2 Things That Melt My Heart!

2 things that Avery has been doing lately just tug at my heart strings!!

1) Right before I put her to bed when I'm holding her I rub her back. Just recently she has started to rub mine too with no prompting. It's the Best!!

2) Even Better...when she grabs my face with both of her hands and gives me a Big Kiss!

I Love Her!

Bye Bye Birdie

Friday night we took Avery to see Bye Bye Birdie at Lovejoy High School. One of Tim's co-workers daughters was playing the lead and we thought Avery would enjoy the play. We were so right....She LOVED it!! It was a pretty long one too - 2 1/2 hours with a 15-minute intermission, but she sat the whole time (a little antsy the last 10 minutes) and was totally in awe of everything going on. I can't wait to take her to her next one!!



Trying to get a good pic of her before we left...she's getting so Big!!


Walking into the Auditorium - it was FREEZING!

Group shot before it started

Thanks Nana for the M&M's...one happy girl!!

Checking out the records on the wall outside the theater

Mommy & Avery

Sitting in her own Big Girl Seat

Loving It!!

Having dinner/a snack. You weren't supposed to eat inside but it's hard to tell that to a 2-year old!

Sitting with Daddy!

Paint'n Party

Yesterday, Alicia and I took the girls to Paint'n Party in Plano. We're running out of ideas here guys...I am so tired of the weather and you can only go to so many mall playgrounds. We were a little hesitant because we didn't know how long they would last, but they really enjoyed it and painted for well over an hour!! Woohoo!!

Here they are with their smocks on and after much deliberation and touching and picking up of every piece available, they settled on painting some ballet slippers.


It is so amazing to watch children and see how their differences come out especially in a setting like this. Shea would pick a color and then Avery would want to use it so she would wait for Shea to finish, but Shea really enjoys using her whole surface whereas Avery wants a quick dab in the paint and moves on to the next color. The women who worked there were kind enough to give us another set of paints so that each girl could have their own and no one had to worry about sharing :)

Case-in-point...Shea really enjoyed painting her whole canvas and did a beautiful job!!

Meanwhile, Avery used every color as well but with only a dab on each shoe and then on to the next color - beautiful as well!

Alicia joined in on the fun and made a super-cute Valentine's mug!


Ta-

da!

After painting we took the girls to Mama's Pizza for lunch. OMG, I haven't been there in so long and it is so GOOD!!! We got the buffet and for those of you with kids, children under 12 can eat at the buffet for 40 cents per their age so Avery & Shea got to eat for 80 cents each. Now, I'm sure they think a 2-Year old will only eat 1 piece maybe 2. Well we sure did get our money's worth out of these 2 girls - Avery ate 5 pieces and Shea ate 4 and some of my cinnamon roll. We showed them :)

Yummy Heart Cupcakes

Avery and I were at the store last week and she was helping me shop and put everything in the cart. We got to the baking aisle and of course ran into the cupcakes so we just HAD to get a box to make at home. And, we HAD to make them before lunch. What was I thinking :) We did make them before lunch but at least ate a little lunch (and I stress little) while they were cooking. Avery was such a good helper and we had so much fun!!

Checking out all the ingredients


Will I ever get a real smile out of her again???


Pouring in the water


Watching it all mix up

Our finished products before the icing and sprinkles - thanks Nana for our super-cute Heart cupcake mold

Here's Avery's cupcake - do you think she has enough sprinkles??

DELICIOUS!! Notice that her lunch has barely been touched. Oh well, she'll eat again later!

Playing Football with the Boys!

Playing, playing with the boys!! When I look at these photos that's the song that comes to mind. We were watching the Cowboys play a couple weeks ago and the boys went outside at half-time to play football. Well of course the girls had to go out and play too!! Avery and Keaton had a ball!! And, I had a ball watching them all play.

Snuggie Fun!

We got Snuggies for Chanukah and Avery always gets them out for us from our cabinet in the kitchen. Tonight she made us wear them and so we set up the tripod and took some family fun pics:

Ta-Ta GRE!

It's over...it's FINALLY over...I conquered the GRE today! Hallelujah!! Conquered as in not getting a perfect score, but getting well over the average scores they are looking for at school. Now, all I have to do is wait to see if I'm accepted once they receive my scores and one recommendation letter I'm waiting on. I think it will all work out and I'm really looking forward to moving ahead with school and my life!!

I've been telling Tim that studying for this test has been great for our wallet because the only thing I've spent $$$ on in the past 2 weeks was gas and groceries because of all the studying I was doing. So much for that!! It's over and I've got new projects to work on - at least we saved for 2 weeks and I've got to make up for that now :) Sorry Tim!!

I hope everyone has a FABULOUS Week!! I plan on making the most of it!

PS: Unless anyone has any use for 2 GRE books and 250 flashcards - I'm thinking of having myself a little bonfire if anyone would like to join me :)