Magic Scarf

Oh my funny Chloe.  I love her silly self so much.  She's been getting a lot of owies lately and they have been the cause of much drama at our house.  One Sunday it was just her and me awake and we got a little silly...until she fell down and her head.  Then the hysterical crying in sued so I had to think of something quick to help her stop thinking about her owie...so I came up with Mommy's Magic Scarf (we also have another version called Mommy's Magic Sock)!  I told her if she would wrap the scarf around her owie that the scarf's magic would make it go away!  At first she was just mad, but she eventually came around and believed in the magic!  Then every little owie HAD to have the scarf.  She wouldn't smile for a picture though, until I told her I had a banana on my head.  That's the picture with the super cute smile.  Works every time.  I laughed so hard when I saw her stubborn crying picture.  Love being silly with this girl!

Real Salt Lake!

At the end of April we went up to Salt Lake for my Grandma Millie's 80th birthday, so we decided since we would be driving the gas hog Tahoe and we weren't going to have any chances for a vacation while building our house, we'd make a trip of it!  On the way up we went to the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point (pics to come), we went to a Real Salt Lake game, visited with friends, went to City Creek for some shopping and lets not forget the whole reason we came, partied with Grandma!  I haven't been able to find the other pictures, so we'll start with the soccer game.  I'm not usually a huge spectator sports kinda gal, but this game was SUPER fun!  First of all, Ronnie's cousins and uncle sang the Canadian AND American national anthem (apparently they usually choose a different group for each anthem) and they were incredible!  Gotta love those LeBaron vocal chords!  The atmosphere itself was just electric the whole game and the crowd was really involved with songs and cheers.  There was even a volunteer pep band!  Chloe absolutely LOVED the game (Avery was a champ too...she was happy the whole time)!  Ronnie taught her the rules and helped her follow the ball....she was totally hooked!  She kept yelling at the players "Get the ball!  Kick the ball!" or "He got it!!!" or "Go Real!!!".  It was so stinkin' cute and Ronnie couldn't be more proud, being a soccer player back in the day himself.  We got to hang with my sister, Ronnie's cousins and I got to catch up with some old friends!  After the game we went out for yogurt with my friends, which is a lot harder (but still fun) when you have kids to wrangle (especially when Avery was teething...)!  So there's part one of our trip!  More to come!

2 Dozen Years Old

Well, 24 has come and gone!  It was a great birthday, but I'm sad to say that I didn't feel as much birthday magic this year as I usually do.  It's not that it was any less special or that Ronnie didn't do a great job (which by the way he did...just check out my new Bosch!);  I guess I'm just starting to grow up into a boring adult.  Which is super scary.  I'm going to have to work on that and let my inner kid out a little more!  I love that Ronnie reminded me what I've been like on birthdays up until this year...giddy with excitement, shrieks of joy when presents are unwrapped and big bear hugs of disbelief at the gifts I had been given.  I had to do a few re-dos this year after presents were open...but nonetheless, it was a fantastic birthday and Ronnie splurged on me again, just as he does every year!  He is a one of a kind hubby and never fails to make all of my birthday wishes com true!  To celebrate we went to the movies, rode on the zip line (which was awesome...even though I almost didn't have the guts to jump off!), was showered in gifts, and got some Chinese take out.  It was splendid!  I'm lovin' the Bosch and have made a number of delectable things with it, many of them containing my all time favorite poppy seeds :)

6 Months Avery

I know these aren't the greatest pictures, but Avery is already 6 1/2 months and I figured if I didn't just do this post, it wouldn't get done!  Avery is still our easy going, happy girl!  She is:

• Almost sitting up!  She can sit alone for up to 15 seconds or so!
• Can roll over from her belly to her back
• Is starting to arch her back to see what's happening behind her when laying on the ground
• STILL LOVES that bouncer chair, but Dr. says to use it less since she's getting a bit flat on the back of her head
• Smiles all the time, but takes a lot for her to laugh (Chloe was the same way)
• Has found her voice!  She loves yelling at the top of her lungs and babbles mamamama, often in an "angry" sounding voice.
• I swear she has said mama and dada and knows the meaning.  One time I got her out of the bath and was just holding her in her towel and she looked up into my eyes and said mama, just once.  Melted my heart.  Same thing with Ronnie; I handed her to him at church and she looked at him and said dada!  Could be a fluke, but I think it was for real.
• Is loving baby food, but wishes it was whatever I was eating.  Anytime I eat, she follows the food from the plate to my mouth.  If she's on my lap, she'll crane her neck back so she can watch me put it in my mouth.
• Loves crackers, pizza crust, bread, whatever we give her to munch on.  If she drops it she'll start yelling until she gets it back.
• Still a blow out baby
• Size 4 diapers
• Weighs 18 lbs
• Wears anything from 6-9 to 12 months
• Is really good at putting herself down for nap time and bed time.  It's like clock work...11:00 and 8:30.
• Is getting really good dexterity.  Puts her hands on our faces a lot, grabs toys, inspects her hands a lot.
• Loves little kids...they can make her laugh and she's fascinated by them, especially Chloe.  
• Chloe and Avery are best buds and I love it :)
• Got her first tooth this month, followed shortly by the second (both on bottom, just like Chloe's first two)

Love My Little Family