We just celebrated Avery’s birthday who just turned eight
years old. Here are some recent things
we wrote down about this great guy:
Avery is very festive!
He loves to participate in hanging up holiday and birthday
decorations. On the contrast, he gets
disappointed when it is time to take the festivities down. We try to make a point to clean up the décor
when he isn’t around.
For Avery’s birthday, we created a scavenger hunt for him to
find his gift. This made him so
happy. He loves surprises and eagerly
jumps in to go along with a party or joke.
He still has not outgrown his charm. Avery will work hard to somehow get you to
smile.
Full of life! Avery does
everything he enjoys with an intense, playful energy.
This boy is very affectionate. He craves attention, hugs, back scratches and
wrestling with his Dad. But beware, if
you give him a small hug, be ready for an intense bear hug back. He might even ask you to “post it on
Facebook”.
Lately, our family has been enjoying some of the Disney
classic movies from the library. Avery’s
current favorite character from this genre is “Herbie” from “The Love
Bug”. Although this is a VERY tame
movie, Avery pleaded with us to skip parts because he couldn’t bear to see
Herbie get his feelings hurt. This is a
kid (Aileen too) who gets very emotionally involved in the main characters and
has so much empathy that he almost cannot stand anything bad to happen to them. We encourage him to keep watching to see how
they solve the problem. Thankfully, we
heard Avery sigh with relief later on when the conflict was resolved.
We're proud of you, big guy!
