Kitchen Aid

The social worker joked with me back when we were "waiting," that soon I'd have a little Chinese shadow. She has no idea. Avery is at my heels almost constantly. If I run into another room for just a half a second I have to be careful when I turn around b/c she is right there. I have knocked her over a couple of times. Fortunately with no injury :)

When I am in the kitchen, she is there too. Much happier than she used to be thank goodness. She has become my "helper." We need to work on her FDA skills ;)

Making Guacamole, yum! 

As far as her eating goes, she is much easier to feed. We have stopped calling her "picky" and just labeling her as a "tapas eater" - she will eat a few bites of almost anything, but not quite enough to call a meal :) The Drs are no longer worried about her weight. She is clearly proportional to her height (which has increased by 2 inches in 4 months). She is mainly eating what we eat plus a few basic kid foods like fruit pouches, yogurt and canned fruit to fill in the gaps. This has been so helpful for me and cheaper at the grocery store too!

Blue Eyes

Today, I had the privilege of watching my nephew, Tripp, so Lissa could run a few errands. I had about 10 whole minutes with him without any of MY own children around too, bonus! Is he not the cutest thing ever?

Silly Me

I used to think (before kids), when I wanted to make my home look like a P0ttery Barn magazine, that I'd never allow huge ugly plastic toys :) Little did I know, I'd have them and they'd be stacked on MY desk chair on top of the "coffee table."  

Aside from needing my chair to type this blog post, I don't really care. They are happy and burning off energy on cold blustery days. Plus, I am a tired mama of four and I don't have the energy to be bothered like I used too ;)

Weekends

It's good to have daddy around a lot more :)

I found my egg nog drinking partner.

Call me old fashioned, but I must have some each Christmas. I first drink it when decorating the tree :) I don't like the rest to go to waste but one can only drink but so much egg nog and until now I was the only one who liked it. Better for her waistline than mine ;) Cheers!

One Track Mind

 

We are in basketball season now. How quickly he switches loves gears. Tonight is his first basketball game and no this is not his official uniform. Thank goodness ;) Today at school he presented his "Who am I?" biography. Of course he chose an athlete :) Pisto1 Pete a basketball player from the 70s. Part of the assignment was to dress like his person w/o buying or renting a costume. We did buy a $3 shirt and some iron on letters and blue Duck tape. He was quite proud our his costume :) He was so excited to go to school today. He did wear normal clothes to school, well almost...his real basketball jersey. Boys will be boys :)