Avery's Shoes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOCjZ4PQg08

Here is my latest video creation. It's been a while because my laptop was awful at editing HD content. I ended up buying a new PC at Costo. I'm not sure why youtube letter boxed it on me, I'll have to figure that out later.

Wild Baby on the Loose!

Big Girl on Campus

Avery and I went with Daryl to his math class on Wednesday. Fortunately his class was during the brief time of warmth and sunshine that we had that day. Avery had a splendid time running around, pushing her stroller, and touching every grate or manhole that she saw. We had a really good time, and Avery had many admirers on campus. In fact she was the only kid I saw on campus, which was very different from my times on BYU's campus.

Random Cuteness

Dorothy Bothell Park = Fun Times

Today was sunny and mostly warm, so I pretended to be a good mother by taking Avery to the little park just up the hill from us. She had a pretty good time, and there was a beautiful view of Mount Rainier on the one side and of the Olympics on the opposite side, so not too bad a way to spend part the of the day.There was a little girl named Sonya there who generously shared her toys with us in what I will only loosely refer to as the "sand" box. More like the dirt and small pieces of gravel box. Avery of course tasted this lovely concoction, and despite clearly not liking it, kept going back for more. Sonya was funny she kept talking to me even though half the stuff she said was in Russian which I don't understand.
Mount Rainier with a stupid tree blocking the view and some other nice mom getting into her minivan.
Avery loved the teeter totter. She spent the majority of the time on it. That meant I spent the majority of my time making it go up and down. Fortunately it wasn't the old school fulcrum one. This one had springs in the middle.
So yeah, she is still scared of swings. Loves the teeter totter, but can't handle this safety swing. She was hyperventilating during her brief sojourn in the swing. I couldn't get her out fast enough.

Fun at the Supermall

For a change of pace I took Avery to the Supermall. We ended up staying there two hours. I just let her mess around and play. She almost made it around the whole mall, but got distracted when we got to the play area. She jumped into the strollers that look like race cars and sat in one of them for quite a while "driving" it around which elicited declarations of cuteness from a passing elderly couple. She's "riding" around a fish in the White River at the play place. The only store we went into is the one she took me into: Gymboree. They had little chairs around a television there, so she had to try them all out. She also enjoyed the photo booth too. Like most children her age she loves to push buttons.

News that is only vaguely related to us

So on Monday my BFF forever (we are quite aware of the redundancy in that statement) got engaged. So DeAnna, there's not much to say about how the proposal went down. Ben asked her before Family Home Evening. He got down on one knee, called her by her full name, gave many professions of his enduring love, and then asked her. Needless to say I am very excited. Here's the picture of the ring.

Left to her own devices

Last Saturday we threw caution to the wind and put Avery to bed in her twin bed. She did fine for the most part. I was expecting her room to be just torn to bits in the morning, but she only got out all the blankets she could reach. She also took out all the socks and tights in her top dresser drawer and stuffed them into the diaper champ. Fortunately, she didn't try turning the diaper champ, so I didn't have to fish baby socks out of a bag full of gross, dirty diapers. I really wish she never figured out how to open her closet doors.

Too much love!