Avery Was 17 Months Old

This week Avery will turn 18 months old.

In fact she went to nursery today for the first time (she did great and loved it).

So yeah, as you can tell I'm really behind on blogging.

It's not because I'm pregnant, because I'M NOT PREGNANT!

We moved, the girls both had croup, Sean has been in Dallas and I just didn't feel like blogging!

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Anyway, Avery is adorable!

Avery is communicating a lot more.

She says so many words now.

Whenever Avery wants to go anywhere she grabs her "does" and says "bye?"

And then will bring everyone else their shoes too.

Avery loves coloring and loves stickers.

Every night when we read scriptures every is really great about grabbing scriptures for everyone and sitting down and "reading" with us.

Avery loves books. She especially loves a Beauty and the Beast book we recently bought at the thrift store. She will look at it for 10 minutes straight turning the pages and saying "Belle" and "East" (Beast).

This picture was taken when Avery had croup. To help the girls breath I would take them out in the cold air. In fact, one night I wrapped up Avery and took her out on our deck at 1 am.

Avery insisted on having her own keys and wearing a backpack.

Avery loves, loves, loves Caillou! She loves Dora too.

This girl just really loves TV, a little too much if you ask me.

Her she is mesmerized by Caillou.

Sitting in her baby sing read. She loves this swing and is still small enough,

well lite enough to sit in it.

And here are the girls at the zoo a few weeks ago. I just think Avery looks like a doll.

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Avery loves to put chap stick on, brush her teeth, comb her hair and pick out her own jewelry to wear. She is so girly and so independent. Anything Lexi can do she can to.

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Avery loves, loves, loves the Disney princesses! She says "Rora" for Aurora. "Rella" for Cinderella and "Belle."

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Avery recently learned out to say no. Which she now says all the time. But she is just so darn cute when she says it. She just makes me smile and want to kiss her.

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Avery loves throwing things. She gets in trouble for it pretty much every day now.

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Avery is a great helper. When we say it's time to clean up she happily helps to her toys away in their bins.

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I swear Avery is growing because she is always signing and saying eat.

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Avery is just so much fun and we love her so much!

(For fun here's the link to Lexi's 17 month old post)

First Field Trip & Fair

Last Thursday was Lexi's first preschool field trip (she has one a month).

We went to the state fair.

My girls had never been before

and I hadn't been since Sean and I went together right before his mission.

We had a lot of fun. At first Lexi was upset. She is really, really shy and

gets really, really stressed out sometimes when we are with big groups.

Eventually she warmed up once we got to the petting zoo.

Avery especially loved the petting zoo.

This girl LOVES all animals!

Avery went up to each animal and made their sounds and would wave and say, "hi."

She was very friendly.

Avery would have been happy to stay at the petting zoo all day.

Here's Lexi with her preschool class.

Eventually we broke up into smaller groups.

We went off with Evelyn and her daughter Tess.

We decided to take the girls to the rides.

Lexi had only been on a carousel before this.

I was expecting her to be terrified of the roller coaster but she loved it.

I think it really helped having Tess there.

Luckily for Evelyn and myself all the rides were only $1 that day instead of the usual $3.

So we let the girls go on several rides.

The height requirement for all the rides was 36 inches, which Lexi luckily met.

She was 36 inches at her 3 year check up.

Now, I know Lexi would love Disney Land but I want to wait to go until Avery is big enough to enjoy the rides too. Which might be a while since Avery is even smaller than Lexi

(percentile wise and real size wise too).

Avery did great. She loved watching Lexi ride the rides and loved eating all the treats I had brought for her and Lexi to share.

Evelyn's baby did awesome too. Kaylie just slept most of the time.

Lexi is always asking if we can go back to the fair.

Avery's First Dentist Appointment

Last week I took the girls to the dentist.

Lexi has been once before but to a different dentist.

I took the girls this time to Spencer Tasker. He used to live in our ward and he's awesome!

