Dance Dance Averylution

When I first saw him dance, he squatted down, got really still, and started shaking his fist. I thought he was pooping.
He has since become a much better dancer. After weeks of trying to film the fun, he would not let me video him. The camera would come out and he would stop. Finally all my persistence paid off, and he ignored me and the camera and just had fun.

What was I thinking?!?!

Earlier this year I offered to make the Christmas presents for the Young Women in our ward, as I am now the 1st Councilor. I had remembered seeing a really cute pattern in a book at someone's house. I picked up the book and thought, "this shouldn't be too hard". Ha Ha Ha. Who was I kidding? When I offered we had 12 girls. I am doing 20 pillows because we have had so many move in. I am getting really good at quilting and having my seams come out even.

Jeremy was very skeptical about them until he saw one of the finished (washed and stuffed) pillows. Now he says "WOW, those are really cute!". I is taking me about 3-4 hours per pillow, I do them in sets, so don't know exactly how long.

I think that I will not be so apt to volunteer next year. We will be getting quite a few more in to the YW and not many leaving.

So Sleepy

I have been in jury duty for the past two weeks, this is my third week, hopefully we will be done the first of next week.

One of the ladies in our ward offered to watch Avery while I was busy each day. This has been great, he has had such a fun time. The only problem is that she puts him down for his nap really early and he only takes a half nap. So by the end of the evening he is so exhausted that he can't even cope with any thing, he just screams. So today while I was making dinner he is sitting in the living room and looking at one of his books. Then all of a sudden, he starts to cry. I think that he fell back on to the wooden chest after he dozed off. So I held him for a little bit and put him on the couch. Then I proceeded to work on the laundry. When I came back to check on him, this is what I found. He got the other half of his nap today.

Friends?

It is sometimes really hard to keep Avery away from Jake. There are times when I wish that Jake would just give Avery a little pressure bite. Not to break the skin, but so Avery would leave him alone.

Avery is so tricky, he can already roll his tongue.

Happy Halloween!

Avery tried on his Halloween costume a couple of days early so that we could make sure that it fit. He loved it and did not want to take it off. Anytime that he would see it, he would grab it and ask me to help him to put it on. He is a horse.

So the big day comes and we are just playing around. Mom is putting away Avery's clean laundry, when I hear a giant thud followed by the "I am really hurt" scream. I run out to the living room and find Avery with his head on the mantle and his body in front of it. He must have been running and tripped and flew into the mantle. There was blood everywhere and Mom was about to have a hysterical break down. He bit both sides of his tongue and got his chin. Thank goodness for Shannon, whom I called and she calmly told me that all would be fine... It took a while, but Avery did finally calm down enough to get a drink and wash some of the blood away.

This is the look that says "Are you kidding me? Do you know how hot it is in here?"

Jeremy talked me into taking Avery around at the Trunk or Treat. He did not care about the things that were getting thrown in the bag. But he was loving the car that had the dancing skeleton. We stopped and danced for 10 minutes. I thought he would be scared of it, but he loved dancing with it.

Here are my boys :)

We had a friend drop these by.

Avery did not have a problem eating his, but Jeremy and I both had a little problem taking the first bite, they were actually quite tasty.