2 Months

January 9th marked the 2nd month mark! So many big changes-
Height- 22 inches (75%)
Weight- 10.6 pounds (50%) (doubled since birth!! such a good little eater)
*She loves the vacuum (While I was at work, chris ran the vacuum for a hour to keep her happy and blew a fuse hahah!!)
*She loves loud music. We have a lot of dance parties to Rihanna, Katy Perry, and the Wicked sound track. Loud classical music does the trick too but not as fun for me :)
*She sleeps 5-7 hours a night, with an occasional 8 hours!! Amazing, I know. I love her!! She started doing this around 8 weeks.
*Still loves getting her diaper changed.
*So smiley and is really good at talking. We coo and aww at each other all day :) (I can never catch her cute smile on camera.)
*Loves bath time and lotion rubs.
* starting to like her swing and smiles at herself in the mirror on her swing

WORST PART about being 2 months old is getting her first set of shots- wow- saddest thing in the world!! I swear the needle went to the bone. She was very cuddly and sad that day

She hates tummy time but we are getting better at it...

In all honesty- the first month is hard. No sleep, none of us have any clue what we are doing, sore body, makeup and looking cute never happened, lots of Avy crying, and I didn't even walk out if the house for 4 weeks- seriously.

BUT month 2 is FUN! She is so cute and is such a good baby! We are so in love with her. She is a happy healthy little sweetheart. Chris and I are always saying to each other, how did we get such a perfect cute baby??!! She really is perfect. We are so blessed. I know it is only going to get more fun and we will fall more in love with her every day.

So Blessed

On January 8th 2012, Chris gave Avalee a beautiful blessing. It was such a wonderful evening. We did it up at the Webster home and had ice cream and brownies after. Thank you everyone who came to celebrate our amazing little girl. We love her so much and are so lucky to have her!!

Avalee wore the blessing dress that I wore at my blessing! Thanks mom for keeping for us :)

 

 All the wonderful men that helped with the blessing. ( minus Colton-haha)

two beautiful 8 year olds

On Saturday, January 7th, two special girls were baptized and we were lucky enough to attend both baptisms. 

Congratulations Kaytlyn Gardner and Sierra Thomason on your baptism. We are so proud of you and the decision you have made. You are both such beautiful girls and Avalee is so lucky to have cousins that lead such good examples. We Love you girls!!

Diana, Anni, Kate and I did a little musical number together for Kate's program.

Avy did SO good during both baptisms. Thanks to all the helpers :)

Sierra has such a beautiful voice and did such a good job singing at her baptism.

After Sierra's baptism we went to the Sizzler for lunch.

two weeks in paradise- AKA- REXBURG!!

After Christmas Chris had to go back to Boise for work. Because I am still on maternity leave from work, I decided to stay in Rexburg for a few weeks to spend time with my family and have a little help with Avalee. It was sooo nice to have my parents and family around. I wish we lived closer to them. I really missed Chris and probably could not have done it without using face time on our iphones every night, but I really loved being around my family for a few weeks.

My parents seriously have a magic touch or smell or something- Ava LOVES them! They always know how to calm her down when she is fussy. I wish I could have them around always.

 haha- Look at those cheeks!! Ava and I both got chubby while we were in rexburg- too much good home cooking! She looks so cute :)

These adorable kids are avalees cousins. They are so sweet to her. Colt and Jack were so good at singing and entertaining her.

 Ava loves her cousins Kate and Anni. They are so sweet to her and are going to be great babysitters this summer!!

 Colt and Avys matching black tights- haha- we might have to make fun of him when he is older!

One day we took Nana up to St. Anthony to get her hair done and a mani pedi- she is 97- so cute that she still loves and gets to pamper herself! Then we went to Chizs for lunch. I grew up going there with Nana so its so great that Avys first restaurant experience is at Chizs with Nana!

 I didn't take enough pictures but, we did spend some time out at Bonnie and Warrens. I love them so much and I am so lucky to have them as my parents-in-law. Avy is a lucky girl to have such amazing grandparents that love her so much.

(I love Avys little toes sticking out of her bag pjs)

Its was sad not spending New Years with my best friend, Chris. At midnight we were on iphone face chat, both laying in bed. Not too exciting. But I gave Avy plenty of new years kisses!

Two crazy kids that had a fun new years were my parents!! They went to a murder mystery party and had to dress up as Will Smith and Oprah- haha. It was fun helping them get ready. They are so fun and always doing fun things with their friends.

these are just a few cute pictures I sent Chris while he was away. Every day she gets a little bigger, a little more smiley, more awake, more coos and little baby words, and more fun! I didn't want Chris to miss any of it so I sent him a lot of pictures and videos.

 I found this old dress of mine when I was a baby. Avalee looked so dang cute in it!!

I Loved our time in Rexburg and am already excited to go back :) The only bad part was being away from Chris for so long. We will have to do it all together sometime!! 

Avalee is lots more happy when there are people around talking and loving her and we had a lot of this in rexburg. It is pretty quiet at home when Chris is at work soooo, our door is open to any visitors who want to come play!! Come visit us in Boise!!

Christmas

Christmas in Rexburg is the best. Full of family and christmas parties and way too much delicious food. It was a perfect christmas.

This was Ava's first big trip to Rexburg. 

We had a few sad moments but for the most part, she slept and was perfect. 

Friday night we had the Thomason family Christmas party. We had a great dinner and a special little program. Warren and Bonnie always make the Christmas program so wonderful.

Avalee had a very special part in the nativity. She played a great little baby Jesus :)

 

Grandma Ardith gave all the greatgrand kids a 5 dollar bill! We are starting her college fund now :)

 

Taylor played a great Santa. Avalee is already scared of Santa haha!!

Saturday night (christmas Eve) was with the Websters up at Mandy and Bradys house. Again, amazing food and a cute little nativity- This time Chris and I had to play Mary and Joseph and Avy was baby Jesus again. We had such important roles this year :)

 

(Mandys house is amazingly beautiful. She should be a professional decorator) 

How lucky is Avalee to have a Great Great Grandma!! We Love Nana. She is 97 and still wants to come to all the parties and is always the center of attention.

We spent the night at the Thomasons house with Colby, Denise, Mike and Brittany. All the girls stayed up until about 3am just talking about everything. I loved it! We were pretty tired the next day but I sure love our girl time together.
Christmas Morning at the Thomasons.

This is what santa got Avy this year for christmas :) Lucky girl- and maybe this will give my swinging arms a little rest ha.

Then we headed up to the Webster for opening presents and Moms Famous Christmas morning breakfast. Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without her breakfast.

                                      

 Christmas dinner was out at the Thomason.

Avy loves foot and leg rubs!

Avalee got this book from Bonnie and Warren. It is a recordable book so it has their voices reading the book to her. So Cute and she loves it!

Christmas was amazing. We were SOO spoiled- way nice pots and pans, ipods, workout kinect games, clothes, car safety kit, baby toys and clothes, and that is only a few of the great gifts we got. We have the most wonderful family. We are so blessed. But I think our favorite gift this year was this little princess. She even gave me the gift of sleeping 7 hours straight a few nights in a row. Im a lucky mom.