Bear Lake

Yesterday Avery and I spent some time at Bear Lake with Vicki and Leslie and their kids. Avery was smashing her hand in this picture and didn't like it too well.






We had a good time. It was warm and sunny but then it got overcast and there was a nice breeze and it was perfect. Avery didn't really care for the water. It was pretty cold at first. She just sat on the blanket next to me and played.

The last 2 days Avery has slept all night until 5:45. This morning she slept until after 8. She seems to be feeling fine so I'm guessing it's a growth spurt.

I love my girl.

My Cutie

Avery is busy busy. Spending her time walking around the table and getting up and down now. She finally learned her legs will bend. Now it's cute when we play a little game where we peek at each other under the coffee table and she'll pop her head above it and look at me and then peek underneath. She just laughs and laughs.

"Mom, get the camera out of my face."

She looks so cute crawling on her knees. I just want to eat her up!

9 Months Old!!

Wow, 9 months old today! She's getting so big! She's doing something new every day. Love it!

"I'm so happy I'm 9 months old today! I got a cute new pair of shoes to celebrate!"

She's cruising more. She's jabbering more. She's finally crawling on her knees (well, not always). She pulls her bows out of her hair. And she's ornery. She's supposed to be napping right now and I heard loud noises coming from her room so I just went in there and she had pulled the rocking chair closer to her and was rocking it into the wall. Silly girl.

I'm so thankful we have such a wonderful little girl :)

3 Things

While Avery's napping this morning I've been watching the TV show The Doctors. I was pleased to hear them talking about skin to skin contact after birth. They were specifically talking about babies born prematurely. They were explaining why they use incubators and mentioned that a study in the country Columbia (brought about b/c a hospital didn't have enough incubators) showed that babies did better when they had skin to skin contact with mom or dad rather than lying in the incubator.

The second thing I'm happy about is that I got a magazine in the mail called Babytalk and they mentioned delayed cord clamping and listed the benefits of it. Yay :)

And the third thing is the magazine mentioned problems with some babies being tongue tied and how it can create problems with breastfeeding and how the tongue tie is often over looked. Correcting the tongue tie had corrected a lot of breastfeeding issues. I bet alot of mom's give up, not knowing why their baby can't/won't latch on. I'm glad they brought awareness to these 2 things!

I wish more people would research things.

Top Teeth

I have a hard time getting pictures of Avery's top teeth. This isn't a great picture but you can see them. They look silly!

Happy Birthday to Grandpa! Avery's hangin' with her dad and Grandpa :) She's chewing on some ice for her gums.

Mom! I'm awake! Come get me!
Grilling some chicken and patiently waiting. What a good girl.
I don't know why blogger is stupid and won't let me align my text anymore. Just another thing to annoy the crap out of me lately.

I'm not sure why I can't get any videos to upload. I have tried to even send them as an email and it won't work that way either.

I have nothing else happy or informative to say. I'm gonna go drink some vanilla biscotti coffee. Maybe that will take all my cares away...:)

Pioneer Day Parade

Here's some pictures that were taken in the last week. Most of these were taken with my phone so they're kind of blurry.




Avery went to her first parade today. I toward the end, took Avery to the car because it was so hot and the parade was soooo long. Avery got a farmer's tan today too. I got a picture of us but it's on my friend's camera since I forgot my memory card.

Avery is cruising along walls now. She walked from her room to mine this morning. She can open the cabinets now too. I can't remember if I've mentioned she can open the sliding pocket door in my bedroom.

Yesterday she crawled on all fours a couple of times. But she's still mainly on her belly.

I'm so tired I can't remember if there was anything else I wanted to write. Oh well.

In 3 months I will have a toddler. Avery is growing so fast, she's not going to be a baby much longer. Every day she amazes David and me with how she's learning and moving. She's getting much quicker on her feet. Sometimes she zooms around the coffee table like a puma. Ok, not that fast :) A few times I have even seen her get down after standing.

Sometimes David and I just can't believe how big she is.

