Vintage Avery

Our sweet Avery was baptized today. In lou of my mom (and dad) not being able to come, I put Avery in my mom's dress. It's REALLY old (uh - 29 years old, right mom?!) and beautiful. Avery wore it well. It's definitely not an everyday dress. It meant a lot to have her in it. Kendall was too old to wear it when we baptized her, so it was a special "Avery only" moment. My mother-in-law took the good baptism pictures so I'll post those later, but here are the pictures I took this afternoon.

And she's off!

Well, Avery is REALLY crawling now. Daddy has been working hard coaching her. Kendall created a "toy trail" to encourage her (below the video). So my life will never be the same. Ty (the dog) is already annoyed as is the cat.

the toy trail

The Moss Visit

Last Friday Sarah (my college roommate - the blond one) came AAAAAALL the way down from North Houston with her 2 boys for the day. Her hubby was working out of town so we declared it party time. Well, as much crazy partying as you can do with 4 children under the age of 4. We all survived...we even went to the pool! Luckily we don't have kamikaze kids thats love to test their limits in the water. They were perfectly happy playing in the shallow 3 inch deep water. We survived and here are the pictures - taken with my new baby D40.

Avery wishing she could have hair like Kyle...she's on her way!

The old married couple...

Rocker Kyle...it's all that Metallica his daddy makes him listen to.

CLICK...take a PIC

So...I'm very excited to report that I got a REAL camera. I've been motivated by a few friends who have them and I'm tired of taking mediocre snapshots of everything. It's time for the real deal. I looked for weeks, did lots of research, got lots of advice and I am so so thrilled to have a new baby Nikon D40. And it came with a telephoto lens! I supposed that I could blame it on all my mom who found a really cheap book at Big Lots called "how to photograph your baby." Hmmmm...cheap book - expensive camera? I'm sure Mike really appreciates that. But in mom's defense it wasn't just the book. I'm going to take a class in August to learn the basics since I have no clue what I'm doing. Point and shoot. I've heard that's the best way to learn! I'm having lots of fun though.

6 month babies

My friend Suzanne came over last week with her 3 boys. Blake is the youngest of the three and one day younger than Avery. The hour consisted of Avery mainly grabbing for any part of him...my guess it was in hopes of being able to gnaw on him. Wow, I almost just spelled gnaw - "knaw." Not something I spell often! Here are the pics...my dinner is here and I've been hungry for 2 hours.

Mini-project

Nothing big, but I did a little artwork for Avery's room to finally make it complete. I bought these frames from Ikea about 9 months ago and haven't been creative enough to do anything with them...UNTIL NOW. I love cheap crafts. It took longer than I thought but I LOVE them. A little scrapbook paper and wha-la! ART! And it only cost me $5 for the paper and maybe $27 for the frames? Thanks to the internet for letting me trace (a.k.a. rip off) some pictures so that I didn't have to free hand these little critters. The deer was some wall decal, Owl was from a Pottery Barn pillow and the butterfly was from the Amy Butler free patterns. Did you know that you can trace off of your computer screen? Beware: don't press to hard or you'll be buying a new monitor. So without further ado...

Sisters!

Okay so I put Avery in Kendall's onesie on purpose. Can you tell who is who? Both bald!!!