Summer Fun!

Well...I guess summer is officially over...so sad! We had the best summer! Lots of playing and lots of fun. We took Avery to Colorado where Nathan and I love to go in the summer...and where we got engaged. She put her toes in the extremely cold water and thought it was fun...until the really cold water got way too cold...she had a great time playing all over Colorado and with the triplets. We ate at Beano's cabin (the triplets' favorite place) and she sat in the rocking chairs like one of the big girls. She played all over the pirate ship and loved running in the fountains. It was very special for Nathan and I to take her to Vail since it is a special place for us.

Avery and I also discovered the Walnut Hill Rec Center and the Dallas Gymnastics team practices there. Every Wed. they open the gym to 0-3 year olds to come play with all the balls and jump on the trampoline and walk the balance beams and just play on the mats. Avery is obsessed with all the balls. She always has to have a ball in her hand. She had to take a "timeout" break...when she wouldn't share her ball with another little girl and got in a tug of war over the ball. The balls are coveted! Its a crazy place on Wednesdays but she loves it. She gets to run all over and just have fun! And its indoors too...which is great since it has been 107 here. She has been knocked down a few times and is still kicking!

Avery absolutely loves animals! In the last two weeks she has learned sooo many of the animal sounds. She knows what a dog and cat say....she knows what a lion and bear say and tonight she just learned what a sheep says because Mom and I took her to the zoo today and she finally learned that a sheep says "Baaaaa". Today at the zoo she rode a pony all by herself...we had no idea how that would go...but she LOVED it and tried to "pat pat pat" the pony. We also had a wonderful experience with the lions. We couldn't find the lions and someone told us to go into the restaurant and you could see them from the glass window in the restaurant. Boy could you see them! All 5 or 6 of them were pressed up against the glass...I guess they could feeling the AC from the restaurant....Avery was sooo excited! She just kept saying "roar roar roar roar" over and over again. She was literally face to face with them. Mom and I asked her several times if she was ready to leave and she said "no" and shook her head no. She absolutely had a fit and cried when we put her in the car to leave. Apparently, we will be going back to the zoo again! The Dallas Zoo was not nearly as bad as people have made it out to be. Avery loved it and that is all that matters.

Is is so much fun with Avery right now. She is such a sponge and mimmicks all the words we say...which is ok most of the time! ha ha....The other day I told her we needed to change her "poop" diaper and she went around the house saying Poop for 30 minutes. She didnt know what she was saying but it was pretty funny! She has learned so much in the last two weeks it is amazing. The triplets started school and havent been here for two weeks and tonight when avery made all of her animal sounds on the phone for them they were in shock!

We love you Avery...our little Butterfly

p.s. I just realized several of these pics are duplicates from prior posts but I could not delete without deleting all the pics...so I just left them!