Valentine's Day

Avi enjoyed Vday this year. She especially enjoyed the candy hearts; if you can't tell she has one in her mouth in the pictures! She's in full "cheese" mode these days. I can't take a picture of her without her saying it, and she always raises head as she says it. On this day, I told her not to raise her head as she said it...the result equals the picture below!

She loved her Balentine's shirt, as she called it! She told everyone she had it on, as if they couldn't already tell by looking at her! Fun times.

Yes, It's true

So, if you haven't had a chance to watch the video below, I'll go ahead and share the news with you. Avi is going to be a big sister! I'm due at the end of July. I've been pretty sick thus far, and it still has not completely gone away, thus, the lack of blogging lately (sorry). Avi likes to tell people that she will be a big sister, but I'm not sure she has any idea how much this is going to rock her little world. We will hopefully be finding out next week if we are having a boy or girl. We didn't find out with Austin or with Avi, so this will be a new thing for us. I'll let ya know what we find out!! Please pray for a healthy baby...of course, that is the most important factor to us.

Avi's News

The video is worth watching, I promise.

Random Christmas Pictures

Loving her new tricycle that Mimi and Papa gave her.

Reading Billy Goat's Gruff on her new tricycle.

She got a cool M&M holder for all the M&Ms Mimi and Papa give her!

She L.O.V.E.S. her purple sunglasses that Emilie and Jon Jon gave her for Christmas!

Reading a book to her baby doll, Amy, who is resting in her new baby

bed from Grandaddy and Shug.

Amy enjoys a ride in Avi's new shopping cart from Nana.

Amy and Avi take a spin on Avi's new spinner from Santa.

I wish I could have gotten a better picture of this. One morning Avi went in her room, and a few minutes later I heard her talking up a storm. I peeked around the corner to see that she was reading one of her new Mickey Mouse books to Amy in her room. As you can see, she was showing to Amy like her teachers show the books to her. It was pretty cute, but she had seen me at this point. I was trying to get a picture without her seeing me!

Christmas Morning

What a picture to start with, I know. But, this is how Avi looked when she woke up on Christmas morning! She had some crazy hair going on. She took a bath and washed her hair at my mom's house the day before, and for some reason her hair went crazy. It looked like she had stuck her finger in a light socket. We even rebathed her that night and rewashed her hair, and it didn't help! Drew was VERY concerned about her hair!

So, of course, he had to brush it before she could go see what Santa brought her! It looked a little better after he brushed it, but it was still very funny looking.

I love this picture! When Drew put her down, she started running to her toys! It was so cute.

She loved gettting all the things out of her stocking. I'm sure it was like a treasure chest!

Showing us her Hello Kitty playing cards.

And, of course her favorite, M & Ms. She was very proud of them!

Opening one of her presents. You can see it in the bottom of this picture...she got a sit & spin. She loves it. She spins and tells us to look at her spinning. Very cute. I think she had a great Christmas morning! It was fun to watch her slowly discover and understand Santa this year!

Drew's Gaming Abilities

Okay, those of you who know Drew will really get a kick out of this video! Joel, my sister Abbi's husband, has a Wii, and he brought it home with them for Christmas. He got a new set of games for Christmas, and one of the games was sword fighting. And, so the video is of Joel (in the back) and Drew (in the front) doing their best sword fighting. Ya think Drew got a little into it??!! Notice the difference between Drew and Joel!

I don't wear diapers anymore, I'm a big girl!

This is the phrase I hear every morning when Avi wakes up & I am changing her diaper!

She says, "I don't wear diapers anymore, mama! I'm a big girl. I only wear diapers at nighttime!"

And, I am very happy to say she is right. I would venture to say she is potty trained! It just kinda happened. She decided she was ready...she's had a few accidents, but really not very many. I'm sure she will have more over the course of time, but she's doing pretty well! She pretty much tells us anytime she needs to go to the potty, and oh how nice it is not to be changing diapers all the time! I guess the focus has shifted, though! We're constantly asking her if she needs to go potty. Most of the time she says, "I don't." It's been fun to see her figure it all out, and it's pretty amazing that she understands when she needs to go potty now! So, I guess I got my Christmas present after all! And, it's a great one. Oh, and I promise, Christmas pictures to come. I'm working on it!