Friday, November 28, 2008

Gobble, gobble, gobble

Boy did Avery have fun at Grandma and Grandpop's house. We slept over Thursday night after a big turkey feast (see below Grandma cooking her bird). Avery had tons of fun playing in the basement with all new toys and she went to a playground on Friday for some fun with Grandpop and Dada.



A pre-Thanksgiving feast.


My two look-a-like cutie-pies.



Riding Rody


Trying to figure out the tunnel... butt first.

Come on Avery... let's go in the tunnel!!!

Football time... on the couch with Grandpop.

The 3 A's - Aidan, Abby and Avery

Swing time...



Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Brrrrrr

Here's a pic of Avery's new furry hat for winter.
As usual, she looks thrilled with the hat fashion show.

A happy girl reading in the tub!

Our attempt at a holiday card picture. We are going to try again on thanksgiving (and probably the same outfit, so you'll see it again!).
See how quickly she goes from tame to insane...





crazy, right?

Grandma and Grandpop came to visit today to bring us a winter coat for Avery and a bundle me to keep the babe warm in her stroller! Thanks for all the warm winter stuff - we sure did need it!!

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Bday, Obama and More

Avery voted on election day at a 'kids' voting booth. She threw McCain on the floor and grabbed Obama, crumpled him in a ball and tried to shove him in her mouth! Obviously the signs of picking a winner! Yay Avery! It was a great bday and one that none of us will ever forget!

Avery voting with her crumpled ballot.

This is what happens when Avery finds her stash of diapers.


Nikki and Jess came over to play with Avery.

For someone who doesn't love kids, Nikki sure looks like a natural!!!! HAHAHA

Cutie pie getting a bath!


Having fun in the lounge downstairs.

Getting some giggles from rubbing on Daddy's head!

Sunday, November 2, 2008

Halloween

Just a few pics of Avery the Mouse from Friday. We went to a 2 hour playgroup party in Brooklyn Heights. It was total madness and so much fun. The poor babies were sweating in their heavy fleece costumes b/c it was 65 outside, so as time went on there was less and less clothing.

my sweet little mouse :)




getting a hug from liliana

Avery with her best buds Keira and Max

Avery and her elephant friend/costume cousin

Avery loving the baby faces book

Mommy and her tired baby. Happy Halloween!

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Fun times

Avery and I have had lots of fun playing the past couple weeks whether it's at her playgroup, music class, library class or at home on the floor. She's covering a lot more ground these days and can go forwards several feet.
She's also completely OVER her baby food. She pushes my hand away whenever I want to give her any baby food, but sometimes Dada can still get an open mouth from her. I've had to come up with lots of prepared foods to give her during a meal so she eats anything from tofu, black and white beans, edamame, corn, plums, peaches, grapes, apple, chicken, ground turkey or hamburger meat, sweet potatoes, any kind of whole wheat bread or pasta AND she ate 2 chicken dumplings Tuesday night with Scott and me for dinner. I thought she was already done with her dinner, but she made room for 2 big dumplings (of course cut into Avery sized pieces).
So here's some new pics... here's Avery wearing some fancy hats.


Here's a pretty smile with 2 center lower teeth showing!!!

More pics of her teeth at breakfast this morning....

Daddy opened all the windows this morning while he was getting ready for work and it was FREEZING in the apartment. Avery and I had to bundle up and get cozy after he left until the heat kicked in.

Here's Avery at music class today. See how far away from me she got?? She didn't want to have anything to do with me during class today... it was all about the other parents and moving to the center of the room.

Avery was covered in ribbons for a couple mins and couldn't figure out what to do with them... we moved from twirling scarves around this week to twirling ribbons... you can see why that would be confusing, right??

Here's Avery eating her musical instruments (as usual). She's great at shaking them for a little bit, but she finds them irresistibly tasty and can't resist the taste test.

and here she is again very far away from me....

That's all the Avery news for now!!!

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Speedy Gonzales

Avery has free reign over the floor as long as she's moving backwards. Today she was pushing herself very quickly towards the couch while I happened to be taking pictures.
Here's Avery fitting into a space only 1 of our cats has fit before...




And she kept on going until she hit the back wall!
On Saturday, Scott and I went to the theater, and our friends Swati and Brittany were nice enough to babysit Avery! She had a great time with them!