A few things

After posting Monday's post I remembered a few things I meant to include.  Avery is very into saving "her" money!  Any change she finds, no matter where it is, she tells us she is going to put it in her pocket.  While we were on vacation she was given a one dollar bill from Papa and then later found another dollar bill in our room on the cruise.  I asked her again what she was going to do with it and she replied, "I put it in my pocket and den I take it home to my house and put it in my peepee".  I said, "WHAT?"  She kind of laughed and repeated herself.  I taped her saying it for evidence when she gets older, but we are really trying to master the word "piggy bank".  How that got translated into "peepee" is beyond me.  She is also getting very good at using her manners which makes me beam!  She has always said things like thank you and please, but now she says yes ma'am, no ma'am, your welcome, bless you when you sneeze, and sorry when she gets in trouble.  She loves giving kisses; no matter where.  I was standing in the kitchen yesterday and she ran over to me, lifted by pant leg and kissed me on the calf.  Random, but oh so sweet.  And she loves to kiss you on the hand or tell you "I give you sugars?"  I love her kind spirit.  The last thing I wanted to include is about tutus.  They are going to be the death of me.  She loves wearing tutus.  And to be quite frank with you they are becoming a fight in our house.  I have to use her tutus and dress up cloths as bribes for potty training, eating any meal of the day, and well everything.  I love her sense of style and always needing to match, but it is wearing me out.  As the weather is changing and I am dressing her in warmer cloths she tells me her pants are too tight and she grabs at them.  Really, they are brand new and falling off of you.  That child!  I love her to the moon and back but I think I have met my match! 

On this particular day I got to see five different changes......including changes in the shoes, crowns, and tiaras.  Poor Mickey and Minnie were drug around for all of it.

One of the famous tutus.  Granted she is adorable, I wish tutus did not start such huge meltdowns.

And she still loves to get into the dog kennel, aka "Maddie's House".

Busy Bee Avery

Avery is growing up so fast!  She is loving preschool and talks about her teachers all the time.  She has really made a good transition!  She comes home from school singing songs about Jesus, The Father, Baby Shark, and Baby Bumblebee!  I love hearing her sing!  I am also loving the time I am getting with her.  We try to have a play date with our friend MJ once a week and it is so good for them to see each other and for us mommas to catch up.  She is carrying on conversations, interacting with others, knows all her colors, and loves her friends.  I could not be more pleased.  Her favorite things right now are playing dress-up in her princess dresses, coloring, being outside, dancing (she tells me all the time that she needs to dance so I put some music on and watch her go), and playing with her babies and kitchen.  During the summer Jason and I potty trained and when he went to Alabama for two weeks she regressed alot.  So we are starting over.  It is hard right now because there is really no three days to just stay at home.....especially in October.  October seems to be the month everything gets busy.  So we are going one day at a time.  At Disney she slept in a "big girl bed" and now is set on having a big girl bed.  So we made a deal that when she is potty trained she can get the big girl bed.  Avery is still a sleeper.  We did however find out that she will probably have to have her tonsils and adenoids out.  She snores like a little old man and wakes up grumpy more times than others which are two signs of sleep apnea.  Who wold have ever thought?  Other than that she is growing like a weed and thinning out!  All her 2T clothes are big on her!  We love her so much and are super excited about the holidays and all the excitement she is going to have!  I love watching life happen through your child's eyes!

 

P.S.  I will get around to posting our Disney pictures this week.  Promise.  There are just so many.   

Our little soccer star.  This game momma almost lost it with a few kids.  I think the other teams' coaches teach them to trip their opponents at the age of two.  I understand older kids being more aggressive but Avery was kicking the ball, got tripped, one kid kicked her in the face and they other jumped on her back like she was a horse.  It took every calm bone for me to just let her and her coach figure it out.  I was proud of her though because she did not shed one tear.  She just told me, "Ouch, my check".  Not worries, we are teaching her combat skills along with her soccer skills now.  She will be a force to reckon with from here on out.

Brushing it off and getting back up to play!

