So Proud and a little Lonely

Avery has been feeling a little blue today. He is missing his Daddy who left Thursday for his annual meeting for work. Luckily LouLou was here until today to keep him entertained, but today it has been just the 2 of us for the most part. THANKS LouLou! It has been so funny to see Avery look for Michael while he has been away. When I got home from work each night he seemed very excited to see me, but also kept looking around for his Daddy. Today Avery keeps taking off crawling as fast as he can for the office. He then looks all around for Michael. After dinner he kept looking at the front door I am sure thinking when is Daddy coming home? We will both be so glad when Michael gets home tomorrow.

Since he is gone I am going to use Michael's absence to take an opportunity to brag! I am so proud of Michael. He got a PROMOTION! He off course says it is no big deal, blah blah and I guess technically as I nurse I have no idea what he does or what the promotion means. But, I am still so PROUD! So, I wanted to brag about my prince. I am so thankful that he is constantly working hard to grow into the best man he can be in all aspects of his life. Of course being the worry wart conscientious guy that he is there is some stress with this new position, so say a little prayer for him in this transitional time. I am pretty sure all his clients will be thrilled to have him!

PS If you don't congratulate him when you see him, maybe he won't know I told you and I won't get in trouble for telling everyone :) You can just send good thoughts!

February Fun

Well, we haven't really done anything to exciting around here lately so I haven't had anything earth shattering to post. But, I thought I would let you see what gets interesting when you hang out at home with your 10 month old. I keep hoping Avery's hair will get curly so he can have cute southern boy curls. So far no luck but I tried to convince Michael that this SERIOUS case of bed head means there is curl potential, he isn't buying it. I would love to know how Avery slept to get his hair this crazy.

The other night when Avery played baby Jesus we were hanging out waiting in our plain white onesie talking to Maggie and her Mom. Next thing we knew Mr. Sneaky was sucking on someone else's pink passy. So, we decided he needed Maggie's shoes and Brooke's purse, too. That Brooke is always trouble.
I feel certain someday I will get a look along these lines when Avery is old enough to realize I have posted such embarrassing pictures for all the world to see. I can't help it, I think they are funny.

Love, Avery

Baby Jesus

Avery had the honor of playing baby Jesus last night for the 3-5 year old Bible Class night while they had a birthday party for him (Baby Jesus). Avery was very sweet and so were all the kiddos. I was Mary, aren't I holy, so I don't have any pictures for you, but here is the best quote of the night....

Party Girl: Aww he's so cute, I like baby Jesus
Me as Mary: Thank you
Party Girl: Why are YOU holding baby Jesus???

I guess she thinks I am not worthy, I was nice I didn't tell her he wasn't either

Happy Thursday!

Sunday Afternoons

Sometimes you just need to chill with your Daddy and read the paper after a busy morning playing in the church nursery.
Life is good.

My Friend Maddie

My friend Maddie(in the middle with baby Hadley in her tummy) is the GREATEST! She did my fabulous new blog design just because she is great. No charge just fabulousness! So here is a list of 10 of my favorite things about Maddie (in no particular order)

1-She uses my password for good, not Argentina :)
2-She introduced me to the greatness that is Cinnamon Life, the best cereal ever
3-She introduced me to the greatness that is waking up early-ish on Saturday morning, eating a bowl of cereal and then going back to sleep while watching movie and make-over
4-She can ALWAYS make me laugh
5-She is my perfect shopping match. We like the same stores, spend the same amount of time in each store and will say, um you look so skinny in that buy it or more imoprtantly OMG take that off it is awful.
6-She is a GREAT mom. I can't believe how easy she makes it look when Hadley is still so little.
7-She has literally ALWAYS been there for me since we became fast friends in Nelson dorm.
8-She is the most fun person I know. She can make even her very own labor, hilarious. She sent me some of the funniest texts minutes before Hadley was born.
9-She is just plain old nice, you know what I mean, she just is.
10-She is super cute, so I am cute by association, right?!?!

Back Off Ladies He's Mine

The men in my house are looking good lately...

So, as you know from my friend Brooke's post my hubby is usually a mild-mannered accountant... But occasionally his alter ego smokey lonesome shows up. Don't you wish your man had a red flannel coat like this???

I am not complaining too much because I will benefit with a new shoe rack from this day of manly sawing, wood glue, etc. But man that jacket, s-e-x-y!

Baby boy didn't want daddy to be the only smokin' hot man in the house so after enjoying his favorite snack banana toast he worked on his hair to perfect his Nick Nolte look. I think it looks better on Avery, but I am a little biased.

This weekend we also went to Tyler for a wedding of one of my high school friends, Neta. After 10 years she married one of our fellow Lee grads. It was a beautiful wedding and fun to get to see some of the girls even though our longer distance friends Emily, Carolyn and Abby didn't get to come. But I had a great time catching up with Joni, Neta, Mere and Kim.

Avery also had big fun in Tyler, he spent the night with Lou Lou and Papa Friday night and had so much fun with them Saturday morning, too. After the wedding we went to grandma and grandad's house to see all Michael's family, even Brian and Gigi.

Who can resist pictures of Avery Blake and Grandad Avery?

In a side note,

**Spoiler Alert don't read if you haven't watched yet**

FINALLY!!!! JOELLE IS GONE! I can't believe she lasted this long and I feel so sorry for poor Carla. She looked awesome in her after photo and I hope she sticks with it. I am so sad that Joelle was a jerk and ruined it for her.

Who do you think should win? I can't decide yet, but I am really sad that this is the second week in a row that one partner's lack of motivation killed the whole team. I am afraid that is next for the brown team, too. Daddy Brown needs to bust it bad knees and all.