Robin sent her a Veggie Tales DVD and it's the first thing Avery's ever sat and watched. She likes it.

Avery's been enjoying grandpa :)

My dad made us some homemade butter the other night. That was pretty cool. I melted some and put it on my popcorn last night--yum yum! We'll have to make some more and experiment with some different flavors!

Well, I've been trying to get Avery to take a nap so she won't be tired later but it's not working :( I better lay her down...again.

Baby Book & Family Tree

Whew it's been pretty warm here! I shouldn't complain though I guess! Last night it was so hot in our bedroom. I guess we'll be putting an AC in our room very soon.

My dad brought me my baby book and I was looking at my measurements for each month. I saw that at 12 months old, I was pretty much the exact size of Avery at her 8 month check up! Our weight and height were the same.

He also brought me my family tree for my grandpa's side of the family. Indian lineages can be hard to trace. So it's super neat to see 8 feet of mine :) I had only been able to trace back to my great great grandfather, Captain Jim. And yes, Captain is his first name and Jim is the last name :) I had never seen the names of his parents or grandparents until yesterday. I also know that he had many wives and so it was neat to see some sense made to them. I'm very grateful for my uncle?? I don't know what he is to me actually--for making the tree. I've got to add to it though. My grandfather's children and so on are not on it yet.

Well, looks like someone (ahem, Avery) has decided to take a short nap. Gotta go!

July 18, 2011

The weekends just go by way too fast! We had a really great weekend and got alot of stuff done.

The only bad part of the weekend was going to the baby's funeral. I've never been to a baby's funeral and it was really sad to see that tiny, white casket. It was a lovely service though. I was sitting with my neighbor and we had to stand when the family came in. Well, they kept coming and coming and coming. My gosh the families out here are huge! I was thinking about how this would be one of the many perks of having a big family. There are a lot of people who love and are willing to help out the grieving parents. Not to mention their church family who is just as willing to help in any way. I saw my neighbor the next day after the funeral pushing one of her children in a stroller, walking to get their mail. She is now that mother who lost her child. When will she stop being that (I know, never but you know what I mean)? I remember thinking when my mom died about how I had become that girl. The one who had lost her mom. Anyways...

Other than that our weekend was nice and relaxing. We ate at this mexican restaurant that I really liked. The first one since living here that I've really like and I've been driving by it for the last 2 years!!! If I had only know sooner!!

Well, it's time to go to bed. My dad will be here tomorrow!

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Avery was grumpy yesterday afternoon because she refuses to sleep for any decent length of time so we sat in the garage and waited for dad to come home.

Avery got some new princess PJs. I took video of her walking around the table but of course I can't get it to load on youtube. I tried onetruemedia too but can't get it to upload there. Maybe it's my internet that isn't letting me upload.

Sad & Happy

Yesterday I was sad to learn our neighbor's baby boy, Cale, died. It was expected and has brought some relief to the family but sadness as well. I couldn't imagine loving on my baby for 4 weeks and then no more. I remember when my mom died feeling angry because I felt like my world stopped on that day and everyone else's was continuing on. I've wondered if they're feeling that way. Thankfully they have a large family and wonderful friends who are helping and have been praying with them through their journey.

On a happier note: Avery's been in a better mood!!! We're just having a hard time with going to bed. She screams. Literally screams. Her later afternoon naps aren't working out so well so that's making for a grumpy girl in the evenings but the past 2 nights or so haven't been bad.

She can now walk around the coffee table :) With the way she's getting good at side stepping, I should take her to a powwow so she can 2 step! A while ago I ripped paper in front of her and she laughed and now she tries to rip paper. I think it's the cutest thing. When she can't get it to rip, she just throws it to the side. Which is the next thing I think is cute. When something is in her way she chunks it to the side. I know it won't be cute when she's older but for now it is.

She's adorable. Seriously. Adorable.

Beautiful!

