Avery recently had her 2 year appt, she weighs 26 pounds and is 33 inches tall. She had to get just one shot and was pretty brave considering she definitely knows what's coming now. We talked about walking up and down stairs which Avery still would much prefer to crawl up and down the stairs, Dr Woo said it's a confidence thing. So Daddy has successfully been working on Avery's confidence this weekend while I worked. Last night she walked up all the stairs and she just walked down 3 stairs without hands, we are very proud and she is so proud of herself. She has started watching Sesame Street on occasion and learned yesterday about up and down. Now before we know it she'll be up and down no problem.
She also has an interesting way of counting to 4. She every time says "one, two, three, five, eighteen, four!" I try counting the correct sequence and she never ever says it, she always says "one, two, three, five, eighteen, four!". Help!
Every Tuesday this summer at school there have been special events, like Bubble Magic and Parrot Day. It has been so neat to be able to ask her about her day and actually have her tell me things that she learns. On Parrot Day she painted a verbal picture for me of the man wearing a hat who had a lot of birds, including a Macaw, that were green and yellow and orange and the bird was crying because he was tired (ok not so sure about that one) and on and on about what she saw. She for sure did not wake up that Tuesday morning knowing what macaw meant or what one looks like. After 1.5 years of driving home with her and not really knowing what happened during the day, other than "she had a good day", it is so great that she can tell me about her experiences. It makes our twice-weekly nighttime hour-long commute go by much quicker than listening to music or NPR.
She is much better about saying "thank you", still working on the "please" part.
She also has an interesting way of counting to 4. She every time says "one, two, three, five, eighteen, four!" I try counting the correct sequence and she never ever says it, she always says "one, two, three, five, eighteen, four!". Help!
Every Tuesday this summer at school there have been special events, like Bubble Magic and Parrot Day. It has been so neat to be able to ask her about her day and actually have her tell me things that she learns. On Parrot Day she painted a verbal picture for me of the man wearing a hat who had a lot of birds, including a Macaw, that were green and yellow and orange and the bird was crying because he was tired (ok not so sure about that one) and on and on about what she saw. She for sure did not wake up that Tuesday morning knowing what macaw meant or what one looks like. After 1.5 years of driving home with her and not really knowing what happened during the day, other than "she had a good day", it is so great that she can tell me about her experiences. It makes our twice-weekly nighttime hour-long commute go by much quicker than listening to music or NPR.
She is much better about saying "thank you", still working on the "please" part.
When she says 'no' now, she follows it with an emphatic "not!", like not is an extra emphatic no. It makes me laugh, but usually she is saying it about something that is not funny. For instance: Mommy: "Avery, eat your carrots!" Avery: "no! ... not!!!" in a sort of whiney tone.
She also has a bike reflector that she calls her camera. Here are a few pix of her taking pix with her 'camera'. Included in the pictures are her new rocking horse "Carrot" who Avery actually named herself as we were talking about how horses like to eat carrots. She was so lucky to get 2 rocking horses for her birthday, "carrot" is from Grancy and "rocky" (named by daddy) is from her friends Lawson and Andrew. Avery rode a rocking horse at Lawson's 3rd birthday party and word got around how much she loved it and hence she ended up with 2, which is good for when Oskar comes over to play so they can both ride a horsie. What a lucky girl.
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