WOW!

My friend Annalee has had great pictures taken by Lisa, at Now and Then Photography. When I told Annalee how much we loved the photos she mentioned that Lisa is our friend Felicia's sister-in-law. I shamelessly sent Lisa an e-mail mentioning that if she was ever in our area we would really like some pictures. I also dropped Felicia's name as well as Annalee's. Well, we finally got to have Lisa take our pictures yesterday. She did such an amazing job. Lisa truly gave us a great experience as well as some wonderful photos. You should definitely use Lisa if you live near her in Austin, or work hard to convince her to come back to our area if you live here. We will be campaigning for her to come often! If you want to see more pictures of our little precious go to Lisa's blog.


By the way I finally figured out how to do link's with people's names I am loving it, thanks Annalee you know all the good stuff.

Mr. Big Stuff

Look who's 5 months old. I can't believe it! I think my favorite thing about this month has been how much Avery's personality is growing. It seems like every day he is more interactive and fun. Even tonight when he was realizing how fun it is to yell! Michael and I said so many times last weekend that we were so thankful that he has such an easy going personality. He was so sweet to smile and flirt with so many people for all the wedding festivities.

Avery's most notable skill would be that he is almost sitting up. He has definitely mastered the "gorilla sit" as Michael calls it, and can last about 2 seconds in a big boy sit. I was really hoping he would be sitting by Thursday, we'll see how quick the photographer is.

On a personal note, I am looking for a new weekend babysitter based on this picture. As you can see Avery is trying to look like it is no biggie that he is playing with Mamma's Popples....

While he may not know any better his Daddy definitely does. Besides, Maddie took care of Avery, or me, and got him his own Popples. Why isn't that Popples in the picture? If you are interested in the babysitting gig let me know. The pay is not great, but the charge is pretty cute.

Mrs. Aunt Linde

This weekend Aunt Linde, became Mrs. Jeff. We started off the fun Friday with a wonderful pool party/bridesmaids luncheon and then enjoyed a great rehearsal dinner, Rudy's, Jeff's fave.

Saturday morning we were able to have a few hours of quality family time which was so fun. Avery and Linde shared their morning personalities. Then we all started getting ready for the big day. Avery and I did have to talk and let him know that know that Aunt Linde's married he has to be the #2 man in her life, he reluctantly agreed once she promised he could be a close second.

I think it is safe to say Linde and Jeff had the time of their lives. Everything was beautiful and perfect. Not one detail was missed and yet they didn't have to worry about a thing. The ceremony was great, the looked fabulous and then we all headed to the reception for a fabulous party.
We were all able to have so much fun thanks to the hard work of these 2 wonderful women. Mom and her best friend Alison worked so hard to plan a flawless wedding weekend for Linde and Jeff and all of us to enjoy. Great work ladies! It was AMAZING!

Hopefully I will have more pictures to share in a couple of weeks from the photographer. I did a terrible job of taking pictures, but I was glad to at least have these few to share. We truly had a great time and are so glad to welcome Jeff into our family. We are looking forward to many fun times with Jeff and his family.

Avery Boy is just like...

His Mamma, if you have read my blog for awhile I am a TV-aholic. While I was unloading the dishwasher I had Avery all set up to play in his bumbo chair and I was going to catch up on some Olympics. I looked over the bar to see how he was doing and this is what I found.
Apparently I don't need to be quite so proud I haven't had him watch baby movies yet, at least they are age appropriate. Don't worry, I am a good Mom, I said "Avery Blake" and he turned around and looked at me and quit watching TV. So then I hid with my phone until he did it again and took his picture nice huh. Not only will he have ADD, but probably neck damage as well.

His Daddy, this is the precious face I see first thing in the morning when we wakes up to eat at 6 and then again when he wakes up for real at 10. Y'all know how I feel about the mornings so this is clearly not something he gets from me.

His Mamma and Daddy. We both LOVE to read. This picture is about a month ago reading with Papa Lee. We can almost always calm him down and buy a few minutes with a book and he was very proud about 2 weeks ago to figure out he can turn the pages.
I can't believe our little prince is 5 months old. Today he celebrated with his first all day alone with Daddy while I played with my other babies at work. I think there was a lot of male bonding going on. They were both tired and happy after a full 12 hours of father son time. Stay tuned for a 5 month pic before too long.

It's Good to be Home

I know it has been to long without a post, but we have been having so much fun hanging out at home!!!!

Avery has changed so much the past few weeks. He is laughing and playing with his toys so much more than he used to. He thinks his exersaucer is the greatest and that play time with Daddy is hilarious.

We have had a great 2 weekends at home. I am so thankful I got so sleep in this Saturday after staying up way too late Thursday night watching the Olympics and then getting up with the storm early Wednesday morning.

I am so glad that Avery always wakes up with a sweet little face and that he doesn't mind catching a few z's with us on Saturday mornings when we want to rest.

We are looking forward to one more weekend at home and then it is Linde's big day! We are counting down to the festivities and crossing our fingers that the littlest ring bearer is in a good humor for Aunt Linde.








Almost Uncle Jeff won't be almost in less than 2 weeks. We are so glad Linde found someone wonderful to sweep her off her feet.

If you love this picture go to Linde's friend Taylor's website, www.barefeetcreative.com

Beautiful Aunt Linde

Aunt Linde had her Bridal portraits today. She was looking so beautiful. I can't believe the wedding is getting so close, less than a month! Avery had a super fun morning playing with Katie and David. He was not too sad to see Michael go...
That's our well-adjusted/totally spoiled kid, see ya Daddy I've got plenty of people to play with me here.

Thanks Sarah, Katie and David!

In other news we are teething. It is so sad, little bit handles it pretty well, but as he chews on anything he can get close enough I am feeling very sorry for him. I like my little gummy baby, but I hope for his sake the teeth pop through before too long and get him out of him misery.

Skullet

A Mullet is a hairstyle that is short in the front, top, and sides, but long in the back. The hairstyle was popular during the late 20th century, from the early 1970s to the early 1990s. Mullets have been worn by males and females of all ages. The mullet is distinct from the rattail, which consists of a long, narrow "tail" of hair growing from the back of the head. Mullets also vary in length from side to side and necessarily do not share a single, consistent length.

We have decided that Avery has a Skullet, it meets the mullet definition according wikipedia, but he has skull on the sides and front :)
See, skull in the front.
Hair in the back, hopefully it won't grow into a rattail.
See, skull on the sides.

We are taking bets on how much longer the fringe will last. I am finally getting to have a bald baby for little while.