He's one of the people that helped us move into our old apartment,

when we first got to Albuquerque.

Avery had 14 teeth at her check-up (since then #15 has cut through).

She wanted nothing to do with anyone.

She was a pill, just like I knew she would be.

Lexi has 20 teeth.

She (we) need to be a little more diligent with our brushing and start flossing.

She was a little nervous and shy but did great.

Then and Now

We went through our storage unit today.

We're trying to get everything organized for our move NEXT WEEK!

Anyway, I pulled out our baby swing and bath tub.

And then girls loved playing with them.

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Here's Avery 4 weeks old.

Avery now. 16 months old.

Avery 2 months old.

Avery now.

Avery 3 months old.

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Lexi 3 weeks old.

Lexi now.

Lexi 3 months old.

Lexi now.

Lexi 4 months old.

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It's amazing how much my girls have grown!!!!

Avery is 16 Months Old This Week

On Sunday my little Avery Joy turned 16 months old.

Avery is more fun than ever.

The other day Avery woke up a little before 7 and I ignored her and she fell back asleep until 8:20.

Too bad Lexi didn't sleep in too.

When I went to go get Avery out of her crib I found her like this...

Avery is our tiny dancer. The second she hears any music she begins dancing.


Avery is learning her body parts. Her favorite is nose.
She is always touching our noses and says nose.
The other touch she even touch one of my friends noses, even though she didn't know her!

Whenever anyone is going outside, or Avery thinks they are,
she will run around looking for her shoes while says, deet. For feet.


Every night when Sean gets home Avery gets so excited.

She looks out the dinning room window and waves and says hi as fast as she can.



Avery loves to run up and hug Lexi so hard that they both fall over.


Avery is actually a really tough little girl.

Avery loves books.

She will grab books all day long and bring them over to me and force her way into my lap.

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Avery doesn't listen.

The other day I told her to sit down when she was standing on her little car that she rides on.

She didn't listen.

The next thing I knew she had fell over and had a bloody nose.

The fall didn't make her cry as much as the blood did.

She was bleeding like CRAZY. Seriously, she and I were really covered in blood!

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Avery's favorite TV show is Caillou.

If you ask her if she wants to watch Caillou she says yah and starts dancing.

She loves to dance to the theme song.

I know Caillou is a little old for her but she watches because Lexi does.

And now I think she loves it more than Lexi.

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I've started sending Avery to time out.

Mostly for pulling Lexi's hair.

When she does it we say, "Naughty. Time out in crib."

And she instantly begins screaming like it's the end of the world!

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Avery loves brushing her teeth. Whenever Sean or I are brushing our teeth

or are just in the bathroom, Avery will come up to us and say "teet" for teeth.

Lexi's First Week of Preschool

Again my pictures of so pixelated on Blogger. Grrr.

Anyway, Last week Lexi started Preschool.

I can't believe that she is old enough to go to school.

Lexi goes to Preschool on Tuesday and Thursday from 9:30-noon.

She is in a co-op style preschool.

There are six kids and every two weeks we rotate whose house we have preschool at.

The moms are the teachers.

Each week the kids learn about a different letter.
On the weeks of holidays they learn about that holiday.


Every first Thursday of the month we have a field trip.

We have some fun field trips planned, including the fair, a pumpkin patch, a tour of Dion's (an amazing local pizza restaurant), Explora (the local children's science museum), the aquarium and Art Attack (I'm not really sure what that is)... just to name a few.

Lexi loves preschool.

She has loved doing art projects and eating snacks and learning about new things.

I have loved the time at home in peace and quiet since Avery naps during preschool.

I'll explain this last picture.

Lexi and her friend Tess (who we carpool with) are wearing astronaut helmets they made out of milk jugs. They were learning about the letter A and astronauts.
Tess is 9 months older than Lexi. So she's going to be one of the oldest in their grade and apparently one of the tallest. Lexi is going to be one of the short, young ones!