~Fall Twenty Thirteen~

I cannot believe it is already the Fall!  Time has been flying by and it seems to never slow down.  Everything has been going really well now that we are back in Huntsville and getting all settled in.  School is going great for both Jayda and Sydney.  I am so thankful for that and both of their wonderful teachers!  It's so nice that the temperatures have been cooling down so that we can go outside more too. I'm sure the next  post will be of Halloween pictures!  The girls cannot wait...we're going to have an angel and 2 witches!  Lol!



Avery loves to play with Sydney on the choo-choo train!

Sydney was playing with playdough one afternoon and Avery came up and decided she wanted to play too.



Silly glasses from Aunt Cheryl!



Avery has started getting into EVERYTHING these days!  Cabinets, drawers, doors, you name it and she has figured it out!



She also has lots of fun pulling out the recycling stuff.



Sydney and I went on a pretzel date one afternoon.  It was so sweet just to take her alone and enjoy some one on one time!



Little bit always gets into her big sister's books!  She likes to look at them, but really loves to chew on them!



I took these pictures one morning after Avery woke up.  She really is the sweetest little sister ever!



I got the big girls these adorable mum rings for the Huntsville Homecoming.  I thought they were so cute!!



Heading out to the Homecoming game, minus little bit...she stayed home with Nana and Pawpaw. :)



Jacob took the girls riding around on the 4 wheeler in the pouring rain one Sunday morning. 
They LOVED it and screamed at the top of their lungs the ENTIRE way! 



Sad to say that this is the last picture I have of Sydney taking dance.  The girls all got "diamonds" on their ballet shoes that day.  Unfortunately Sydney doesn't want to dance anymore.  Hopefully next year we can try again.



Getting into the kitchen cabinets again!  She is such a little munchkin!



Avery Mae loves Daisy dog!  She gets so tickled when she sees her and if she can get ahold of her she starts squealing. 
It is the cutest thing ever!



Ty came to visit one weekend and they had so much fun playing together!  They are less than a month apart so they love to do the same things!  Avery was so excited to have another baby her size around to play with!



The girls were having lots of fun throwing sticks for Harley to fetch in the pond.



Avery says "Hey family, where are you going without me?!?!"



I took this picture of Avery and Jayda after church one sunday.  I love Avery's little outfit from the Sanders family!!

A friend of ours at church took these adorable pictures of Avery at 9 months.  This is my favorite one!

"YAY Avery!"  She puts her hands up in the air like this a lot and it's so cute!



Such a sweet baby girl.



Sweet girl was showing off her two little bottom teeth.  I love this picture!

She likes to put her hands together a lot.  Such a little angel baby.

"Roll em up, roll em up, throw em in the pan!"  These pictures turned out so
incredibly cute and really captured her little personality at this age.  Love them!!

Sydney caught a lady bug one afternoon on our way to run errands. 
She was so excited about it.  Sydney LOVES bugs, and not just pretty ones.

I thought this was SO precious of Jayda and Avery.  They really favor each other here...definitely sisters!

Sydney had a blast painting pumpkins one afternoon.  She really liked mixing all the colors together!

Which ultimately turned all of the paint black.  Oh well though, she sure had fun.

So much fun that we had to paint some more pumpkins the next day!   And, she made more black pumpkins. :)



We had Jayda's 1st grade open house last week.  Jayda was so excited to show us all her work at school.  She is doing a great job and learning a lot.  She loves her teacher so that really helps!  We're so proud of her!



Daisy went on a ride with Oupa to the farm last week.  Oupa loves taking her so that he has a buddy in the car and she loves riding, so it works out well for both of them. ;)



This little munchkin LOVES to swing!  She laughs and giggles and just thinks it's the best thing ever!



Ty came back to stay again last weekend while his Mommy and Daddy went on an anniversary trip.  The two of them are so cute together!  They play together a lot and follow each other around the house.  If one starts crawling into the kitchen or down the hallway the other one follows.  It's going to be so cute to see them grow up together!



Nana got home from the grocery store and they were both so happy. 
They kept banging on the door and looking for her while she unloaded groceries.



