kisses

Camille gives kisses now! Mostly Avery is the recipient of them. When I ask her for one she will make the noise but will not come and actually touch her lips to me, too busy for that. At night when I put the girls to bed by myself we sit in Av’s room and read books then brush teeth and then we put Av in bed first. Once Av is in bed Camille will climb right in bed with her and climb right up on top of Av to give her kisses. The other morning Av was lying on the couch and Camille climbed up her to give her kisses. It is about the cutest thing I have ever seen.

Just the 4 of us!

This past weekend we spent entirely as a family. We didn’t have a single plan going into the weekend and we spent the whole weekend together just the 4 of us. We have not had a weekend like that in sooooooooooo long. It was very nice. We did lots of playing, raking, reading and some errands. We went to the zoo on Saturday. It was nice having daddy there, usually it is just us girls. At one point Av got out her bubble machine. Camille was amazed. I am so lucky to have such a great family!

oh crap, crap

(this is John)

So tonight, I was trying to eat dinner after getting home late and Mommy was doing something else when all the sudden the "what the heck is Camille doing?" feeling came over both of us.... and yup... up on the 5th stair she is. Before we even knew, we knew. So I go running to the stairs going "oh crap, oh crap" to get her........  and right behind me is Avery yelling "crap crap crap". Ooops.

"I can't believe you just told me no!"

Here is what Camille does when the world gets to be too much for her.  This is her disappointed/heart broken pose.   It's pretty funny. When something doesn't go her way she is pretty dramatic about assuming this position.  

exploring

I have a picture that is exactly the same only it's Av instead of Camille.  I will have to dig that out and post it.  Here is Camille exploring her world.  

Veteran’s Day

I got a very nice surprise on Veteran's Day. After dropping the girls off at school I headed to work like I always do. First thing I noticed when I pulled in was that there were NO cars in the lot!! Took me about one second to realize it must have been a holiday for us! I was so excited. Almost giddy. A day to myself!!! When was the last time I had one of those??? The first thing I did was call a girlfriend and told her to wait for me!!! A few mothers from Avery’s class were getting together for breakfast and all the sudden I could join them! So there I sat on a Wednesday morning with 4 friends drinking my coffee and having a yummy breakfast burrito. It was so unexpected and relaxing. We sat there for 2 hours talking and laughing. Then we went off to do some shopping together. It was nice getting to know some new friends better and a great day to re-charge my mommy battery.

hbr/speech update

Tuesdays attempt was more of the same. Av pretty much cried and tried to wait Miss Becky out. They didn’t accomplish much. I kept my cool and just loved on her when it was over but also told her how silly I thought she was being. I told Av that we were going to continue coming and she might as well start to have fun at it. On Thursday Av woke up in a really good mood and was excited for Speech and hbr. She kept saying she wanted to go to speech first then to ride Mickey. (I had been telling her Mickey has been missing her and wanted her to come and ride him and give him a treat). So after hanging out at the house all morning and then dropping Camille off at school to speech we headed. Speech ended up going great. Miss Angela told me that, “Avery talked a lot and worked on/repeated all words that were asked of her. (They were working on the K sound and Av was doing well.) Avery was also silly and having fun with it at the appropriate times. Avery is now just one of the group!” It was music to my ears!! After running home to have lunch off to hbr we went. Miss Becky decided to try having Av ride first to see if that worked so off Av went to ride Mickey. I snuck in to take a peak and she looked happy. I heard when they were done and came inside. I heard Av crying and asking for me. It went on for only a few minutes and then I didn’t hear her crying anymore. I didn't know whether they were just sitting there staring at each other or if Av was actually doing as Miss Becky asked. Turns out she was kind of doing things. Not great, but better. Another little boy worked with them so I think that helped. Av didn't have all the attention on her and it was more like she was playing with a new friend. When she got done she was super exited to tell me she rode Mickey and gave him a treat. I think it was a step in the right direction!