Love This Life

As of yesterday, Avery is now 20 months! At this age, she is trying to repeat all words and says so many that I can’t remember them all. Scott really tries to work with her to say please ‘pease’ and thank you ‘sank you’ and she is very diligent about using those words to my surprise. She helps me make the bed every morning by bringing me all the pillows that have been placed in the corner of our room from the night before. After she hands me each pillow, she tells me thank you because I tell her thank you. It’s so cute. When she is finished, she opens all the shutters for me. She is quite the helper! One of the words that she says really pretty that kind of surprised me is ‘purple’. As a former Speech Pathologist, I get a kick out of her verbal language skills and the progress of learning different sounds. She is starting to put words together and really tries very hard when I work with her on certain sounds. I can tell she will be much like me in the way that she wants things to be just right. Words off the top of my head that she says: soap, pants, baby, Elmo, Abby, hungry, cup, juice, apple, nana, berry, yoyo (yogurt), Benwee (Bentley), outside, nigh-night, bye-bye, blue, red, purple, yellow (she says other colors but not as clearly), and so many, many more words.

A Funny Story: A few days ago, I derobed (I think that’s a word) Avery for bathtime except for her diaper because I needed to finish picking up a few things before taking that risk. Avery is like a tornado in any given room and I’m a cleanaholic. I’ve learned my lesson on taking the diaper off too soon before bath. Anyways, I was in our bedroom and she was in our closet when I heard clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk coming towards me. I was thinking, what pair of shoes does she have on this time. I went to go see and she had on her Daddy’s black socks on (which I’m guessing he had left on the dressing bench) and they were pulled up tall to her knees and my teal blue high heel shoes. What a sight! I died laughing and wished I had my camera on me at that exact moment. She pranced all around the room looking like that without a hitch in those high shoes. Hilarious!

Avery’s Favorites:
Food: Still loves blueberries and yogurt but also has a new love for bananas and eggs
DVD: Elmo, more Elmo, and Elmo and Abby; Oh, did I mention Elmo? Sometimes she will watch Dora but Elmo is what she always asks for.
Items: Shoes, our microwave (Scott calls it the magic machine and we do lock the buttons so she can’t cook anything), blankets and pillows to cuddle in
New Toy – Playdough (St. Nick brought it)
Old Toy – Her tent that we put up every once in a while in her playroom
Places – Any place that involves being outside
Time of Day – Morning (Mama is not good at waking up early so thank goodness Daddy is!!!)
Others – Loves to be Mama’s little helper, taking baths, reading books every night (especially Good Night Moon, The Moo Book, The Foot Book and Bee & Me), chasing Bentley all around the house and playing in drawers

Finally, she has enough hair for pigtails and ponytails ….