Straight Hair

For months, Avery has been asking me to straighten her hair. She sees me straighten my hair often- but her hair has really been too short to straighten. Finally, one morning, we just did it. She loved it. It was pretty funny. This picture really doesn't do it justice- her straight hair stuck out all over her head. We might wait until her hair gets a little bit longer before we straighten it again. (:

Christmas Morning 2001

Luckily for us, Christmas fell on a Sunday- the only day Mike had off that rotation. However, he still had to go in and round that morning, and he usually didn't make it back before church started. We had a dilemma. If he wasn't back before church, that meant I had to spend an entire morning with the girls not letting them open presents. 

Christmas morning arrived, Mike went off to the hospital, reassuring me he'd be back. I wasn't so sure. When the girls got up, I tried to distract them and keep them busy. We got ready for church first, dragging our feet, hoping Mike would make it not only in time for church, but with time to open presents before. Thankfully, he did! It was a little weird opening presents in Sunday dresses instead of warm PJs...

Santa brought the girls Leapsters. I'm still not sure how they managed to convince Santa.

Avery wanted another baby, why, I'm not sure. She has a million. At least this one "eats" bananas.

Christmas was really a laid back day for us. I still wasn't feeling well, but it was nice that we could all be together.

Gingerbread houses- December 2011

This Christmas Bailey and Avery both got to make gingerbread houses at school. They were very attached to them and they wouldn't let me throw them away. New Years came and went, and they still couldn't part with them. I finally took pictures so we could remember how beautiful they were, and tossed them when they weren't looking. Luckily for me, they didn't notice. Their Valentine boxes will meet a similar fate here in the next few days...

Swimming lessons- September 2011

This fall, Avery also got to start taking swimming lessons all by herself. Here she is all decked out with her goggles- they don't really stay on for very long. But it makes me laugh when she wants to wear them.

She is doing really well. Both of my girls are little fish. Last week I had to take a few more pictures of her in her class:

And here is a tiny video of her:

We are looking forward to using our swimming skills this summer.

First, and really only snow- December 2011

As usual, Bailey and Avery could hardly wait for it to snow. Myself, I wasn't sure I had recovered from the 190 in. we got last year, and was happy the first snow waited until mid-December. Little did we know, it was one of the only snowstorms we got all year!

This year, Avery was finally old enough to go out and play with Bailey. Last year, her snow suit and snow boots, and the sheer depth of the snow made it impossible for Avery to go out alone. I was really surprised- the girls would go out for over an hour out in the snow. They only got to wear their snow suits a few times though. Oh well. There's always next winter.

Rollerskating- October 2011

Bailey's school does lots of fun after school activities. (Sometimes I wish they didn't do so many- I hate having to tell her no...). One afternoon in October, they got to go roller skating.

She picked it up pretty fast- she's had a little practice with her roller skates at home. They had a DJ there are everything who called for just girl songs, and partner songs. It was fun for Bailey!

Halloween 2011

I started getting really sick around Halloween, so now I'm playing catch up. Here are the few pictures we took of out little lady bug and Rapunzel:

I took the girls trick or treating with some friends of ours- Calvin and William. Mike was, of course, working. I was miserable and sick, sick sick. I'm not sure how I survived the night!

It's kind of hard to see, but Avery really started getting into writing around this time. At the bottom of the page it says witch. I can't believe how grown up she is!