Avery and Jack

With Chris shooting all the Ohio State home games (and the one in Cleveland) we have been really busy and haven't had time to post, so here is a bunch of pictures all at once. (Check out Chris's Ohio State blog at www.crookphotography.com/buckeyes) I will have to post Avery at dance class later, but she loves going!!

Here are Jack and Avery getting ready for Grandpa's house, Avery wanted to wear her fairy outfit this day.



Last weekend we took the kids to Dillon park and Jack and I enjoyed the evening playing on a blanket while Avery and daddy walked on the beach and played on the playground.




Avery loves to wear "night gowns" to bed, which means one of daddies t-shirts.



Jack can roll and scoot just about everywhere, here he make his way over to some of Avery toys. He had his eye on the tree house for weeks.



We are still working on potty training Avery (it has been a LONG HARD road), on this day she wasn't wearing a diaper or underwear and her pants wouldn't stay up.



We started giving Jack baby food a few weeks ago and the first picture sums it up. He always has that same face the first spoon full of food and then he can't get enough. He is a rather messy eater, maybe it's the boy in him.





A very busy mommy.



"Can I have a taste?"

Summer Pictures

I found these pictures in on old camera that we took over the summer. We don't use the camera that much because we have a new one and actually let Avery have the camera some times. She took the last picture of Jack in the highchair. She is starting to get pretty good.

It's hard to believe how little Jack was and how much he has changed, he will be six months old tomorrow!




Kidsville in Zanesville




Car wash at Grandpa's on a hot summer day.




Avery the photographer.

Muskingum County Fair

We went to the fair the other day and Avery had a blast, Jack didn't seem to mind it either. He liked looking at all the people and animals and she LOVED the animals and rides. She even lucked out, there was a little girl walking her horse when we were walking by and she let Avery pet the horse and sit on top of the horse. As you can imagine Avery was SO excited. She kept saying she wanted her own horse once she got off of her. As for the rides she loved riding with other kids and liked the Ladybug ride the best.

New Stuff

Here is a hodge-podge of new things we have been doing a our (my) summer ends.

The other morning I went to get Jack in his crib and found that he had rolled over to the monitor in his crib and was holding it in his hands. It looked to have given him a black eye (which is hard to see in the picture) not that he minded. He now can roll from him back to belly and ends up that way many times through the night, until he realizes and screams until someone comes in to help him. He loves to sleep on his side with his bear blanket clenched in his hand.



One of the recent 90 degree days we went up to the Dresden pool and took Jack swimming for the first time. He didn't mind being in the water liking us to hold him more than the float we had for him. But he didn't like all the kids splashing and yelling around him. He did pretty good for his first time I thought, but was excited to get out and watch from the side also. Avery on the other hand loved to jump into the water. She even thought she would try to go down the slide with daddy until she got to the top and then changed her mind.





Go RED SOX!!!



So I went into my classroom the other day with the family to get some things ready. Jack took and nap while I worked and Avery had a blast cutting, pasting, coloring, and playing with all the things in the room. She is crazy about using scissors now that we let her. She isn't to bad either better than some kids I've seen.

What The Kids Are Up To

Jack is getting much better at sitting up. He can stay up right for anywhere from a few seconds to a minute or two. Most of the time he wants to be standing though. Even when you try and make him sit up he pushes his legs off the ground and leans back trying to stand.




Today I signed Avery up for Dance lessons. She will be going once a week through the school year. As soon as I told her she was so excited she had to put her tutu on and wore it for the remainder of the night. She would dance around the house doing her ballet steps and wearing her crown that I made her.





She even tried to dance with Jack but wouldn't take both of his hands because she said his hand was covered in spit-up (she meant to say drool!)



Here I am giving and getting a kiss from my kids. There is nothing better in the world then that.

Jack's Eating

We started Jack eating Rice Cereal last week since I will be going back to school soon and he still doesn't want to take a bottle (He just chews on it or cries). At first he wasn't so sure what I was giving him but as the days go by he is getting better and better at it. Avery was very excited though she was right there to see Jack's expression as I gave it to him and even had to take some pictures.







Tonight since I have some very ripe watermelon I thought we would let Jack have a taste, he seemed to like it trying to shove the holder back into his mouth and licking up the juice.