A few of my favorite things...

Avery gets a little bored with us always doing homework, so we take a break and play a little game of chase with him. He loves it! Here's a little preview of what it is like, though, its usually more full of giggles and running away.

Another thing he loves to do is read his books. When it gets really quiet in our house, we usually discover in his room reading his books. He also loves having his favorite books read to him over and over and over. (sometimes we have to hide those books). Avery also loves to play in the closet. It must be like "The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe" for him, because he can just play and play in there.

Avery still loves to go outside. He wears his coat and shoes around the house all day and gets upset when someone goes outside and he doesn't. Our landlords have an old toy jeep with no motor in it, and Avery loves to have us push him around in it. Its pretty fun for him, but a little tiring for us.

Another thing Avery loves to do, but we aren't so keen about is to spit his milk out all over his face. We had to take away one of his sippy cups because it was the one he did it the most with. It is kinda funny to watch him do it, but not so fun to clean up the mess.

Sledding

This is from a couple of weeks ago...we've been a little budy getting back into school and all, so we haven't had time to update alot...



We finally got to go tubing. We bundled Avery up (with his new snow boots from Christmas) and took him to a little hill. He didn't really like his snow boots and didn't like to stand in the snow because he was a little tipsy. We went up the hill and down the hill in a tube, but Avery didn't really seem to care. He didn't cry but he didn't really indicate that he loved it either.

Later, we (without Avery) went snowmobiling up into the higher hills and went tubing. We found an awesome tubing hill. We don't have any pictures of that, but it was still alot of fun.

Walking in a Winter Wonderland!

Well, over Thanksgiving break, while Avery was at Brian's parents house, he learned how to walk! That is what we get for leaving him behind and going to Hawaii! We thought that he would only be walking a few steps here and there, but no, he goes all over, gets up by himself, and practically runs sometimes! Its so amazing- we love our little boy, and were sad to miss his first steps, but we are excited that he is walking!

Well, snow is finally here in Idaho and it is lovely! It has been freezing cold (below zero!) and we haven't wanted to go out in the snow to play. Today, we had a chance to go out in a little bit warmer weather. Avery got to try out his snowsuit from Aunt Candace- it looks pretty snazzy!

Some of Hawaii...More to Come!

Amanda's parents flew the family (minus the little kids) to Hawaii for Christmas. We had so much fun! We stayed on Oahu for four days and Maui for four days. Most of our pictures on Amanda's little sister's laptop since we ran out of room on our camera card. Also, our camera broke halfway through and we couldn't see what pictures we were taking, so we didn't take alot with our camera after that.

These are the pictures from Maui. The first day we arrived, we went to Iao Valley. It felt a little like Jurrasic Park. When we get the other pictures, we will give you more info on what else we did.

The day before we left we went on this snorkeling trip to a tiny little island off of Maui, called Molikini. It was really choppy in the water, so they didn't let us snorkel off the boat for very long, but then we went over to a bay called Turtle Town, where supposedly you can see lots of turtles. We (half of our group) saw 1 little turtle and that was it. But it was still fun. Then the boat took us over to a reserve area where we saw lots of dolphins.