Avery's 5th Birthday Morning

Happy 5th Birthday Avery Jordan!  I am so amazed by the little, I mean BIG girl you have become.  I can't believe you have blessed our lives for 5 years already!  You have the biggest heart, are so kind to everyone you meet, have an infectious laugh that puts a smile on my face.  

You Love to go do anything, color, arts and crafts, listen to music, dance to music with Ella and Daddy and I or just go hang out in your playroom and play with your babies, Barbies or any toys that are in there.  

You can't wait to go to Nana's on Tuesday's and your suitcase is normally packed by late Saturday morning to go spend the night at Darmi and Poppy's!  

You are in Love with your Daddy and almost every night after your shower/bath you put your jammies on and watch a show with him while I put Ella to bed.  You guys also hang out together most Saturday afternoons while Ella takes her nap and I go run errands...it's so great to see you 2 together!!  

You have started to branch out on what you like to eat. Your favorites are still macaroni and cheese, pizza, chicken nuggets and all fruits but we have added carrots and ranch, ravioli, edamame, these fish sticks that I tell you are chicken :) but you love them!  The fav places you like to go to to grab food real quick is Sonic, Chick-fil-A, Steak and Shake and Grimaldi's whenever we get over there.  

You love to go up to Watters Creek and you ask several times a week if we can go up there to eat ice cream and listen to the music. You will pretty much ask any day of the week if you can if we can go get ice cream somewhere :)

You have become so sweet with Ella and you 2 play for the most part pretty well together.  I think you secretly like it to because you get to be the boss :)  

I Love spending Ella's nap time with you and playing cards, coloring, watching movies, whatever.  

Listening to you talk and the things that come out of your mouth amazes me!  You are so big but remember you will also be my little girl!  I Love you!!

Here you are the morning of your birthday.  Dressed in the shirt Nana made for you and in your birthday hat from school.

Just waking up to her presents at the bottom of the stairs. I just Love right when the kiddos wake up and their sweetness!

Opening up her presents while Daddy gets ready

New card games!

Lots of band-aids!!

Sassy poses!  She's so excited and been waiting for this day forever!!

With her buddy before he leaves for work

Laying out all her gifts before Ella gets up.  She has a lot to do!

Being sung "Happy Birthday" by the grandparents and telling them all about her gifts and then asking when she was going to see them and did they have gifts to give her too :)

Bonus...the lawnmowers came today!!

More to come soon!

Avery's 5th Birthday...the Rest of the Day

After our exciting morning at home we went to the Mall with Darmi to do some of Avery's favorite things...ride the merry-go-round for starters.  Surprisingly, Ella wanted to go on this time and loved it too!  She just had to have Avery there with her to join in.

After several times on the Merry-Go-Round, Darmi took Avery to her favorite store - The Disney Store to buy her her birthday presents.  It was seriously like being in a candy store for her...if anyone would like to take me to my favorite stores when it's my birthday and buy me gifts I would love that!  Here she is with her Big bag of toys :)

Then, we had to have lunch of course, and where else but Chick-fil-A!  We sat near the ice skating rink so the girls could watch the skaters.  And, since they were going to eventually get antsy, it was a great distraction to watch.

On our way home we stopped to get flowers for Cissy's recital that evening and the girls were given some flowers of their own by the florist.  They were so excited!

All the grandparents came over for Avery's requested pizza birthday dinner to celebrate.

Here's her princess cake she had been asking for.  I had made banana bread the day before and for some reason she kept thinking that that would be her birthday cake since the "big princess cake" we ordered was for her birthday party. She even told everyone that we were having banana bread for dessert!

Super surprised and excited to see this Sleeping Beauty!

Ella was pretty excited too!

After dinner, we headed out to Cissy's recital with Nana and Papa.  With, Avery sporting her new hat that Tim got her.  Perfect Texas Rangers hat for a girl that smells like berries!

She so badly wanted to get up there and dance so she did after it was all over with the other girls

On the way home she was thirsty so Papa stopped at DQ and got her a super yummy shake!  

This girl had an AWESOME birthday and I enjoyed spending the whole day celebrating her!  Happy Birthday my Big 5-year old!

Clifford came home with Avery Mother's Day weekend and she was so excited!  She's been waiting for him to come home all year and it was now her turn.  She took Clifford everywhere and we had to take pics and put it in the book from her class.

Here's some of the weekend...

Hanging out with Ella & I

Going to school

Coloring some pics

Spending the night with Cissy, Nana and Papa

Playing war with me

The pages she wrote up for her class book:

They had a fun weekend together!

My Little Flintstone

our walks look like this right now with ms. ella riding her bike. i love her little giggles while she's riding. sorry for the feedback...i'm running with her and it's super windy too!