Avery
“Avery and Mama time” – time Avery and I spend together when
Aileen is napping. We often read books,
make crafts and artwork, board games, puzzles, eat snacks, bake cookies, draw
with sidewalk chalk, blow bubbles, play legos and hotwheels or role play in
pretend stories.
Avery can write the entire alphabet on a dry erase
board. He earns one chocolate chip for
each alphabet letter. Since he loves
chocolate, that spurs him to work really hard.
“Let’s go look for rabbits to shoot and eat their ham!” – while
looking out in the backyard
Avery’s choice of toys to bring to the dr. office waiting
room was a rubber snake, light saber and Hotwheels cars.
Little signs of him growing up are always emerging. For instance, he no longer takes his
treasured “blue bankie” to bed (this started to occur sometime after his fourth
birthday). He has also asked to be able
to open the refrigerator without asking to get a drink. Likewise, signs of him being embarrassed has
also surfaced which means he is developing an awareness of himself and how
others view him.
Drawing together is something that Avery and I love to
do. He has developed in this area by
giving names, meaning, descriptions and stories to his drawings. He is also starting to show some effort in
true to life representation on some things, such as a rectangle for a car with
circle wheels.
Clint caught him twirling his hair like Clint use to at his
age. Avery’s hair is coming in a carmel brown color and is
a bit thick and wavey like his mom and dad’s.
I was using some red dental floss (Avery’s favorite color is
red, so he often comments on anything red) and had said that it was cinnamon
flavored. Avery was disappointed that he
was using the green floss in his bathroom.
With a frown on his face, he
asked, “What flavor is my green fwoss?
Wettuce (lettuce) or sawad (salad)?”
Our family had dinner with another family who has a boy
around Avery’s age. They cracked us up
while we listened in to their conversation about “bacteria”.
Avery handed me a fogged up jar and instructed me to open
it. He explained that he put “kisses” in
it. He had actually blown real kisses in
the jar to give to me. Then, he
proceeded to take the jar from my hand, laugh out loud in it, screw on the lid,
and then gave it back to me.
Aileen
Discovered her fingers and now sucks on them. We think she may have started teething
too. She won’t take a pacifier. Instead, she sucks her thumb to soothe
herself.
Hasn’t rolled over yet, but somewhat scoots around in her
crib in the mornings.
Avery loves to make Aileen laugh. She laughs and squeals most at his funny
faces and sounds.
