmed right up to them immediately and they loved that! They spoiled her rotten. :) She got to go to the store and pick out anything she wanted. She thought this was the greatest idea ever! SO thankful that she has so many family members who adore her like Luke and I do.

The dancing and singing Dora! BIG surprise she would pick that. ;)

She had no trouble showing them the things she likes. ha!

TWO in two weeks!

I can’t believe my baby little girl will be two in just two short weeks!! J This last year has FLOWN by I feel like. I’m trying to be excited about it and not too teary. She just gets more fun with every new stage! We are beyond grateful for our sweet little girl!

Avery, Some things I don’t want to forget about you at this age are:

You started being able to repeat any word we ask you to about a month ago. It’s so cute to hear the way you say things!

You can say your name when someone asks you. You pronounce it “wavery”. Ha!

You love to cook in your kitchen, you say “I cook mommy!”

You love to cuddle, or snuggle as you say it. I love this!

You love to be read to and must sit in the lap of the person reading. Sitting beside is not good enough!

You still sign for a lot of things but you say the word with it. May favorite is “eat” and you point to your nose instead of your mouth. J

You tell us your food is “trash” when you don’t like something. Little toot!

You are a pretty good eater, still on the list of favs are: avocados, chicken, pancakes, spaghetti, apples, ketchup(you love this and will dip ANY food in it which grosses mom out sometimes)

You have been working on learning numbers and colors. Purple is your favorite and you like to point out everything that is purple. You can count to two and love to show us when you have two of something.

You love butterflies aka “why-whys”, dogs(any kind of animal really), choo choo trains, & baby dolls.

You love to show me everyone’s mommy and daddy at the store, on movies etc. When we see two dogs or two of anything, one has to be the momma and one is the baby. J

You like to pretend to be a baby. The other night we were at dinner and daddy and I were admiring a little tiny newborn at the table next to us. Her mother was rocking her and you crawled up in my lap and wanted me to rock you and feed you your milk like a baby. Melted me!

You favorite movies are Dora(obesessed with her and Boots!) and Max and Ruby

Your favorite thing to read is your Bible. You get so excited at night to read before bedtime. If you ever act upset when we say it’s time for bed, all I have to do is say "you want to read your Bible?” and you take off running so excited!)

Your blanket or "night-night" as you call it is your favorite thing! You can't sleep without it and we don't take it in stores or any where out, so when we are somewhere away from home, you like to talk about it and ask where it is a hundred times. You get soo excited when leave cause you get to have your "night-night" in the car. Not sure what we will do in kindergarten without it!! You still sleep with your paci aka "pappy" and you are quite fond if it. :) No plans of taking that away any time soon, no worries!

You love dancing! You break out into a dance at least 20 times a day, and not just a little dance, some major booty shaking! Daddy is slightly concerned about this. ;) I’m excited for you to start ballet in Sept!

You like to pray. It’s so cute to see you fold your little hands and say “pay”. You won’t let us forget at any meal. Other day at Hobby Lobby with mommy you asked the check out lady to pray with you. You insisted, despite me telling you that we would pray on the way to the car. You were irritated that she ignored your requests!

I love you to the moon and back baby girl! You are mine and your daddy’s world and our reason for everything. I love you and can’t wait for this next year with my two year old, tantrums and all!!

Mommy

"I Cook!"

Lately Avery has been very into cooking. She brings me her apron to put on her and says "I cook!" She loves to take cookies, crackers etc. in her kitchen and bake them and then bring them to any willing taste tasters. Chloe is the biggest fan of this. :)

"Baking cookies is hard work. I take it very seriously." ;)

"Let's put them in to bake and do the baking dance!"

"Yay! The buzzer goes off and they are all done!"

"bye- bye every one!!"

Where did the time go??

We went to Avery's friend, Eden's 2nd birthday party this past weekend. It was fun to be with our friends, the Storments. I couldn't help but get a tad bit emotional(if you know me, this is pretty common ;)) over the fact that our babies are turning two! It just doesn't seem real to me. They have been friends since they were a month old and I still remember that so vividly. Now they are running around everywhere, talking, and acting too grown up. It kills me! Eden is such a precious little girl and I'm so thankful to have watched her grow these past two years. The Storments are moving to Abilene so we will miss being close, but we've already planned our first trip out there. :) Avery had a blast at the birthday party! I kept telling everyone who asked, "She's 23 months", not "She's almost two, or she'll be two in a few weeks," nope she is 23 months and I'm not ready to say the "t" word yet!

Eden's adorable little brother, Samuel

Avery and Daddy had a lot of fun!

cake face!!

Avery felt the need to monitor the gift opening to make sure she wasn't missing out on too much. ha!

She looks so big in this pic! She felt very big and cool in her candy necklace and it cracked me up.

sweet friends!

little trip down memory lane!


This cracks me up! Look at these little chubby bunnies :)