6 Months Old

As of yesterday, Avery is officially 6 months old.  It is crazy to me that she is already half a year old, but I don't remember what it is like to not have 2 kids ... is that weird?  She is such a sweet little girl and we love having her in our family.  I was asked from a family member to tell a bit more about Avery (because we live so far from everyone, she wanted to know more about Avery's personality).

* She is one squirmy girl - she loves to move around and jump.  She gets up on her hands and knee's and rocks back and forth - I am nervous she might start crawling any day.

* She is a Momma's girl.  She will go to other people, but she is constantly looking for me in the room, and lights up when I make eye contact with her and smile (I love it too)

* She laughs up a storm when Jaxson plays with her

* When she is getting upset and about to start crying, she starts saying "Deeeshhh deeesshh" its kinda funny. 

* She has tried sweet potatoes and squash and liked them.  She gagged on the peas (don't blame her really)

* She loves to give me kisses.  She grabs my face, hair, or ears and pulls me in for a big wet smooch.

* She loves chewing on her feet and everything else she can get to her mouth (including paper).

So that's just a bit about our little Avery girl.  Now for some photos .... This was last week before church.  I love having a little baby that actually resembles me (at least more than Jaxson did)

 The other day I was working on etsy stuff on the computer, and I smelt poop.  I asked Jaxson if it was him, and he said no.  Now, even when I know 100% sure Jaxson pooped himself, he tells me he didn't.  So I figured it was him, and waited a couple minutes to change him.  Well, I turned around and found this ....  Yep - it was Avery.  Man, that took me a good 20-30 minutes to bath Avery, clean the toys, etc...  

 Avery at 6 months (this morning).  She is back in her helmet - hope it fixes her head soon and we can be done with it :)

 She loves tummy time (Jaxson hated it).

 She is doing pretty good at sitting on her own (for a little bit at least).

  Some young boy is officially Paci-Free.  We prepped him for a while saying the Paci Fairy was going to come and give him some nerf guns if he gave her his paci's.  Even after 3 weeks of asking him if he was ready to give up his paci's, he said no.  So we finally just took them away and the next morning he had some cool guns to play with (these nerf "jolt" guns are awesome - they shoot so far... we actually bought 3 so Ryan, Jaxson, and I could each play with them at the same time :).  Jax was pretty mad about his paci's for about 2-3 days, but he is over it now.  He didn't sleep as long at night or during his nap during that time, but I his schedule is getting back to normal.  Here is the little guy posing with his new toys.

private blog?

**I did just do a new post - so look below this one.

BUT...

I am thinking of making my blog private.... what do you think? I just don't like the fact that I can google image search my name and have my photos show up...

Any advice? Please leave me your email address if you still want to follow me (if I decide to change)...

6 Years and Counting

On August 29th, Ryan and I celebrated our 6th year wedding anniversary!  I love this man so much and am so grateful he is my best friend and companion.  He is the cutest daddy and hubby!  We talked Rhonda in coming out to see us and help us with the kids for a week.  We took full advantage of being able to go out on our own --- went to dinner/lunch a few times, out to a movie, played early-morning basketball, late-night volleyball, and went to the temple.  I really enjoyed being able to spend some time with Ryan. 

"Guh Goh" or so Jaxson says, and the grand kiddo's.  Thank you for coming to see us! We had a blast :)

 Jaxson has been obsessed with shooting bow and arrow's lately (him and ryan play a hunting game on the wii).  So Jaxson has lots of hangers or "bow n' arrows" that he shoots on a daily basis.  His favorite things to shoot are mountain lions, puma's, bears, deer, and buffalo.

 We all went to the zoo after Ryan got off work - we enjoyed it, although it was still way too hot to be outside blahhh...

 flamingo's

 The ant-eater.  He was super cool, reminded us of a sloth (in his movements at least)

 Hippos!  These guys were way cool - we got to see them during their feeding time.  They went up to the window like this and opened their mouths, while the workers dropped food into their mouths.

Yep- Avery now has a helmet (to fix a flat spot on her head).  Hopefully she only has to have it on 3-4 months ... cross your fingers.

 The BIG rhino

 I decided it was about time for Avery to get a taste of the oh-so-delicious rice cereal.  All and all, she did pretty good.  She wasn't gulping it down (like Jaxson did) but she did alright.  Her face kinda tells you what she was thinking...

"What is this stuff?!"

 Jaxson's best friend, Claire, moved away this week, sniff sniff.  We had Claire and Jacquee over on Monday for swimming and a bbq before they left Saturday morning.  These two are so cute together.  Jaxson just lights up when he see's her, and is telling me often that he loves his Claire Bear.

Warning ... these screams are very high-pitched!

 Jax had fun sliding down Guh Goh's air mattress.

 Loves him some jello footballs.  Well, maybe he likes the idea of jello footballs better than actually eating them ... he usually just makes a mess of them.  Either way, he loves it.

 Just a couple more photos of my sweet football player ... I mean girl.  Anyone have any pink BYU or Y stickers?  We wanna put one on the side of her helmet :)

August

Another month has come and gone, so here is my monthly post.  I will try to post more often in the future... I think :)  

Here is our sweet girl, growing up.  She turned 5 months old this week ... and as a present (not!) ... she is getting a helmet.  Unfortunately she has a moderate flat spot on the back of her head, so we are going to get a helmet tomorrow.  I am really REALLY hoping she only has to have it on for 3 months, but we will see.  Pray for me, I mean her :)

 Jaxson throwing a fit because he wants more candy. Haha, I think he had enough, don't you?

 Our stake had a fun pioneer day activity with french toast (with great harvest cinnamon bread ... yum!), kettle corn, cotton candy, snow cones, volleyball, horse rides, waterballoons, waterslides, bounce houses ... it was AWESOME.  Although, at that activity, I realized I am a ataxophobe (fear of messes).  I just get so annoyed and frustrated when Jaxson has sticky messy hands and he is trying to touch me, my clothes, his car seat, the car, etc ... I just don't like messes.  Ryan and I also were in charge of the water balloon toss ... which was fun .... although my feet got splashed and then covered in mud ... which I had to walk around the whole time with mud and dirty on my feet.  Not a happy camper.  I will work on this phobia because kids just make messes right?

Ok enough of that.  Here is Jaxson and his friend Claire eating their cotton candy after raiding the watermelon cooler.  I think Jaxson took a bit of each slice of watermelon and put it back in the cooler... oops.

 Right before Jaxson stuck his cotton candy in Claire's hair.  What a nice friend.

 Photo of Avery & Jaxson around the same age ...

 Me and my sweet girl.

 She loves doing her tummy time

 I caught Jaxson teaching Avery how to use his laptop, or so I thought, until he started to scream her to stop touching his toys.  We are working on sharing things, needless to say.

 Look at those kissable lips

 Avery's new sleeping habits ... she likes to roll over, and then start crying - not fun for either of us.  She is sleeping shorter stretches than she use to when she was younger.  It will be the happiest day in my life when she sleeps all the way through the night.

 Avery and Jaxson - both at 5 months old.  Do you think they look alike?

 Avery at 5 months

 Jaxson wanting to be a part of Avery's photo shoot

 Our precious little girl :)

 Avery fell asleep in Daddy's arms a few nights ago.

 Another one of Avery's sleeping poses.  I think this one would hurt my neck...

 Happy Bath Time!

 Ryan and My 6th wedding anniversary is on Wednesday, and I am so stoked.  Rhonda (ryan's mom) is coming into town for a week, Ryan and I can go out whenever we want.  Super excited!! It feel's like we haven't been out on a date FOREVER