I've been wanting to go to this little farmer's market in a little town to the south of us called Paradise. Well, we drove by the market which consisted of about 4 tables. Seriously. 4 tables. Maybe less. So we decided to drive up to Porcupine Reservoir instead. We drove on this road for a long time along the reservoir but we realized that it couldn't circle around the reservoir so we looked at the GPS and saw where the road went and decided we better turn around. Maybe someday we'll go back and follow it all the way through. The GPS showed that it gets really windy.

Later that evening when we were home I looked out the window and saw the sky looking like this:

I feel really blessed that I am able to see God's beauty every day.

Lovin' the Laptop

Avery's hair is getting long and unruly. I've mentioned before how much she loves my laptop and here she is trying to open it. I got a video of her but as usual I can't get anything to upload on youtube. Stupid youtube.

She was super ornery last night. I went to pick up some pizza and had just put her down and of course she was back up when I got home. She has shortened all of her naps and maybe it's because David was the one putting her down that she wouldn't go to sleep. I don't know.

I will keep trying to get the video up. Stupid youtube.

Summer Evening

Look at the cute bow around my disc of pictures I got yesterday. I'm so glad I got my pictures!!

Yesterday we got an invitation to dinner at the neighbor's house. The guy and his brother have a smoker that they take to events and they make barbecue. I think he was really wanting to test out their barbecue on us. Kinda funny :) We had some pulled pork sandwiches and some ribs. I thought they were both really good. I was pretty impressed. Especially since they're from out here and barbecue is not very common. Barbecue is something you do here, not eat :)

Afterwards on the walk home we started to visit with the next door neighbors of the people whose house we ate at and 2 of the neighbor guys came over because one of them discovered that we have a sprinkler system (which I told David we did but he didn't believe me so we haven't used it all summer...soooo a big thanks to my neighbor for pointing that out :)) So they helped David get it going (there were some issues at first that they had to figure out). It was a great night. Alot of people were out walking and visiting and kids were riding bikes and playing in the water. We met our new neighbors and visited with the husband (the wife isn't so personable it seems). It was just a perfect summer evening. And to top it off--Avery was so tired she didn't play when I put her to bed :)

Our neighbor sent us home with some strawberries from her patch and they're so sweet and delicious!

We learned some sad news about one of our neighbors last night. They just had a baby 4 weeks ago (their 4th) and he was born with a heart defect and they have opted to not have surgery on him and so they're basically waiting for him to die. The doctors said he probably wouldn't live past 5 days and now it's been 4 weeks. He looks so healthy and beautiful, you'd never believe it. The whole left side of his heart is underdeveloped is what we were told. Such a sad ordeal for the family. They are in our prayers.

We're all excited for grandpa to get here too :)

Just Another Monday

I like how David didn't get my whole head in the shot :) Also it's lovely how I've got stray hairs sticking out everywhere. Besides that though, look at my happy girl :)


This picture below is me in the spring of 1989. I was 4 years old. My great grandma made this pink dress and I have a picture of my mom in it and obviously me in it. I really wanted to get a picture of Avery in it but wouldn't you know the dress is missing? It really bums me out. Check out my awesome perm! And the sweet comb over deserves mentioning also!

Avery is cutting her 2 top canine teeth. She's going to look pretty goofy with her 2 bottom teeth and top canine teeth :) Her top left looks like it's pretty close to coming through. She's going to look like she has fangs haha! I love that grumpy girl. She's learned this new whine that's really high pitched. It's lovely.

She's getting better at standing. She still can't get down. She is starting to move along things and she can move to other tables or to you. I love reading milestones and seeing that she's following along beautifully :)

I got her professional pictures today! I haven't even looked at them but they came with a cute little bow on them. So I better go so I can look!!!

New Toy

Today I got this little toy for Avery for $5!!! It also turns into a little toy that she can walk behind :)
She really likes it yay!

HapPy fRidAy

I don't know what's happening and I am in no way complaining but for some reason this little girl has been letting me cuddle her in the mornings. I love it!

