Winter

If you've ever lived in New England, you know how long winter last.  We had our first snow in October and what I hope to be our last snow in April.  Here are a few pictures of us throughout this long cold season.

Avery Turns 1

Happy first birthday to Avery!

For Avery's birthday we did a winter wonderland theme at the house.  All the food and decor was white and icy.  We had about 25 friends who ended up coming and about 1/3rd of them were kids.  After all the excitement was over, we all needed a nap, especially Avery who took a 3 hour one.  Here are a few fun pictures from the day. 

Christmas In Colorado

This year we spent Christmas at Mountain Village in Telluride Colorado with the Wilson's. Believe it or not, this was my first Wilson Christmas, and destination Christmas as well. Although I missed a lot of the traditions I grew up with, it was fun to be up on the slopes celebrating the holiday in such a beautiful snowy white setting.

For the first couple of days Andrew was sick with a stomach bug so I bopped around town exploring the village and shops. By day 3 I was just itching to get out on the slopes, and we finally did! Here are a few of our pictures from the trip.

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.



Our Little Pumpkin

We have had such a great Fall this year. It's the first October where we didn't receive any Snow! Below are a few fun pictures we took throughout the month.

Apple Picking

 Pumpkin Patch

Learning to Walk

Halloween

Always wanting to hold her own bottle 

First Tooth

Avery's First Steps

Shortly after Avery turned 9 months old she started taking her first step, now at 9 1/2 months she's up to 10 steps. Here are a  few videos we've captured so far.