Poor Avery

Poor little Avery hasn't been feeling well since Wednesday.  On Wednesday she had a fever of 101.9, I felt horrible while taking her temperature and seeing the number keep going up and up.  Thursday it was 101.2, then Friday 101.3, and this morning 101.4.  She got a tooth yesterday so I hoped that she'd start feeling better.  No such luck!  So this morning we called the pediatrician office and took her in.  Besides listening to her lungs, the whole appointment was POINTLESS.  They could have just asked me these questions over the phone.  Does she have any other symptoms?  Has she been drinking well?  Have you been giving her any medication?  In the end all they said was in these cases her fever will probably break sometime today or tomorrow.  Thanks.  She took a four hour nap after that and when she woke up her fever was gone.  She's still feeling lousy though.  All she's wanted to do is cuddle.  So right now she's cuddled up to Louis watching Cinderella.  It's nice to have a cuddly baby for a change, but it's also meant that we haven't gotten much done.  Except play Monopoly Deal during her long nap.  (Yes Jon and Alisha we liked it so much we went out and bought it!)  Before I show you sad sicky (but still cute cuddly) pictures of Avery here's a picture to remind you of what she usually is like.

Now the sicky ones.  

Relaxing in the morning with her milk

This one looks really sad

She fell asleep like this

This is right now, except she just fell asleep

I hope she feels better soon!  It's sad when you're kids aren't feeling well.

Sometimes I Have Good Ideas

Avery loves bath time!  She loves to splash and (yes it's gross) drink the bath water.  I try to stop her, but sometimes it's just useless so I let her.  Her main obsession during bath time though is the splashing.  It used to be just with her feet, but recently she's started splashing with her hands.  It's so much worse!  The water goes everywhere and it's so frustrating!  I had a marvelous idea yesterday to solve this problem.

I took off this brown shower curtain

Then the inside clear curtain was all that was left!

Now I wash her really quickly then close the curtain and let her go to town! I can still see her, but I don't get wet!  (and neither does the rest of the bathroom)

She's a little smarty though

Hopefully this will make our bath time a little nicer for the both of us!

14 Months

Avery turned 14 months old yesterday!  It's still crazy to me how fast this time has gone.  She so much fun and still so sweet and happy.  We love her so much.  Some new things that she does this month:  WALKING!  I already mentioned that before, but it's still exciting.

She loves shoes, she'll bring my shoes over to me and want me to put them on.  Then she'll bring me Louis' shoes and wants me to put them on too!  Since walking we got her new shoes so her feet are protected walking around outside!  She loves them and has figured out to take them off.  She does get a little confused when trying to put them back on though. . .

She's getting more teeth too, she has 6 now and I'm pretty positive there are more coming in.  She's had her fingers in her mouth the entire day.  Before she got her 6th tooth she was a little vampire baby, see:

Can you see them?  Or shall we zoom in a bit?

Please pardon the messy face, I took this after she was done eating.  Now she has one of her top front teeth so she's no longer our Vampire baby.

Avery still loves Tigger!  She'll sit and watch "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" without moving for about 10-15 minutes.  Which I like because I love that movie too, I remember watching it as a kid.  

She also still LOVES books!  She would have me read to her all day if I would.  She will bring books over to me and when we're done she'll bring another one and it just goes on forever!  Ever night we read "My Goodnight Book" it was my book from when I was little and she loves it.  Right when I sit down in our rocking chair in her room she'll lean over looking at the book because she knows that's what we do!  *Side note:  After reading the book she'll immediately fold her arms because she knows we say a prayer after we read!  Since last week she's also started clapping after I say amen, it's kind of funny!*

Avery is talking a lot, a lot of gibber gabbering.  I love it!  She says words we can recognize too.  Hi, Hewo (Hello) Ti ti ti, (Tigger) Bye, Mmmmom, Dada, Bebe, (baby-she has a little baby doll that she'll rock and give kisses to, I love it)

Right now we are working on teaching her how to use a fork and spoon.  For now I've just been giving her a fork to hold while feeding her and will occasionally hold her hand to help her get a bite.  She's great at getting it in her mouth she just doesn't get how to get the food on the utensil.  

We love our Avery baby so so so so so much!  She is so happy all of the time and is so silly.

Something I Forgot

I forgot to write about this, but a little over a week ago my sister Megan and her family, plus John came up to visit us!  It was Megan's first time up here since we moved into this new apartment in April.  (Which reminds me I said I'd post pictures of our apartment and I still haven't. . .)  It was fun, I like people coming to visit.  That same day Louis had driven down south and picked up Ben (Megan's husband) and John to go to the Rocky Mountain Gun Show.  Apparently it sucked by the way, it was unorganized and just different then what they expected.  So on the way back to Logan Louis dropped Ben off to pick up Megan and the kids and they all drove up here!  We played some cards, as we always do, while we waited for Avery to wake up from her nap.  Then after a while we went to Firehouse Pizzeria!  We love that place, but don't really go too often.  They tried to leave without getting a FH'zookie!  Which is just unacceptable if you ask me.  Don't worry though we stayed and had one.  If you don't know what a FH'zookie is, here's a picture.

