Car Soup

Here is a picture of Avery's latest dish, "Car Soup". You mix it up by turning the lever, and he tells us that it tastes like "Yuck".

While splashing in the bathtub, Avery laughs and tells me "Look! The bubbles are tickling me!'.

Before laying down for a nap, our son says that he is going to "go to sleep and have pictures in (his) head" (dreams).

New Places for Old Things

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Children are special in the fact that they see the world in a unique way as compared to adults. Avery's curiosity about the world is fun to observe, and it is interesting to see what he does with objects in which he doesn't know the function to. We captured some photos of such instances the past couple of weeks. Avery was given various random objects (such as a pipe cleaner, pom pom ball, sifter, popsicle mold, ice cream scoop, party noise maker, etc...) while we watched what he did with them. As it turns out, we saw these objects in new places across the house throughout the week. He seems to like to understand how things are put together, and will stick things in odd places to see if they fit. For example, sometimes we find our shoelaces strewn in the wrong holes, or TV cables in the opposite slots. Avery also enjoys building things with his blocks and gives names to them (like an airplane or firetruck). It will be fun to see that develop as his thinking and creativity matures.

This Week at the Woodersons

Avery's Words of Wisdom:

Avery has enjoyed reading the Aesop's Fable about the tortoise and the hare (we call it the turtle and the rabbit story). While sitting on the potty, he informs me that he will "pee pee fast like a rabbit, and sloooooow like a turtle".

He has dubbed lima beans "dinosaur beans".

The county courthouse recently placed Christmas lights around it's perimeters. Avery loves seeing it lit up at night. He says that it is "the castle" where the "king and queen live".

Avery was sick a while back, and we started the habit or rubbing Vicks vapor rub on his chest. He thought we were just finding an excuse to tickle him. Now, every night before bed, he asks for "bicks por rub" as a tactic to stall the bedtime process.

Avery and I usually wave "bye bye" to Clint as he leaves for work in the morning. I had tried explaining to Avery that his dada is a teacher, and he goes to the high school to work. Avery disagreed with me and told me that dada "goes to the YMCA, library and the park.....and I go too!!".

The sun sometimes bothers Avery while he is riding in the car. We keep an empty ice cream bucket full of toys, a hat, sunglasses and a blanket for him to use. Even with his hat and sunglasses on (usually upside down), he still complains about the sun. This week he told us that "the sun is bright, you need to turn it down!".

Fun as a Family this Week:

Clint had a birthday this week. We celebrated with homemade chocolate marble cake. Avery loved singing "Happy Birthday" to "dada" (he also added "Avery" to the song) in the dark with candles shining on the cake. Our family each had a small piece together. Avery loved the cake so much, he giggled out of sheer pleasure while eating it.

Avery loves to shake cinnamon powder on his applesauce. Sometimes we can get this picky eater to actually eat his food by letting him sprinkle cinnamon on it.

Recently, we read the story about the Gingerbread man together. Avery related the story to the gingerbread man character in the Shrek movies. I remembered that we had gingerbread men cookie cutters, so we've been finding ways to use them for fun.

Halloween Fun as a Family

Avery's Art Projects

Avery Sings the John Deere Green Song