She has a great coach!

And she follows this referee around all the time watching her every move!

Momma and Ave after her game.  I was proud of her!  Missing Daddy though.

Helping Daddy make brownies after school!

Trying the beater for the first time!

Snoozing like always!  Errands make her tired!

Posing

Sweet girl

Since last year she loves pumpkins!  We try to go to this event at Calloway's Nursery every year!  Avery has so much fun doing all the Fall activities and making all the goodies!

She told me, "take my picture!"

Working hard on her pumpkin.

Another, "take my picture" moment!

Coloring her book.  We ended up leaving with a coloring book, a potted pansy, salad bowl, rye grass man in a cup, and a decorated pumpkin!  All free too!

Heading to church.  I love that she loves to go to church.  Makes my heart so happy!

Had to ride the shuttle over to the Arboretum.  First time ever.  Normally I get a great parking spot.  MJ was too excited to have his picture taken because he was riding on a "school bus" aka tour bus!  He was so cute!

They are looking at me like why are you taking pictures?

Thinking about her next move.  She is such a busy body!

They had so much fun!

Getting both to look at the camera and smile was impossible!

One of my favorite pictures of the two of them.

The different pumpkins are so cool!

She loved playing in the hay!  And before I knew it the two of them had thrown hay all over me!  It was funny!

Sweet MJ!

First Soccer Game

Saturday, September 15th was Avery's first soccer game.  She is playing on a little team through Blue Sky Soccer Center in Allen.  Their colors are black and blue and their team name is the Bruisers!  All she has talked about the last couple of months is playing soccer and when I tell her to put on her teeny shoes she says, "No mommy those are soccer shoes!".  Too cute!  The only bummer was that daddy and Papa could not be there.  They are both at work.  She did great!  She scored a goal on FIVE boys!  I was so proud and really had fun watching all those two years old "play".  It was quite entertaining! 

Ready to play!

Walking onto the turf!

Hand on hip!  Now tell me again what I am suppose to do mom.

Maybe I'll just sit here and roll it in.

Concentrate.

Getting a pep talk from her coach!

Warming up!

She listened to the ref when she said to stand on the white line.  But let's try standing on our side!

Getting to know the other team.  I guess she was trying to get their game plan because the blonde little guy was super good and the brown headed little boy liked to steal the ball.

Water break.

Avery liked the other teams goal..........not to kick the ball in but to play in the net.  Awesome!

Getting ready to kick the ball!

Shaking the other teams hands!  At this age they don't keep score but the other team looked as if they had been secretly practicing!  They looked like they knew what they were doing!

Mommy and Ave.  Missing Daddy:(  But momma was so proud!

Avery's cheering team!

 

 



Weekend Fun

The weekend cool front brought lots of fun this weekend!  We love being outside but the heat has really put a damper on that here lately.  Not this weekend!

It's Game Day!  Wreck'em Tech!  Raiders had a good weekend and for all those Tech haters, a win is a win!

Jason's dad was camping at Lake Texoma earlier in the week and we went up for an evening on the boat and a cookout.  Avery was not sure about the lake water.  I don't blame her!

Daddy tubing!  And we saw the boat that exploded that day on the lake.  We hope everyone made a full recovery.

Beautiful sunset.

Filthy child.

Getting to be our normal "at home" attire.

Loves the bath!

Helped daddy clean the cars!

Precious Avery!

Sweet girl

Super hyper!

Goof ball!

Club Lake BBQ this weekend!  Perfect weather and yummy food!

We hung out with Nana, Papa, Wuwu, Aunt Lori, Tucker, Great-Grandma and Grandpa!  Grandpa nor dad won a gun, gift card, or fishing poles so we all ended our night at Braum's.  

Avery wearing her Build-a-Bear's cloths on her head!

Home from church acting silly again!  We did lots of sticker art, jumped in the bounce house, blogged, hung out on the back porch, watched football, decorated for Fall, and cleaned house.  What a great weekend!  Oh and we leave for Disney in 10 days!  Woohoo!