I am DYING to get Avery's pictures back. It's such torture waiting.

I participated in a book exchange and I'm curious to see if Avery gets any books. I hope she does.

I have been reading some stuff about Bill Gates and Planned Parenthood and some of his views. Pretty interesting. I'd like to learn more about some of his views but if I do I'm pretty sure I'll think he's the devil.

David and I got our picture taken this weekend and wow is all I can say. I've been thinking alot about health and saw this challenge of eating whole foods for 100 days. You can't eat anything processed or out of a box unless it has less than 5 ingredients. The challenge makes it easy for you by supplying menus and grocery lists and other tips. I've just been really freaking out about all the extra crap that's in our food. I think it would be VERY challenging. I also want to start buying local meats from farms around here. I think it would be so cool. I'm going to need a farm :)

Park

Yesterday David had to work late and I was a little worn out from little miss so I decided I didn't want to sit at home and listen to her whine :)

So we went and got a malt and went to the park! I took all these pictures with my phone so the color is a little off.

Weeeeeee!

I brought this laundry basket into the living room so Avery could use it to stand against. She doesn't mind it but prefers the coffee table or the table with the tv on it.

It doesn't seem like she fell as much yesterday but maybe it's because I didn't let her. Who knows? I just noticed her hand is in rock n roll mode in the above picture. I'll be happy when she can go from standing to sitting. She finally is able to go from sitting to "crawling". Which is bittersweet because sometimes I would sit her on her butt to keep her out of things while I was doing something.

Oh and I just want to mention: I'm soooo ready for her to sleep through the night. Believe that.

New Video

This is what my day consists of. And check out her new gag thing she does.

Teething Bites.

Look at her little baby feet! I went in her room earlier and she had part of her legs through the bars.

She's having a tough time lately. She was waking about every 2 hours last night :(

She got to go play with her friends Jaydon and Kynlee yesterday afternoon for abut 30 minutes but I don't think she even knew I was gone. She didn't seem to care that I came back either! She loves loves loves kids! It's so funny. She gets so excited when kids are around and she just thinks they're all hysterical.

Ok, I better get something done since she's napping. I can't get anything done with her while she's awake right now. So gRuMpY.

Land of Bumps & Bruises

Avery's been falling and bumping her head and experiencing a little something called: frustration.

She got up early today since her daddy went in her room with me this morning and got her all excited :)

I put her down for her nap and after a while heard her so I went to check on her and there she was standing in her crib. The frustrating thing about her standing is she either falls or gets stuck because she hasn't figured out how to get back down. So now at night her bed time has been bumped back a little later because if it's light in her room she wants to play. If it's dark she won't. This has been the only reason I don't like longer days.

She only wants to stand at the coffee table or the side table that has the tv on it. The edges of the table are so sharp that it makes me really nervous so I try to move her to her exersaucer so she can stand at it but nope she wants the other tables. I try to put her at a big plastic tub. Nope, she wants the sharp tables that will hurt worse when she hits her head on them. David said she's either a slow learner or just really determined. Which we all know it's the latter :)

Oh she's a crazy girl.

Bear Lake and Tony Grove

We went to Bear Lake today and it was too cold for us to get in the water (most of us anyway) for most of the day. The sun finally came out but it was still really windy. After we left the lake we went to Tony Grove which is up Logan Canyon. It's a glacier lake. I wasn't as impressed with it as say...Bloomington but it was still nice. The altitude was 8,000 + feet.

Here's my girl at the lake. I was sad she didn't get to wear her swimsuit. I hope she gets to wear it before it's too small. It's getting close.

Here's Avery and Dayne. Dayne is 4 months older. He'll be one on the 6th. He's a real cutie. They weigh about the same but Avery's chubbier.

I think she ate quite a bit of sand today. I don't think she liked it so much but yet, she kept eating it.

She's been pretty grumpy lately. I'm guessing she's teething. She has not been her usual happy self. She was crying so much in the car today she kept gagging herself and she NEVER cries in the car. Poor girl.