Avery's 4th Birthday

For Avery's 4th birthday she wanted to go to the Build a Bear Workshop. The kids both had a great time. Kyler had a hard time making up his mind which animal he wanted, that's why the first few pictures have him with a camo bear and then later he went with an owl. Avery of course chose Hello Kitty to go along with her Hello Kitty party that was to follow.

After all the Build a Bear fun we had a small party with Grandma and Grandpa.

We celebrated Avery's Birthday on Saturday, but her actual b-day was on the following Monday. She had another fun filled day. It started with a donut breakfast (she only eats the icing off the top) and then she had cupcakes at school. We let her pick the restaurant for dinner and so we went to Five Guys Burgers and Fries, we think Avery picked that one because she loves to say the whole name of the restaurant really fast and then laugh.

I can't believe Avery is already four. She is such a sweet girl, who loves to help others and is always having fun! She is very very strong willed but she is getting easier to reason with and is loving pre-school. She is little miss social and loves playing with any kid she meets. Avery is a great blessing to our family!!!

Labor Day at the Beach

We had a perfect day at the beach on Labor Day. We met up with two families and everyone had so much fun!

A couple of the highlights were....

Catching a crab. We have never seen a crab that large (not that it was huge) at the beach. Two kids that weren't with us actually were chasing it and chased it over into where we were all sitting. A lot of our kids were sitting there playing in the sand or eating when the crab ran into the circle we were sitting in. Kyler and Dylan quickly started helping the two kids chase him and the poor crab just kept trying to hide under our chairs and toys. By the time Dylan finally got a bucket on top of the crab I found Avery standing on top of our cooler screaming. It was all very funny!!!

The kids all worked together to dig a very large hole,

not sure why that is so fun for kids but they had a blast!

A man on the beach had found a surf board and gave it to us. The bigger kids tried taking it out in the water, but as you can see our two kids where more than happy to play with it on dry land!

Fun at the park

We had a great morning at the kids favorite park. It was finally a day with low humidity, we can't wait for fall so we can be outside to do things other than the pool and the beach.

Avery flyes down this slide and thinks it is so fun!

This is a great pic because she had her head up for the picture

before falling out of the slide hands first.

Mr Serious!

Kyler the builder

Kyler's latest project at the Home Depot is a football holder that can be turned over and used as a table. As usual he really had a good time. While he was building it he told Corey that he didn't really need a football holder and he thought Avery would like it more to use with her dolls. He was so cute when he got home and gave it to Avery. That afternoon she painted it and this morning I found it next to her dollhouse with a bunch of dolls sitting around it in little chairs.

Blue Day

At Avery's preschool each week they focus on one color. They learn to recognize the word, color and paint with it, etc. They also have one day each week where they are supposed to wear that color. The first week the color was red. When we got to red day Avery did not like the shorts that I gave her to wear with her red shirt so we had a major meltdown and she took off her clothes and cried while she got someother (non red) clothes and put them on. That girl is soooo hard headed!!

Here she is on blue day.

Once again she didn't like the shorts, but this time she did keep her clothes on.