Monday, February 09, 2009
I should be ashamed of myself... but I'm really not. :)
So it's been awhile... this may be as good as it gets folks! There are so many other fun (and necessary) things to do that I never want to sit and blog. But, for the sake of my parents and out-of-town and out-of-country aunts and uncles, I will at least make an honest attempt at keeping this relatively recent. Three months isn't that bad is it? ;)
Here are some updated pictures of my girls. They're fun and busy right now. Landry has hit that great stage where we're really starting to have fun and Avery and she are interacting together. Avery says she loves sisters and wants "2 sisters and a lot more". We'll see about that.
Landry at 8 months (yeah, I know she's 10 months now, but it's still a cute pic).
Playing at the farm
Tara and JM took some family pics for us. These two were my favorites.
Can you ever have too many bath pictures? Avery loves being "naked as a jay bird" and will happily announce that to anyone she happens to be streaking by at the moment. That has been one of my most successful motivators in potty training in fact. If she's gonna be "naked as a jay bird", she has to use the potty, not the carpet to relieve herself or else she has to put clothes on.
This girl loves cooking with me. I think I need to make her a little miniature apron soon.
Intensely watching PawPaw filet the fish.
Meet Tinkerbell... Cinderella is in the background.
Does anyone else have this problem? Where did she learn this crassness? Uncle Clint?!?!?
Giving Q a bath.
Yelling at me through the window that she is done!
Nap time anyone?
Swinging with Neeno
Avery is actually a better conversationalist on the phone than I am. Which isn't saying that much since I despise talking on the phone, but still impressive for a two year old. I'll try to upload a video of a phone chat.
Alright, on to other things now. Hope you enjoyed!
Monday, November 03, 2008
Pre-halloween and Pre-birthday happenings
I guess it's obvious from this picture that Landry is trying like crazy to crawl. So far she can't figure out the forward movement, but scoots backward and can hold the plank/push-up position for a lot longer than I can!
One of Avery's favorite things to do is go and get her baby sister out of bed.
Kanyon came over to play for his big last hoorah before going under house arrest for the winter. He and Avery went on a wagon ride around the backyard and Avery showed him how she could throw rocks in the pond.
Carving pumpkins with Daddy.
Paris has a Pumpkin Festival every October and we had another good time this year. We got almost no good pictures because Avery has decided to only like the camera some of the time and that day was not a camera-friendly day. Here's Landry though.
Avery did get a spin in the petting zoo which she of course loved. She thinks all animals are the greatest things ever right now.
Which made the pony ride a hit too!
Unfortunately this is the only decent picture I got of Rosie and Avery together... still cute though.
Look at my little girls playing in the sandbox together. Do you think they'll always play this nice?
Concentrating on her pumpkin painting...
Ta-Da!
Old pictures, but too fun to pass up
My parents came into town this weekend (the subject of a later post) and brought their camera. There were some pictures on it that I had forgotten about from a mini-vacation me and the girls took to their house. So these are outdated, but who cares, right?
This one is of Landry the very first time she sat up by herself. She was just over 5 months old.
We went to feed the ducks at the neighborhood pond.
Me and Avery are big fans of the playground.
I thought this one was too sweet with her little legs crossed.
Avery also learned that she LOVES the trampoline at my mom and dad's. I get a good workout now when we go. It also happens to do wonderful things to her hair!
I LOVE this picture. It's a framer for sure. I was running around the neighborhood one morning and just happened by a garage sale with kids' clothes. I took a look and found this cute little pinstripe baseball dress with my dad's old number on it in the Atlanta Braves colors. It was perfect! So we obviously had to have a photoshoot with Landry dressed in her tribute to her Pop. That's his old helmet she has on and he is in his old cap. I think this is one she will cherish (I know I do).
I'll leave you with this and go work on my next post. I'm going to try multiple short ones instead of my typical ridiculously long ones.
Monday, October 20, 2008
The Yamboree and other assorted fun
Well this last weekend was Yamboree weekend, the weekend where much of East Texas comes together in the town of Gilmer to celebrate sweet potatoes... or something like that. Our family are big fans of this annual event.
Avery was a huge fan of the livestock this year. She has reminded several times of the animals she saw. Her favorite were the cows I think.
Cruisin' the livestock auction
Avery was elated to find out there were more cows when we got to Nanny Lou's house. She likes to talk to them, in their native tongue of course.
Enjoying the parade
Avery informed me her favorite parts of the parade were the princesses, music and cows (there weren't any cows in the parade, but she likes them nonetheless).
Somewhere in all our fun, Landry turned 6 months! What happened to our time?!?! She's sitting up and trying really hard to crawl. She can only get into the plank position now though.
We took the girls to the Farmers' Market to pick out pumpkins. Avery had a hard time decided which ones she wanted. First she filled her stroller with the "baby punkins".
Then she reassessed her choices when she saw the giant pumpkins.
We finally decided on one "baby punkin" and one "big girl punkin".
Good choice!
Another highlight of this fall has been Avery's early birthday present. Clay built her a sandbox in the backyard. She and Landry have loved it! We wanted it to be a birthday surprise, but were a little perplexed as to how to hide an 8x8 sandbox. Avery doesn't get dates anyways. Happy birthday early!
Landry is starting to realize there's more to food than mushed up fruits and veggies. I'm not sure I'll be able to hold her off much longer.
Tara, this picture is for you. Great birthday gift idea! The stroller goes with us everywhere (as you can see from the pumpkin picking). It is not unusual for the stroller to sleep with Avery either. Thanks for the great gift!
My mom has also donated our old Halloween ghost from when I was a kid to our family. Avery loves it and likes to go outside to ask him how he's doing a lot.
And I'll leave you with some random fall fun shots.
Bye!
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