4 already?!?!

How is it possible that Avery is 4? It feels like just yesterday she was a baby. She has grown so much. It’s just amazing the little person she has turned into. She is so special to us. We had a little family bday party for her on her birthday. John and Rachelle and the kids came over. It is always so fun to have them around. The girls just love it. I slaved all day in the kitchen on the complicated meal Avery loves. Hehehehe NOT She wanted pizza and strawberry cupcakes. As we were getting home from our fun day of activities she knew it was about time to open her presents. I was pulling into the garage and I hear from the back seat, “do I get to open my stroller now?” Her gifts were in my trunk for a little over a week and she had caught a glimpse of a box last week before John could cover it up. We had no idea though that she actually knew what one was. I said, “what stroller?” She pointed behind her to the trunk and said, “the one in the trunk.” By that point I it was wrapped and in the house so I told her there was no stroller in the trunk. She is too smart! Avery's favorite color is purple so for her bday we all wore purple.

Camille's new trick

hehehehe she is going to strongly dislike me one day!

banks

Monday night John was out of town and so it was just my girls and I. Both were tired from a day at school and kind of grumpy. At 6:30 I looked at the clock and thought, “oh goodness this is going to be a long hour.” Someone must have been looking out for me. John on one of his trips had brought the girls back these wooden little banks. Av’s is a pig and Camille’s is a frog. They are too cute and they sit on Av’s dresser. We throw change in the every once in a while. Avery for some reason decided she wanted to get hers out and play with it. Of course Camille had to have hers too. They sat on Av’s bed for 45 minutes playing with those banks. Spilling out all of the change and then putting it all back in over and over again. Camille was in love. (I sat right there to make sure Camille didn’t eat any of her money) At one point I wanted to get Camille in her PJ’s but she threw the biggest fit when I took her bank away from her for a minute. Then all the sudden Camille started dropping the change over her shoulder behind her. She thought it was the funniest thing ever. Avery counted the number of coins she had over and over again. Neither wanted anything to do with the dollar bills that were in the banks. If they only knew.

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.