So... Barak Obama is our new president. I heard a lot of moans and groans when he was elected. Screams of socialism and general dread about how he will lead our country the wrong way. Throughout this whole time, though I did not vote for him, I've been trying to give him the benefit of the doubt and hope that he can deliver on some of his better ideas. Let me just say that, in his first month, I am not impressed. I think he has been very misleading (and perhaps just plain dishonest) in his addresses to the nation, and has made some bad decisions so far. I hope he can redeem himself.
Anyway... my point isn't to go off on politics. This is but a simple segway into other fun Avery stuff. So, speaking of Obama, Avery watched part of Obama's first press conference with us a few weeks ago, so we (wanting our child to be an informed citizen as much as possible) were sure to let Avery know who we were watching. Then, just the other morning, Avery climbed in bed with us and was climbing all over us, jumping on the bed, and things like that as normal. At one point he just looked at us and said, "Where's President Obama?" We didn't know how to answer him. He was also very quick to identify him during the presidential address the other night.
A couple other random things:
1) Birthday party - Avery seems to think that a birthday party is a birthday cake. We've been to several birthday festivities in the last few weeks (Uncle Jon, cousin Jacob, and Great Uncle Jack), and he's eaten a lot of cake... in other words, Avery heaven. He always gets very excited for these parties and says "I want to eat the birthday party!" Or "I'm going to eat [insert name here]'s birthday party!" We've tried to teach him the difference, but it's not sticking yet.
2) Vitamins - Avery is a lucky boy. His vitamins he takes are gummy bear ones from Costco... and he loves them. The "serving size" or "dosage" or whatever is 2 bears... so he gets 2 bears a day. Everytime he gets his vitamins, without fail, he says "2 vitamins, and 2 grandpas." I guess he's proud of the fact that he has 2 grandpas.
3) Hotpants - Avery has a lot of pajama sets that come with some pretty short shorts. He frequently asks (when getting pajama pants on) specifically for hot pants. I think that's funny.
4) Sleeping by the door - This one drives us crazy. We always put Avery to bed... on his bed. (crazy huh?) Yet, whenever we check on him before we go to bed... or put Jack to bed later than him, he is always sleeping right in front of the door so that we have to push hard and slide him on the carpet. He doesn't just go over by himself. He always takes all of his blankets (usually 3-4), his pillow, Curious George, and his 2 baby dolls over and makes himself up a bed. It's cute, but annoying.
His new favorite game to play is UpWords. He dumps all the letters out and puts them on the board, each time saying the letter and word. So cute. I did good. (...You too Andy!)
Who knew it would take that long to get it close to the way I wanted. It's still not perfect, but I had to make myself stop!
Around here we think Avery's pretty funny...examples...
This morning Avery was laying in bed with me, at one point he rolled over and started sucking his thumb. I asked him if his thumb tasted good he said yes. So I asked him what it tasted like. He smiled and said "A taco!!". I don't think he even knows what a taco is. He thought it was pretty funny though.
He keeps telling me when he gets big he's going to go to school like Daddy, or he's going to go to Daddy's office when he's bigger. He just can't wait. And by "when I'm bigger" he thinks that means after his nap, or tomorrow. I love that kids have no sense of time.
Avery saw a picture of Jack on the computer and immediately started smiling and proclaimed "He's so cute!" He also tells us that Jack is his "Very best friend" I love it.
Jack rolled himself up in a blanket while he was playing on the floor the other day. Don't worry I unrolled him after taking this picture!
Eating birthday cake at Uncle Jack's house. Avery loved it!
Will it last all night, probably not. One of them will wake up and wake the other. But we're leaving them like that for now. It's too cute.
Our first Valentine's I made him a heart to wear all day that says "my wife loves me" we still have it. And we ate fried chicken. We graduated to steak dinner the next year. : )
Today we're taking the boys to my brother and sister in law's house and we're going out to lunch. This will actually be the first V-Day since we've been married that we are actually going out to eat. I usually just make a special dinner.
And this year, Andy got me roses and wrote me a very sweet letter.
I love it. And so does Avery. If he's awake he's playing on it. We need to work out some sort of schedule.
Now that Jack sits up like a pro Avery loves to share his toys with him. Jack thinks it's great too. Even if it doesn't look like it in this picture!
Also, I cut my hair. I hated it at first and felt like a boy, now I can handle it thanks to some great styling tips. I'm just not one for high maintenance hair. blah. I still don't love it. But it'll grow out right?! :)
And I thought this picture of Avery was cute. It looks like he's thinking about something. Really he was telling me to take a picture of his cheek! Crazy....
