.17. months

geez...i can't seem to post on time!

ave turned 17 months a couple of weeks ago.

i planned on only posting updates on ave until she was 18 months, but that's in a couple of weeks!

sad!

so, we'll see if we keep up or not.

as of now, avery is OBSESSED with three things:

1. Dancing

2. Elmo

3. Her Baby Dolls

taking care of her baby

the midge LOVES to start bopping around when she hears her Baby Einstein

Playdate music start playing.

she even hands me the phone (our iPod) to start playing.

she loves Itsy Bitsy Spider and If You're Happy and You Know It...

this morning avery was jumping on the bed and clapping her hands to the words of the song.

ave LOVES to feed elmo everything!

Elmo. Sweet. Elmo

we were cleaning out her closet the other day and found an Elmo doll we had bought her a long time ago.

it sings the ABC's and laughs.

she can't get enough of it.

it almost sounds like a broken record in our house.

Plus, we have a playdate with Elmo every morning while watching Sesame Street.

this is one of the times of day we like to hunker down and enjoy

eating cheerio's and watching our favorite neighbors!

my mom bought ave a new baby doll that is completely plastic with a magnetic binky.

this baby goes everywhere now.

in the bath. in the car. in her highchair.

BUT, she only wants it naked.

if we dress it, she gets really mad a cries. ODD!

she LOVES having us swaddle her in a receiving blanket.

i think ave is ready for another brother or sister.

she insists on having all of her babies with her at breakfast!

avery tells everyone and everything HI. repeatedly!

we LOVE it!

we are working on pronunciating things around here.

avery still likes saying everything with the letter D.

i know any day she'll just belt out a sentence to us.

ave's favorite snacks are:

raisins, honey nut cheerio's, grapes, nectarine's, ritz cracker's and nemo gummy snacks.

we got her to drink a whole cup of milk the other day!

success!!

this kid LIVES outside

we also just started our fall semester at Little Gym.

we signed her up in her old "Birdies" class, but she was running circles around all of the kids.

so, they moved us up to the "Beasties" class.

(how appropriate! the age group is 19 months to 30 months. hee hee!)

this class is hard!

they have us climb on rock walls, do handstands against the walls, cartwheels and much much more!

they want the parents to be examples, so we are also doing cartwheels, handstands

and hanging on the bars.

it's so much fun but exhausting!

we also signed up for a Kindermusik class in Logan!

Yay! finally a class in Logan!

hanging out with moomee (mom)

driving the smurf mobile with daddy