Avery's First Christmas

This was Avery's First Christmas Holiday at just a few weeks shy of being one year old. It harldy phased her that I turned our house upsidedown with decorations, but one thing that she did notice, were the ornaments. Every night she'd pull a few off the tree and play with them. She loved to try and eat the balls or blow in them like trumpets.  And the ornaments with bells we highly entertaining.  We'd sing Jingle Bells all night long as Avery would run around the living room shacking the ornament and nodding her head to the tune.

Christmas morning was celebrated in Colorado (another post on this to come) so before we left, we celebrated a little just the three of us.

 

Here's Avery meeting Santa for the first time. She was a little shy at curious at first, then burst into tears! Luckily we got a few good shots before the tears came.

10 Months Old

STATS
Shoe Size: 2.5
Clothes: 9-12 Months
Diaper Size: 3

This little babe has 2 teeth and loves to use them to eat her new favorite food, Cheerios. Her favorite past time is singing (via screaming ra ra ra ra) and dancing (via bobbing her head, squatting up and down and clapping her hands- but not at the same time :).

She tries to talk all the time and a few word we think she's saying are: Dada, Mom, up and uh oh. Words she understands but can't say are: more, bath time, no (selective hearing on that one), smile, hi. bye bye, all done, yea.

Here are a few pictures from this month.

 

 

 Alwasy wants to hold her own bottle.

 Will do anything to be in front of the camera! Family Pic!

 Meeting Caleb, my childhood best friend's baby, for the first time.

Sleeping on Big Jim.