iPhone Picture Post

I FINALLY figured out how to get all of my pictures from my phone to the computer! So here is one long picture post of iPhone photos! Enjoy!

Avery is really getting into arts and crafts this summer. She loves painting (on paper and SKIN!) and coloring. Here she is one day in June decorating herself.
She hopped in the pool afterwards to clean off all the paint. This little girl loves water!

Here are Josh and Avery one weekend at the house. She is listening to music with him. I love how much they look alike!

My mom sent me this picture of Avery. She is thoroughly enjoying a homemade chocolate chip cookie at Grandma's!

At the beginning of June, Avery and I went out to Destin to meet Leslie and the fam for a mini beach getaway. Avery did so well in the sand and water!

She had a blast playing in the sand and swimming in the ocean and pool. She wore herself out!

Avery looking adorable before church one morning.

She is getting really good at eating with her fork and spoon. She loves her food so much that she doesn't waste much being messy :)

Like I said she is really starting to love to paint, color and draw. Every day when Josh gets home from work she steals the pens out of his pockets and draws on whatever paper we have near by.

Father's day weekend (June 18th) we took Avery to the Circus! Here they are waiting outside before the show. Avery really loved the animals and the acrobats. When the acrobats did a trampoline act she got so excited and started jumping up and down like the performers!

When daddy gets home is the best part of the night! I love this picture of my 3 babies!

Her first ponytail! June 22, 2011! Our little baldy finally has enough hair for a little "pebbles' pony on the top of her head!

Josh's birthday weekend. Avery was note feeling too hot this day :(

On Josh's birthday Ms. Aleta came up for lunch. Avery was too busy watching TV to take a picture.

She hammed it up though with mommy once we got home.

Watching daddy cut the grass outside...

Almost every Friday when Josh gets off work, he takes Avery for a date. They usually go to CherryBerry frozen yogurt, sometimes they let me come too :) Avery loves the vanilla FroYo with fresh blueberries.

She even shares!

Meredith came in to visit with the kids in July. We met them at Chuck E Cheese one day so they could all play. Watch out for the gun toting LeBlanc girls!

Carousel

They love Chuck E Cheese!

All clean after her bath one night!

Avery loves playing with all of the toys in her room. On this day she was being a little momma. She fed her baby some lunch.

And rode with her baby on the rocking horse.

We went out of town the weekend of July 30th to work on the condo in Texas. While we were gone Avery spent half the time at my mom's and the other half at Josh's mom's. At my mom's house the big girl slept in her cousin Julian's toddler bed. She is getting too big!

She had a great time with her Nanny Summer at Ms. Aleta's. I love their matching facial expressions!

beautiful girls

Leslie passed down this rocking chair to me when I met them in Florida. It was mine when I was little and both of her kids have played on it and used it. Now Avery loves to sit in it and eat snacks or watch Elmo.

Whew, that is all of the iPhone pics for now. I will try to upload them more regularly to keep up with them all!

First Trip to the Dentist!

Avery had her first dental check up today! 18 months seems early, but she has had a mouth full of chompers for awhile now. Josh and I are also cavity prone, so I wanted to get her in and used to the dentist at a young age. Here she is ready to go for her check-up.

We went to Dr. Brasuell, he is a pediatric dentist, and I had read really good things about him and the office. She made friends with a little girl in the waiting room right off the bat. When we got into the exam area she laid back on the chair and let the hygienist brush MOST of her teeth. Then I kept her busy before the dentist got there looking at the animal murals on the walls, and playing with the Elmo stickers that the hygienist gave her. When Dr. Brasuell came to examine her she laid back down on the chair and let him look at all of her teeth, he checked out the alignment of her bite and brushed on a fluoride treatment. Avery did great! She did not fuss of squirm or anything. We are so proud of her! We will continue to brush regularly ,and he said he was fine with the pacifier till about 3 years old, but I would definitely like to have her off of it before then! All in all Avery's first dentist visit went great!

Summer days make me feel fine!

This Summer if FLYING by! We have had a pretty great July though so far. Josh and I spent the first weekend of July in Biloxi at the IP casino and resort. We were celebrating our 5 year anniversary! It was a great, much needed, getaway! We spent Friday afternoon lounging out by the pool. Then we ate our weight in snow crab at the buffet. After dinner we watched the Molly Ringwalds" perform. They are an awesome 8o's cover band. Josh didn't think he would enjoy them very much, but ended up loving them!

We got back Sunday around noon, and we went to Ashley and Ben's for their 2nd annual 4th of July party. We had an awesome time, but Monday we were ready to get our baby back! She had a great weekend with her Mimi, Papa, Grandma and Uncle Ric! Since it was officially the 4th of July we got a few sparklers to burn with her. She wasn't too sure about them though!