It's a cookie baked in a cast ironed skillet and topped with ice cream and yummy chocolate and caramel syrup.  D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S!  Even if you get stuffed with pizza you'll eat the FH'zookie because it's just that good.  Wow that was a lot of talk about a dessert.  I hope if you ever go there I didn't oversell it.  I don't think I did though.  Here is a picture of us at the restaurant.  It was great having them come up!  Love you family!

Snow Play

We got a little bit of snow over night (like an inch maybe) Avery and I decided to go play in it.  I bundled Avery up in her snow pants, boots, two pairs of gloves and a hat.  Then we headed out for only about 5 or 10 minutes!  She's played in the snow before, but she was still very intrigued by it and didn't even tried to eat it this time.

Ready to head out.  Do you like how my hair
is sticking to her hat?

See what I mean?  Not very much snow.

This face let me know that it was time
to head inside

We headed back inside and I decided we should probably have some hot chocolate.  It was actually just warm chocolate for Avery.  It helped warm us back up.  It was a good morning.

Walking??

Avery's new discovery for the day is walking!  I actually caught her first steps out of the corner of my eye.  So I spun around and said to Louis, "Did you see that??"  We just sat and stared at her and she takes 3 or 4 more steps!  Ahhh!  I actually teared up a little bit!  I don't know why.  She's just growing up so fast.  People tell you "Oh, it goes by so fast!" but you don't really understand that until you experience it.

Soon she'll be running!

Fun at the Park

A few weeks ago it was ridiculously warm for January.  Avery and I took advantage of it and spent some time outside.  One day we headed over to the little park across the street.  It was the first time we've played there.  It's more of a big kid park.  Big slides and monkey bars.  No swings at all.  So all we did there was go down the slide, but she enjoyed it!  Here are some cute pictures of our little sweetie.

Ready to go down

Yay, she made it down to the bottom!

She had a lot of fun!

Oh we love her!

Avery's Adventures

Avery likes to explore and get into things.  Lately she's really liked to get into our food storage shelves.  She'll pull some cans off and roll them around the kitchen floor.

 I thought I had it pretty blocked off from her with her high chair being in front of it, but then she got smart and went from the side!  Even though it's a little bit of a stretch she gets them.

 Then she would roll all of the cans into the same spot in the kitchen, over in the corner by our recycling box (aka old diaper box you see in the background!)  Little smarty pants.  I came up with a solution though!  We have this old shelf from when I was a kid.  Just one shelf, not the rest of it.  I don't know why we have it.  So I placed it up in between our water containers and the storage shelves and she can't get to it anymore.  Woohoo for Mom!

My haircut from a future stylist of the stars!

Over the Christmas holiday one of my favorite friends Nicole came back to Utah from Colorado.  Nicole is one of those friends that I know I can always count on.  She's one of those friends that no matter how long we've been apart it still seems like we've seen each other just yesterday!  I'm so lucky to have a friend like her!  Nicole has been going to cosmetology school for almost a year now and she said she'd do my hair when she came out.  I knew she would do an amazing job because she loves doing this so much!  She told me a long time ago that she was thinking of going to cosmetology school and using that to help pay her way through nursing school.  I instantly knew it was a good idea and that she would be fantastic at it!  She is finally doing and it and I was wrong.  It wasn't just a good idea, it was a GREAT idea and she is more than just fantastic at it! :) I told her to do whatever she wanted to my hair, I trusted her.  Plus if it happened to turn out not so great (even though I knew it wouldn't) hair grows back.  It turned out great!  It's the best haircut I've ever had.  It takes only about 10 minutes to do and even if I don't do anything to it. . .it still looks great!  Here are a few pictures:

Here's a view from the front, not the best
picture sorry

And here's the back

This is without doing anything to it, it has just air dried

I can't put it in a ponytail, but at least I can pull it
up out of my face and it still looks good!

Like I said Nicole sadly lives in Colorado, so I can't have her cut my hair anytime I want her too.  If any of you are lucky enough to live close by though, go and see her!  I promise you'll leave happy!  Here's her info:

Proud Mama

Since Avery was about 7 months old we've been making her fold her arms for prayers.  In sacrament meeting, before meals, and during a prayer before going to bed.  I'd always say, "Time for a prayer, fold your arms."  On Sunday she saw me folding my arms while I was walking back over to her and Louis at church and she folded her arms too!  I didn't know if her arms were just like that or if she really was "folding her arms" later before a prayer in church we said "fold your arms" and she did!  It's cute and makes me happy and proud.