Baby Doll Stroller

Avery received a doll stroller from her Grandma Sally Jo on Christmas, and she loves to push her baby dolls and stuffed animals around in it. Grandma Sally Jo also got her a doll highchair and Avery has a lot of fun feeding her babies and animals. I'll have to get a picture of her feeding her babies because it is so cute. She LOVES her baby dolls! Here is a picture of her new doll stroller and a few others of us playing outside:

Kitty Kitty and Shelf Sitter

Avery LOVES kitties and she was able to pet a very sweet one at our good friends, the Pettit's, house last night. The kitty let Avery squeeze her noise and pull her hair. I would tell Avery that she "needed to be gentle to the kitty" and then she would be, but the cat did not care one way or another. It just loved the attention.
The other pictures are of Avery in her new shelfs. She loves to sit in them and read and eat her snacks. In these pictures she has a new hat on that we got at the Co-Op. She loved wearing it so much that she did not want me to take it off to cut the tags.

Shelves

Our good friend John, who is an amazingly talented carpenter, is building us a book shelve for our living room. It is gorgeous! It adds a lot of dimension to the room with the vaulted ceiling. The room has so much wall space that it is a bit overwhelming. But now with the shelve unit, it adds so much warmth and depth to all the wall space. We are very happy with it. We can't wait until it is finished so we can finally have a place for all our books!
Here are some pictures of the shelves so far...

Avery's helping with the spackle.

I Finally Graduated!!!

Avery's signing "milk". She held out for the

3 hours it took for commencement to end.

She definitely let me know that she was ready

for some milk!

New Words

Just in the last few days, Avery has expanded her vocabulary. Her typical vocabulary has been, "mama", "papa", "baby", and "dog". Her new words include, "juice", "cheese", "shoe", and "uh-oh". It is so much fun to hear her talk. She is very proud of herself and says her new words whenever she can. We can't wait to hear what she says next!

SUPER Busy

I have been so busy with finals, projects, and essays that I have not had anytime to post new pictures. Graduation is this Saturday and we are having a big party. I'm sure I will have plenty of pictures to share with you then! In the meantime, I have to get back to schoolwork.