Sweet girl turned 10 months old this past Monday, October 14th!  It's so hard to believe that she will be 1 year old in 2 short months.  It really fells like I just had her the other day!  Time sure does fly when you're having fun!  Avery is such a joy and we are so thankful that God gave her to us!

Dance Girls & Avery at 9 Months

This poor blog has not been getting much attention lately...I guess that's what happens when you have three kids, life is crazy, you never sleep anymore, oh and you live out in the country where there is hardly an internet connection. At least I've managed to get a few pictures up today, so that's a good thing. :)

Lunch date with Jayda at school.  We try to eat lunch with her on Fridays. :)

Three little munchkins in Oma's bed!

Love these silly sisters so much!

 

A few weeks ago we went to Brenham to see our niece and nephew, Katie and Blake, get baptized.  We were so happy to be there with them for this.

Lake trip for Labor Day!  The girls had a blast with their cousin Caitlyn!

The big girls started dance for the first time this month!  They are both SO excited about it, and they're doing so good already.  Jayda is taking tap and jazz and Sydney does ballet and tap.  They are supposed to be performing at the Fair on the Square next month so that should be super cute. 

Sydney helped me make cupcakes for Nana's classroom last week.  She had to lick the cake beaters and try one after we finished.  She is so silly!  Don't you love the dance outfit she's had on for 2 weeks now?  Haha.

Miss Avery Mae loves Daisy (dog-dog).  Oh my gosh, she gets so excited when she sees her and starts kicking and squealing.  The other day she was having so much fun playing with her. S
he thought it was the best thing ever.

Visiting Jayda again for lunch. We all look forward to this!

Sydney helped me cut up a watermelon then had to give the rinds to Emma.  Sweet girl stood there and watched her eat all of them so that she could pet her afterwards.

We went out to lunch at El Chico after church one Sunday and
there was a lady there making balloons.  The girls were so excited!

Jayda got a ballon crown too. :)

My sweet little ballerina.  She LOVES to wear her dance outfits all the time.

Silly Avery getting into the water bottles at the big girls dance studio.

Jayda and Sydney got into my old dance stuff and had so much fun dressing up.

Avery was following Jayda everywhere and pulling on
her shorts so she could get a bite of ice cream.

I attempted taking Avery's 9 month picture but she was not exactly cooperating. 
She immediately started pulling her 9 month sticker off and wanted to eat it. 

"Haha Mommy, I got it!"  She is such a ham. 

I gave her my camera just so she would leave the sticker on for a moment.

And she got it off again!

I put this little collage together of her.  Silly but true.

Avery is so much fun right now.  She loves to play with her toys, her sisters and Daisy.  She is always into something and crawls all over the house.  She follows us wherever we go.  She likes to pull open cabinets and drawers and pull stuff out.  Avery is still laid back and easy going.  She has 2 teeth now and has been chewing on everything.  She constantly has something in her mouth and is drooling.  I'm guessing she is about to get some more in too.  She eats her baby food very well and really likes the little baby yogurt melts.  Once she gets some more teeth I'll start giving her some more table food.  I'm taking her into the dr. next week for her 9 month check up and getting her 9 month pictures done so I'll have to update this post after that with her stats.  She is such a good baby and still sleeps well for the most part.  She normally takes 2 naps, 1 in the morning and 1 in the afternoon, then goes to sleep at night around 7:30 or 8:00 p.m.  Her teeth have been bothering her lately so she hasn't been sleeping that great but hopefully that will get better.  Avery is wearing a size 3 diaper and 9 month old clothes.  She loves being outside.  If she gets upset all we have to do is take her outside and she will be fine.  She really likes taking rides on the gator too.  It's so cute because she will stand up in your lap and hold onto to the bar in front of her and just look all around.  She is so observant and doesn't miss anything.  She loves the dogs and they will always make her happy as well. Oh, and she says several words now too-"ma-ma", "ba-ba"(bottle), da-da", "na-na", "doh-doh" (dog-dog). We are so thankful for this sweet babe! 

Little lady loves to play with big sisters pretend lipsticks.  She always has one of these in her hands.

Avery got into the Tupperware cabinet and started pulling everything out. So much fun for a baby!

And sister helped her pull everything out just for good measure. ;)