It has also been VERY hot the past few weeks so our water baby has been enjoying some time in her little pool.

This Friday we got together with All American Dr's and the wives for a date night. Ashley planned the whole thing out for us. She got us a private Salsa dance class! We had a great time learning how to dance and watching each other try to master the steps. It was a great night! We also celebrated all our summer birthday's. Josh, Ashley S., Tanya and Ben all have birthday within a few weeks of each other. We had a blast and enjoyed spending some quality time with our friends.

I am going to try to do an iPhone picture post soon. I have so many cute pics of Avery on my phone but can't figure out how to get them on the computer to put on the blog. So that is my next project. Enjoy :)

Remember me?

Whew, sorry it has been so long. I have been so busy being a mommy, that I have NOT been updating our blog! Soooo, here it goes. I am going to try to catch up on the past 5 months!

February

It seems like we were super busy every weekend in February. We watched the Superbowl, celebrated Ben and Ashley's couple's shower, then Ashley's bachelorette party. During the weeks however I was soaking up time with my baby girl. Here was one of our mommy/daughter days. We started off with lunch at Chik fil a.
Then we played at the park.

Then Avery helped me cook dinner :)

March

Avery celebrated her first Mardi Gras as a Louisianian in March. Unfortunately the Luling parade was cancelled due to bad weather, but we made it out to Metairie on Mardi Gras day for the festivities. Avery loved it! She figured out quickly how to wave to the floats to get goodies and she was even dancing with the bands. Not to mention she also enjoyed all the good food!

March 11th, Avery took her first steps! And on the 20th she had her first stomach bug! It was crazy though, almost EVERYONE in Josh's family ended up with this awful bug. I have never seen a virus spread so quickly. Thankfully she got over it within 24 hours, but she was pitiful while it lasted!

The next weekend, Josh and I took Avery to the zoo. She LOVES the fish is her PaPa and Grandpa's fishtanks so we knew she would have a blast.

She always does the cutest fish mouth whenever she sees fish. So her little lips were busy this day!

She also enjoyed playing on all the toys.

After taking a few steps here and there earlier in the month, on the 28th, she decided to become a full time walker. It was so cute, we were having Ashley and Ben over for dinner, and she was trying to keep up with their son Drake. So Miss Thing just took off walking like she had been doing it her whole life! And she has NOT stopped since!

April

April was a very busy month for us. We were lucky enough to have Josh in from Virginia for a week and Drew and Meredith in from Germany. We took that opportunity to get all of the families together for a trip to the zoo.

These pictures were no easy feat with 5 kids under the age of 4!

Avery had a great time at the zoo. We were at the raccoon exhibit in this picture and she kept fussing at them for fighting with each other :) The following 2 weekends we had weddings. Here we are at Ashley and Ben's wedding, it was so beautiful! Except the fact that Josh ate too many crawfish while the guys were getting ready. He ended up broken out in major hives. After 2 benadryls his face was clear, but he was majorly loopy!

The following weekend was Nathan and Lynn's wedding. We had a great time hanging out with all of the Luling friends that we went to high school with. We kept talking about how funny it was that we used to party all the time and talk about going out and hooking up, now we are all married, settled down and having kids. Man we are getting old!

We celebrated Easter at the end of April. Avery had a great time dyeing eggs.

She loved all of her goodies from the Easter Bunny. And we had a great day at Mom's house. Here is the crew playing games on their phone.

Since we were all dressed up, I decided to try and get a few family pictures.

The kids had a great time searching for Easter eggs and playing in the new pool.

May

At the beginning of May we celebrated the Jambalya at Josh's grandma's house and Mother's day. I had a fabulous mother's day! We woke up and had breakfast at the Broken Egg. After Avery's nap we went to Luling to eat crawfish with his family, then we went to Jake and Angela's for dessert. Josh had Avery paint me a picture for my gift. You will notice the hand, foot and BUTT prints on the canvas :)

I also got a new purse! Bye Bye diaper bag! Here we are 3 generations, celebrating our 2nd mother's day together.

June

June has been sooo HOT! We have either been trying to keep busy inside or cooling off in the pool outside. Avery is really starting to enjoy arts and crafts. Here she is one morning creating a masterpiece!

June 8-9 Avery and I headed to Destin for an overnight trip to see Leslie and her family at the beach! Avery did so good! She loved the sun, sand and water!

This was her first time at the beach! She loves the water! Weather it is in a pool, hosepipe or raining from the sky. We definitely have a little water baby.

I also enjoyed the trip, it was nice to just lay back and relax a little.

Whew, that about sums up the past 5 months! Sorry I have been slacking, I will definitely try to stay on top of blogging now that I am all caught up. I will leave you with a big CHEESE from our angel before church last week.