At our family reunion in OK!
Avery is 20 months old and so incredibly smart! She currently loves books, puzzles, playing dollhouse and picnic, peek-a-boo, singing, dancing, iPad games, Bubble Guppies, Mickey Mouse, pizza and "Choc-meelk." So far this summer we are also loving Popsicles, sno cones, splashing in the pool, sleeping in, staying up late, and just being silly together.
Her latest milestone is learning her colors, for the most part, and learning to count. She can *almost* count to 10. She usually skips 4 or 5 but she's getting there! Now we are working on singing her ABC's and identifying her letters and numbers and shapes. She knows heart, star and diamond and sometimes circle, so far! She is learning so much so quickly and makes us so proud! I love how much she loves learning too!!
At the Rosemeade Rainforest waterpark. She had a blast!
Avery has been enrolled in little gym for about a month now and she absolutely loves it! I will be sad to quit next month but there aren't any classes that will fit into our schedule. It has been so neat in just a few classes to see her confidence really take off. She had absolutely no interest in trying out any of the equipment at first, but just this week she gave walking on the (on the ground) balance beam and swinging on the parallel bars a try! Even though she quickly was scared again, I was SO PROUD of her for stepping out of her comfort zone and trying new stuff! I am thinking of doing her birthday party there this year too. Can't believe its time to start planning a birthday party already but it's only a few months away!
Some things Avery isn't liking so much recently are her crib, sleeping alone, or going to sleep at all (which I kind of came to expect after leaving her for a few days while Jon and I took our first vacation away, but it is still so sad to deal with) and eating anything that's not pizza. Seriously-this kid is pizza obsessed! It's so funny, she requests it for every meal. I mean who doesn't love pizza? So...we probably eat it at least once a week. :-)
"I sleep Mama's bed?"
Right now we are most looking forward to our beach trip with Miss Avery and the rest of my family, back to Galveston, like last summer! I felt kind of guilty taking our Mexico trip without her so I wanted to do something special with her. We were originally planning to take her for a long weekend to Sea World, but the idea to go back to the beachhouse we rented last year again came up, and we decided it would be a blast so that's what we are doing instead. We aren't going until August, and I hate that I'm looking forward to the end of summer, so I'm definitely not trying to rush it, but it'll be fun to have one last hurrah before heading back to work.
