It is spring!

The weather is warming up! The trees are even starting to show signs of life. Avery and I have started to head over to the park a couple miles away and lately our trips have been lasting well over an hour. The slide is definitely her favorite and she will go down it over and over and over. We take the dogs with us. That way Wilson and Tasha get a chance to run their brains out for the day. We met a little boy just 10 days older than Avery today. His name is Dean and he was with his Grandmother. I got some much needed information about the area we live in! I have located the local dog park (somewhat of a local secret). I also have been told I must go to the Rural Discount store, apparently there are some great deals. She also gave me the time and location of a great playgroup only a mile from our house. Avery will give that a try next Wednesday morning!

Sam has been really busy with work and will be getting even busier. The practice is going to be resuming emergency call starting in May. Sam loathes emergency call. His bosses are heading out of town for about 3 weeks of May and Sam will be running the show.

I have been keeping busy with the MOMS group I have joined and just registered for a 1/2 marathon. It will be June 18th. It is the Mayor's Marathon. I have challenged my Dad to run it with me so it should be fun. 13.1 miles! I have to start running now! I need to get out of my 3 mile loop rut. My jogging stroller will arrive this weekend along with my in-laws, Paige and Rick. They are awesome enough to have gone and dug it out of our storage unit in Fort Collins and are flying it up with them. YAY!!!

Avery will get to hang out with her Gigi and Grandpa Rick for about 4 days this weekend! She has been in a great mood these last couple of days so I am praying that it will continue on through the weekend and their visit. Happy Avery is just so much more fun than cranky Avery and I want them to get to enjoy her silliness!

Anyhoo. I cannot believe it is already May next week! Avery is getting so big. I can't wait until I head a silly little sentence come out of her mouth. Or maybe even get to pull her hair into a pony tail. Soon enough :)

sweet tooth...

Avery digging into Kooka's birthday Moose Pie

I was a total believer that this trait was environmental. I no longer believe that. I will admit that I love dessert and sweets and have for as long as I can remember, but I don't buy candy and rarely buy ice cream these days. Somehow, Avery figured out what candy and desserts were! Seriously, the kid hears you crunch a mint from across the house and she is on top of it. She will race across the house and throw down like no other because she is convinced you have candy. It is ridiculous!

Avery had a busy/fussier week. Her top canines are coming in at a painfully slow rate, but 1 is just barely through and the other shouldn't be too far behind. I hope we have a break before the final four decide to make their appearance. Hair should be coming any day now. I know that it will happen fast and she has A LOT more hair than she did last fall, but still not quite enough to pull up into a pony tail or pig tails...soon I hope :)

I taught my kid to fart on command...whoops

She is attempting to toot.

So I happen to laugh when she toots and she decided it was funny too. Sam wants me to stop laughing, but it is so hard not to. She farts on purpose and then laughs at herself. Seriously cute. I will try to get a better video with more toots, but this is all I have for the moment. She needs to let the gas build back up ;) Turn up your volume.

another virus :(

Avery picked up what appears to be Roseola. The poor kid has had a fever of 103.5ish all weekend (before drugs), but it was still hovering around 100 with the fever reducers on board. She was tired and uncomfortable and whinier than I have ever seen her. I was patient and the fever was down to 101.6 this morning without drugs. I took her to the doctor because I wanted her ears looked at in case (knock on wood, but she has yet to have an ear infection) and she was still sporting a mild fever on day 4. I was in the middle of telling the doctor that she has no rash and no other symptoms when she pulled up Avery's shirt to show a brand new beautiful rash all over Avery's torso. Avery's fever was down to 99 something at this point and apparently this virus is known for exactly this. The rash shows up AFTER the fever breaks. She was brighter today, but totally milking it. We had a fight going to bed tonight because all weekend she was in bed with us and she was determined to move into our room for the night again.