Avery’s Secret

Halloween

While my mom was in town we hit up every Halloween store trying to find Avery a costume. I can’t wait for her to get older to tell me what she wants to be. We ended up finding this cute leopard costume that fit Avery perfectly. On Halloween we went to our wards Trunk-or-Treat. I think Avery had a good time. She was little miss independent and wanted to walk around all by herself. 

She started off with her whole nose painted but she quickly rubbed her face once we put the paint on.

Avery decided she needed a break from all the trick-or-treating for a treat!

This is how she asked for candy! She would try to repeat us when we said trick-or-treat but sometimes it wasn’t very clear so she would just hold out her bag.

Painting Pumpkins

We thought it might be a little hard to carve pumpkins this year with Avery so we decided to do some painting instead. Avery loved painting her pumpkin. She did not want our help at all. When we tried to put her paintbrush in different colors of paint she let us know that she didn’t want help. It was a lot of fun that is until we were done and had to take the paint brush away from Avery(she didn’t think that was fun)!!! But it all worked out and here are a few pictures of Avery’s masterpiece.

 

Levi helping out at first

Avery happy to be painting all by herself

Avery concentrating way to hard

And the finished pumpkin

Schnepf Farm

We took a family trip to Schnepf Farm. I had know idea that this farm had so many things to do. I thought we were just going to  go pick a pumpkin for Avery but man was I wrong.  First there was a hayride, then a petting zoo, we played at the park, there was a giant slide and a carousel and a bunch of other rides.  We got some pictures of Avery on a giant hay stack. Then on the way out Avery picked the pumpkin that was the perfect size for her.

The Train Park

We have been slacking on the blog lately, there has just been too much going on. My mom came and visited us for a week at the beginning of October. We did a lot of shopping everyday. We also went to a the train park in Scottsdale where Avery got to ride a train around and she also played on the carousel.

Avery also had her 15 month check up. She now knows where we are when we walk into the doctors office. She will not let me put her down in the waiting room, which I don’t mind because who know what kind of nasty germs she will get there. Then the second we get called back she starts crying like she had just gotten her shots. She is terrified of the Doctors assistant. But her visit went well and she is doing good. She weighs around 21 pounds (she didn’t gain much from the last visit). Which kind of surprises me since she eats so much at every meal. But she did get a little taller, and is still in the 97% for height. I can’t believe how big she is getting. Everyone that sees Avery thinks she is a lot older than she really is.

Labor day get-a-way

More like a get-a-way from the heat. For Labor day weekend we headed up to Pinetop to stay at the cabin. The weather was perfect. We took walks every day. Avery loved being outside. She constantly wanted to go outside but so did we so it all worked out. We took Avery for a wagon ride around the lake and feed the ducks. There were a lot of people walking their dogs around and Avery had to say Hi to all of them. Have we mentioned she LoVeS dogs!

It was so relaxing. I enjoyed sitting on the porch listening to the trees sway back and forth and watching all the little chipmunks run around. I finished two books that I had already started and I started another one while we were there.

Avery loved trying on all the flower headbands that Grandma had made and she wanted to ride the tricycle all around the house even though someone had to be pushing her since she couldn’t reach the pedals.

It was a great GET-A-WAY! Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for letting us come and visit!

Avery’s 1st hair cut

Avery had her very first hair cut last week.  Her hair really wasn’t that long to begin with but it kind of looked like she had a mullet going on so we just had the hairstylist even it out and cut off that mullet!

Before the hair cut,

during the hair cut,

and of course after the hair cut.

Not much of a difference but up close it is all evened out and hopefully her hair will start growing more so we can do some pig tails or something!

I took a push pop to help distract her while she got her hair cut. It worked pretty well she never once reached up to her head like she does when I try to do her hair with a bow or a pony. I might have to invest in some more push pops!